Spawn
Posted by Anja on February 7, 2010 at 22:57 | Last modified: July 10, 2012 04:08We have fish babies. The minnows downstairs have spawned again, and I keep siphoning those itsy bitsy eyelashes into the safety of the breeder inset, but the silly things keep swimming back out thru the slits to where the adults are waiting for a snack. We’ll see if any of them survive long enough to become too big at least to fit thru the slits.
In the big tank meanwhile I saw a single, I believe it’s a cory hatchling, since it hides in the gravel, and the cories are the ones who spawn frequently. I’m always surprised when one of the eggs survives despite the ever hungry tetras, and at this point I don’t think the hatchling’s chances are quite 50/50 yet. Nevertheless both the tiger and I keep peering in to see if we can spot it (we’re a talking about 3mm length here and the thickness of a sewing thread with a pin head attached) and we’re keeping our fingers crossed for it to survive past snack size.
Tags: breeding, Corydoras paleatus, Tanichthys albonubes | Categories: 10G River, 25G South American | Comments Off on Spawn | PermalinkPleco update
Posted by Anja on January 26, 2010 at 10:18 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 16:49All four wee ones seem ok this morning and are munching happily on every available surface. The upstairs pair is way more lively than the downstairs pair, but considering the difference in temperature I’m not surprised. Took me a while to find the two in the Minnow tank, they are perfect ninjas when they don’t move.
Tags: Ancistrus | Categories: 10G River, 5G Betta | Comments Off on Pleco update | Permalink4C and pouring rain
Posted by Anja on January 25, 2010 at 23:04 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 16:48Came home with treasures from the OVAS meeting.
I went for the socializing and to buy some fish food at the mini auction, but in addition came home with a potted Tradescantia (thanks Bianca) and four little bushynose plecos, courtesy of Wayne’s breeding pair. Now, anyone who knows my tanks, knows I don’t really have room for four bushynoses, but so far they’re very wee (~ 1 cm). Two are now in the minnow tank downstairs, and two wiggle happily through the assassin tank, with Max the betta keeping a curious but not evil eye on them.
They should be good in either tank for a while, but the 5 gallon at least will become too small for them when they grow out. More reason to tackle the paludarium set-up, as soon as I’m done with my office.
Tags: Ancistrus, Betta splendens, OVAS, Tradescantia | Categories: 10G River, 5G Betta | Comments Off on 4C and pouring rain | PermalinkUpdate
Posted by Anja on January 19, 2010 at 01:48 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 16:46Last week I had tetra eggs in the tank, probably from the glowlights, but the few I managed to rescue fuzzied over and died. 
I wasn’t really prepared to deal with those. Have to read up on what conditions they need.
My assassins are also doing well. I keep seeing little ones poking out of the gravel. And the cherries are doing their thing without my meddling.
Tags: Clea helena, Hemigrammus erythrozonus, Neocaridina heteropoda var. red | Categories: 10G Heterandria Formosa, Assassin Snails, 25G South American | Comments Off on Update | PermalinkDominoes
Posted by Anja on January 12, 2010 at 14:50 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 17:12Ok, that didn’t go quite as planned. Preparing to stain the shelf boards, I suddenly realized I’d have to move the 5 gallon tank first.
Which involved finding unwinding and pulling out all the cables, plus finding unwinding and pulling out all the cables on the big tank, reinstalling the cable chaos of the big tank in a non-chaotic way, and such that the little tank might be hooked up there too.
I then realized that the tank was too heavy to move. So, water out, move tank, reinstall all the cables, start to put water back in.
But there are cherries in that tank, and I took out about 2/3. If I replace all that at the same time, the cherries are gonna go belly up, so now I’m replacing a quart at a time.
I also realized that there’s condensation inside the glass of the heater. That can’t be good, right? I’d better look that up.
The good news is, most of the cable chaos is now under control and the 5 gallon tank has been moved to its permanent position.
The bad news: I haven’t even started on the boards yet.
Tags: Betta splendens, Neocaridina heteropoda var. red | Categories: 25G South American, 5G Betta | Comments Off on Dominoes | PermalinkMax loves chasing shrimp
Posted by Anja on December 4, 2009 at 20:16 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 20:17
Brigs
Posted by Anja on September 15, 2009 at 09:01 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 00:53J gave me a li’l clutch of eggs, which I carefully deposited on the inside rim corner of the tank, just under the cover. They were still moist this morning, but I put an extra drop on them, just in case. Keeping my fingers crossed now. Oscar and Felix will be quite surprised to see the clutch. I hope I didn’t set off a male identity crisis.
Tags: Pomacea bridgesii | Categories: 2G Brigs | Comments Off on Brigs | PermalinkMax
Posted by Anja on July 14, 2009 at 10:56 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 17:10We have a new guy in the house. Meet Max, the betta:
Moved some cherries into the 5G
Posted by Anja on July 6, 2009 at 20:12 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 20:13
New tank
Posted by Anja on June 5, 2009 at 20:05 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 20:06This is the little tank we found at the Glebe garage sale. Set up for the Assassin snails to breed in:
