hello, thanx 4 having me here on Alberta Aquatica.
I am new to this whole forum buisness but have been an aquatic hobbiest for quite a while. Recentlly I experienced a tragic loss in one of my tanks; I am not inclined to think of all loss of life in the tank as tragic, but this one was beyond tollerance. After years of learning to keep Discus I had finnally experienced some success in getting them to eat, grow, survive for crying out loud, I even began to feel confident that I could raise my own breeding pair. Then, just returned from my honeymoon in Antigua, I came home to a tank that had been neglected and overfed for two weeks. Full of algae and sick Discus the tank broke my heart. My love of the hobby wained for the first time in years.
Two of my fish were 'hospitalized' for parasitic problems and I took to overly frequent water changes to deal with all the hole in head from which the rest were suffering. My 'hospitalized' Cobalt Blue type Discus didn't make it. I resolved that I was finished keeping Dicus. "It's true," I thought, Discus are too much. My plan was to nurse my poor school to health and trade them to the 'lfs' for store cred. The nursing began.
How is it life always has a way of twisting things up all of the time?
Getting my fish healthy got me talking to a friend who is also in the hobby; shout out Vince0! :shifty: Checking out the progress that he was making encouraged me and renewed my interest. Within a few months my tank was looking better than ever. I just picked up a small school of juvenile Pigeon Blood type and am hoping for a pair out of the bunch. For this group I will be setting up a new 80gal (48"*16*24) on top of which my wife has asked for a tank in the bedroom...looking forward to many more years and thousands more gallons, :boxer: thebarber...
