Goldfish sent home as party favors

ARGH!

So I get home from running errands this afternoon and discover that my
daughter and son brought home 2 goldfish each from a birthday party.

ARGH!!!

Cussing loudly (that's 40 gallons worth of fish) I jet outside into the
back 40 and get 2 old 10 gallon tanks. I direct my daughter to start
cleaning them up using tap water.

Once she's knocked off the worst of the dirt, I betadyne them and rise 3
or 4 times with tap water.

Working from memory... cussing as I go...

1.5 tablespoons of aquarium salt
1 teaspoon NovAqua
1 teaspoon of AmQuel

Oh shoot, I've only got 25W, 50W and 150W questionable heaters hanging
around. Oh well, I'll do the best I can. The 150W goes in one tank and
the 50W goes into another.

Only one spare air pump and no spare air stones. Sigh. Trip to the pet
store ahead tomorrow morning.

Fish out of bags into a wider bowl so at least they can get some O2. Put
a towel around the bowl to darken it to reduce stress on the fish.

So at this point I'm waiting for the temps to equalize so that the fish
can go into the tanks.

WHY THE FRICK AND FRACK DO PEOPLE GIVE GOLDFISH AS "PARTY TOYS"!!!

Anyhow, if anybody remembers me (Hi Ingrid)(Gunther or NetMax still
around?)...

I'm back for a little while.

-Donald (old )