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senashenta) wrote2025-03-03 04:56 pm
senashenta) wrote2025-03-03 04:56 pm
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Pet Ownership
Okay. So. Today I discovered that the BRAND NEW (used) axolotl tank was leaking, and in exactly the same way as the last tank did; from the base, from the acrylic on the bottom. I decided this CAN'T just be the most infuriating coincidence in history, so I had a look around the tank and at the dresser that it's standing on and... the top of the dresser is COLLAPSED inward in the middle, and that means that the 40 gallon tank that weighs approximately 332 POUNDS, isn't supported in the middle AT ALL.
It's no wonder the last tank broke, and no wonder this new one did, too.
But still like. Fuck me.
It's currently a slow-drip leak so I'm stemming it with a towel so it hopefully doesn't overflow and end up all over the carpet AGAIN, but right now I'm basically frantically trying to source a new dresser and tank because the situation with the current ones isn't sustainable.
On top of that, after all the problems with the water when I originally switched the tanks OVER a couple weeks ago, it's now developed a bacterial infection that I currently have to treat, and a fungal infection that I'm going to be treating next. It's not a shock because of all the water problems before but still.
And my poor axolotls are just... suffering in there in horrible water conditions and being dosed with MelaFix every freaking day. (Only for five days and today was day three so two more to go.) Then I have to give them a break before I do a 50% water change and start treating for the FUNGAL infection. Like, JFC.
I also had to buy a new outside-hanging-on-the-edge filter for the tank and some AccuClear to try to fix the water clarity, so just in general I am spending a shit ton of money on this tank (TANKS PLURAL) and I really don't even have it to spare. The money for the new dresser and the new tank is going to have to come out of my admittedly meager savings and I can't fucking afford to do that, but I have no choice.
I guess it's like taking the cats to the vet, it's just something I have to do. Pet ownership, man. Pet ownership.
It's no wonder the last tank broke, and no wonder this new one did, too.
But still like. Fuck me.
It's currently a slow-drip leak so I'm stemming it with a towel so it hopefully doesn't overflow and end up all over the carpet AGAIN, but right now I'm basically frantically trying to source a new dresser and tank because the situation with the current ones isn't sustainable.
On top of that, after all the problems with the water when I originally switched the tanks OVER a couple weeks ago, it's now developed a bacterial infection that I currently have to treat, and a fungal infection that I'm going to be treating next. It's not a shock because of all the water problems before but still.
And my poor axolotls are just... suffering in there in horrible water conditions and being dosed with MelaFix every freaking day. (Only for five days and today was day three so two more to go.) Then I have to give them a break before I do a 50% water change and start treating for the FUNGAL infection. Like, JFC.
I also had to buy a new outside-hanging-on-the-edge filter for the tank and some AccuClear to try to fix the water clarity, so just in general I am spending a shit ton of money on this tank (TANKS PLURAL) and I really don't even have it to spare. The money for the new dresser and the new tank is going to have to come out of my admittedly meager savings and I can't fucking afford to do that, but I have no choice.
I guess it's like taking the cats to the vet, it's just something I have to do. Pet ownership, man. Pet ownership.