I had my first night of work last night. I came in to a very painfully polite note thanking me for cleaning the tank, but advising I should leave it to the people that know about fish to clean the tank because I could do more harm then good.
Yeah right.
That tank should never have gotten into that state if the people that knew about fish had been paying attention. I wrote back telling him that I was getting advice from people that knew about fish and since I had more time of night I'd be taking care of Duncan.
Sadly my boss will only reimburse me for the filter alone.
My Asst. Manager told me that if I felt the tank needed anything else or Duncan should have better food it would have to come out of my own pocket. So I'm going to scrimp a bit to buy some sand substrate and other things for the tank to replace the ones he has now. This weekend I went to the pet store, but they didn't have a whole lot of fish things. They were more dog/cat/small animal. I did pick up some good fish food though to replace his old and found some blood worms. He really loved the blood worms last night!
Duncan is doing really well. He's moving around a lot more then he used too. There's still black beard algae around the tank. I used the skimmer to get some out and I'm going to do a better clean up on my last day of work. I'm hoping i can get things to the point I can do a full change to replace the pebbles and such. This weekend is payday so I can see about getting some little fake plants that aren't so sad looking or algae infested as well as something for him to hide around that isn't that massive rock. It's way too thick and takes up too much space.