Of all things to wake up to this morning, I didn't expect it to be ich.
F&%$! I am NOT able to handle this sh*t right now.
By the time I got home from the gym, it was raining pretty steadily. I busied myself with the last of the pre-storm preparations for power outages. It's going to suck. I'm so worried about keeping the temp of the tanks stable for the fish. I took a wee break and sat in my chair and watched them and realized one of the baby loaches had a few white spots on his tail. I thought I was hallucinating. Unfortunately, I wasn't.
To make a long, annoying story short, I ran outside into the rain to retrieve the hospital tank, spent considerable effort catching the little buggar, and got him into quarantine in the kitchen. I put the new, tiny filter in the h-tank, and a tiny heater that happened to arrive in the mail today. When I collected Ben after school, we went directly to Mom and Dad's in Warwood to get Ick Guard.
I've been wanting to go to that store to check it out anyway. I was NOT impressed. Not only were several of her tanks infested with ich, but she also expressed confusion as to why I would want to raise the water temperature to treat the ich. I didn't bother to try to explain myself. I'm never going to buy a fish there after what I saw. It was atrocious. I got the ich meds and got a second heater, a more adjustable one, and got the hell out.
So tiny loach is being treated in the hospital tank, and I removed carbon and dosed the 55 as well. I am so distracted by the potential power outage, and I don't want to go raising the temp in the 55 until I see more ich. Moreover, I can't raise the temp up to 86 now if the power's going to go out. It'll just have to wait until Frankenstorm passes.
This sucks. I'm sure I have only myself to blame, somehow. The odd thing is that Bleu Betta doesn't have a spot on him. So where did this come from?
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