lilleahseafreak
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tiny tank boiled alive, looking for a shoulder to cry on & possible replacement items
about a month ago i set up this cute little 5 gallon bow front. i filled it w/live sand and fully cured live rock from my other tanks (the rocks were all the small/rubble bits i had thrown in the back of my bigger tanks.) i then began to slowly stock it . all has been going well.... but then i came home on Thursday...
first i saw the shrooms, they looked mushy and flat which worried me, then i saw the dead yellow gumdrop stuck in the pump, i reached in to pull it out and the water was very warm, i looked at the temp and it was around 95!!! i ran and got some ice cubes and put them in the tank, then i went "oh no, the shrimp!" my 2 little gold coral banded shrimp and baby skunk cleaner were all dead, as were all my tiny baby brittle stars and little tan astria starfish, many of which i had just gotten from aquaworld, my green gumdrop was also dead.....the only things i did not lose were the zoos, my snails, my hermits and a tiny kenya tree.
I got the temp down but all the red, green and blue shrooms i put in there still turned to snot, as did the xenia, the last of my pink pulsing xenia....the candycane has dissolved, not totally but it looks like pink hunks of snot on sticks and is hardly holding its shape and the green centers are gone, i don't have much hope for it living....
Man I cried.
The heater was this tiny gray one meant for 2 gallon tanks, I figured it would be fine to maintain the temp of the tank since it was underrated for the size of the tank. It must have malfunctioned....
I am telling ya guys because I need to let it out and my Mom is sick and tried of "hearing about my fish crap" so I figured I'd tell you....
I am hoping to replace the things I lost, I'm not asking for freebies though those are always welcome. I just don't know where to find more tiny starfish, or a tiny abalone...maybe some one can pull a few baby stars from their tank? some people consoder them pests right? well if your one of those people i will gladly take them as i love those tiny tan stars and baby brittles...
man those gold coral shrimps were hard to come by, i even thought of putting one in another tank but they were both so small that i wanted to keep them in the tiny tank....
i took out all the surviving corals as i know my ammonia will spike, there are so many dead little starfish, and who knows what else, likley bristle worms and medusa worms and pods....crap...this sucks.
i almost put my lettuce nudi in there the other day, glad i did'nt or that would have been another $15 down the toilet...man i lost like $60 worth of stuff, and i bought it all as a special treat, it was money spent that we really could not afford...but it was my bday when we purchased this stuff so my father let me buy it as a birthday treat...now its gone...
about a month ago i set up this cute little 5 gallon bow front. i filled it w/live sand and fully cured live rock from my other tanks (the rocks were all the small/rubble bits i had thrown in the back of my bigger tanks.) i then began to slowly stock it . all has been going well.... but then i came home on Thursday...
first i saw the shrooms, they looked mushy and flat which worried me, then i saw the dead yellow gumdrop stuck in the pump, i reached in to pull it out and the water was very warm, i looked at the temp and it was around 95!!! i ran and got some ice cubes and put them in the tank, then i went "oh no, the shrimp!" my 2 little gold coral banded shrimp and baby skunk cleaner were all dead, as were all my tiny baby brittle stars and little tan astria starfish, many of which i had just gotten from aquaworld, my green gumdrop was also dead.....the only things i did not lose were the zoos, my snails, my hermits and a tiny kenya tree.
I got the temp down but all the red, green and blue shrooms i put in there still turned to snot, as did the xenia, the last of my pink pulsing xenia....the candycane has dissolved, not totally but it looks like pink hunks of snot on sticks and is hardly holding its shape and the green centers are gone, i don't have much hope for it living....
Man I cried.
The heater was this tiny gray one meant for 2 gallon tanks, I figured it would be fine to maintain the temp of the tank since it was underrated for the size of the tank. It must have malfunctioned....
I am telling ya guys because I need to let it out and my Mom is sick and tried of "hearing about my fish crap" so I figured I'd tell you....
I am hoping to replace the things I lost, I'm not asking for freebies though those are always welcome. I just don't know where to find more tiny starfish, or a tiny abalone...maybe some one can pull a few baby stars from their tank? some people consoder them pests right? well if your one of those people i will gladly take them as i love those tiny tan stars and baby brittles...
man those gold coral shrimps were hard to come by, i even thought of putting one in another tank but they were both so small that i wanted to keep them in the tiny tank....
i took out all the surviving corals as i know my ammonia will spike, there are so many dead little starfish, and who knows what else, likley bristle worms and medusa worms and pods....crap...this sucks.
i almost put my lettuce nudi in there the other day, glad i did'nt or that would have been another $15 down the toilet...man i lost like $60 worth of stuff, and i bought it all as a special treat, it was money spent that we really could not afford...but it was my bday when we purchased this stuff so my father let me buy it as a birthday treat...now its gone...
