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!!
