JamesBenjamin
01-31-2003, 5:03 PM
and it was BUDWIESER at that! not even newcastle, or anything good!
thankfully it was in the 'feeder' tank (10g) that we use to house feeders before they are 'served' to the oscar...
so we had some people over last weekend, and one of our 'guests' thought it would be funny to 'give the fishies some beer', so he poured some in the feeder tank, I saw him do it, and immediately put some water from the large tank in a clean pitcher and netted the four feeders into the pitcher.
the next morning, before work i noticed that the water in what was the feeder tank had turned milky white, and the top had a film that looked like marble.
after work i rinsed the tank with hot water, and used a dish sponge to get the last of the slime off the inside, then rinsed it again. i didnt put any soap on the sponge, but it did foam a tiny bit, i figured it would be ok if i rinsed it well.
i then bought 5 new feeders, fed him one, and put the other 4 in the pitcher the others WERE in. (the original ones that were in the tank when he poured the beer in were allready fed to the larger fish) the next morning one of the remaining 4 was dead, in the pitcher. (no big deal, they die sometimes)
well, yesterday I filled the tank back up, with de-clorinater and put the remaining 3 feeders in it. my room mate fed one to the oscar that night, and then today the last 2 were in the tank, DEAD!
so.... 3 things could have killed them:
the remnants of the beer? probly not
tiny bit of soap residue that i hadn't noticed? possibly...
they were a bad stock of feeders? possibly...
what do you think? AND what can i do to clean that tank again, WITHOUT soap? just rinse it alot? I know you shouldn't use soap ever, but that beer scum wasnt coming off without some help from some kind of soap, i only used what was on the sponge to begin with, it wasnt much and i rinsed very well after...
wow, thats a long post.
thoughts?
thankfully it was in the 'feeder' tank (10g) that we use to house feeders before they are 'served' to the oscar...
so we had some people over last weekend, and one of our 'guests' thought it would be funny to 'give the fishies some beer', so he poured some in the feeder tank, I saw him do it, and immediately put some water from the large tank in a clean pitcher and netted the four feeders into the pitcher.
the next morning, before work i noticed that the water in what was the feeder tank had turned milky white, and the top had a film that looked like marble.
after work i rinsed the tank with hot water, and used a dish sponge to get the last of the slime off the inside, then rinsed it again. i didnt put any soap on the sponge, but it did foam a tiny bit, i figured it would be ok if i rinsed it well.
i then bought 5 new feeders, fed him one, and put the other 4 in the pitcher the others WERE in. (the original ones that were in the tank when he poured the beer in were allready fed to the larger fish) the next morning one of the remaining 4 was dead, in the pitcher. (no big deal, they die sometimes)
well, yesterday I filled the tank back up, with de-clorinater and put the remaining 3 feeders in it. my room mate fed one to the oscar that night, and then today the last 2 were in the tank, DEAD!
so.... 3 things could have killed them:
the remnants of the beer? probly not
tiny bit of soap residue that i hadn't noticed? possibly...
they were a bad stock of feeders? possibly...
what do you think? AND what can i do to clean that tank again, WITHOUT soap? just rinse it alot? I know you shouldn't use soap ever, but that beer scum wasnt coming off without some help from some kind of soap, i only used what was on the sponge to begin with, it wasnt much and i rinsed very well after...
wow, thats a long post.
thoughts?