Tokey
12/29/2006, 02:19 PM
About 3 years ago I bought my wife a 20gl tall aquarium for some Red eyed tree frogs she has always wanted well after seeing some set ups my wife realized you hardly ever see them they just look like a green blob siting in a stick. So I suggested to my wife to set up a saltwater aquarium I've had salt tanks for years and I wanted to get back into it so I figured if I get the wife hooked my future plans for a large tank would be a lot easier. My wife after cycling the tank got a clarkii clown fish a bi colored Blinnie and a coral banded shrimp over a few months time. Well everything has been great for the last 3 yrs and now I'm setting up a 150gl tank
and this Leeds to my problem. I don't know what I was thinking but after watching the classifieds for ages I see a Hippo tang for sale right near me for cheap and at that moment my comen sense went out the door and I bought it. So when I meet the guy at a gas station he gives me two fish the Hippo and a coral beauty for the one price. I knew I should have said no thanks but he was leaving town and had no where to put it. So I took them. Well Bennie the Bi color was first to go and my wife cried she named her fish and they meant a lot to her and me to tell the truth :sad2: next thing I see the tang has ich. I do a 30% water change a couple of days later the coral beauty dies. I do another water change. I notice that Cleo the Clarkii has popeye and is not her self she always swims to the front glass to greet us now shes hiding in the rocks. I test the water and do another water change. Well this morning I found Cleo dead and I dred telling my wife its going to break her heart :( And I know its my falt for getting greedy and having to get the tang before I was ready. I just hope I can save the Hippo at least.
Sorry for the long post but I feel horabley depressed over this and I still have to tell my wife when she gets home. :(
and this Leeds to my problem. I don't know what I was thinking but after watching the classifieds for ages I see a Hippo tang for sale right near me for cheap and at that moment my comen sense went out the door and I bought it. So when I meet the guy at a gas station he gives me two fish the Hippo and a coral beauty for the one price. I knew I should have said no thanks but he was leaving town and had no where to put it. So I took them. Well Bennie the Bi color was first to go and my wife cried she named her fish and they meant a lot to her and me to tell the truth :sad2: next thing I see the tang has ich. I do a 30% water change a couple of days later the coral beauty dies. I do another water change. I notice that Cleo the Clarkii has popeye and is not her self she always swims to the front glass to greet us now shes hiding in the rocks. I test the water and do another water change. Well this morning I found Cleo dead and I dred telling my wife its going to break her heart :( And I know its my falt for getting greedy and having to get the tang before I was ready. I just hope I can save the Hippo at least.
Sorry for the long post but I feel horabley depressed over this and I still have to tell my wife when she gets home. :(