Assassins
Posted by Anja on June 29, 2008 at 19:31 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 19:32Came home with four assassin snails today. We’ll see if they can make a dent in the pond snail population. They’re quite pretty with brown and yellow bands.
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Posted by Anja on June 23, 2008 at 19:29 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 19:31Added 3 ghost shrimp
… and 6 diamond tetras today
… and consider the tank fully stocked now. Water quality remains good, but I’m toying with the idea of getting a larger filter and putting this one on the 10 gallon I’m planning for the WCMM when they have to come out of the pond in the fall. We’ll see.
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Posted by Anja on June 20, 2008 at 19:27 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 19:28I’d seen my peppered cories lay a very few eggs after the last heat wave subsided, but as the tetras are eating them as fast as they come, I didn’t think anything of it. This morning as I was making sure everyone shows up for feeding, I saw a tiny movement at the mouth of the cave out of the corner of my eye, and sure enough, a teensy tiny cory baby is down there munching happily along the rocks. My very first fish baby. I must confess, I’m pretty excited.
Unfortunately it’s way to quick for me to catch it on camera. I’ll keep trying, though.
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Posted by Anja on June 19, 2008 at 19:26 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 19:27I’ve been counting only nine neons for the last 2 or three days, even at feeding. Didn’t find any bodies, but it is odd, to say the least.
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Posted by Anja on at 16:42 | Last modified: July 10, 2012 03:43The pinks are in full bloom, the daylilies bushy and the berm’s filling up.
We recently added 10 White Cloud Mountain Minnows, very tiny. They get chased by the goldfish quite a bit. I hope they don’t get eaten. They won’t be able to overwinter outside, but will have to come inside when it gets cold.
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Posted by Anja on June 4, 2008 at 19:24 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 19:26Picked up 2 more peppered cories today, roughly the same size as the four I already have. And I finally got my neons; ten little guys:
I drip acclimated them for two hours and so far they seem ok. I guess the next couple of days will show how they weathered the transition. From what I heard from other aquarists, they can react quite badly to changes in their water parameters, so I’m a bit wary. I guess time will tell.
The cories were adopted into the tribe almost immediately. At first it was easy to tell them apart, because they were so much lighter in color, but they’re adapting to their darker surroundings quite nicely, and pretty soon I won’t know who’s the newbie anymore.
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