fish food, fish, and 2yr olds-help/advise please

In article , Charles says...

On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 03:30:00 GMT, Steven Schneider
wrote:

Hi,

I just finished giving my fish tank a 50% water change after finding
out that my 2yr daughter decided that she needed to feed the fish
the remains of an old container of fish food (about 3.5 g of brine
shrimp).

I've skimmed as much off of the fish food off of the top of the
water that I could, and I've set the filter on high to clear the
water out faster. They obvously won't be fed again tonight, and
tomorrow is their scheduled fast day. I'm also thinking of not
feeding them on Thursday, just to be sure, though I don't know if
that's necessary to go that far.

The fish in my tank are comprised of 6 white mountain cloud minnows,
and 3 albino corys.

Aside from keeping an eye on them, is there anything else that I
could, or even should be doing? I'd appreciate any advice that
anyone has to offer.

Thankc in advance,


Just keep an eye on the water, figure on doing more water changes than
usual until whatever food that got missed has decayed. The food
probably didn't hurt the fish at all, but the fouled water can.


.... and vacuum the gravel as soon as you can.

--
Jim Anderson
( 8(|) To eMail me, just pull "my_finger"

Thanks to everyone who responded. I've been doing partial water
changes everyday since "the incident" and the fish don't seem to be
suffering. I've also vacuumed the gravel the other night, and will
probably do so again either on the weekend, or just following it.

I'm also feeding the fish on their regular schedule. Based on the
responses I received I now see that there is no need to force
fasting on themi, especially as it might only cause them extra stress
that they probably don't need right about now. :-)

Anyhow, thanks again. In the meantime, I'll just keep up with the
extra water changes, and keeping an eye on the fish. If there's any
change out of the ordinary at least I'll know where to ask for help.

Also, I've taken the liberty of moving my food supplies for the
fish...once again. It keeps getting harder and harder to keep
things out of my two year old's reach. I don't remember her older
sister being such a little monkey. Ah well, my fault for lapsing in
keeping an eye on my own kids. :-)

--
W. Steven Schneider

On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 04:23:19 GMT, Steven Schneider
wrote:

Also, I've taken the liberty of moving my food supplies for the
fish...once again. It keeps getting harder and harder to keep
things out of my two year old's reach. I don't remember her older
sister being such a little monkey. Ah well, my fault for lapsing in
keeping an eye on my own kids. :-)

I've been around several two year olds in my day, presently just one 2
year old grandson that poses a threat. He's been taught to "whisper"
when he's looking at the fish, and for some reason he understands
"whisper" as also meaning point carefully, but don't touch the glass.
It's sort of like "pet the kitty gently". So far so good. Tetra
includes a free plastic blue fish with blinking lights to remind you
when to do a water change, add nutrients, etc. It's really stupid
looking. I've suction cupped it to the front of the tank and
instructed Kamoy, my grandson, that this is his very own blue fish,
and he may press the buttons on it and make the lights blink whenever
he wants. So far so good. It was his mother, Liza, who fed the fish
pepper when she was 2. I hope this is not a genetic thing. 10 more
months until he's 3, and then there will be a whole new set of
curiosities to deal with. One year at a time.

-- Mister Gardener

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On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 04:23:19 GMT, Steven Schneider
wrote:

Also, I've taken the liberty of moving my food supplies for the
fish...once again. It keeps getting harder and harder to keep
things out of my two year old's reach. I don't remember her older
sister being such a little monkey. Ah well, my fault for lapsing in
keeping an eye on my own kids. :-)

I've been around several two year olds in my day, presently just one 2
year old grandson that poses a threat. He's been taught to "whisper"
when he's looking at the fish, and for some reason he understands
"whisper" as also meaning point carefully, but don't touch the glass.
It's sort of like "pet the kitty gently". So far so good. Tetra
includes a free plastic blue fish with blinking lights to remind you
when to do a water change, add nutrients, etc. It's really stupid
looking. I've suction cupped it to the front of the tank and
instructed Kamoy, my grandson, that this is his very own blue fish,
and he may press the buttons on it and make the lights blink whenever
he wants. So far so good. It was his mother, Liza, who fed the fish
pepper when she was 2. I hope this is not a genetic thing. 10 more
months until he's 3, and then there will be a whole new set of
curiosities to deal with. One year at a time.

-- Mister Gardener

I don't think I started until Luke was 3-4 years old, but he has always
loved the fish, and sees me doing stuff and wants to also, so now we do it
together, he holds the bucket when I vacuum, or fill them up, I got the fish
food that has a compartment at the top it holds enough to feed the fish
once, and he uses that, it also prevents anything else from coming out,
since he started helping he no longer *for the most part* gets into things
by him self. My older son once stuck his hand in the pacu tank and got bit,
he had slices down his finger, he has never bothered with another fish tank.
Nikki

On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 11:35:58 -0500, "Nikki"
wrote:

I don't think I started until Luke was 3-4 years old, but he has always
loved the fish, and sees me doing stuff and wants to also, so now we do it
together, he holds the bucket when I vacuum, or fill them up, I got the fish
food that has a compartment at the top it holds enough to feed the fish
once, and he uses that, it also prevents anything else from coming out,
since he started helping he no longer *for the most part* gets into things
by him self. My older son once stuck his hand in the pacu tank and got bit,
he had slices down his finger, he has never bothered with another fish tank.
Nikki

Your sons have distinctly different learning styles.

-- Mister Gardener