Aquaria Central - Blogs http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/blog.php Aquaria Central forums - Freshwater and Marine Topics of Discussion en Sun, 06 Jul 2008 08:30:53 GMT vBulletin 10 http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/ms_icons_blue/misc/rss.jpg Aquaria Central - Blogs http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/blog.php <![CDATA[Full tank shots & fishy portraits.]]> http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/blog.php?b=750 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:13:56 GMT I took a few shots of the tank today, with the new light, freshly changed water, and newly sunk driftwood! :) Image: http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/6232/fulltank01ry2.jpg Image: http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/1454/fulltank02pg2.jpg I took a few shots of the tank today, with the new light, freshly changed water, and newly sunk driftwood! :)









The girls - Upstart & Alexei.










Cute little goldfish family. That's daddy Napoleon on the left, mother Alexei in the middle, and Sprocket middle right.






Sparkplug!





Double-tail kids hanging out together.





The little fry are big - three inches now - but they're still tiny next to Upstart. :D





Fang the haustrum!





Hard to beleive the growth in little Morris -

Early last year:





May 2007:





Today:



That's all for today. :) ]]> flaringshutter http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/blog.php?b=750 <![CDATA[45g Hex, Home to a 6" Chocolate Cichlid]]> http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/blog.php?b=749 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:13:53 GMT Quick rundown of my 45g FW Hexagon.

All glass 45g Hexagon tank 24"x28"x24"
Glass Top ( Sliding )
Bio Wheel Mini HOB Filter
Whisper 30i Internal Filter
Whisper 200w heater set @ 80*f
20lbs Black Eco Complete
1 26w 6,500k CFL
1 Large fake stump
1 Large Mopani Driftwood
Few random rocks...
Black backround

Residents

6" Chocolate Cichlid - Shrimp Fiend
4 Rosy Reds that he hasn't eaten yet, he may eventually.







His eye is normal, it's just the light. ]]> Polish http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/blog.php?b=749 20G Long Freshwater Blog http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/blog.php?b=748 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:51:19 GMT Just a small spot to compile the info for my 20g long Freshwater tank I setup about a month ago. Setup 20g All Glass Long Tank All Glass Top 2 15w Fluorescent bulbs in standard housings 100w Top Light Heater set @ 80*f 20lbs Black Eco Complete Small amount of fine river colored gravel Just a small spot to compile the info for my 20g long Freshwater tank I setup about a month ago.

Setup

20g All Glass Long Tank
All Glass Top
2 15w Fluorescent bulbs in standard housings
100w Top Light Heater set @ 80*f
20lbs Black Eco Complete
Small amount of fine river colored gravel
1 False Tree Stump
6 Black Slate Rocks
1 Small Banana Plant
1 Small Amazon Sword
1 Small Fake plant - lame but it looks ok
1 Large Mopani Driftwood (Jewel Cichlids home)
Coralife Digital Thermometer
Bio Wheel HOB Filter (Rated up to 20g)
Penn Plax Internal Filter (Rated up to 10g)

Tenants

3 Albino Convicts (1m,2f ) Breed like crazy
2 Albino Corydora
1 Bronze Corydora
2 Unknown Corydora (Julii-ish)
1 Jewel Cichlid - 4" ish

It's a little cramped but everyone has their own spot and the Convicts breed so everything is cool.

Here are some photos




The driftwood did the Tannin trick to my water hence the color. I don't mind it though and I think the fish seem happier. It looks much more pronounced in photos.




Convict with some babies.



2 Unknown Corydoras



Bronze Corydora (Or is it Green?)



Convicts when they were in the 75g. ]]> Polish http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/blog.php?b=748 blues plants http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/blog.php?b=747 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:34:20 GMT ok so its not how i want it, and the plecs decided to dig up the whole scaping again ! But hopefully once established and i got that moss tied down it will look pretty good, desite all the digging. ok so its not how i want it, and the plecs decided to dig up the whole scaping again ! But hopefully once established and i got that moss tied down it will look pretty good, desite all the digging.
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]]> stezatois http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/blog.php?b=747 New gear and setup! http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/blog.php?b=746 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:58:11 GMT Finally bit the bullet and bought a Coralife T5 dual-tube fixture. I was getting sick of the giant, ugly canopy that I cobbled together. It also weighed like 70 pounds, and I'd rather not have that sitting on top of my tank.
As soon as I turned it on, I was thrilled. It's tiny, almost as though I don't have a light on top at all. Totally hides. It's so slim and discreet, and it puts out gorgeous light. I couldn't be happier.

