Posted by robbyxoxo on January 16, 2003 at 16:25:31:
In Reply to: Don\'t use it!! It will leach into your water and MOST fish posted by Michele on January 16, 2003 at 09:11:51:
i really need to start reading some aquarium books im thinking...i had an aquarium for quite a few years, many years ago but took little to no care of it and now after reading alot of posts here im realizing that i was a serious fish abuser...lol....just browsing thru questions and answers here, i feel OVERWHELMED...and to think i used to just throw a few flakes of food in my aquarium every few days and thought i was doing ok...looking back now im wondering how my fish survived SO long!....which makes me have to ask....i know most of the people here are serious aquarium hobbyists and full of knowledge and experience in this...but from the view of a newbie reading this, ya'll make it sound so incredibly complicated to keep an aquarium up and running....worried about nitrates, and filter types, and matching fish, and water changes, and on and on....i dont think i ever did a water change in the entire 7 years that i had my aquarium...of course i was only 15 and had no idea what i was doing...but still i dont recall losing that many fish...i guess maybe a few did come and go....but i remember having some that seemed to last for years....the last year or so im embarressed to say now that i didnt even feed the fish....and yet somehow they kinda just hung on and never died....ok i wasnt a good fish parent!.........now i hope to improve on that....but after reading some here, im worried that ill never be able to keep up with all the things that seem to need to be done...please tell me that its not as hard as ya'll seem to make it out to be?...i just want a PRETTY aquarium with nice decor but not something thats gonna keep me up at nights worrying about the nitrite levels...changing 50% water weekly sounds like a chore!...thats alot of water to be taking out and in each week....grrr...hoping for shortcuts?...i need help!...i want some EASY fish! and not plastic ones! lol....Michele im counting on you to come up with a miracle for me!...ok i think i just wrote a novel...sorry...oh and the coral, some i bought from street vendoors in Progress Mexico...others i just found on the beach in barbados,cozumel, etc....always on the beach though and never taken live from the ocean...Thanks so much!..i know ive given you a tall order robby
