agghhh neighbours!!!

[goldfishfanatic]

so i walk in to my living room today,where my neighbour was sitting while i nipped upstairs to take up some clean washing and what do i find, shes standing over my 50 gallon fancy goldie tank, which has a huge amount,like a weeks worth or more of pellets,sinking down around the goldies :mad2::mad2::mad2: i said what are you doing,and she says well they were swimming round lots so i thought they were hungry, and i was like but the tank is over stocked with those 5 guys,so feeding etc has to be small amounts and its all monitored,plus they have already been fed once today and arent due again until this evening :mad2: and shes like oh dont be so daft, this tanks huge,they are small,and you do too much water changing with them anyway,they will be dead soon anyway,let them be happy and eat :angryfire:

now my fishies are my babies, and that food is expensive, and we have very little money, all in all im furious, number one how dare she touch my tanks at all, and number 2, my fishies will not be dead soon as hers always are (she simply replaces them as they die,no water changes, even after a death in the tank, no gravel vacs, just top ups with no dechlorinator,and literally chucks a handful of flakes into her tank when she remembers)

im doing a large (90%) water change this evening, and will gravel vac thoroughly,and i wont feed them again until tomorrow eve as they have properly pigged out. i know they are overstocked with the 5 of them in there, but i very very carefully monitor their water, and nitrates are always kept below 20, i just cant believe she would do this, just think she has the right to do as she pleases :angryfire::angryfire::angryfire: sorry i just needed to rant!

 

[robbob2112]

Some people have an insane amount of nerve and think they know everything. At least you caught her in the act and know to clean it up.

Hide the food .... if you ever allow her back in your house again!

 

[wataugachicken]

unacceptable.

 

[msjinkzd]

I would be very upset as well. Its not her place ot question your feeding, stocking, or maintenance routine. Hope all is well with the clean up.

 

[krytan]

I can't believe the nerve of some people, i would of had some not so nice words to say to her if it was me.
I wouldn't feed your fish for a few days, good luck with the clean up.

 

[johnhoover]

They must be friends with the same people that will feed snacks to my dog without asking first.

Don't know if you'd need to do this but remember that you can drain to 25%, fill to 50%, drain to 25%, and then refill. Whatever you trying to reduce goes from 100% to 50% to 12.5%. I've seen this referred to as "super water changes". I've used this a time or two while cycling a 55gal.

Hopefully you'll just have a small Ammonia spike and the tank will resettle.

John.

 

[bettagurl]

I had someone do the same thing with my koi pond.. the brought their little monster - I mean kid over, and seem to make themselves right at home.. Took my niece's little electric jeep off our porch and let him ride around without asking.. he ran into everything.. then told me niece to stay off so he could have a turn :irked:
But no, that wasn't enough... She asked if she could feed my koi, I said "no, they've just eaten, and it's getting cold out, I don't want to be feeding them when the water is under 50*".. I come back 20 mins later to 3-4 cups of food in the pond and the brand new bucket of hikari koi food GONE, I paid $30 for it. My german shepherd enjoyed it.

I lost it a bit when she allowed him to harass the indoor fish and dog, slamming his hands on the tank and using a laser-pointer.

I feel your pain

 

[cam191919]

grrr, glad i have a gate and fifteen acres to protect me from people like that. some of my neighbors are straight lunatics. definatly hide the food

 

[justahannah]

We used to have an outdoor pantry (big old Victorian house, the pantry had double doors and originally was used to hold blocks of ice, not well set up for any type of lock) and this old lady that lived down the block would come by and help herself to our food. We didn't know where the food was going for a while, and one day we caught her in there. She told us it was our DUTY to help out an elderly neighbor on a limited income. If she had asked, we would have helped and put her in touch with senior services...but to presume it was ok to take food just because it looked full (and to snoop like that in the first place)...we were ticked. We were a family of seven, living off one mediocre income, and there was a reason we stocked up on paydays. We moved to the country not long after that.

 

[excuzzzeme]

Yes, some people have all the answers to our private lives and none for their own misery. People like that are boorish and have no manners as they live in a "Me first" world. It is a shame that we seldom accept the possibility that we may be wrong. At least life goes on after we encounter the "Know-it-all's" and might return to normal, lol. Sometimes I wonder what caused people like this so I can avoid being one as well.