Small Tank Fast Problems
So now I have my hospital tank set up and all I have in it is one Damsel fish, I decide to go down to the pet store and get a few new fish to keep him company. While at the store I pick up two Convict Damsels and name them bonnie and clyde, I also bought a Blue Green Cromis which I named houdini. Something always happens when you walk into a saltwater fish store and that is you want to buy just one or two more, so that's what I did I bought a cute little Yellow Tang(she was only the size of a silver dollar)I named her lucy. I also decided to get another Anemone because the first one died after that nasty tank crash I talked about in the previous post, this time I was sure not to dump the bag but rather put on some rubber gloves I recently bought just for the purpose of my fish tank. What motivated me to buy the Anemone was that I had these two Ocellaris Clownfish that had no Anemone to host and I thought they would naturally take to the new Anemone, I was wrong my new anemone was on his own. I had read that Anemones needed Clown fish to regurgitate their chewed up food and that how the Anemone eats, so I went out and bought Invertebrate food which I squirted a couple of times a week at him (roughly 10cc or so). Back to my subject of small tanks fast problems or better yet MORE IS BETTER when it comes to water volume. I put houdini and lucy along with the new Anemone in the main display tank and I put bonnie and clyde in the hospital tank along with mo my mean mo the asshoe Dam selfish. Everything was going O.K. in that small tank, I checked water parameters regularly and I couldn't see any signs of stress in the fish. What I didn't realize is that those small little filters that come with the tank are not that great and that fish tanks need regular water changes especially in a smaller tank, also I didn't have very good lighting. So needless to say sometime in about the fifth or sixth week maybe seventh week, I came home to a dead Convict fish and another the next morning and then moe died the following day (sad day for sure). I hate losing fish no matter what and considering these have all been my mistakes from just not knowing and my attitude of live and learn is costing those little fishes lives. So I packed up the hospital tank and it sits there ready just in case of an emergency but I would rather not use it unless I desperately have to.
