Mortaine’s Blog

This week has really kind of sucked. Monday was drama-tastic. Tuesday was a long day (election), with very very very bad results in my precinct. Not the “who won” results. The “we have ten more ballots than we were given” results. Whoops. At one point, my count was over 100 ballots off. The whole day was like that, with a ton of little mistakes that just kept adding up.

Yesterday I had a meeting in the morning, forgot my laptop and had to use one of the classroom computers to get email and the person’s phone number who I was supposed to meet, so I could figure out where to meet him. It was a mess. I then had to drive home to be there when a friend dropped off his fish for fish-sitting. He dropped off about 20 fish, in tanks that are just teeming with blue-green algae, also known as cyanobacteria, the earliest photosynthesizer on the planet and therefore highly aggressive. Chances are, with these guest fish being here, unless I am extremely careful, I’m going to end up with cyanobacteria in my tanks. Not a huge deal, but to be honest, I’d rather it weren’t the case. At least I can destroy it with antibiotics and water changes, especially since the antibiotics won’t harm the non-existent filters in the betta tanks.

In unrelated news: I want to cut back to just a few fish, maybe just focusing on breeding one particular trait at this time. It’s hard not to get excited about all the beautiful fish my fishy friends produce, but at the same time, I really must limit myself and my fish space to just those I can really focus on.

Which means, of course, since I would like to focus on light-bodied double-tails, that I should get rid of the spawn that’s currently growing out in my fry tanks. They’re still about 2 weeks away from being sellable, and there’s about 40 of them left, mostly females.

My female community tank is trashed right now– water’s cloudy and downright murky.

And for no reason I can fathom except that I just found a new home for “her,” Tinkerbell is stressed enough to have frayed her fins.