Pearls of Wisdom:
-Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant?? I'm halfway through my fish burger and I realize, Oh my God....I could be eating a slow learner. - Lynda Montgomery

I FINALLY cleaned the fish tank. Man that was a chore. Wasn't expecting much else since I've not cleaned it since, what......April? Ugh.

My fish are thoroughly stressed out. I only can make one gallon of water at a time for them so they got netted out of a nice warm tank and put into a cooler by several degrees small container. They were in there for a bit and then I "fished" them out of there and put them back into the aquarium with water that was even cooler than before. My guppy looks like he's having the fish version of hyperventilation. My wee cat is hiding in the grass looking like he's having a meltdown. My 3 danios were all swimming around like mad men until I put a little food in and then they were all, "FOOOOD! We're starved! It's been an hour!" They're fine now.

I am still worried about all of them though. This was a stressful enough tank change that I might loose someone. I'm worried about my guppy. He's not looking to great. I have the heater in right now so hopefully that will warm things up faster. I have the light on too for heat.

The tank was gross. I suctioned out the water and it was so brown you couldn't see through it. (Most of that muck was in the gravel.) I took out all the decorations and cleaned them. I filled and dumped the tank with clean water twice to get as much of the muck out of the gravel as possible. I scrubbed the dickens out of the sides because of the algae. I got 99.9% of it. Can't get it all sadly.

Everything is now back in there and clean and pretty. Here's to hoping all my fish will be there in the morning. Here's to me staying on top of cleaning my tank, no matter how stressful school and life gets.

Amy