Originally Posted by
DatDiscusDude
Rob ... One Word... BRUTAL!
This hobby can be so very brutal... I feel it is actually part of the reason why we love it so much. The swings, the highs, the lows... When things are bad they are F'N bad and when they are good, the high is well... HIGH!
Care to tell us more about your fish? Your tank? Their size? What did you do prior to leaving?
I have been in your shoes many a times. It seems so simple to just end it. As you said, the effort and time it takes to maintain a good tank feels like a waste when this happens. As the poster above said. I left for a short weekend get away. The power to my then Apt. went out, when it went back on the cannister that I had at the time must have lost its siphon and my house reeked and I had a brown tank of flaoting carcass. Enough to make you vomit and never want to look at an aquarium again...
Hang in there. Read, learn, post, and let the people here help figure out what went wrong and how to correct it.
At the end of the day, we are dealing with living animals. Sometimes you can try to kill them and they don't die, other times you do everything perfect and... they drop dead. No rhyme or reason to the maddness...
Glad you came to a place like this to vent and seek some guidance before exiting the hobby.
How many fish are left? Did you do a big WC? lets try and save them and get you right again!