Friday, 23 February 2007
Tuesday, 20 February 2007
first pass on 180 litre setup
finally, i'm not entirely happy with the big trunk like piece of wood on the right, it just doesn't fit well enough and i want to try and conceal the filter box more than it currently is. so, next water change, i plan on stealing a few more bits out of the 70 litre tank for which i have a new design in mind. =)
Posted by Chas at 12:28 2 comments
Thursday, 15 February 2007
cats & fish
and secondly, at last!!, the 180 litre tank has started its cycling process. i've not put any images of it up yet because a)i don't have any and b)at the moment it is just full of all the bog wood i will be using to set up the landscape. the wood will turn the water brown as the tannins in it are released into the water. should take about 2 weeks for this to stop happening and i may as well get past this stage at the same time as doing the 'cycle' - building up the bacteria colonies.
all good!! =]
Posted by Chas at 12:51 2 comments
Wednesday, 7 February 2007
Tuesday, 6 February 2007
the ark has moved!
taking slightly longer than originally anticipated, as these things have a tendancy to do, we finally managed to get the two tanks moved into the new house with zero casualties. after transplanting most of the water from the 70 litre tank into a cool box to put back into the tank at the new location, i thought i would take some of the fish out and move them in the cool box as well. 1,2,3... and 4 guppies all go in without a hitch. after a bit of chasing i managed to net the biggest clown loach and put him in the cool box as well.
he didn't like it.... in approx. 2 seconds he went from a rich orange and black colour (happy) to light grey and orange (not happy). so i thought better of it and put him back in the tank for the move. the move itself was fine, utlilizing a colleague's renault van. senior clown looks quite happy again. :-)
and a little update on the 20 litre tank - all happy in their new location. one of the guppy fry is definately a male as he is starting to develop a nice colour and pattern on his tail fins. and finally, i did get home from work on monday to find the larger of the two shrimp happily eating one of the eyes of his younger bretheren. when i spotted him, he did a legger (literally, he's got loads of legs.. ) and promptly shed his skin next to the thermometer while i fished out his defeated foe. which must have happened faily quickly because i totally missed the event between him running off and me taking out the dead shrimp. ah well, next time maybe.
Posted by Chas at 12:43 0 comments