Doing Better

We are doing better today. Though the weekend was a little rough. Dwayne and Evie came down sick on Saturday. Thankfully, they both seemed better by afternoon yesterday. However, Sam then had a fever and threw up all over the living room. But by bedtime he seemed 100% better and this morning has been complaining about how hungry he is. I'm glad they didn't last as long as I did with this bug. I'm still recovering though I am doing better. I still have a bit of cough and runny nose especially first thing in the morning. Needless to say, we didn't do much this weekend. Dwayne did find just enough energy to quickly mow the yard and I did a little weeding. But once that was done, we were bushed. We pretty much spent the weekend watching T.V and vegging.

Well, all the fish are dead. I have no idea what happened. But something obviously in our tank is out of balance somehow. They have been dying off one by one over the last several days. In some ways I am relieved because I really didn't want to have a breeding tank. In the next few days, I'll clean out the tank really well and set it up again. Then maybe get a couple more fish and start over next payday. The only thing I can think of is that we are reusing some old rocks from a previous tank and I didn't clean them well enough. Otherwise, everything else in the tank is new. We also don't have a heater since this is such a tiny tank. I figured the hoodlight would heat the water well enough. I think I'm going to go back to good ole reliable guppies. But no females! I know how they work, how to keep them alive for the most part and can tell boys from girls pretty easily. I think a sucker fish of some kind will help too. We'll see what happens.