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Real shame when fish or any pets die off , I had a lot of very old tarantulas I lost one after another it was very devastating I never recovered and my collection is less then half its old size.In the case of the trout farm die off, the entire farm ran on pumped water. They had a power grid cut out for nearly two weeks. No filtration or aeration. They hired me to try to stabilize the system but it was too little too late. Mid summer, low water level in the reservoir, unable to keep the water cold enough to retard bacterial growth. Filtration was plugging up every 8 hours from the abnormal microbe growth. Perfect storm scenario. Came out one morning to have one raceway solid belly up fish.
With that stress removed from the system I was able to balance the water in the second raceway but wasn't able to get the water temp below 50F. Trout stop putting on weight when the water reaches that temp. So we were pouring food into them just to keep them alive but was unable to raise them to marketable weight.
Sold off the fish they had at 1/4th market value/ Owner gave up and went to work on a construction crew.
As for myself, natural progression. I put it in the wind and in a couple of weeks was taking the POST using my academic and experience track record to give me an in at the police academy and became a cop in a few weeks. My standard evolution, transient vagrant -> migrant pot farm worker -> hydrodynamics engineer -> LEO.>
