mamafish68
Fish Addict
So this is more or less a RANT and I hope you guys can bare with me, first off any replies probably wont be seen by me because I'm moving and tomorrow is "kill PC day" and there wont be a phone line in the bedroom for a while...
ok so heres my nightmare...were moving only 9 miles from where we are now but it might as well be thousands of miles because the PH at the new house fluctuates between 6.8 and 7.3....ALL of the years of keeping africans I have NEVER had to worry about the tap water and certainly NEVER had to buffer besides the holey rock. NOW I had to go ut and buy a 40lb bag of crushed coral= $35.00 THANK YOU VERY MUCH....
back on track... so were renting and over the past 3 weeks I had told the homeowner to leave the water turned on, we would simply transfer the name over and I even called the water co. to make sure this would be possible and they said no problem, they needed official word from homeowner though, (the reason I told her in the first place as she isnt very savy...)
WHAT DOES SHE DO?
? SHE FORGETS TO GO IN AND OR CALL THEM TO HAVE THEM KEEP THE WATER ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! now, this is a really super small country town and their water is questionable to begin with just imagine what happens when the system is turned back on.....can you sayyyy BLACK SLUDGE!!!!!!!!???!!!!!!! 
Well I tell myself "this is manageable, i've come across worse" 3 days ago.... hauling ass thru the story....
I go over to the new house today to run the pipes clear and TAADAAAAAAA no (*#$#!)$ water still............
oh yea, no one is to be found either.....
remember I have TANGANYIKAS....they dont do well with crappy water. as it is right now, i'm almost guarenteed to have a massive kill off.... I'm so upset and stressed my kids are giving me a wide birth when our paths cross..
We have to be out of THIS house by tuesday so it's not like I've got tons of time to cycle...that was burned up 3 FRIGGING WEEKS AGO!!!!!!!!
I'm not having fun at all!!!!!!!!! I'll see you folks when I sign back on, not sure if that will be a few days or a few weeks but I wish you all well and say a prayer for my wee brown fishies from a little lake called Tanganyika 
ok so heres my nightmare...were moving only 9 miles from where we are now but it might as well be thousands of miles because the PH at the new house fluctuates between 6.8 and 7.3....ALL of the years of keeping africans I have NEVER had to worry about the tap water and certainly NEVER had to buffer besides the holey rock. NOW I had to go ut and buy a 40lb bag of crushed coral= $35.00 THANK YOU VERY MUCH....
back on track... so were renting and over the past 3 weeks I had told the homeowner to leave the water turned on, we would simply transfer the name over and I even called the water co. to make sure this would be possible and they said no problem, they needed official word from homeowner though, (the reason I told her in the first place as she isnt very savy...)
WHAT DOES SHE DO?
? SHE FORGETS TO GO IN AND OR CALL THEM TO HAVE THEM KEEP THE WATER ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! now, this is a really super small country town and their water is questionable to begin with just imagine what happens when the system is turned back on.....can you sayyyy BLACK SLUDGE!!!!!!!!???!!!!!!! Well I tell myself "this is manageable, i've come across worse" 3 days ago.... hauling ass thru the story....
I go over to the new house today to run the pipes clear and TAADAAAAAAA no (*#$#!)$ water still............
oh yea, no one is to be found either.....
remember I have TANGANYIKAS....they dont do well with crappy water. as it is right now, i'm almost guarenteed to have a massive kill off.... I'm so upset and stressed my kids are giving me a wide birth when our paths cross..
We have to be out of THIS house by tuesday so it's not like I've got tons of time to cycle...that was burned up 3 FRIGGING WEEKS AGO!!!!!!!!
I'm not having fun at all!!!!!!!!! I'll see you folks when I sign back on, not sure if that will be a few days or a few weeks but I wish you all well and say a prayer for my wee brown fishies from a little lake called Tanganyika 
. If you have power in your new place bag or bucket all your fish then syphon much of the water as possible without the muck in to the trash can on wheels. Then break down the tanks and move the tanks, contents to the new place. Set it up gravel rock and what not. Move the trash can with wheels full of water to the truck then pump or bucket all the water in to the trash cans without wheels in the truck. Now if you don't have a truck you'll need 30/50 gallon plastic bins with lids (Rubbermaide or Tuff-Neck) have them placed in the trunk and fill 3/4 of the way (you'll do more trips 
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I'm glad to hear the water is on though. Hopefully the rest of the move with go as planned too!
