Lost one of my cories today
Posted by Anja on April 12, 2008 at 19:15 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 19:16He was the smallest and always a little less boisterous than the others. Yesterday afternoon I missed him at feeding time, and searched in vain all evening. This morning I found him still alive, but sticking to the filter intake. I put him in a QT by himself so he wouldn’t get picked on (not that there was a mark on him), and an hour later he was dead. I have no clue what killed him. All I can think of is that he was fighting something since I got him, and the stress of being moved to the main tank on Wednesday weakened him further. But I have no idea what he could have been fighting. Apart from the fact that he was half the size of the others (and they’re all not fully grown, so I thought he was just a bit younger), he didn’t look any different. He was definitely out and about and feeding with everyone else yesterday morning. Water tested the same as always (amm/trites 0, nitrates under 20).
Needless to say I’m keeping a sharp eye on the others now.
Rory
Posted by Anja on April 10, 2008 at 19:13 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 19:15They still had the Ranger (mystery) Plecos at my LFS today, and they assured me that they would take him back in case he got too big for my tank. I mean, what’s a girl to do, faced with the tiniest cutest wiggliest most interestingly patterned pleco ever seen? And who can resist a mystery? Right? Right? Right.
So *erm* anyway. He’s in the QT now. Most people I talked to who know plecos, seem to think he’s some kind of peckoltia. Anyway, I named him Rory (‘Rose is Rose’ fans will understand).
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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 6, 2008 at 18:41 | Last modified: July 10, 2012 03:40It’s slowly getting a little warmer. A lot of the snow has melted over the last week.
We’ve on and off seen the two orange of our goldfish over the past couple of days, but today we were finally able to ascertain that all three of them are in fact alive and well and happily nibbling on the algae that the longer days bring to our ponds. (Man, there’s a lot of those.)
They sure like their brine shrimp with spirulina
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 31, 2008 at 09:37 | Last modified: July 10, 2012 03:38It’s because there’s still not much to see but a big heap of snow with a hole in the middle. Aaah, the glories of spring in Ontario. As you can see, though, the top of the chain-link fence in the background is peeking out again, so it must be melting.
Glowlight update
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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