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I am so exited, I am a week into cycling my tank (day 8) and everything is moving along as it should. Ammonia is almost to 0 and next we’ll be looking for the nitrates. I also officially have biofilm appearing on my 2 sponge filters. The rest of my decor should be here within the next couple days.

This tank cycling is so cool for someone with an analytical mind!

So I am starting my first tank and it is going to be mostly glofish. To be exact, I’m getting three glofish Corydoras, an albino bristlenose pleco, a powder blue dwarf gourami and six glofish tetras two each in 3 different colors and in each pair one will be longfin skirt and the other will be a regular skirt tetra. Eventually, I am going to add a couple Hillstream loaches. (waiting on the roaches until I can get a good layer of the microscopic biofilm established.)

I bought the tank yesterday off of marketplace. I scored a really good deal $20 for a 20 gallon long. I am doing this the correct way I cleaned out the tank yesterday with vinegar water and use acrylic paint to black out the back wall on the outside. Now I’m at a standstill because I have to wait for everything. I’ve ordered as far as decor to come in the mail. I can’t put any sand in because I have a submerged cave and submerged tunnel coming. Once I’m able to get it decorated and add the water I already got API stress coat and some stabilizer.

I decided to go with two sponge filters. I already bought the heater. I won’t be adding fish for probably at least a month. I’m going to make sure the water is perfect first because this is not going to be a temporary thing. I plan on keeping these fish forever and depend depending on how this one goes maybe setting up a regular tank that has no glofish one day.

Anyways, I just wanted to introduce myself to the community. I felt more comfortable introducing myself here than in the aquarium sub Reddit because of all the hate glofish get. If anybody has any advice for a newbie, who is serious about it, I’m all ears.

I love my job. Up until recently I loved almost everything about it. I had a great manager and felt supported. Long story short, I moved from house manager to residential manager. I gave it a shot, but after 3 months I stepped back into the house manager role. They gave me an RM (new to the company) that has no person centered thinking skills at all…. NONE WHATSOEVER! I have had several issues starting from my second day back as an HM. It would take to long to explain every issue I’ve had in the 3 month she’s been my direct manager.

So we have a buddy system for HMs, where if you need time off whether you are using PTO or not, you can have another house manager take your calls. Well, I decided to take a 3 day weekend because I’ve been working 6 days a week since February 1st and I start my Bachelor’s in Human and Social Services on Wednesday. I dutifully set up for another HM to take calls for me these 3 days.

Today my RM texts me with a list of shit from her doing a site visit. Like there’s no thermometer in the chest freezer, (Yes there is, maybe try moving the food around to find it), One of the persons supported has no towels in the bathroom, (we keep them elsewhere), debris under the ramp outside, etc. Nothing on this list was an emergency.

I replied to her message thanks for letting me know and assured her I’d be on it first thing Monday morning. She told me she wanted it done today, for me to email my staff and delegate the tasks. I told her then she would need to call the HM that is on call for me this weekend, that she is the one taking my calls this weekend. This little girl (she’s 21 so maybe she thinks this is how she earns respect, by micromanaging and just being rude as hell) told me she not calling the other HM and she’ll be checking 8 am Monday to make sure it’s done. I told her if she’s not going to call the other HM then I will have it completed by Monday afternoon.

I just don’t understand why the constant attitude. It’s not just me, all three of her other HMs have very similar experiences with her. We’re all 100% fed up. I messaged the HM on call for me with receipts and she agrees. She said she would have had no issue at all emailing my staff to delegate tasks.

Maybe this is petty of me, but I told her DON’T do it. If the RM isn’t going to call her and ask her herself, then I’ll take care of it Monday.