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light. We added in an electric temperature monitor. Before we added in the bubblers, we set up the air pump, valves, and lines.</p><figure id="533e"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*auIvTTax4WtmEK3zrb1y7Q.jpeg"><figcaption>Provided by author</figcaption></figure><figure id="fb3c"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*OsEeKvGCZV_c26woYr0z5A.jpeg"><figcaption>Provided by author</figcaption></figure><p id="12eb">We poured water into the water filter. Then, we turned the power on.</p><p id="c532"><b>Let there be light and bubbles!</b></p><p id="3dfe">We treated the water. We checked over the lines and water temperature, then we added the fish back in.</p><p id="c01e">After checking over the fish, we cleaned up the area and put the buckets away.</p><p id="61cd">From the time we started, to when we finished, was around 3 hours.</p><p id="ee2f">I started taking the structures from the sink to the fish box we have. I removed the dry castle from the sink and saw our pleco sitting in the last drop of water in the sink. Quickly, I grabbed a fish cup, put some water in it, and got him into the cup. I walked over to the tank, dropped him in, and monitored him for a while.</p><p id="6bce">Once he hit the water and swam around so happy! He stuck to the tank wall like he was never so happy to be in the water. That was the first time he ever suctioned to the wall, actually.</p><p id="4536">At that time, I imagined the horror he must have faced as he frantically tried to find some water to keep his body wet. For three hours he must have used all his energy going from one spot to the next after that area dried up. And to think there were places he could not have gone to, with only having fins. And to think that if he went into the wrong spot, he might not have been able to get out.</p><p id="0dd8">When I saw him, he was in the last spot he would ever be in. The spot he lay in was really only wet from the little water that was on him.</p><p id="6a5f"><b>But, my wife and I were very glad to see him alive!</b></p><p id="1426">At first, before we cleaned, when we looked over each structure twice and he was not attached to them that we saw and he was not in the water with the rest of the fish we thought he died. I had not seen him in about a month, he always stayed in the castle and never did any work. My wife said she saw him about a week ago at the last water change.</p><p id="ec09">But, he’s still doing well and happy.</p><p id="e034">A horror story turned happy story.</p><figure id="5827"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*nIwK99ypJ-FCDUWTr4WYLg.jpeg"><figcaption>Provided by author</fi

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A Routine Day of Cleaning Became a Horror Story for a Sea Animal

A true story of survival

During breakfast, Saturday morning my wife and I decided to spend the day cleaning our fish tanks and to move one of the tanks to a different location. It was a beautiful North Carolina day!

We started with the 29-gallon tank. We grabbed some towels and other stuff used to help clean any water splashing on the wooden floor. We shut off the electricity to the tank, the filter system, heater, and lights. We unplugged the top of the tank and set it aside.

After that, we pulled out all the structures and left some of the bushes in for fish cover. As we pulled out the structures we made sure no pleco or algae eater was attached to any part of the structure. The last structure we took out was our castle. We rinsed off the structures in the sink, checked for stowaways again, and let the structures and bushes sit in the sink while we finished the tank.

We were also moving the fish tank to a different location, so we grabbed our extra buckets, cups, and fishnets. At that time, we drained about half the water. We added some tank water into one of the buckets, then started to transfer the fish over to the bucket. We used the fish cups to try to transfer them, the fish we could not use the fish cup, we had to use the nets. Nets make fish stressed.

The fish we have in this tank are:

mini plecos
Corydoras Julii (catfish)
Neon Tetras
X-Ray Tetras
Ember Tetras
Bleeding Heart Tetra
Harlequin Rasbora (Rasbora heteromorpha)
Mystery Snails
Short-tail Zebras
Chinese Algae Eaters
African Dwarf Frog

Now that the fish were in the bucket, the race was on to get the tank cleaned and get them back in the tank!

We finished draining the tank into another two buckets — it’s important to keep some original tank water in the tank after a water change. We took out the rocks. We moved the tank to where we wanted it. We cleaned the walls of the tank. We added the new rock (a mix of white rock with white sand). We added a few buckets of new water. We added in the old water. We put new structures in the tank and some old bushes (we did a new theme).

Then, we added in all the electronics. This time we added a cottage bubbler and a bubble wall with a blue light. We added in an electric temperature monitor. Before we added in the bubblers, we set up the air pump, valves, and lines.

We poured water into the water filter. Then, we turned the power on.

Let there be light and bubbles!

We treated the water. We checked over the lines and water temperature, then we added the fish back in.

After checking over the fish, we cleaned up the area and put the buckets away.

From the time we started, to when we finished, was around 3 hours.

I started taking the structures from the sink to the fish box we have. I removed the dry castle from the sink and saw our pleco sitting in the last drop of water in the sink. Quickly, I grabbed a fish cup, put some water in it, and got him into the cup. I walked over to the tank, dropped him in, and monitored him for a while.

Once he hit the water and swam around so happy! He stuck to the tank wall like he was never so happy to be in the water. That was the first time he ever suctioned to the wall, actually.

At that time, I imagined the horror he must have faced as he frantically tried to find some water to keep his body wet. For three hours he must have used all his energy going from one spot to the next after that area dried up. And to think there were places he could not have gone to, with only having fins. And to think that if he went into the wrong spot, he might not have been able to get out.

When I saw him, he was in the last spot he would ever be in. The spot he lay in was really only wet from the little water that was on him.

But, my wife and I were very glad to see him alive!

At first, before we cleaned, when we looked over each structure twice and he was not attached to them that we saw and he was not in the water with the rest of the fish we thought he died. I had not seen him in about a month, he always stayed in the castle and never did any work. My wife said she saw him about a week ago at the last water change.

But, he’s still doing well and happy.

A horror story turned happy story.

I need a relevant name for the little warrior now. Any suggestions? Did anyone survive a desert accident?

Thank you for reading! Thank you for sharing!! Thank you for the positive comments!!!