I went into work to feed my fish today ( a junior high school) to find that the boiler in the school went out sometime after I was there last Friday ..... they were fixing it today while I was there. But that’s not the rant.....
my room was a balmy 41 degrees when I walked in today at noon and I noticed a particular odor that only a fish keeper that’s been on vacation would realize. Yup, dead fish!
my heater apparently crapped out during the five days I was away and during the time the boiler was down . The tank felt like it was glacier fed! Fish had slime growing on them so I’m thinking they had been dead for a few days. Both filters were still working though.
Total lost: heater ( but I’ll replace it with the one I got fromDMD), 5x adult delhizi bichirs ( sized 13-14.5”) and my two Frontosa ( just hanging out in the tank waiting for my local fish store to make room for them ) sized 4” and 6”.
I’m not sure if the heater just crapped out from age ( only two years old) or if because my room was so cold it worked like crazy to keep the heat up ultimately causing it to fail. I’ll never know.
but I do know that this sucked as I loved those bichirs!!!!! And I had to spend an extra 1.5 hours today gravel vacuuming and draining and then filling it back up. I’m going to bring in a new heater and new media tomorrow for the tank and will bring in some fish early next week ( once I decide what to replace them with..... my students loved the bichirs so new fish need to be equally as cool)
my room was a balmy 41 degrees when I walked in today at noon and I noticed a particular odor that only a fish keeper that’s been on vacation would realize. Yup, dead fish!
my heater apparently crapped out during the five days I was away and during the time the boiler was down . The tank felt like it was glacier fed! Fish had slime growing on them so I’m thinking they had been dead for a few days. Both filters were still working though.
Total lost: heater ( but I’ll replace it with the one I got fromDMD), 5x adult delhizi bichirs ( sized 13-14.5”) and my two Frontosa ( just hanging out in the tank waiting for my local fish store to make room for them ) sized 4” and 6”.
I’m not sure if the heater just crapped out from age ( only two years old) or if because my room was so cold it worked like crazy to keep the heat up ultimately causing it to fail. I’ll never know.
but I do know that this sucked as I loved those bichirs!!!!! And I had to spend an extra 1.5 hours today gravel vacuuming and draining and then filling it back up. I’m going to bring in a new heater and new media tomorrow for the tank and will bring in some fish early next week ( once I decide what to replace them with..... my students loved the bichirs so new fish need to be equally as cool)
