Last month I had a raccoon come into my yard. I gave it some food. Now it won't go away. What should I do?

Are you hinting something? or what personally i use racoons to sight my guns same with cats, gopher, and badgers.

Yup :neutral:

Well no problem i can go away if you really want. All you have to do is ask. :confused:

what everyone has asked is that you slow down, listen to the answers you get from your questions and stop doing dumb things that kill animals. So far you seem to go against each one of these things.
We all love helping people that want help, but sometimes people just keep fishing for answers until they get the one they want to hear. Then they go do something to kill more stuff. You haven't even stuck to a choice for 24 hours here. Every day you've come up with a new (bad) plan. You bathed your rock in vinegar???? WTF?? Where did that come from? I've gone over all your old posts and you're all over the place. You have no idea what you're doing, and you fail to accept the advice frothe people that (still) want to help you. Please slow down. Please accept that people here know things you don't because of experience. Please stop killing things. If you can't do any of this, please go away.

The reason I am jumping around is because i am going through another stock list change. The vinager i have read that you can clean rock with a diluted vinager solution without killing corals. WTF nice language dude way to set an example.

This is where you need to be a bit humble and use your ears instead of your mouth.

on the note of vinagar...

It can be used for wash your gear in place of a cleaner that can leave poisons behind. Vinagar if left on your gear will dilute and become harmless in your water. IT WILL HOWEVER KILL ANYTHING IT TOUCHS.

most everything on that rock is now dead. most from the fresh water washing. the vinagar just killed what happened to make it.

vinagar is good for powerheads and stuff not for live stuff.

If you think it's good for powerheads, wait 'till you try it on fries. mmmm

lol im from the states so im more into the chili..... hmm wonder how that will work for cleaning my sand..... will it give my fish the farts (not that i have fish yet lol)????

You can not, must not ever put vinegar on chili. That's just wrong.... :eek:

I like to dip DQ fries in Blizzards - dee-lish!

damn now i need to rework my entire setup.

owell no gassy fish

Getting out of hand??
 

I think that this tread is getting a little out of hand. Yes? No?
Doo-E, if you are not interested in listening to advice, stop posting and stop asking for it. My perception (which may be wrong mind you) seems like you are posting ridiculous things to intentionally upset those who are highly senstive to the well-being of the animals in your "care". If your intentions are not to upset people, at least take the advice that is being given into consideration. From the replies to your posts by other members, you may want to stop the denials and come to realize that your marine hobby experience is somewhat ill-informed and very novice. Having said that, take it one step at a time and start out with the right equipment and a reasonable ratio of gallonage to animals in your tank for a NOVICE. Once you are able to maintain that, SLOWLY advance to more sophisticated animals. It is common knowledge and the general consensus that you have to take this hobby slow if you are not experienced and even if you are experienced, a tank needs time to age and stabilize; I should clarify that the time reference mentioned to follow are months and not days. Have a little patience and try to follow these basic rules of thumb. On another note, if you are reading certain articles that is giving questionable advice IE. giving your live rocks a vinegar bath, please quote where you get this information so others can read for themselves to determine the validity of the information as a whole as oppose to in part as quoted by yourself. If possible, give a URL link from within your post if the article is available online.
To everyone else who are upset, stop replying if he's not willing to listen. I do not know the intentions of Doo-E whether s/he is trying to upset people or looking for attention or whatever. But its clear that most people are getting upset at his/her actions (or lack of) but you can/should only scold and preach as much as the person is willing to listen. If anybody is a personal friend of this person, take some time to talk to Doo-E and give him/her (and animals) a hand. But my recommendation is to just STOP replying because
a) s/he's not listening
b) it is not going to go anywhere
c) its bringing out the good, the bad and the ugly in all of us.

My two cents
Chin Lee

I have a 30gal cube cycled. And I only have 2 fish for 2 months. I'm doing it slowly. No animal died so far.

As everyone said, patient is the key :biggrin:

doo-e,

Ah, hah! Dilute vinegar is very different from straight vinegar, which is what it sounded like you used in your other post. If you used a dechlor in the FW, this is even better, too :smile:

Okay, suppose you did both of the above. Your LR may not be as dead as I initially supposed, but may still be somewhat dead in places. Look at it when you get home today. If the coraline algae still has colour, then there is hope that you did not kill everything on the rock. It will still have to cycle for a time, though.

