Worst thing about keeping fish

[freshmike]

That's a good attitude......

 

[canis_lupus]

The WORST part about fish keeping is going into a pet store and seeing all those beautiful bettas in cups and knowing that i can help them but not being able to do anything about it.........

 

[platypus]

Whenever this happens I always dream about my fish every night

OK my fish aren't even ill at the moment and I STILL dreamt last night that my clownies somehow managed to wriggle out of the tank and onto the top of the hood and I found them there in the morning .

This is getting crazy - it's like 3 fishy death dreams a week! Please tell me someone else is as nuts as this!!

 

[caz27]

No your on your own

 

[Waterloo Kid]

The worst thing I have to deal with on a regular basis is the fact that my tapwater is full of phosphates. Because of this I have a bad cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) problem. I have to pick it off my plants and gravel on a weekly basis. That turns a 1 hour water change into a 2 and a half hour job. Also, as my tank is a 400 litre jobbie I have to change 10 10 litre buckets of water at a time. All that temperature adjusting and dechlorinating and knowing that I'm adding tons of phosphates to what is, by no, a phosphate free zone. I don't have any room for a RO unit either. Grrr.
The best bit is coming home from work all stressed to the eyeballs and spending 20 minutes just looking at the fish going about their fishy lives. So relaxing!


WK