banghair
Community Member
Hi all, this is my second post ever on R2R, first one was made in a haste for my fish.
My name is Brianagh (Bree-anne-uh), I live in Vancouver BC. My partner had been talking about starting a reef tank for at least a year, and finally we bit the bullet and got one, we are off to a rough start. We cycled our tank and got 2 clownfish, it was suspected that these clownfish got into a fight on the previous post I made here, unfortunately it was brook, one died (RIP Odyssey) and we caught the other one (Pogo) later that night just starting to develop it, so we returned it for treatment with a refund, if Pogo survives I will buy him back. I spent the whole day crying and honestly I'm still very depressed about it. When we took it back a worker said they were having problems with their tanks but I still feel at fault for this. I am the kind of person who personifies my pets, and I couldn't help but feel like I failed Pogo and Odyssey.
It sounds stupid but I chose Pogo because I felt a connection with him, we followed each other around for a while in his tank before I decided he was the one I wanted to get, I feel like Pogo was sad, even though that's probably ridiculous, to be returned especially because he funnily started hosting a live rock that same day. I feel heart broken and will now be a fishless sad reef keeper for at least a month, probably more like 6 weeks.
I currently have a hammer tip coral (Thor), green candy cane coral (Hel), and god of war zoa (Tyr). 2 hermit crabs nameless for now, 2 nassarius snails (one named Chalka and the other unnamed) that are all very happy, hopefully they stay that way because I definitely feel very discouraged. I'm sure I will be seeing more of you as I am super overzealous and have a lot of questions to come.
Thanks for reading, wish me luck.
My name is Brianagh (Bree-anne-uh), I live in Vancouver BC. My partner had been talking about starting a reef tank for at least a year, and finally we bit the bullet and got one, we are off to a rough start. We cycled our tank and got 2 clownfish, it was suspected that these clownfish got into a fight on the previous post I made here, unfortunately it was brook, one died (RIP Odyssey) and we caught the other one (Pogo) later that night just starting to develop it, so we returned it for treatment with a refund, if Pogo survives I will buy him back. I spent the whole day crying and honestly I'm still very depressed about it. When we took it back a worker said they were having problems with their tanks but I still feel at fault for this. I am the kind of person who personifies my pets, and I couldn't help but feel like I failed Pogo and Odyssey.
It sounds stupid but I chose Pogo because I felt a connection with him, we followed each other around for a while in his tank before I decided he was the one I wanted to get, I feel like Pogo was sad, even though that's probably ridiculous, to be returned especially because he funnily started hosting a live rock that same day. I feel heart broken and will now be a fishless sad reef keeper for at least a month, probably more like 6 weeks.
I currently have a hammer tip coral (Thor), green candy cane coral (Hel), and god of war zoa (Tyr). 2 hermit crabs nameless for now, 2 nassarius snails (one named Chalka and the other unnamed) that are all very happy, hopefully they stay that way because I definitely feel very discouraged. I'm sure I will be seeing more of you as I am super overzealous and have a lot of questions to come.
Thanks for reading, wish me luck.
