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From: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: sci.aquaria,rec.aquaria,alt.aquaria
Subject: I am an idiot. A complete idiot.
Keywords: idiocy
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Date: 17 Jan 90 21:07:52 GMT
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, Ca.
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Those ``hi-fin Corydoras'' that I thought were so neat are,
according to Burgess, juvenile Brochis spendans. Terrific.
I *loathe* brochis. Damn ugly things.

I knew this was too good to be true.

All the stupid clown loaches are dead, as are all the killies
in tank with them (Epiplays dageti). Fortunately I just very
recently gethered 8 eggs from them. These are the only eggs
I've ever managed to collect off them. I don't know what killed
them. I suspect a bacterial infection brought in by the stupid
clown loaches.

My big female Aphyosemion sjoestedti Warri croaked. She just 
looked like hell one morning and died that evening. No idea why.
The remianing pair is in very good shape.

All these things are minor bad news, the real disaster occured
in the tank housing the gularis cross I made (Ed Millers big
blues X German Dwarf red). I noticed the water was a little cloudy
- unheard of in that tank and that I hadn't seen the good big male
for a while. I found him stuck in the 1" diameter airlift tube
from the under gravel filter. Not only that, I found three of them
in there all stuck together.

Sometimes I swear sjoestedti is the stupidest thing on the planet.
They'll eat plants, discover they don't taste very good and spit
them out, perhaps they know they can't digest them. Then they'll
do it again. I've lost one because it swam under a sponge filter;
this is the only species I've lost that way. I've never had any 
other fish swim down the airlift; Brian Reid had this happen to
him as well.

So I just bought some endcap thingies to cover the tubes so
the morons cant swim out.

The other fish that ate it in this accident was the only
dwarf red gularis I had, which I suppose is replacable with
some effort, a female, which was okay, I have plenty of those,
but the big male was the only male in the bunch that had
huge fins and the ``bell shaped'' tail. I'll have to start
from scratch and make the cross again.

Plus my rotten kids have passed their cold back to me for the
third time this season.

If you don't see any more posts from me it's because I've
killed myself.