Where to begin? I've been keeping for five years, and have made countless mistakes. The first one was buying a tank setup in the middle of winter from WALMART [Louisiana or no, it gets cold inside and out] and purchasing two mollies and an angel from the same WALMART. XP They were dead in two days, Wolly world replaced them, and the angel who tragically met his end days later. Turns out the heater was broken, it must've been shaken too much or something, the insides were screwed to heck and back. Second mistake, continuing to buy from Walmart for a few months. Finally I got ONE angel to live, three months. She was the sweetest thing, half black veil, would follow me around, take worms from your hand, anything. If I put my hand to the glass, she would follow it up and down, side to side, I even got her to where she would do it when I said it, so long as there were a few hand signals XO . Decided to show my brother my fish's trick, left the room for a few minutes to find him, she was staring at me when I left, but when we returned she was dead on the bottom. He started laughing, I cried like a little girl, and I have no shame in saying that, she was a great fish! Then I returned her, and they replaced her, dead in a few days, every angel from there, dead in days. Tested my water, nothing was wrong, still don't know what was wrong with their fish, they go for quantity and not quality I assume. So I began buying from my LFS instead, everything lived, I was so happy. Until I brought home a cute little dempsey from walmart on an impulse of cuteness, and two kribs from my LFS. They were fine til the Dempsey reached six inches, which sucked because they were a breeding pair. >_< He killed the female, ate the fry, killed the male and paraded around with his spine as a trophy. I was sooo mad I moved him into a little tank before trading him in at my LFS.
Then once, the night before school restarted, I decided to move my ten gallon which still held water. It spent three seconds off the stand before it was moved onto a shelving unit. I woke up to two inches of water and all my fish flopping madly. I skipped that day, bought a twenty gallon, let it cycle for four hours before moving my stock in, as they were losing their minds in the bucket, and started jumping. I had a bubbler in, but the filter had already broke by the morning. I lost no fish on that one
Second most idiotic mistake, filling the tank with a hose. I went outside to turn it on, and it flew out of my tank, and by the time I returned I had my own personal pool. Good thing my fish were not in the tank at the time! >_<
Then, after four years apart from Angels, I returned to them in early '08. I had them with swords, platies, and my plec. Heater busted and I lost two. Eventually I fixed everything real nice, bought angels two at a time, and now have seven babies. About to upgrade to a seventy five gallon, as soon as they outgrow their tanks. I have a marble pearlscale, a regular marble, two leopards, one golden, one half black, and a silver blushing. Lost my koi sadly, the LFS told me sometimes the babies react to bacteria in the water badly and belly up. I got a refund since my water check came up clean
But through all the trial and error, and stupid mistakes, I've learned alot, and when I move out, I'm going for a house with a basement, where I can start my own insane fish collection.
Then once, the night before school restarted, I decided to move my ten gallon which still held water. It spent three seconds off the stand before it was moved onto a shelving unit. I woke up to two inches of water and all my fish flopping madly. I skipped that day, bought a twenty gallon, let it cycle for four hours before moving my stock in, as they were losing their minds in the bucket, and started jumping. I had a bubbler in, but the filter had already broke by the morning. I lost no fish on that one
Second most idiotic mistake, filling the tank with a hose. I went outside to turn it on, and it flew out of my tank, and by the time I returned I had my own personal pool. Good thing my fish were not in the tank at the time! >_<
Then, after four years apart from Angels, I returned to them in early '08. I had them with swords, platies, and my plec. Heater busted and I lost two. Eventually I fixed everything real nice, bought angels two at a time, and now have seven babies. About to upgrade to a seventy five gallon, as soon as they outgrow their tanks. I have a marble pearlscale, a regular marble, two leopards, one golden, one half black, and a silver blushing. Lost my koi sadly, the LFS told me sometimes the babies react to bacteria in the water badly and belly up. I got a refund since my water check came up clean
But through all the trial and error, and stupid mistakes, I've learned alot, and when I move out, I'm going for a house with a basement, where I can start my own insane fish collection.
I feel like a total *******. 30 bucks worth the fish dead . (I was very young)
