Big Adventure
Posted by Anja on April 9, 2008 at 19:10 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 19:12Moved the cories into the main tank today. They, of course, went immediately for cover.
I think I’m almost as stressed out as they are, even though everything went smoothly. They were easy to net in the QT. I added some Prime and Stability to the main tank to give everyone a good start, and now we’ll have to see. The glowlights are merely curiously peeking at their new neighbors now and then. Cthulhu hasn’t come out yet. I know I’ll be eagle eying that tank again now for the next 78 hours to make sure everyone is ok.
Here’s one in the background, trying to blend in behind the glowlight tetra:
Tomorrow I want to see what my LFS has for as as far as a next batch of newbies is concerned.
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Posted by Anja on April 5, 2008 at 19:09 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 19:10
Niam!
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Posted by Anja on April 3, 2008 at 08:08 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 19:08… and then they had these cute little cory cats. You know how it is. Anyway, five of them are in my QT right now. I fed them and the tetras a couple pinches of dried bloodworms yesterday and they totally went wild.
Here they are happily munching on some NLS pellets I got for them yesterday:
The Mohicans really appreciated the change from the flakes and gobbled up quite a few of those yummie new pellets. The guy in my LFS said, even his BN likes them, so Cthulhu might be in for a treat tonight.
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Posted by Anja on March 28, 2008 at 19:04 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 19:05So far they’re okay, though they weren’t terribly interested in food this morning. They’re incredibly fast movers, which is why there’s no picture yet. I’m trying out videos, but they need to be worked on, and I need to figure out the software before I can do that. So, only verbal update for now.
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Posted by Anja on March 27, 2008 at 11:47 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 19:04… and came home with three little glowlights. The neons were still in quarantine and not for sale yet. I saw the tank full of beautiful glowlights a couple of weeks ago when I went to get my bristlenose, but thought they’d all been sold by now. Lo and behold, though, there were three left, swimming a little forlornly in a tank full of small rasboras. Since they were the last of a whole shipment, I named them The Mohicans.
They still look a little lost in my tank, but they’re checking out all the hidey holes and occasionally surf in the filter current. Now I just hope they’ll survive the next 72 hours.
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Posted by Anja on March 17, 2008 at 19:01 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 19:02I got a really nice macro shot of him just now. You can even see the pale green spots under his eyes. (He’s a Green Dotted Bristlenose.)
He’d been hiding all day, to the point where I got quite nervous, but he came back out around 5pm. I put in a spirulina wafer, but he hasn’t discovered it yet. Still busy munching away on the wood.
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Posted by Anja on March 16, 2008 at 19:00 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 19:01Meet the first resident: Cthulhu, the cutest little Bristlenose this side of Peru:
After a couple of hours of hiding shyly behind the rocks, he’s now happily scampering all over the place, not the least bit fazed by the flash.
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Posted by Anja on March 12, 2008 at 18:57 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 18:59Looks a lot sleeker. No ugly waterline, no huge gaps.
Me’s happy.
Aaaand: Lights on!
Could use a leeetle top-up. But otherwise bright and shiny. Yeah. Now, if the parameters keep being good, I’m ready for a fish next week.
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Posted by Anja on March 4, 2008 at 17:50 | Last modified: July 11, 2012 17:02I finally finished putting all the auction loot in yesterday, and now the filter’s starting to clear the water a little.
I’m not in love with the canopy that came with the kit. Not that it’s bad, it’s just the wrong one for this tank. It’s 5 cm too short and not made for rimless tanks. If I can find a light-glo or something similar for not too much money, I might try to sell this one while it’s still new. It’s either that or rig something up that keeps the fish from carpet surfing.
Close-up of the Tiger Lotus:
The flash swallows the colors a bit, but if I try w/out it, the reflections are bad on the glass.
In a few weeks I’ll go looking for a little bristlenose. It was too sad to see those beauties go at the auction and not being able to get one.
But now, the waiting game starts. I should go, read my library books, knit a sweater or something, to pass the time.
Ok, ok, I couldn’t resist. I tried a pic w/out flash, just for the pretty color of the light:
So, sue me. At least I found a position where the reflections are kept to a minimum.
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Posted by Anja on March 3, 2008 at 10:51 | Last modified: July 11, 2012 17:03I came home with an amazing pile of loot, and an OVAS membership card, but too late to do anything but collapse on the couch. Now I’m back with fresh energy, planting some plants. There’s Java Fern (both kinds), Java Moss, Vals (straight and spiral), Crypts, Swords and Nympheas (Tiger Lotus).
I had to move the rock formation to the back and replace a couple of the stones with smaller ones to make room for the big rooted stump I bought. That thing has an amazing volcano-like opening in the top that just begs to be stuffed with plants.
At the end of the day, it doesn’t look half bad. I have quite a bit of straight Val left over (that was a big bag) and some tiny Java Fern plantlets. They’re in the nano for now that I freed up when I took the spiral Vals out.
