"Lisa" wrote...
You're absolutely right. However, it's hard not to take the loss of
each fish as a personal failure. :-)

Since I am a dedicated gardener, I tend to look at the aquarium
situation in terms of absolutes: get the "recipe" right, and everything
should thrive. It does that with plants, after all! But, that doesn't
necessarily follow, in logical terms, for the freshwater aquarium
scene.

Thanks for the verification. I was hoping that the fish loss wasn't
due to something that (1) I did or (2) failed to do . . .


just to exemplify with the flip side; i have an angel i got when i was first
starting out, a juvinille from the local chain store- he is now a fully 7"
high 6" long beauty. what is extrodinair is that he has survived every newby
mistake one could make. he has been bounced from tank to tank at a whim,
survived in a tank with no water changes (only water refills) for months,
and has just recently survived a move into a new house. i would swear there
is nothing at this point that this guy can not survive,... and it has
nothing to do with me or something i did or didnt do, because by rights he
should have been gone along time ago. sometimes it really is just the fish.