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There's this middleschool teacher that keeps buying fish every year then at the end of the year she just unplugs everything and leaves them. Well over last summer my sister's boyfriend got permission to plug everything back in and at least feed them over the summer. This year my aunt who is a 2nd grade teacher convinced them to give up the fish and not keep anymore. Now we have tanks of mystery fish that she's bringing over to me in an hour. There's a random assortment of livebearers, tetras, and goldfish which won't be much of a problem. Then she said there are 2 fairly large white fish that have each taken over opposite ends of this tank and they kill anything that's added. Any ideas what they are and what to do with them? They are being kept in a 20g tank right now. The goldfish are going to the neighbors pond.

Possibly albino convict's. Just a guess, but a possibility anyways.

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Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody. -- Mark Twain

i'll hazard a guess, but they could be juvi. gold severums, if so, they need a bigger tank

I think the white mystery fish were possibly severums but someone else took them to give them a bigger tank so I will probably never know for sure. I do have 3 guppies, 3 cardinals, 1 orange platy, 1 spotted swordtail, 1 giant danio, and a mystery catfish. The catfish is in pretty sad shape. It's missing both it's eyes and it's sides are all fuzzy. I can't even tell what color it is. I put them in a 10g with some pimafix for now.

First of all, good for you for rescuing these fish - which were obviously in need of it!

Second, send your middle school teacher to me. For a does of educating in basic fish care. And a bludgeoning with a baseball bat for mistreating those fish in the first place.

"Turns everything off during the holidays ..." ... D'oh. What does this person think? That the fish can do without life support over the holidays? That they only need it during term time? Idiot ...


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The catfish is recovering and is actually Scleromystax barbatus or banded cory. Never seen a full grown big cory before. All mine are little pandas or trilli. The guppies went to another home. The cardinals joined my assortment of remaining tetras after the disease that only wiped out my tetras. The platy turned out to be a female swordtail who is in a 10g by herself now. The male swordtail and danio joined my angelfish and yoyo loaches in the 29g. So everyone is now in a happy home. I think teachers should be fired for teaching kids such disregard for anything living.

Things like this never seem to surprize me. People can be so stupid!! GRRRR!!! I plan on having tanks in my classroom when I get to that point. I plege not to be a moron about it!


Last edited by sirbooks at 21-May-2005 07:54

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Glad to hear that all are doing well and it sounds like you came to the rescue in just the nick of time. You would think that some one that has the education background that a teacher has, would know better than just abandon the fish for the summer

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Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody. -- Mark Twain

well old timer, a biology teacher says its allright to keep goldfish in bowls :#(

]:|]:|]:|What in a flying flip is that woman thinking of?]:|]:|]:|

I mean for goodness sakes I admit the teacher down the hall would just leave her fish in the summer and hope for the best, and occassionally some soul would drop food in on them, but at least the filtration and aerator was left running!!!

Now me, please I sat there for 20 minutes this afternoon, catching guppies of all flipping sizes and bagging them in the ziplock to come home...Then I didn't even unplug everything, but left it all running, because I would hate to think that I had some how missed 1 or 2 shy fry...

So exactly how is that "thing" that wants to be called a teacher explaining that it's ok to just unplug things and go?]:|]:|]:|Send her here to me I have a few kids that I'll hand her over too when I'm through with her, and then Cali if there is anything left we will ship her rear end to you, but keep in mind we will only use a box measuring 2ft x 2ft x 2ft...sealing it air tight with packing tape, no air holes, no food, no water, and no potty...oh and did I mention that it will be shipped by the US Postal System? So who knows how long it will actually take]:|


Wings, are you in college preparing to go through education classes? What level of school would you want to teach? Any special field or area that you have chosen? Let me congratulate you on this decision, but also keep in mind these things...teaching is NOT an easy job, any "holiday" you might get is always used preparing for the next section of school, while it can be the most rewarding thing in your life, it can also be the most draining, and I don't know about your schools in your area, but here if anything goes wrong, it is always the teacher's fault and problem....and lastly not to be totally negative, but I would hate for you to go through 4 years of college and go "AHHHHHH!!! What was I thinking?!?!?" the first year of teaching can only be described as hell...I'm sorry to say it, but that is the only way to describe it...the second year is better, and by the third year things are much much much better, so hang in there...also keep in mind each time you change schools/districts, it goes back to first year teacher syndrom...pm me if you like, This was my 7th year, and pugperson's 8th year...best of luck, heidi


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