Recently in Fish Tank Category
Stu setup a tank for the multis today. Four of the seven are now in their own tank. Hopefully they'll breed without the duboisis terrorising them ..
Now that summer's winding down, I thought it might be time to try again with more fish.
Stu needed to get a new sucking catfish for the Lake Tanganika tank so we got one that had already been in harder water.
I got four more baby angels (when I bought five last year, four of them died within a week :( I think perhaps it might have been some dodgy food I gave them). There are two banded ones like this, and two mostly black ones.
And I also got a betta for the Macquarium
Yesterday after brunch at Black Pepper and doing our food shopping, we went and bought five baby angel fish!
Although one of them is hiding in the corner most of the time, I'm a little worried about it...
So adorable!
Although one of them is hiding in the corner most of the time, I'm a little worried about it...
Hopefully these ones will have better luck breeding that the last batch. Which only took up the tank for ten years!
Update: the fish died :(:(
Last Sunday, after we did our shopping, we stopped in at Jem aquatics and bought ten danios for the angel tank. Danios are supposed to be hardy fish that will tolerate the ammonia spikes you get from setting up new fish tanks. They also had some baby angels that were too adorable. Hopefully they'll still be there in a month, or have new stock.
This is how the tank looks with the black backing stuck on. It makes the plants stand out more I think.
Over nine years ago I bought four angels. They were the second batch of fish I put into my first fish tank. Over the years the other fish slowly died off. The last remaining fish out of my "originals" was a lone female angel. Since I'd had her the longest, she became the favourite out of all the fish that have come and gone (except maybe George, who's death was particularly sad because of how it happened).
While I was away on my last holiday she died :(
Because I'd never had any success breeding the angels, and because every other fish I put in there died fairly quickly, I gave up and decided that when she died I'd clean out the tank and start again with baby angels.
So that's what I did on the weekend. Spent a couple of hours cleaning surfaces and bits of the filter system that hadn't been cleaned in the nine and a half years since I got the tank.
It looks lovely now.
Had a "cleaning" day today .. aka a procrastination day .. aka I'd rather be doing just about anything else than figuring out how WAFs work.. hrmmmmm
Here's some more pics from July.. photos of Neil's fish
I pulled out my camera to document the biggest corys I've ever seen (the photo doesn't show the scale!)
Today Stu sold ten of our adult multis to Jem Aquatics (and got $6 each for them). And then he went and bought ten Tropheus duboisi fish.
They refused to eat anything Stu tried to feed them tonight. But they do look kinda cool, and they were following each other round the tank ..
(juveniles are dotty and they change to the stripe as they mature)
The poor little multies look a bit terrorised though (even tho the duboisis are vegetarian)
So apparently the two leleupis we got a while back were in fact a male and a female. Because we have a bunch of grains of sand with eyes that are being guarded by the smaller one. :)
Bought some new fishies today...
Neolamprologus leleupi
Leopard Danios
Neolamprologus leleupi
Leopard Danios