"axemanchris" wrote in message
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"Bill Stock" wrote in message
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"Benign Vanilla" wrote in message
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The last of the Fish Tank Mafia has died. My last tin foil barb died
recently. She was somewhere between 4-6 years old. My wife and I can't
agree. She is probably right, so let's say 4 years old.

Anyway, the past few days I noticed an odor in the family room and
could
not
pin point it. Last night I noticed the water was very cloudy. My 4
year
old
had fed the fish that day, and there was a lot of food on the bottom
of
the
tank. I added some water to the tank to replace evaporation, and I
noticed
the odor was from the tank. I changed the filters which were unusually
gross. This is when I noticed the barb was gone.

Too bad. Sounds like Nitrates or Ammonia. I'm always battling Nitrates
with
the indoor GF.

How big's your tank? What plants are you considering?


I plan to check the water tonight, and will probably do a mass
cleaning
and
update to the tank this weekend. I plan to add a lot of plants, which
I
could not do with the barb.

You may want to break the tank down completely and bleach it.

Anyway, my barbs were like family members, as weird as that is, so I
thought
I'd share.

BV.

Not so weird... I recently lost 3 clown loaches. They were some of the
first fish I bought when I stared keeping an aquarium about 2.5 years ago.
I was devastated when they died. They had funny little personalities &
were
my favourites. I still miss them cause the tank's just not the same
without
them.

J.
Not to drag us back on topic or anything, but we recently had the feeling re
visited on us, when we lost three koi overnight, about a week ago. I didn't
mention it on the group because there was no mystery to it. They bailed
from the temporary tank that was their home while we poured the patio around
their new pond home. It had been so long since we lost any fish due to
disease or jumping, or just anything, that it felt weird to lose fish again.
And, two of these were nice fish, one because he was big - we had him since
2000 - and the other one, who was new, because he was so pretty. It's just
sad to lose so many at once. It occurs to me that there is a message here
that bears giving it its own thread. Sorry BV, to hear of your loss.
Ann