BN Eggs
Posted by Anja on March 6, 2012 at 17:10 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 00:18He’s fanning those eggs furiously every time I look. And when he sees me coming around the corner, he turns and displays his barbs. He might only be two inches long, but he’s fierce, baby.
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Posted by Anja on at 13:24 | Last modified: July 11, 2012 18:39Came home Sunday night to my BN pair’s first eggs. Only a few of them in the cave, but the male is taking his daddy duties very seriously. I was trying to help him along today by dropping an algae cookie by his side, and he wen completely ballistic. Muck churning, he drove that little tablet as far away from the cave as possible. I think we can safely say the algae cookie is dead now. Whoa.
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Posted by Anja on February 22, 2011 at 16:24 | Last modified: July 11, 2012 16:00
Fluval Edge
Posted by Anja on February 9, 2011 at 16:33 | Last modified: July 11, 2012 16:06This was the state of affairs on Feb.1:
In the meantime I’ve dismembered some Chladophora, anchored down a bit of Najas guadalupensis (we’ll see how long that stays put) and gradually moved over the rasboras and the CRS. I still haven’t got all of the air bubbles out of the top. I’ll have to go find that algae magnet. But for what it’s worth, here’s my first poke at Iwagumi:
I took my time (you should have seen me sitting on the floor at Big Al’s arranging rocks on my little tank sized newspaper piece). I introduced the fish and shrimp 3 per day, even though I had material from their old tank for bacteria. They all seem to be doing well so far.
Substrate is normal Estes Black Marine Sand. Since I’m not going to play with the light, I figured my plants won’t need any nutrients beyond what the fish supply for free.
I kept moving the rocks around, because there was always an angle from which I didn’t like them, and it took me a while for the algae pieces to stay where I wanted them. I thought I could just insert come pebbles, but those things fall apart just where you don’t want them to. I also find you need a few contortionist genes to arrange anything through that opening.
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Posted by Anja on January 24, 2011 at 17:19 | Last modified: July 11, 2012 16:15I’m playing with rocks:
Fluval Edge
Posted by Anja on January 3, 2011 at 02:27 | Last modified: July 11, 2012 16:25
I’m thinking Iwagumi, but don’t know anything about it, so for the time being I’ll just do some reading before setting up. But I was too excited not to share.
I’m also trying to get my hands on some of the accessories, like the little heater and the gravel vac. Needless to say I’m following the other Fluval Edge thread here very closely.
I already bought the fish. 10 Emerald Eye Rasboras that are currently residing with my handful of guppies in a ten gallon. I’m thinking about moving some of the shrimp to the Edge (either some cherries or the Crystal Reds) and have my eye on the little pre-filter sponge.
Undecided about plants yet. Prolly mainly mosses. We’ll see. This Iwagumi stuff is engrossing and quite involved. I’ve always wanted to play around with that.
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Posted by Anja on December 11, 2010 at 20:35 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 15:48Went on a fish roadtrip after OVAS breakfast with some of the ladies. I had two gift vouchers burning holes in my pockets, and came home with a handful of neons for the blackwater tank, some Emerald Eye Rasboras for the Edge (They currently reside with the guppies and the badies until the Edge is set up.) and five teensy little Heterandria formosa for the little hexagon in my office. They’re all happily swimming around in their respective tanks.
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Posted by Anja on December 10, 2010 at 23:20 | Last modified: July 8, 2012 21:26Called the store about the damaged tank, and they said they’d hold the only other one in the store for me to do an exchange, and ‘very sorry’. You better … Marg will provide transportation again sometime next week. Yay!
J came by to drop off the fish and pick up her shrimp, so now I’ve got two tiny Badis bengalensis swimming in the guppy tank downstairs. They’re very shy and still quite pale.
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Posted by Anja on December 9, 2010 at 23:18 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 15:50So, Marg took me to the store today to pick up my Edge. Yay! Unfortunately when I tried to set it up, I discovered scratches on the bottom and a nick at the top edge. Boooo!
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Posted by Anja on December 8, 2010 at 23:17 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 15:50I had written a letter to Santa wishing for a Fluval Edge, and the tiger told me today the Northpole management okayed it as long as I can provide transport. Hehe.
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