We're so happy that the power is back on! Larry and Blackie are so far fine. I thought about the carbon monoxide thing, actually, but it really seemed to be helping. It might be because they only got it every few hours over the two days we were out of power.. I distinctly remember reading that you should do it every five minutes. This was not about to happen. We like our fish, but well, not that much. *laugh* Also, they're large goldfish, and pretty hardy creatures.
I'm not sure why we didn't think of it until just now, but what we should have been doing was scooping up a bunch of water from the tank and letting it trickle back down. Magnus is cleaning out the filters right now to remove toxins that apparently build up, and we need to watch them for a couple of days for disease from temperature changes. I think my parents were amused that we put so much effort into maintaining the life of two goldfish. ;)
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Date: 2003-02-18 09:51 am (UTC)I'm not sure why we didn't think of it until just now, but what we should have been doing was scooping up a bunch of water from the tank and letting it trickle back down. Magnus is cleaning out the filters right now to remove toxins that apparently build up, and we need to watch them for a couple of days for disease from temperature changes. I think my parents were amused that we put so much effort into maintaining the life of two goldfish. ;)