Ugh, so Sunday night, babies in bed = cleaning tanks task.
Fail 1:
I buy in RO water, one of which I new I had treated with tropic Marin, and the other hadn't been, and had also been bought from somewhere different than our usual supplier.
I am heavily pregnant so hubby lifts one 25 litre container onto Rayburn wrapped in towels to warm slightly.
We get confused as to which one has been treated, and I think by testing the ph will tell me - no, utter confusion, they both read the same. Here's me thinking one of the things I'm buffering is the ph!
UNLESS new water from different place had already buffered it?? Although they never said.
Anyhow just to make sure all is well I decide to use half from each 25 litre container when refilling my tank, so fingers crossed!
Fail 2:
Major fail in my eyes!!
Decided to remove stones to give them a good scrub, hubby does this so I can get on with the gardening in my tank.
Returns 10 -15 mins later after giving them a good scrub and rinse in HOT water, and hands bucket to me so I can remodel the look.
I was just mentioning how warm they were and that I s going to adjust the thermometer when getting near the bottom of the bucket I see my hillstream loach!!!!! WTH??
Got all jittery and yelled at hubby to catch him - he was shuffling around in the water at the bottom of the bucket.
We got him back in and he swam for cover, I am taking some solace that they sometimes live in dried up puddles etc when streams run short of water.
We both feel awful about it, you would think if you picked up a rock it was on it would swim off not cling on surely?
He must have come off in the bucket and stayed there whilst husband was cleaning the other rocks, but OMG
just hope he will be ok!
Fail 1:
I buy in RO water, one of which I new I had treated with tropic Marin, and the other hadn't been, and had also been bought from somewhere different than our usual supplier.
I am heavily pregnant so hubby lifts one 25 litre container onto Rayburn wrapped in towels to warm slightly.
We get confused as to which one has been treated, and I think by testing the ph will tell me - no, utter confusion, they both read the same. Here's me thinking one of the things I'm buffering is the ph!
UNLESS new water from different place had already buffered it?? Although they never said. Anyhow just to make sure all is well I decide to use half from each 25 litre container when refilling my tank, so fingers crossed!
Fail 2:
Major fail in my eyes!!
Decided to remove stones to give them a good scrub, hubby does this so I can get on with the gardening in my tank.
Returns 10 -15 mins later after giving them a good scrub and rinse in HOT water, and hands bucket to me so I can remodel the look.
I was just mentioning how warm they were and that I s going to adjust the thermometer when getting near the bottom of the bucket I see my hillstream loach!!!!! WTH??
Got all jittery and yelled at hubby to catch him - he was shuffling around in the water at the bottom of the bucket.
We got him back in and he swam for cover, I am taking some solace that they sometimes live in dried up puddles etc when streams run short of water.
We both feel awful about it, you would think if you picked up a rock it was on it would swim off not cling on surely?
He must have come off in the bucket and stayed there whilst husband was cleaning the other rocks, but OMG
just hope he will be ok!
