5/10/13

Well since this is a late update I might as well inform that four fish have died.  Mrs. Wood gave me the bacteria instead of the dechlorinator when I siphoned our tank (which we're supposed to be doing everyday) , and fish cannot survive without the dechlorinator and since we aren't checking the tanks over the weekend, we didn't have a chance to figure out that I put in bacteria.  It's just very frustrating because we have had at least ten fish die already and we do everything we're told but I guess it's just bad luck.  We don't purposefully kill our fish I promise. Anyway our last quality check was very good (before the dechlorinator incident), our Nitrate was 5.0, ammonia was 0, temperature was 74 degrees.  So everything checks out pretty well the ammonia can be bad for the fish if it was too high so that's good, Nitrate should be about 5 too.  So this proves we are taking care of our fish! We did the water change about two days after the test because the floor of the tank was filthy.  I still feel awful about our fish dying but I guess accidents happen.

R.I.P. all the glowfish.