Death! Death and grave inconvenience!
Grr!
I am going to have to buy a new hood for my tank. This, after trekking all over town hunting a 15", 14W florescent bulb for the old one.
I hit Petco first. (I'm too mean to buy fish from them - but I'm not too mean to do them out of other things. ... maybe not.)
No 15" bulbs. Lots of 18", a couple of 12" - no 15". And no one around to collar and complain to. Well, okay. I grab plants (the other reason I went in there - picked up some White Ribbon (dracaena sanderiana) and a bit of tropica fern (microsorium pteropus) and some green grassy stuff that is called Kyoto (Ophiopogon japonica) - I /don't/ recommend 'Aqua plant' - buy the damn things LOOSE. Seriously. GAHHH!) and head for the counter - and abruptly have more help than I need. *sigh*
Okay. /She/ can't find any 15" bulbs either. I bit my tongue on the 'I told you so' - but it slipped out anyway. Fortunately (not?) she didn't catch it.
The ironic thing is - they sell hoods that /take/ 15" bulbs. *sigh*
She suggests Wal-mart or Lowes. Okay. I hit Walmart. Nope - not in fish, and not in lighting. Okay. Lowes. Yes. Wrong diameter. *sighgripeswear*
Over to Kraemer. Get the helpful, knowledgeable fish-person. YES! Explain my bulb-woes. We hike back to the bulb-corner and, lo and behold, she has one! The last one. *thud* So much for the Petco lady telling me Kraemer was the wrong place to look. So I get the damn thing. I look at her fish and debate the addition of a small school of Whiteclouds to the tank - ended up I come home with just the bulb and plants, though.
... that's okay. Sunuvabitch don't work anyway. Grrr! So it's back to the drawing board... *sigh* Debating just buying a full hood and calling it good....
Massively obscene words!
I am going to have to buy a new hood for my tank. This, after trekking all over town hunting a 15", 14W florescent bulb for the old one.
I hit Petco first. (I'm too mean to buy fish from them - but I'm not too mean to do them out of other things. ... maybe not.)
No 15" bulbs. Lots of 18", a couple of 12" - no 15". And no one around to collar and complain to. Well, okay. I grab plants (the other reason I went in there - picked up some White Ribbon (dracaena sanderiana) and a bit of tropica fern (microsorium pteropus) and some green grassy stuff that is called Kyoto (Ophiopogon japonica) - I /don't/ recommend 'Aqua plant' - buy the damn things LOOSE. Seriously. GAHHH!) and head for the counter - and abruptly have more help than I need. *sigh*
Okay. /She/ can't find any 15" bulbs either. I bit my tongue on the 'I told you so' - but it slipped out anyway. Fortunately (not?) she didn't catch it.
The ironic thing is - they sell hoods that /take/ 15" bulbs. *sigh*
She suggests Wal-mart or Lowes. Okay. I hit Walmart. Nope - not in fish, and not in lighting. Okay. Lowes. Yes. Wrong diameter. *sighgripeswear*
Over to Kraemer. Get the helpful, knowledgeable fish-person. YES! Explain my bulb-woes. We hike back to the bulb-corner and, lo and behold, she has one! The last one. *thud* So much for the Petco lady telling me Kraemer was the wrong place to look. So I get the damn thing. I look at her fish and debate the addition of a small school of Whiteclouds to the tank - ended up I come home with just the bulb and plants, though.
... that's okay. Sunuvabitch don't work anyway. Grrr! So it's back to the drawing board... *sigh* Debating just buying a full hood and calling it good....
Massively obscene words!
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