CanadaPleco
10-25-2007, 02:55 PM
Well I screwed up big time this past weekend....
Wed night I thew some squash into one of my 125 gallon tanks, it was a big piece, a real big piece. Well I left thursday morning for the weekend off to Ottawa. I forgot to take the squash out, not good. I got home to one nasty tank and a lot of dead fish, including my 12" L47. I was not happy with myself at all! The entire tank managed to grow a nasty slime over everything, so I picked out all the dead fish (3 silver dollars, my big L47, a really big L31 (about 6")), then proceded to drain the tank to about 50% water. took out everything in the tank, and had to wash off all the slime, filled the tank back up, re-decorated it and the fish seem happy again. I did another 25% water change the following day. And I still have to clean out the filters. Gonna do 1 tomorrow and the other in a while.
So today to re-stock the tank I took a trip to the city. 2hr drive for me up in Haliburton area. Lucky to my suprise I found some of the rare Silver Dollars with the Black bar in the middle of them at Big Als on Kennedy. SWEET, I bought 5 of the 6 there, one was not in good shape. They also had some nice big L330 Watermellon Royals, So I talked them down $40 on them to $89 :D So I took the largest one, somewhere around 8-9" he should go nicely with my other Royals.
Then took a visit to see Mike a Finatics, got some ram's for my zebra tank there and some more plants. And of course some bloodworms.
So now I am going to head back up north and put these fish into their new home and get ready to party this weekend.. Yaaaa... Halloween... I shoulda got a pleco costume lol
Rich
Wed night I thew some squash into one of my 125 gallon tanks, it was a big piece, a real big piece. Well I left thursday morning for the weekend off to Ottawa. I forgot to take the squash out, not good. I got home to one nasty tank and a lot of dead fish, including my 12" L47. I was not happy with myself at all! The entire tank managed to grow a nasty slime over everything, so I picked out all the dead fish (3 silver dollars, my big L47, a really big L31 (about 6")), then proceded to drain the tank to about 50% water. took out everything in the tank, and had to wash off all the slime, filled the tank back up, re-decorated it and the fish seem happy again. I did another 25% water change the following day. And I still have to clean out the filters. Gonna do 1 tomorrow and the other in a while.
So today to re-stock the tank I took a trip to the city. 2hr drive for me up in Haliburton area. Lucky to my suprise I found some of the rare Silver Dollars with the Black bar in the middle of them at Big Als on Kennedy. SWEET, I bought 5 of the 6 there, one was not in good shape. They also had some nice big L330 Watermellon Royals, So I talked them down $40 on them to $89 :D So I took the largest one, somewhere around 8-9" he should go nicely with my other Royals.
Then took a visit to see Mike a Finatics, got some ram's for my zebra tank there and some more plants. And of course some bloodworms.
So now I am going to head back up north and put these fish into their new home and get ready to party this weekend.. Yaaaa... Halloween... I shoulda got a pleco costume lol
Rich