Better late than never?

[jollysue]

I've been around for awhile and posted a few times. Guess it's time to introduce myself:

California gal, Fresno, CA; just informed I'll be a first time gramma in Feb at 63; I'd given up. I keep pets.

I started with feeder fish last winter in bowls and vases. Two survived to an eclipse 12. I murdered (manslaughter) my shubunkin a month ago when he keep punking my new $30 Orange Oranda. I threw him angrily in the new 100 gal tank that I had just filled with water to begin cycling it. I forgot I had filled it with more than warm tap water. I had expected to soon take him to my lfs.

I just completed the transfer of my goldfish (a common feeder fish--now 6", a baby Blue Oranda--actually looks black, a 6" Orange Oranda) from their 20 gal tank to the 40 gal. My 50 tetras and cats were transfered from the 40 to the 100 gal. During all this I lost a clown loach to ich, while one survived. The ick seemed to start with two new bleeding hearts in an overstocked tank and a desperate flurry to get some out to to releave the overcrowding. The worst stress may have been chasing quick tetras around a planted, driftwooded tank with a net. It was after this that the new guys showed the ick. Before that there was just alot of fin nipping and chasing (which began my concern.)

I have also lost several otos along the way--not sure if I still have 2 or 3; I dropped a diamond neon in transfer--not found until too late; and I'm missing 3 green neons.

I am delighted with my new hobby. I may have to move, so that I don't have to work in my old hobby: outside gardening. Talk about always needing a larger tank!

I've noticed that ya'll like fish too!

 

[Carnia]

Hello and welcome to the forums. I am new here too. Good luck with your fish.

 

[lilfishie]

to the forum

 

[jollysue]

Say, Hey! everybody!

Thanks for the welcome. That's thoughtful.

I'm thinking of getting a larger algae eater than my otos. I'm considering a bristle nose pleco. What should I expect to pay?

I've been busy in the New World Cichlid forum discussing my new cockatoos, so it took a long time to get back.

Thanks again

 

[angelfish123]

hi jollysue 2 the TFF

Kim

 

[clunkster]

to the forums

 

[jollysue]

Thanks folks.

I've been busy getting to know the forums and sticking my usually uninvited nose and 2 cents into everything. Just getting to know folks and letting them get used to me. I'm outspoken. Nevertheless, I have a tender heart, no tough skin,but try to be fair and in touch with myself and aware of others.

The welcome is nice and I've gotten aquainted with some of you in the forums.

I gotta go change water, move fish around (my serpae tetras have become terrorists and I have desided to isolate them and it's time to introduce some quarantined newbies to community life), do new decorating, check on ordering some new fishies, call about some plants.... I really should mow the lawn.

 

[Chaz]

welcome to the forum!