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Shannen is excited to teach our son the value of doing something kind for someone in need.

Awww - that is so important. My 12 year old nephew gets so angry at his dad because he goes around snow blowing all the old people's snow in the neighborhood. I tried explaining it to him, but he just doesn't get it.

Good lessons to teach, while they are young.

Mine will be coming soon. My mom is in the hospital and I've been focused on her needs right now. She is fine now that they have removed a blockage from a main artery going into her kidney and another going down into her leg. I have to go back to the hospital now. She comes home tomorrow .

*hugs* Shannen!!!

I JUST PM'd Jamie b/c I was really worried since you hadn't posted...

Spend the week at home relaxing in front of the tanks and being with Jamie and Cody. And be CAREFUL...we need our FP booger no matter how annoying he gets.


-Formerly known as the Ferretfish

I suspect Judy said she had a strong "faith" rather than a strong "face"... although both may be true.

Thanks for all your efforts, Shannen.

I spoke to Judy on the phone today. WOW! What a sweetheart. She said she has a strong face so she is dealing ok with all of this.

And thanks to you all I was able to paypal her 95 bucks.

She wants me to take all of Gary's stuff and sell it from my house. She said she has learned that I am a trustworthy person and trusts that I will do what I say.

God bless her.

I will now go down this Sat, I will be on meds that will allow me to do this. With a trailer and I will take all of his tanks.

The 90 I plan on keeping and will pay her for it. The 125 is up for sale, as are a bunch of smaller tanks.

Tryst I am willing to hold on to one of the 20 gals and some gups for you for when you can come down. just let me know.

Shannen

Oh booger, don't do that to us, we love you to dang much. I'm glad Jamie took you to the hospital and you were not nearly as hard headed as i was when mine did that back in november...where all i did was bwitch and complain...Feel better soon....we can wait for the guppies, and I'll be sending my donation once payday comes...heidi

"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom." Thomas Carlyle

OK, I went down to Vero yesterday.

Holy crap 30 yrs of fish keeping=s a lot of stuff!!!

The man literally had a backup for every piece of equipment he had, plus..

He had said he was working on green cobra gups, but I'll be darned if I see one green cobra.

He had 3 strains, all very pretty, but I'm not sure what they are all called. I'll post pics of them soon.

The problem I see, is they all got mixed in one tank together so now I have about 80 mutt fry, and all the females are prego with who knows what.

I'm also concerned about shipping prego females. Well I guess it will be ok, as long as they are not about to pop.

I didn't want more tanks....but because of all the fry I've had to set up 2 more 10 gals..

I was going to keep his gups in my grow out tubs, but since they are not all (or even one) green cobras I wanted to be able to see them and snap pics. So I mixed them in with Jamie's male and female tanks.

No problem with over stocking..He only had about 16 adult gups.

We will see what the babies turn out to be.

Keeping them separated and not allowing them to mix, will in time allow pure breeding of them. But this will take some time.

Every one who is still interested in his gups please email me shannensmall@yahoo.com and let me know if you still want some.

I am a man of my word, if you donated and wanted green cobras, and that is what you want. I will give you your $ back if you wish..I think there was only 2 or 3 of you who actually asked for guppies with your donations.

I really think what the fish are is actually not very important. This is about getting Judy some money to help her out.

Her house is very nice, but looks funny half painted. Gary was working on it at the time of his passing.

I tried to install a new mailbox for her yesterday but, she needs to get a bigger piece of wood to mount it on. lol

It actually took me almost 5 hrs to break down his 125. Ever try to chase down little fry in a 6 foot tank. It's not easy I can tell you that.

To those who want gravel, also email me at shannensmall@yahoo.com I will have plenty of it after next weekend.

I didn't take any this weekend cause, Judy is going thru all of it. He had natural rock gravel, and there are some almost gem worthy stones in it. She is taking them out and going to be making necklaces for his children and grandchildren.

Sorry for asking ya'll to email me, all the PMs and lack of real names has gotten convoluted, and confusing. I don't wanna miss anyone.

So in your email, please give me your real name and your user name..

Thanks

Shannen

Edit: The man also loved otos. He had almost 20 of them. If you want an oto or 2 in your shipment let me know. Lord knows I don't need this many otos...I had a few already lol!

Last edited by Shannen at 27-Feb-2005 11:01

OMG the poor thing! Giver her a hug for me please.

Thanks Shannen. Poor thing has been sick since March with uncontrolled high BP and limited to the house. Life revolved around the BP machine.

The blockage leading into the kidney was key, apparently. The doc expects her to dump many of her meds in the next few weeks once the body realizes the clog is gone. I guess it was making her put a hormone into her bloodstream kicking up the BP. He found several other clogs too and fixed one and has her going back for several others in her legs.

Thank you Dave.

AWWWW Di. I'm so sorry to hear about your mom. I'm very pleased to hear she is ok!

As a person who has suffered a kidney disease since birth I know how she feels.

She is in my prayers. *hugs*

Last edited by Shannen at 10-Feb-2005 15:40

I am very saddened by the news and he helped me too with my early posts, i have a balance with paypal (not much) but every little helps right? As i live in england i also expect nothing for my contribution

dave

Last edited by daveuk at 10-Feb-2005 14:45

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Saltwater tank 125G-30G sump with caulerpa refugium.
yellow tang, atlantic anemone, 11 turbo snails, 4 nassarius snails, 12 various hermits, 3 cleaner shrimp, 2 occelaris clown, yellow

Hello guys, just FYI...

We were supposed to go help Judi today break down the tanks today and such... Last night I had to take Shannen to the emergency room around 8pm EST, his blood pressure was 199/133. (Which is wicked bad). Since he has kidney disease and blood in his urine along with the high blood pressure they admitted him into the hospital. They had a very very rough time getting his blood pressure down, they gave him like 3-4 different kind of meds, finally the last one started to work at around midnight last night. I have called Judi to let her know, we will reschedule for next weekend. She of course was very understanding and sounds like such a sweet sweet woman. Like I said, hopefully Shannen will be healthy enough to go next weekend or else I will go and rally up some of my friends regardless.

Thank you for everyone's support.

Yes thanks you! Please PM me to let me know who you are.

I should mention, Jamie is actually doing a lot to help with this endeavor as well.

I'm stuck in Atlanta and she is helping me on the home front.

Thank you Jamie!

Thank you to the person who sent $30 wrapped in a pink piece of paper! I am not sure what your FP name is so if you could PM Shannen and let us know.... Thank you everyone who has contributed thus far...

Saturday, myself, Shannen, our son, and Shannen's brother are leaving at 5:30am to start our drive down to Vero Beach. I am very excited to meet Gary's wife and to help her anyway we can. Shannen is excited to teach our son the value of doing something kind for someone in need.

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The check is going in the mail today

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Wait, what's the mailing address again? I'm looking to do the same thing as pancake. I'll pm you my zip.

Indeed it isn't. I'll get you a quote.

Hey im barely new to this and i think this is sad, ill donate 10 but were do i send the check two and can i have the exact shipping cost pls, oh and i live at *ADDRESS REMOVED* thanks and good bye and if the shipping costs arent that high my friend will give 10 alos, buh bye!


EDIT: Shannen has your postal address. Its probably not wise to post it up for all to see

Last edited by Callatya at 08-Feb-2005 02:36

Oh good