Michigan Cichlid Association
General Category => Old World => Topic started by: 54zamboni on November 09, 2012, 05:21:40 PM
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the good: a, for the first time ever, 2 week european vacation, totally void of cell phones, emails, etc.
and filled with great food, wine, and sightseeing. well, perfect until getting stuck at JFK in new york for 30 hours due to the major snow/wind storm on wednesday afternoon.
the bad: returning home, and finding out that fish sitter (sister-in-law) apparently didn't believe the premeasured cup for each tank to given every other day was enough food, and added "a little more each day, since they acted so hungry". In my 180g tang. tank, i lost 11 out of 13 petrochromis trewavassae adults, and 11 out of 12 petro moshi juvi's, at about 3", having grown out from from 1" fry. a few misc. tangs did survive, along with the petrocolas. probably wouldn't have been so bad, but she didn't notice dead ones until early this week, and then, not knowing what to do, left them in the tank, since i was going to be home soon.
the 3mm NLS pellet bucket had enough taken out of it for probably 6-8 weeks. surprisingly, the other 180g with 10 adult frontosa and yellow labs suffered no losses. i had been meaning to switch out the two tanks, as the fronts will look better in the tank with the black background -- guess it will be a much easier transition now. :'(
thank goodness she didn't think the dogs looked underfed!! :)
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She would be banned from my house!
Holy crap what a shitshow to come home to. Especially after such a nice vacation.
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I think I would've sent her a bill (along with the ziplock bag filled with dead fish)! Those are some expensive fish to lose, my heart goes out to ya.
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That's terrible I'm sorry to hear that :(
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bummer
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oh no!!! you shoulda had me feed 'em!! ;)
So THATS why we missed you at the auction...
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Sorry man--that really sucks
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Sorry to hear about the losses! :(
Maybe next time hide the additional food and stress that healthy fish should always appear hungry?
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thanks all. i'm kicking myself in the butt for being lazy -- when i was getting things set up to leave, i had intended to put out 8 premeasured dixie cups for each tank, but got lazy and just prefilled one for each tank, with a sharpie line on each to indicate the amount. she had "fish sat" once before, with no problem, but that was only a couple days. i did stress in my list of directions that overfeeding was waaaaaay worse than not feeding them at all, but i guess that thinking just doesn't make sense to non-fish people. now i'm totally undecided about what direction to take -- can't really afford to replace the petro's. . . . maybe a colony of trophs is in order. also, not sure what a single moshi will do -- the trews were actually very laid back, even among themselves, but the two left seem to have kicked up the agression level now.
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That sucks!
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Got some nice pond plants from you a couple years ago, spread them around 7 ponds now. Be happy to fish-sit. Can make it through a business bonded and insured if need be.
Joe
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I can't even imagine. When I had my Ilangi and maswa I was super paranoid about my fish sitter. I pre-measured and typed up a full page of notes. I feel for ya. People just really shouldn't mess with things they don't know about.