The giant piece of driftwood that just wouldn't sink, I finally tied it to some big rocks in the tank so it at least LOOKS like it has sunk. Wrapped the rocks in plastic mesh and secured them to the wood with monofilament. Should hold nicely.

Found two little spixies at a hole-in-the-wall shop out in Camarillo that I frequent. They were hiding in her snail tank and I snapped them up right away. She said someone brought them in. Now they're crawling around in my tank! :)

Full tank shots later today. :D ]]> flaringshutter http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/blog.php?b=746 Revamping The Fish Room http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/blog.php?b=745 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:47:56 GMT Over the weekend, I started doing some of the revamping projects I have in mind to do while I was doing some water changes.

The small (1/2") C. bocourti fry that I received through Dan Woodland are now big enough, so I moved them into the 210 with the rest of the cichlids. They should start growing much faster with the extra room.

This freed up the 29 gallon they were in, so I moved the remaining 5 platinum angels from their 10 gallon to the 29. The one remaining female albino bristlenose also moved to that tank from the 75 planted tank. Their tank mates the juvenile marble sleeper gobies moved into the 29 as well. This allows me to fatten up the angels and sleepers with frozen foods.

I started out with 15 juvenile albino bristlenose and in spite of varied died, they succumbed one after another once they reached a certain size. I've been told that they either do really well or poorly without any rhyme or reason to it. Once I find a mate for the female at an LFS, the pair will go into a 20L.

My other angels (smokeys from Ron, 5 black ghost, 1 other black/silver) are in a 90H with some yoyo loaches, an unknown catfish (possibly a bristlenose), and a few rasbora hets that avoided the pvc overflow when I was testing it on the 110. I started out with I think 20 of Ron's smokey angels and I'm now down to 8 or 9. I don't know what the problem is with them, but they die without any notable signs until it's too late. The other angels eat the same things, have the same water, and so on and I have not lost a single one of those.

The young pair of A. festae I bought from Jeff Rapps last year have grown quite a bit and produced their first spawn last week. They are actively guarding their free-swimming fry. The two fat sleeper gobies in the tank with them are constantly tormented, but are tough enough to endure it and get out of the way. The blue boties and rainbow shark have learned to stay behind the eggcrate divider that seperates the port pair from the rest of the tank. The ports have spawned huge spawns several times and the female was beaten badly by the festae, hence the divider. She has healed up and spawned again since the beating, so I am sure she's ok. Tough fish. The ports will be getting their own tank once I free up some space.

The 75 planted was being decimated by the large SAEs that I had and the ones Clay had given me along with the clown loach clan. I removed all the plants and driftwood and moved the SAEs, pearl gourami trio, albino kribensis female, last remaining blue rainbow, and the clown loaches to the 110. The SAEs and clown loaches enjoy the spirulina wafers, so I think they'll be ok without plants to munch on for a little while. I plan to replant the 75 after rinsing some of the sediment out of the substrate.

After doing a 75% water change on the big A. festae pair's 90H tank, they went crazy locking jaws and wrestling with each other. In my haste to take some super crappy pics with my super crappy camera which came out super crappy btw, I forgot I was filling the 29 gallon tank. It, of course, overflowed and cascaded down on to the tanks below. In my sprint to turn off the pump that was making a waterfall, I knocked over my CO2 tank (which was fortunately shut off at the time) and busted the PSI gauge.

Lesson learned: Multitasking is NOT a good idea when working in the fish room.

