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Aquarium Fish
When you go to buy your first aquarium
fish, it can be a mistake to have too firm an idea of
what you want. You see, keeping a fish aquarium can be a
lot more work than you might expect. I was a little too
bullheaded when I bought my first pet fish. I wanted
tropical fish, and I would not take no for an answer. I
went into the little neighborhood pet shop to get an
aquarium set up, and talked to the owner. He was a very
honest man, and he flat out told me that setting up a
tropical aquarium was a mistake for someone just
starting out. Tropical aquarium fish are very
temperamental creatures, he explained, and they are hard
to care for properly.
Unfortunately, I did not listen to him. I bought all of
the aquarium supplies that I needed to get started.
Altogether, with the aquarium filter, the lights, the
plants, the actual fish tank, the pebbles, and the
aerator, it ran me well over $200 dollars – and that was
before I even bought the aquarium fish. Nonetheless, I
was happy to fork over the money. I had wanted to have
my own tropical fish tank for a long time, and I could
not wait to get started.
From the beginning, however, I had one disaster after
another with those aquarium fish. Several of them died
in the first few days that I had the tank, although I
never knew why. The guy at the fish store told me that I
must not have adjusted the water right, but I tried to
follow his advice. Whatever the reason, it only got
worse from there. Somehow, one of them caught a tropical
fish disease and spread it to the others. By the time I
figured out that anything was wrong, most of my fish
were very sick! I poured more and more money into the
project and more and more fish died. Finally, I had had
enough.
I took the aquarium fish tank back into the store and
tried to give him back all the fish. He could not accept
all of them, as many were sick, but he took back the
ones which seemed alright. Fortunately, I could use the
supplies that he had sold me to keep freshwater fish.
They were much more hearty and, within a few months, I
knew a lot more about how to raise them. Now I know to
listen!
 
 
 
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