Convention tank setup

Speaking for the membership of UNYKA, the nice comments about the fish survival are greatly appreciated. This was one of our major priorities in hosting the convention. I think that there were several factors involved in keeping the fish healthy. The first is that the water we used was from a municipal system that produces very good water. The second is that we tried to set up the tanks well in advance of putting in the fish so that the water was at room temperature and had stabilized to a reasonable degree. All water was filtered through a particulate filter and a carbon filter. The same type that is used for households, a double canister system (Sear's best). The hoses were of food quality, not garden hoses. As Ted mentioned, the water was put into large, brand new plastic garbage cans that I had conditioned for several weeks (water, salt and time in the sun). And finally, probably the most important factor was that we limited the people that were allowed in the fish room to just our members to give us control on what was going on. Ted ran the show. He controlled the putting of the fish in the tanks as well as the conditioning of the tanks. He spent a lot of hours taking care of the fish and I think that he and the rest of the UNYKA members did an outstanding job. The bottom line is that you have to have the right people to make something like this work.