Tropical Fish-Global Warming-My Exotic Fish.
I was expecting a catastrophe.
It surely did come toady.
One day of negligence all but four of my Neon Tetras are gone.
My final diagnosis global warming created by our coal power production.
England has one of the warmest spring currently.
Summer is yet to come.
Thee decade age UK was closing all the mines and decommissioning all the Coal Power units, mainly due to health reason.
In our country, the health minister is obsessed with cigarettes but does not utter a word about coal power and its emissions.
One hour of coal power is probably equal to ten to hundred times the tobacco smoked by all Sri-Lankans.
That is my formula.
He has got his priorities mixed up, I believe.
I have talked about coal power, pollution and global warming for decades but when it affected my pet fish even a few lines on coal power is necessary as a preamble.
Tropical fish survive between 76 to 82 Fahrenheit (24 to 30 degrees Centigrade).
The temperature in my roof top garden is over 95 Fahrenheit (32 degrees) and above and my Guppies were dying by numbers in spite they in the shade.
As a precaution green swordtail (hard to find now) were taken to a shady tank in December.
I had a big problem of increasing there number from a tiny stock (five years of trouble) and they do now breed as profusely as guppy.
My guppies were down to 5 due to global warming 7 yeas ago.
That was an epic that I have recorded elsewhere.
Now I have a beautiful collection of them outdoors,mainly to control mosquitoes.
(My real interest is water plants with beautiful tiny flowers which bloom almost every day due to warm weather).
They started dying in numbers.
I was not happy and I decided to keep a tiny stock in case the previous epic episode repeat itself and they will be down to five again.
From the day one my tank started giving problems.
I found some exotic plants and the algae invaded my tank. discoloring their leaves.
The guppy stated breeding in their new found water front.
The Neon tetras were outnumbered.
But they remained healthy.
But not toady.
Most of them were dead some were making their last breaths.
I did all what I could but only four survived.
The casualty included one algae eater.
Few guppies were included.
Yesterday, I was out and came late and did not bother to have a casual look at the fish tank.
They would have been showing signs of ill health which I missed.
I am pretty sure the temperature would have gone up to 32 degrees Centigrade, which is the normal outdoors.
Mind you this is Peradeniya only a walking distance from Botanical garden.
I even have noticed they were watering the grass lately.
Not only tropical fish even the tropical plants are dying.
Thanks to Coal Power Mania.
There is no chance for my water plants to survive, if I take a week holiday.
This is not a miracle but man made.
