Vacations, benign neglect, and a little surprise at the end

[lancer99]

The last time I went on vacation I had digital timers to do my top-offs and an automatic fish feeder for the (one) fish I had at the time.

 

Five days turned into ten, and when I got back, I found out that we'd lost power either the first or second day I was away, so no top-offs...and the cheap fish feeder had suffered a mechanical failure. But everything was fine, no losses of either coral or fish.

 

So this time when I was going away for 4-5 days, I didn't even bother.

 

When I got back earlier today, I started adding top-off water to get the tanks back to their normal salinity, cleaned out the excess Chaeto from my fuges, etc., etc.

 

I did notice before I left, that some Chaeto had migrated from the fuge on my 75G into the DT, so I yanked it out, and this is what I found:

 

 

 

-R

[Gadgets]

Now that s a surprise!!!

[st9z]

nice catch! I hope it was not one of ur other pet :(

[treesprite]

holy crud! Now I have to ask, what the heck is the green from?

[tygger]

geez... :( That's nasty...

[extreme_tooth_decay]

oh yeah, baby!

 

we should start a thread of nasty animals we've pulled out...I think I still have the one with the roach in the sand

[YBeNormal]

OK, catfish are pretty common but mousefish?

[treesprite]

oh yeah, baby!

 

we should start a thread of nasty animals we've pulled out...I think I still have the one with the roach in the sand

 

Sounds like it would be interesting. Since I don't have such a story to tell, someone else can volunteer...

[lancer99]

Someone here...or was it RC? found a dead raccoon in their RO makeup water tank!

 

I am reasonably clean, just occasionally find a cockroach in my dishwasher....so pulling out a dead mouse pretty much freaked me out!

 

 

-R

[jason the filter freak]

darn bob beat me to the obvious lame joke. i can sympathize i found a dead mouse in the sump at work

[jamesbuf]

Jeez, imagine what that would've done to your nitrates! Gross!!!!

[jakaufman]

that is crazy! I thought the spider and ants I had found were weird.

[extreme_tooth_decay]

Ah, here it is...the roach in my sand (who crawled out when I put water in BTW)

 

[sen5241b]

Wicked sick! A cat will solve that problem.