Reccently I switched jobs, and became a "In-Home" Nurse. I find the work much easier than being in a hospital - Anyways my new job has me go and visit and take care of people who would rather stay home. This puts me inside said persons home for up to 4-5 hours a day. I visit many people during my week, and in doing so I wittiness some rather upsetting household conditions. Due to my position I am unable to say anything, Unless it is life threatening to a client or a child.
However one house has a fish tank. Joy I thought to myself! But as I approached the 50 gallon tank, I noticed 3 fish were dead. Quickly I analyzed the tank and noticed there was at least 40+ Tetras, 6 clown loaches, 2 cobalt lobsters, severak bloodfins and such in this tank!
"Hey, looks like you got some dead fish in here hehe.... So how many fish do you have?" I asked.
"Yeah Hahaha! They died last night, were going to go get 10 more in the morning. that will give us about 80 something fish." Both family members answered "Let Me guess your going to tell us we have too many fish and our 'PH' is too high? Righ?" She asked me in a snap
I just looked at her an smiled and nodded slowly "Your fish will die off to make bio room to support whatcha got. And even then they wont be happy but they will be alive."
In just 4 weeks I wittnessed the entire tank die off and be re-stocked twice! Over the past 3 months Ive been able to get them in the habbit of changing their water once every 3 months all the way up to once every 2 weeks for 50% Thats not where id like it to be but its better than nothing.
Four months go by and still they are replacing a minimum of 15 fish a month - not a total extinction of their tank, but still too many. Every other day it seems there is always some mangled up body of what was left of a fish, stuck to the side of the filter where 3 other fish constantly pick at it and nibble at it.
Im not able to convince them to let 60+ fish go, or to give them away. But these people did make me realize why I am able to buy so many colors of fish so cheap and so many varieties to choose from.
You are able to buy these fish and fish tank accessories so cheap - because somewhere out there, there is a person who murders them all every week and must restock with new victims.
However one house has a fish tank. Joy I thought to myself! But as I approached the 50 gallon tank, I noticed 3 fish were dead. Quickly I analyzed the tank and noticed there was at least 40+ Tetras, 6 clown loaches, 2 cobalt lobsters, severak bloodfins and such in this tank!
"Hey, looks like you got some dead fish in here hehe.... So how many fish do you have?" I asked.
"Yeah Hahaha! They died last night, were going to go get 10 more in the morning. that will give us about 80 something fish." Both family members answered "Let Me guess your going to tell us we have too many fish and our 'PH' is too high? Righ?" She asked me in a snap
I just looked at her an smiled and nodded slowly "Your fish will die off to make bio room to support whatcha got. And even then they wont be happy but they will be alive."
In just 4 weeks I wittnessed the entire tank die off and be re-stocked twice! Over the past 3 months Ive been able to get them in the habbit of changing their water once every 3 months all the way up to once every 2 weeks for 50% Thats not where id like it to be but its better than nothing.
Four months go by and still they are replacing a minimum of 15 fish a month - not a total extinction of their tank, but still too many. Every other day it seems there is always some mangled up body of what was left of a fish, stuck to the side of the filter where 3 other fish constantly pick at it and nibble at it.
Im not able to convince them to let 60+ fish go, or to give them away. But these people did make me realize why I am able to buy so many colors of fish so cheap and so many varieties to choose from.
You are able to buy these fish and fish tank accessories so cheap - because somewhere out there, there is a person who murders them all every week and must restock with new victims.