Fuck you, blue-green algae
Jun. 5th, 2019 01:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
milesyThis has been my life for about the last month. I hear about it every summer, poisoning people and dogs along the Willamette. So imagine my horror when I woke up one morning and found it had somehow taken over my entire damn planted aquarium.
Today, after much quarantine and darkness for my poor fish, I've put the whole thing back together. Replaced all the decorations and plants, and decided to re-install the powerhead to circulate water better and hopefully prevent another bloom in the future. It's a little too vigorous for the size of tank I have, so I decided I'd put it on the front and point it at the filter, rather than on the side. This way, the main jet blast just goes straight into the filter intake, disrupting the current enough to disperse it for the rest of the tank. This means that there's an area in the tank that's just awkward as shit, while the rest is a nice place for a fish to live (I'm going to find a way to block that part off, I think).
So of course, where does the stupid fish go? Right into the current, where he immediately gets stuck like the fucking moron he is. So I stood in front of the tank for about ten minutes, convincing the fish to move to the other side. It took a lot of shaking his food for him to even notice me, and he actually had no problem getting out of the vortex at all. He was just being stupid, apparently. Wanted to see what was going on, I guess. But now he's been properly educated and is chilling out with the plants and rocks, where he belongs.
He's so stupid and I love him.
Today, after much quarantine and darkness for my poor fish, I've put the whole thing back together. Replaced all the decorations and plants, and decided to re-install the powerhead to circulate water better and hopefully prevent another bloom in the future. It's a little too vigorous for the size of tank I have, so I decided I'd put it on the front and point it at the filter, rather than on the side. This way, the main jet blast just goes straight into the filter intake, disrupting the current enough to disperse it for the rest of the tank. This means that there's an area in the tank that's just awkward as shit, while the rest is a nice place for a fish to live (I'm going to find a way to block that part off, I think).
So of course, where does the stupid fish go? Right into the current, where he immediately gets stuck like the fucking moron he is. So I stood in front of the tank for about ten minutes, convincing the fish to move to the other side. It took a lot of shaking his food for him to even notice me, and he actually had no problem getting out of the vortex at all. He was just being stupid, apparently. Wanted to see what was going on, I guess. But now he's been properly educated and is chilling out with the plants and rocks, where he belongs.
He's so stupid and I love him.
