Dominoes
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.
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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 | PermalinkOscar and Felix got Shrimp Company
Posted by Anja on April 6, 2009 at 20:34 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 20:36
Renovations
Posted by Anja on April 3, 2009 at 19:51 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 19:54A while ago I rearranged my 25G a bit, took the flat rock out that was the roof of the cave and added more wood instead. No more neons, and I also sold the skyblue tetras again. They were too hyper and scared the pants off my glowlights, little emo kids that they are.
The plants have been growing slowly but nicely, I found out what works and what doesn’t with under 1 wpg and added a couple more anubias. They thrived under the neglect of my recent vacation and awarded me flowers. Yay.
Oscar the brig, hunting for tasty morsels at the surface.
Posted by Anja on January 22, 2009 at 17:56 | Last modified: July 11, 2012 16:57
Aquired two Brigs at the mini auction
Posted by Anja on November 18, 2008 at 20:26 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 20:31Since they seem to be both male, I named them Oscar and Felix. They live in the little 2G tank:
I’ve been busy setting up the 10 G river tank
Posted by Anja on November 9, 2008 at 19:47 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 19:49… for the WCMM in the basement. It has a bit of wood and some medium sized rocks, but mostly pebbles of three different sizes. I scrounged some parrot feather and salvinia out of the pond and one of the little water hyacinth plantlets, added some java fern and African fern from the big tank and dumped in a Japanese moss ball and a few physa and MTS. Here’s a shot while I was planting:
In early October I started to scoop the minnows out of the pond. I found nine out of ten. One of them had had a spine deformity – he looked like a Z from above, and we were always amazed that he was still swimming along with everyone else. But in the end, I guess he didn’t make it.
The nine seem happy enough in their smaller quarters. I put a little powerhead in for them, and they love swimming right in it’s stream.
Two days ago I added Cthulhu, the Bristlenose from the blackwater tank. I’ve carefully acclimated him to the cooler and somewhat harder water over the past 10 days. And while he seems a little shell-shocked by having been moved twice in two weeks, he’s slowly regaining his colour and starting to explore his new home.
I took him out of the big tank, because he’d been harassing the Ranger Pleco, who’s a bit of an emo kid. Rory, the Ranger kept showing up in the mornings with torn and ragged fins and grew more and more shy. Now, the fact that his nemesis is gone slowly dawning on him, he’s finding back to his happy scamp self, and, ye gods, is he ever beautiful, proudly displaying tail and sail and with all his fins fully healed.
Tags: Ancistrus, Pterygoplichthys weberi, Rory, Tanichthys albonubes | Categories: 10G River, 25G South American | Comments Off on I’ve been busy setting up the 10 G river tank | PermalinkKeepers?
Posted by Anja on October 6, 2008 at 19:45 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 19:46Added three sky blue tetras that had been in the QT for the past weeks, but I find them quite nippy. Could be that there’s not enough of them to make them feel secure, but I don’t know when or whether I’ll up their number. They’re a bit hard to find around here. We’ll see. First, I should get the neons up to group strength again.
Tags: Boehlkea fredcochui | Categories: 25G South American | Comments Off on Keepers? | PermalinkThey sure love their canned green beans
Posted by Anja on September 5, 2008 at 19:43 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 19:44
(the ‘no salt, no preservatives’ kind)
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Posted by Anja on August 19, 2008 at 19:42 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 19:43Changed the background today to something more in keeping with the wood and plant look of the tank.
Now that the water is not so brown anymore from the tannins, the rock background was starting to look very gray. Note to self: more plants!
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