Whitmoregirl's Wombles

I’m not having much luck lately! My dear Rudy was put down today, he suffered a stroke a couple of days back and lost control of his lower body and seemed quite disorientated; he’s had strokes before and bounced back, but today I noticed he was urinating blood and decided to put him down rather than let him suffer.

Young Rudy

And one of the last photos I got of him.

Well my tank came and it took about a week to get it set up properly, the stand that is, there’s little to do with the tank but lift it out of the box .. which I couldn’t do. I tried to build it myself but sadly the lack of a power drill and the crummy instructions rather set me back, so I ended up waiting until the weekend for my dad to come along with his power drill – and even then, I had to wait until Monday for an extension cable to pop it inside the cabinet then drill the lid on and place the tank on top!
It’s been cycling for nearly 2 weeks now and doesn’t seem to be making much progress, but I’d rather wait it out than dunk the fish in it and hope it copes. I was tempted to pop Dookie in it though, he must produce more than enough ammonia etc to get it going and he should be able to handle extra gunk in the water!

On the gerbil front, not much has happened except Rudy suffered a stroke two nights ago and seems rather out of it and doddery, but he’s eating and drinking so fingers crossed he’ll recover. Oh and I will most likely be taking Tripp to be PTS on Monday as he’s got a headtilt and SGT and I don’t really want him to spiral the plughole and suffer.

Oh and I’m still getting those damn spam messages — give it up already twats, I’m not going to approve them, no matter how many times you post!