Soooo angry!

[newfishies]

thank god i live alone!!!!!

 

[fishdudein]

It just don't seem fair does it....we screw things up enough our own selves, don't need anybody else helping!

For the past two and a half years, I have been in charge of maintaining a 55 gallon community tank in our lounge area at work. The past 6 months or so I have noticed a big increase in algae: on the glass, gravel, filter tubes, everywhere...really getting nasty looking for a "show tank". I have taken both filters completely apart and cleaned all the inner workings, changed out the filter pads with brand new ones, added extra carbon, done extra water changes, changed the food I was feeding them, cut back on the food I was feeding.........nothing seemed to work. Then one afternoon as I was cleaning glass and doing a water change (again), some guy I have never even seen before walks up to me and says "Oh, do you take care of the fish too?". "I am the only one supposed to be taking care of them. I set this tank up over two years ago" I answered. "Well, I've been helping you at night...there's a bunch of us on third shift like to feed them, they really eat a lot, don't they?" he says back.

I explained to him that the fish don't NEED to eat that much, that there isn't a large enough filtration system on the tank to handle the amount of waste that is produced when they are fed that much, and that all the algae growing in the tank is the result of the extra waste. I think I might have been a little harsh with him, but WHY would you mess with feeding something that obviously, for the past two years, have been more than adequately taken care of? I am quite proud of the fact that most of the fish in there are the original fish that we set the tank up with; in a business with around 500 employees coming and going using the lounge area, the potential for malicious disaster was pretty good(you know how some people are). Now I've got this "mess" of a tank from somebody trying to be helpful.....

 

[Blacky]

learn the word NO
and when you say no dont feel bad that you can let them do what they want its the saftey of you fish at stake

have a look at this topic maybe if your brother wants to feed them implement a roster or a day in the week he can do it and if he is over feeding them have a look at this link, you add the food to these containers once a week and they just tip thats days food source in

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