I am absolutely and completely devastated. Last night the gobies graduated out of quarantine after six weeks and a clean bill of health! I was so excited to put them back with their shrimp in the tank. They went in last night and we’re happy as could be. I went to feed them tonight, and on the right on top of the screen, you can see what I found. One of them had jumped out of the tank. We had to make the screens to go around the brackets for the kessil lights. But we figured a quarter inch gap would not be a problem. Apparently it was. Something must’ve spooked her to jump her out of the tank. Yes, I cried like a baby. I’m still pretty upset about it. You spend so much time and energy making them healthy, So excited to see them in your tank, and then something like this. I am going to be figuring out what I can do to close that gap so this doesn’t happen in the future. Most of my other fish are not jumpers, I didn’t think a goby was either. Even if my other fish jumped, most of them are too big to get through there, but this sucks. They were great pair. I know Fish are not like people, but I swear the other one is swimming around kind of lost wondering where his friend went. Having our first real discussion about death with my four-year-old and watching him sob over the fishy with me was awful.
I was all set and ready to order my next set of fish. But a very wise friend told me to slow down. Thank you
@Diesel.
You get so excited about seeing the life in your tank, sometimes it’s easy to rush things.
My fish that were in the 10 gallon quarantine tank are in their new home at my sister-in-law‘s house and her tank, so I have torn it down, bleached it, and it is air drying.
Stubby is still in quarantine and will remain in the 20 gallon tank for three or four more days just so that I can make sure he doesn’t have some kind of bacterial infection from the little rip he put in his Gill.
The bully went to my sister-in-law‘s tank and is doing very well there.
Once Stubby is out I am going to take the next three or four weeks to try and correct my noisy drains, reset the quarantine station, and make a Cover for my overflows and fill the gap on the net covering on the tank. That should keep me pretty busy for a while. I’ll also be adding my Cora’s that have been in QT for about a month and dipped 3x.
Now it’s time for wine.
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