Cardinals Survive in a Planting Pot for 7 months!!

I recently moved to a new place and I have to sacrifice inhabitants of the
smaller tanks int his case some swordtails, gouramis & cardinal tetras. I
managed to transfer some of the Cardinals into a planting plant which has
some soil at the bottom. I poured some water till midway and put soemthing
like 10 - 13 Cardinals in there till I know what to do with them. Once I
finished moving in new furnitures and unpacking all my stuff I was busy with
my work for months.

Just a week ago I managed to find the time to look at my fishes and those in
the big tanks looks OK and healthy. Then I remembered I dumped some
Cardinals in my potted plant and when I look into this pot, they are
actuallu alive ans swimming around like happy campers! This despite the fact
they live in a muddy, untreated, non-aerated water for 7 months! When I
transferred them to 2-feet tank, I put some fine sand and a bogwood with
small branches. They actually thrive with some airstone and NO lighting. The
ambient lighting in the room provides a nice atmospheric jungle look and
they look healthy and their appetite is bigger than a Blue Ram that's been
pampered to no end. I remember Cardinals require dark aquaria to thrive and
the common practice of associating Cardinals with high light tanks need to
be revised...

Were you feeding them? If so, that means you knew they were in there
for seven months. And if you knew they were in there for seven months,
and did not move them, that is dispicable.If you wren't feeding them,
how did they live for seven months. And let's say, with the aid of
some heavenly miracle they survived for seven months with no food
(which is probably 99.9999999% impossible)how emaciated were they?
Let's forget the food issue right now. We'll move on to a different
one, the water. The first issue for the water would be... evaporation.
How would the water have not evapporated after 7 months? Wouldn't you
have to keep adding more water? If so, this brings us back to the
issue of that you had knowledge they were stuck in there for seven
months. Second issue... Water parameters. Wouldn't the ammonia have
been sky-high and therefore kill the fish? Lastly... aeration. The
fish couldn't survive in the same water for seven months without
aeration.

You are either a liar, or a disgusting dispicable bast*rd who has no
respect for life.

Evan Davis