Jelly woes

[Origami]

I have two jellyfish tank running, having set them up after our last meeting. I had 5 jellies between them.

 

All was well until just a few minutes ago. It appears that I killed 5 jellies in the last 24 hours. Did a 50% water change in both tanks last night. My water change routine uses two 2-gallon buckets. One to collect water as I siphon the old water out and another that contains the new change water. I keep the two buckets stacked together with other tools for the water change inside (cups, tubing, etc.).

 

Last night was to be no different. Looking over at my buckets, I thought that I only saw one in the stack. So I grabbed another bucket that I thought was part of the pair and diluted some of my regular 35 ppt water down to 30 ppt (which is where I run the jelly tanks) in it. Then I grabbed the other bucket. When I did so, I noticed the second bucket was right there. No worries, I thought. I just grabbed the one and left the other behind, and proceeded to change the water in both tanks.

 

Fast forward to this evening: I'm getting ready to feed both tanks and I glance at the one inside the living room. Nothing. Only disintegrated gelatinous material floating about. So I head over to my daughter's room where three jellies were homed. Only two in there but the two are not pulsing any longer. They appear dead. The third has disintegrated.

 

D*mn.  I'll bet that I used that other bucket for something other than a water change recently and had some residue left over in it. Got careless and just left it in the fish room where there's a deep sink. 

 

Tough lesson to learn but one worth sharing so others might not repeat it.

 

Next time, I'll label the buckets and dedicate their use.

[treesprite]

Sorry to hear about the jellies. My son once used one of my tank buckets for something else, and couldn't understand why I was angry about it (that bucket got demoted to household chores).