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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: Re: I messed up
Summary: me too, but I didnt tell anybody :-)
Message-ID: <2201@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 20 Jan 88 04:14:53 GMT
References: <1975@s.cc.purdue.edu> <21580@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <21580@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Ram-Ashwin@cs.yale.edu (Ashwin Ram) writes:
>In article <1975@s.cc.purdue.edu>, ai5@s (Vikram Lall) writes:
>> I was not here for 4-5 weeks, and when I got back, I found out that
>> the person feeding my fish had not changed the water.
>> 
>> I have a Black molly, 2 angels, 2 glass-catfish, 1 red tailed shark,
>> and 1 scavenger in a 10 gallon.
>> 
>> I changed 2 gallons, what else should I do to rectify their health?

[generally good advice deleted]

The only thing I would add is be carefull about making a transition
from water high in dissolved material to "clean" water.

Fish that I have moved from "organic soup" to clean water have
promptly shown great distress (reddish gills, listless, clinging to
the bottom, rapid breath) and a couple have died.



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