[RML] Why do I have kids?

Larry Stein (lstein at his.com)
Mon, 25 May 1998 08:38:26 -0400

I am sure there are a few members to this list that have children. I have
2 boys ages 6 and 9, they show very little interest in my hobby and mostly
ignore the tanks and occassionally even make comments similar to what my
wife makes....

Yesterday for some reason my 6 year old got it in his head he was going to
feed the fish tanks. He found an almost empty jar of this pretty pink
stuff.... ACID BUFFER and decided to put ALL of it in the small grow out
tank of 7 month old tris. when I went in the fish room I saw the open
bottle and knew I had a potential problem... The grow out tank was down to
3.4 ph and all fish were floating. This begs the question of why did the 3
fish not die>???? Yes I immediatly changed the water and got it back to
6.5ph but the 3 small juveniles did not die.

So is there anyone who wants my child? He specializes in killing fish....