As some of you may know i took a well earned break down at the coast this week,well believe me it wasnt worth it 
.Tuesday night i had a phone call from the guy who was keeping a eye on the fish for me saying that i had some dead fish in the tank and that he couldnt see any water movement.A manic 2 and 1/2 hour drive in the morning and we was home but too late,the powerhead on my jewel internal filter had packed up and due to the high temperatures the oxygen levels must have fallen to almost zero.My 3 biggest balas;siamese tigerfish;needle fish;3 pim pictus;leaf fish and synodontis soloni were all dead,a combined value of nearly £200 worth of fish,all the other fish were all looking very sorry for themselves too,then to cap it all off my computer was infected with that blasterworm that is doing the rounds,all in all a completely cr@p end to a extreemly shortened holiday,i wont ever be leaving the tanks unattended overnight again.
On the bright side the water quality was still good so the mrs took me out to have a look around the fish shops this afternoon (as well as picking up some anti virus software) and i bought myself a 6" australian arowana for a reasonable price which cheered me up no end,also she has agreed to let me set up another 40 gallon tank so that i can grow on some new pictus cats and sharks to be added to the main tank to replace the dead ones,so it seems even big fat rain clouds can have silver linings after all.
.Tuesday night i had a phone call from the guy who was keeping a eye on the fish for me saying that i had some dead fish in the tank and that he couldnt see any water movement.A manic 2 and 1/2 hour drive in the morning and we was home but too late,the powerhead on my jewel internal filter had packed up and due to the high temperatures the oxygen levels must have fallen to almost zero.My 3 biggest balas;siamese tigerfish;needle fish;3 pim pictus;leaf fish and synodontis soloni were all dead,a combined value of nearly £200 worth of fish,all the other fish were all looking very sorry for themselves too,then to cap it all off my computer was infected with that blasterworm that is doing the rounds,all in all a completely cr@p end to a extreemly shortened holiday,i wont ever be leaving the tanks unattended overnight again.On the bright side the water quality was still good so the mrs took me out to have a look around the fish shops this afternoon (as well as picking up some anti virus software) and i bought myself a 6" australian arowana for a reasonable price which cheered me up no end,also she has agreed to let me set up another 40 gallon tank so that i can grow on some new pictus cats and sharks to be added to the main tank to replace the dead ones,so it seems even big fat rain clouds can have silver linings after all.
