Fish Tales, Vol. 6

We lost two of the new fish the first day, but get this: apparently Petco guarantees all their fish for 15 days, so when we lost five of the original fourteen, we could have had all those fish replaced. Unfortunately, no one told us about the guarantee until we were buying all these new fish on Tuesday. So today we went back to Petco and they gave us another Black Neon Tetra (to replace one of the Seven Dwarfs – Doc, but only because I always just pick the last name in the series and say that’s the one that died), and a Zebra Danio (to replace Pop). They tested our water (part of the guarantee is that you have to bring them a sample of the water so they can test it. It’s not a condition of the refund, but rather an effort to minimize the number of fish killed by unsafe water), and said that it was mostly fine, but that the ammonia content was a little high. I told her that we had a Calico Goldfish (which, we had been warned, produces a lot of ammonia), but she said that it was more likely that it was because of the introduction of so many new fish at once (since we did add eleven new fish that day). I was going to buy five or six Neon Tetras (like the artists formerly known at the Three Amigos), and maybe a couple of Red Platys for color, but she said that I should wait a week or so before adding more new fish (apart from the two replacement fish, Doc and Pop).

~ by jabeandkristin on 23 May 2008.