Something about me
Posted by Anja on January 27, 2008 at 22:53 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 18:08We had a huge aquarium when I was a child, and I’ve always been fascinated by them (wandered through the Aquarium of the Pacific last Feb and felt like a child at Christmas). Last year we built a pond in the backyard and started with three comets, who are hopefully hibernating peacefully at the bottom (they were alive as of Jan 9th aka the meltdown).
But what brought me here happened at the end of summer: I got a Waterhome 25 aquarium kit:
And was infected with the bug. I started reading up on aquariums, slowly deciding what Id like to do with my tank (something well planted, Amazonian w/ small Tetras), and I’m currently working on a list of fish that would go well together, so it’ll be easier to pick some in the end (Neons, Glowlights, that sort of thing, maybe some shrimp …). As of today the tank is still empty, because I have to renovate my office to make room for it and the solid base it needs. I’d like to start slowly, gathering as much information as I can beforehand.
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Posted by Anja on January 9, 2008 at 10:30 | Last modified: July 10, 2012 03:33
This morning it swept our BBQ off the deck and one of the solar garden lights into the pond. Complete with the hook it hung on. From time to time the whole house shakes under the fist of a gale (74 km/h the weather report says). The neighbours’ discarded Christmas trees are rolling across the road along with a lonely trashcan nobody seems to miss yet. It’s juuuust a bit spooky.
Last night rain and lightning pelted us, and with *plus* 11C this weird January heat wave (the average temperature for this time of year is supposed to be -10C) has even the fishes confused – they swim around once more in the ice-free pond, thinking it’s spring.
Plan B (left) and Agent Orange (right) have been spotted frolicking in the balmy waters. We hope Moe is still alive as well. He’s a hard one to make out with his camouflage colour.
A curious peak in the skimmer revealed three dead frogs on the bottom (a bit icky, that) and two live, if very sluggish ones on the rim and the branch that’s floating inside. We’ve since heard the skimmer referred to as ‘the place where frogs go to die’. *le sigh*
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Posted by Anja on January 1, 2008 at 15:29 | Last modified: July 10, 2012 03:30Every day we go out to check on the pond, hoping that our fish are still alive, hidden somewhere at the bottom. We also expect the frogs have hidden in the now empty skimmer. They already did that when the nights started to get colder in the fall.