I also advise a FULL 6 week period with NO fish in the tank while the ich has a chance to complete their life cycles with no fish to attach to. Then, barring getting more ich infested fish, your tank will be ich-free. I looked up 6 weeks on the calendar. The soonest you can safely put fish in to avoid reinfestation of ich is Friday, July 29th, provided that the rock has completely re-cycled.

Look, doo-e, I'm almost 50 years old. I've always been a little on the impatient side, so I know how you feel about getting your tank back up and running with actual fish in it. But, you've just got to wait it out like the rest of us.

I hope you ignore the silly posts people are posting at your expense, though, in fairness, I think you've asked for it a little bit :confused:

Let us know what condition your rock is in when you get home tonight. In a month, let us know how the cycling is going. While this is going on, check out the fish at your lfs regularly to look for signs of good and ill health. If the fish look poorly in any way, don't consider buying any even if they are on your wish list. And especially don't buy any until the July 29th at the earliest.

Good luck :smile:

we try'd
 

I just want to state for the record as a MOD and as a reefer thet we try'd in vain to help guide DOO-EE along as a newbie on our board in ONTARIO
It was a disaster and many of us found DOO-EE [also known as RYAN] to be rude,know it all and not really caring about what lives or dies in his tank, He showed us a pic onetime of his tank with a single powerhead sitting on the sandbed and 1 piece of liverock for filtration.all this for 9FISH!!!! we try'd my fellow reffers of CANREEF, we try'd he just doesn't think any of us know what were doing. GOOD LUCK!!!!!!
OH,we had to give him a short ban as he called a few reefers losers and a few other mishaps. way to go DOO-EE. you should buy a few good books this summer and read up before you kill anything else[washing live rock with vinegar!!] case you haven't noticed the ocean is ALKALINE not ACIDIC :evil:

I wish i had the money to blow on killing livestock :rolleyes:

I thought ich was always present in your tank it is when fish get stressed their "resistance" dies off a little and the parasite takes advantage of this; attaching to the fish. As for Johnny rock this was not ture.

If i have saved the email he sent me we would really see who was cat calling who. He used to go around to all my pictures regardless and rate them one when everybody else rated them say 6 or a 9 I think was the highest but i cant remember. The tank had 2 clowns and 2 damsels ( Clarks clowns, 4 stripe damsel, and a 3 spot damsel). I have never had 9 fish in my tank. I did have 7 at one time but that was because i was saving some fish until the next day so i could give them to somebody.

I will take it slow. I have accepted another job so there will be a fairly large flow om cash coming my was. Ill do some saving and upgrade my system. Beverly on another note. my LFS is Pet Cetera, and here in lethbridge they do get a large amount of different species they really dont have the room the fish needs and rely on hoping to sell them. They are really for more of a people with FO and FWLRO tanks. They stock more of the bigger fish such and groupers, tangs (I know these r good), butterfly's, large angels and triggers. They dont get much for reef tanks they just get a sheer amount. They are not thinking right when they order fish. Pet Cetera gets thier shippment on friday and by saturday at 6pm all the reef stuff is gone all they have left is the non reef safe stuff and nobody buys it. They have ahd a panther grouper, Clown Trigger, and 2 of another type of trigger in for about 4 months now. Nobody has taken them.

Their is another pet sote but he is in a trouble spot right now so he has only a koran angel for sale and a colony of GSP's. Well maybe the odd hermit or snail but that is about it. He said he is hoping that he gets some stuff in by august but who knows.

So where does this leave me Medicine hat. Im not there much so it is hard for me to constantly be watching their fish. Not only that but they get over 100 fish every 4 days. But i will try my best and keep fish out until the end of august.
The rock looks good there are like u said though sme dead spot but looking good over all. Would it be safe to add more LR or should I wait. It will be fully cured.

I'm sorry, but my patience with this thread has come to an end. Please leave reef discussions to the reef forum, other topics to the lounge, and leave the buy/sell forum open for threads where someone is looking for a specific item to buy, or has a specific item to sell. Thank you.

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