captmicha
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Now that I've got your attention...
A family member keeps getting fish for his 29 gallon aquarium. Often over stocking it with too many, and too large species, and also never quarantines from box store purchases. Sometimes that's not the case anymore, after a bunch have died off. It becomes okay in stocking, but that never lasts. He keeps on getting more.
The primary issue is that he's killing them through sheer neglect. He keeps aquarium gravel in the bottom of the tank and he never siphons it. He just skims water off the top of the tank every so often. Not even frequently. So mulm and missed food is just rotting and poisoning the fish. I've explained this to him a million times over, kindly, patiently, angrily, you name it. I can't get through to him.
I put my own filter on his tank against his wishes. Yes, I forced it on his tank. It's over rated for his aquarium.
I'm really tired of the unnecessary suffering and death. It's just awful.
I would clean it myself when he's at work, but my health problems are so bad now that I'm rehoming all of my own fish because I can't keep up with even my own.
He's been at this for quite a while. But I don't remember his tank maintenance ever being quite this bad. I know this is TMI, but his mind isn't quite what it used to be... He's not very reasonable.
Any ideas? Or is this just an impossible situation that I can't do anything about?
I really don't know why he bothers with getting more fish. I really don't. You'd think one of those fake fish aquariums would be more up his alley in terms of care.
A family member keeps getting fish for his 29 gallon aquarium. Often over stocking it with too many, and too large species, and also never quarantines from box store purchases. Sometimes that's not the case anymore, after a bunch have died off. It becomes okay in stocking, but that never lasts. He keeps on getting more.
The primary issue is that he's killing them through sheer neglect. He keeps aquarium gravel in the bottom of the tank and he never siphons it. He just skims water off the top of the tank every so often. Not even frequently. So mulm and missed food is just rotting and poisoning the fish. I've explained this to him a million times over, kindly, patiently, angrily, you name it. I can't get through to him.
I put my own filter on his tank against his wishes. Yes, I forced it on his tank. It's over rated for his aquarium.
I'm really tired of the unnecessary suffering and death. It's just awful.
I would clean it myself when he's at work, but my health problems are so bad now that I'm rehoming all of my own fish because I can't keep up with even my own.
He's been at this for quite a while. But I don't remember his tank maintenance ever being quite this bad. I know this is TMI, but his mind isn't quite what it used to be... He's not very reasonable.
Any ideas? Or is this just an impossible situation that I can't do anything about?
I really don't know why he bothers with getting more fish. I really don't. You'd think one of those fake fish aquariums would be more up his alley in terms of care.
