Category → Aquaria
Under the sea….
I did a fairly major rework of the aquarium last Thursday. I tried my hand at terracing in the back right corner, and moved all my Bacopa and Ludwigia over there. I added a Red Crypt and a Pygmy Chain Sword as foreground plants, and a piece of Sawhala wood in the center rear. What do you think? Click on the image below to see a larger version:
I used Picasa and Hello to generate the image and link to the larger image. Picasa is much nicer than the Casio photo loader we’ve been using up until now, and Hello makes publishing images a breeze. I then came back and cleaned up a bit with wBloggar. So many tools!
New fish picture
The picture is new, not the fish. Here’s my one remaining Praecox Rainbow:
Let there be (more) light!
I added a 55 watt light kit to my aquarium tonight. Here are before and after pictures. Both pictures are taken at 1/15th of a second at F2:
Before: Stock 36 watt (2 x 18w T-8 bulbs) lighting.
After: 36 watts + new 55 watt kit = 91 watts!
New fish for the tank!
Last Thursday, I bought a pair of Dwarf Puffers for the aquarium. These fish are specialists at eating snails. Right now they’re less than 1/2 inch long (the snail in the picture below is the size of a pea), and they only seem to bother the really small snails. They will grow to be a maximum of about 1″ long.
Poor Fishy!
Our Dwarf Gourami died Friday afternoon:
It was in the hospital tank twice in the past with the same disease that killed Baxter, our Siamese Fighting Fish.
The Dwarf Gourami was almost DOA from the pet shop. They pack each fish in a plastic bag, then put the bags into a paper bag. The paper bag had gotten wet, and when I stepped out of the car, the bottom of the bag broke through. The three plastic bags hit the ground, and two of them held, but the bag with the Dwarf Gourami broke open. There I was, at night, with this fish flopping around on the pavement, about 50 yards from our apartment. I picked it up and ran all the way to the apartment, and threw it into a glass of water. It wasn’t moving at all, but after about 30 seconds it started wiggling a bit. I then realized I had left the other two fish in their bags back on the pavement, so I ran back out and got them. That was back in late January, so its pretty amazing it lasted this long, I guess.
Latest on the Aquarium
Baxter, our Siamese Fighting Fish, died today:
Baxter was our only named fish – Trish bought him back in February for “fish week” when she was the director of The Goddard School. Hopefully we can find a similarly colored one before Mechel wisens up….
Check out our Aquarium page for more on the aquarium (I created the page today). We currently have three Siamese Algae Eaters, a Bushy Nosed Placo, three Red Eye Tetras, two Praecox Rainbows, two Pearl Gouramis, a Dwarf Gourami, and a Bosemani Rainbow.