{"id":1537,"date":"2008-03-04T17:50:04","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T17:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/?p=1537"},"modified":"2012-07-11T17:02:50","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T17:02:50","slug":"25-g-tank-up-and-running-so-far-so-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/?p=1537","title":{"rendered":"25 g tank up and running &#8211; so far so good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally finished putting all the auction loot in yesterday, and now the filter&#8217;s starting to clear the water a little.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not in love with the canopy that came with the kit. Not that it&#8217;s bad, it&#8217;s just the wrong one for this tank. It&#8217;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&#8217;s still new. It&#8217;s either that or rig something up that keeps the fish from carpet surfing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/canadaqua\/IMG_3753.JPG\"><img src=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/canadaqua\/IMG_3753-medium-init-.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Close-up of the Tiger Lotus:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/canadaqua\/IMG_3744.JPG\"><img src=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/canadaqua\/IMG_3744-medium-init-.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The flash swallows the colors a bit, but if I try w\/out it, the reflections are bad on the glass.<\/p>\n<p>In a few weeks I&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>But now, the waiting game starts. I should go, read my library books, knit a sweater or something, to pass the time.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, ok, I couldn&#8217;t resist. I tried a pic w\/out flash, just for the pretty color of the light:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/canadaqua\/IMG_3756.JPG\"><img src=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/canadaqua\/IMG_3756-medium-init-.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, sue me. At least I found a position where the reflections are kept to a minimum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally finished putting all the auction loot in yesterday, and now the filter&#8217;s starting to clear the water a little. I&#8217;m not in love with the canopy that came with the kit. Not that it&#8217;s bad, it&#8217;s just the wrong one for this tank. It&#8217;s 5 cm too short and not made for rimless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[180],"tags":[345],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1537"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2872,"href":"http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions\/2872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadaqua.babyl.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}