Quiet Sunday
Posted by Anja on October 17, 2010 at 12:47 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 15:59A bit of clean-up around the house in preparation for The Big Freeze ™. I was just going to do a round of checking on things, but it was so nice outside that I spent about 2 hours, snipping here, moving there, weeding a bit, storing pots, watching the fish in the pond … Very restful.
Otherwise spent the day around fish tanks, doing water changes and cleaning filters. The guppy family seems to have settled in nicely, as have the little goldfish, who don’t scare the minnows anymore. Not too much, anyway.
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Posted by Anja on October 5, 2010 at 15:29 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 16:14We came home to more guppies than we had left. Three wee ones were swimming in the tank. We were quite surprised. The parents are so small that I didn’t think they were grown out yet. The female must already have been gravid when I got her.
The hatchlings are huge, compared to the parents. I’m used to the teensy minnows and can’t believe there were three of these inside their still very small mom.
The baby’s swimming right underneath Dad here:
OVAS Garage sale
Posted by Anja on September 25, 2010 at 19:12 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 16:07It was great, as always.
I sold some small tanks and fishbowls and some mountain minnows and picked up some guppies, a tank light and hob filter, some wood and some fishfood. As always, I spent about as much as I earned. But then, making money is not really the point of a flea market sale. Cleaning out space is.
Anyway, Since the guppies needed a new home STAT, it was a good thing I had that empty 10g sitting around (thanks, Errol). Only thing I had to pick up new was the gravel; for the plants I raided my other tanks:
So far the guppies (2 at right hand back corner and 1 right under the surface) seem okay. I wonder how many I’ll have at the end of the winter.
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