fishkid6692
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So last night all my tanks(three separate systems) were cloudy white when I got home. I only have 4 fish, 2 picassos in a ten gallon and my eibli/lemonpeel angel pair in a 10g nuvo because I had to move their 29g tall from my other house. All fish were laying on the bottom gasping for air and twitching. I grabbed the test kits obviously and thought maybe I had a mini cycle or something but then I thought, what are the Janice's of that happening in both tanks( both 10gs)? Everything tested fine except PH which was almost too low for the high range PH test to read which is really wierd because it was at 8.3 that morning when I tested. I thought about what could have gone wrong in both tanks in the 30 minutes I left the house and it just popped into my head a few minutes ago that the only thing that could have happened was something contaminated the tanks. I started of thinking of what could have happened and I just couldn't come up with a reason for something accidentally getting into the tank so my only conclusion was foul play. My mother doesn't like the rest of the family or me, and she hasn't for years. When I got my first real job when I got back from school she called the cops and said that I beat her up and bashed in all her car windows because I didn't re make the ice tea........yes, you read that right, my mother made up a story to the police because I didn't re make the ice tea. Thankfully there were other family members in the house to tell them what she did and why, it also helped that when she said I broke all her car windows, and when they showed up all the windows were fine.....so either she has a really fast glass company or someone lied. She has always been mildly mentally ill with bi polar disorder but it has gotten worse over the years. I'm still in court for what she did and I lost my job and haven't been able to get one since because of this situation. Thankfully after my family helped me get a lawyer, I proved my innocence in court and they're wiping my record clear in the next court date. It's really been a nightmare to go through this and be treated like a criminal, I've lost everything including my car paying to fight through this and I'm glad to finally be done. My family let her stay in the house for the time because they thought she retaliate and try to make up more lies if they kicked her out during the court proceedings. Now that I'm done they started the eviction process and she only has a few weeks left so she's been really conniving and I'm next to positive she put something in my tanks as revenge. A few months ago when I left the house she unlocked my dogs cage and put him in my room, he destroyed my brand new $2500 Tempur pedic, my MacBook, DSLR camera, 60" flatscreen, clothes, over $5000 in damage was caused because of her spiteful actions. Thankfully I have the rest of my family that Hs helped me through this because they know about her problems and what she does. Sorry for the long personal story but I didn't want to just say "my mom poisened my tank" and seem like I'm delusional. I did huge water changes and am running a lot of carbon but I've already lost the eibli angel that was the nicest eibli I've ever seen, and what's really disappointing is after 4 months with the Angels I just got my first couple spawn attempts from them and I was so excited to attempt to raise the larvae and now I have to restart. All the fish still look horrible and won't eat and are breathing rapidly. I almost feel like giving up until she's gone. I have no way to protect the tanks until she's gone unless I sit there and guard them and that's if my family doesn't stsrt to feel bad for her at the last moment and she gets to stay(very unlikely). I feel like this is the end of reefing until I get my own place. Imagine if my reef tank was full of sps colony's? What if had some of the rarer fish that I usually have? I'm funding all these tanks myself this time around with no help from family so this is that much more devastating. All my hard work just ruined by someone dumping something in like its nothing. How could my own mother do this to her child? What can I do to save the remaining fish? Thank for for all who took the time to read this. I've lost everything I worked for thanks to her and for her to destroy my tanks and try to kill everything I just a new low and it really hits hard. I guess I'm just looking for some motivation at this point.
