It's just the idea that fish you've nurtured, and have learned to
trust you, die off en masse.
Thanks for the offer, though!
Quoth Steven A. Ellis regarding Re: NANFA-- fish trials and travail:
> Martin
>
> Bummer! That's the worst one I've heard since that guy's outdoor
> tank
> broke last winter. If you need some starters, I'm loaded up with F.
> stelifer right now. I'd be glad to send you some. I even have a couple
> of longear, but I don't suppose you're interested in more of those.
> (-:
>
> Steven A. Ellis
> Kennesaw, GA
>
> At 07:33 PM 5/25/00 -0700, you wrote:
> >Well, of all my fish disasters this has got to be almost the worst.
> >I have spent the last few weeks trying to run down an elusive welaka
> >site in southern Mississippi. I have had no luck at all, even when
> >BG volunteered to help me scout out the target area. I found lots of
> > signipinnis, and several nice madtoms, which I added to my
> >collection. Now, my house is very small so I maintain only two
> >indoor tanks: a 110 which I have to share with my wife (silver
> >dollars and tiger barbs, plus whatever natives I can fit in between)
> >and a 34 which I use for smaller natives and darters. About a month
> >ago BG and I made the long trek to Chemin-a-haut Bayou for some
> >Pteronotropis hubbsi. We had tried earlier in the year and netted
> >only a single specimen. This time we went home with about a dozen
> >hubbsi each, but ALL females. Well, the next day I had six hubbsi
> >left and a very fat and happy longear. So the longear got a free
> >tour of the back yard and the remaining hubbsi diappeared one by one.
> > No carcasses, no nothin'. Somebody ate 'em. The culprit didn't eat
> >'em very fast, but he had all day to do it (to quote Charley Grimes).
> > So then there were none. Anyway, on one of my searches I went with
> >BG to a known welaka spot in Louisiana, from which I took home 2
> >pairs (gorgeous, in top condition) and BG took several others. They
> >were doing great - swimming happily, eating, etc. A few days later I
> >notice Ich in the small tank wherein the welaka were (I wasn't about
> >to make the mistake of putting them in the big tank like I did the
> >hubbsi). Geez, when was the last time I had Ich? (No comments about
> >quarantine, puleeze!). I dragged out some ancient Maracide and
> >started treatment. So far I hadn't lost any fish; I had caught it
> >before it got really established. But THEN I do a water change. A
> >large one, which is what I always do when I'm treating a tank. I had
> >filled the 34 and started on the 110, when I notice all the fish in
> >the 34 are doing death spirals and gasping for breath. The ones in
> >the 110 are starting to do the same (my wife's beloved tropicals seem
> >unaffected!), so I stopped refilling before any more damage could be
> >done. The water company claimed they had made no changes to the
> >water, and it had tested OK the week before. Well, anyway I lost my
> >welaka, most of my signipinnis, a few madtoms, and I don't even want
> >to think about what else. It just makes me sick.
> >
> >So, as I get home from a hard day's work, and prepare to net the
> >bloated, turtle-gnawed corpses out of my tanks, I just wanted y'all
> >to think of me, and be glad it wasn't YOU!
> >
> >
> >Prost,
> >
> >Martin
> >------
> >"Cry to it, nuncle. as the cockney did to the eels when she put 'em
> >i' the paste alive; she knapped 'em o' the coxcombs with a stick, and
> >cried 'Down wantons, down!'"
> >
> >
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Prost,
Martin
------
"Cry to it, nuncle. as the cockney did to the eels when she put
'em i' the paste alive; she knapped 'em o' the coxcombs with a
stick, and cried 'Down wantons, down!'"
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