I suppose I should post this before the Internet eats it. More later. ]]> Nolapete http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/blog.php?b=745 guppy lost http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/blog.php?b=744 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:26:42 GMT One of the two male guppies I piched up the other day died the next day. when I got home from work I found him stuck in the filter intake. I got him out pretty quickly but the damage had been done. his leopard print tail had been torn to ribbons and within a minute he was on the intake again. I... One of the two male guppies I piched up the other day died the next day. when I got home from work I found him stuck in the filter intake. I got him out pretty quickly but the damage had been done. his leopard print tail had been torn to ribbons and within a minute he was on the intake again. I euthanized him because he looked like he was suffering alot. Had I thought about it more rather than reacting on instinct I might have thought to put him in the 6.6 where there are no other fish, a guarded filter intake and relatively little current.

I'll probably pick up a few more when I take him back to the lfs. ]]> malken http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/blog.php?b=744 <![CDATA[Said goodby to a good ol' girl tonight]]> http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/blog.php?b=743 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:14:39 GMT Kona was such a good girl. She will be missed. Ken Attachment 727 (http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=727) Kona was such a good girl. She will be missed.

Ken

Click image for larger version Name: DSCN0686.JPG Views: 10 Size: 390.7 KB ID: 727 ]]> Que http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/blog.php?b=743 heheh http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/blog.php?b=742 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:06:56 GMT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41tgOaFXTWU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41tgOaFXTWU ]]> Temo http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/blog.php?b=742 guppies http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/blog.php?b=741 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:05:06 GMT Well, My lfs did away with their saturday special :eek: so I figure I'll go with something a bit easier to find.

I already have 3 unspectacular guppies so I figure I'll add a few fancy guppies. I'm thinking I'll go with as wide a variety of colors as I can largely for the aesthetic value. I'm still not sure how many I can put in there comfortably but I intend to add them 2-3 at a time to avoid an ammo spike. I'm planning on picking up a few today if the lfs has any nice looking healthy ones. ]]> malken http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/blog.php?b=741 <![CDATA[LA MALADIE D'AMOUR by MICHEL SARDOU]]> http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/blog.php?b=740 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:56:01 GMT Elle court, elle court,
La maladie d'amour,
Dans le coeur des enfants
De sept à soixante dix_sept ans.
Elle chante, elle chante,
La rivière insolente
Qui unit dans son lit
Les cheveux blonds,les cheveux gris.


Elle fait chanter les hommes et s'agrandir le monde.
Elle fait parfois souffrir tout le long d'une vie.
Elle fait pleurer les femmes, elle fait crier dans l'ombre
Mais le plus douloureux, c'est quand on en guérit.


Elle court, elle court,
La maladie d'amour,
Dans le coeur des enfants
De sept à soixante dix-sept ans.
Elle chante, elle chante,
la rivière insolente
Qui unit dans son lit
les cheveux blondes, les cheveux gris


Elle surprend l'ecolière sur le banc d'une classe
Par le charme innocent d'un professeur d'anglais.
Elle foudroie dans la rue cet inconnu qui passe
Et qui n'oubliera plus ce parfum qui volait.


Elle court, elle court,
La maladie d'amour,
Dans le coeur des enfants
De sept à soixante dix_sept ans.
Elle chante , elle chante,
La rivière insolente
Qui unit dans son lit
Les cheveux blondes les cheveux gris.

Elle court, elle court,
La maladie d'amour,
Dans le coeur des enfants
De sept à soixante dix_sept ans.
Elle chante , elle chante,
La rivière insolente
Qui unit dans son lit
Les cheveux blondes les cheveux gris.

Elle fait chanter les hommes et s'agrandir le monde.
Elle fait parfois souffrir tout le long d'une vie.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqnO4wNJAo8 ]]> Temo http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/blog.php?b=740 <![CDATA[2 O'Clock and all's weeeeeellllllll]]> http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/blog.php?b=739 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:29:03 GMT Not much has been going on in the thirty. Bowie is growing up nicely. I still have the 3 feeder guppies in there. My LFS has a saturday special, buy one fish get a second for $0.01. So, every Saturday I call in to ask if they have white skirt tetras. no luck thusfar. the cost of fish is... Not much has been going on in the thirty. Bowie is growing up nicely. I still have the 3 feeder guppies in there.

My LFS has a saturday special, buy one fish get a second for $0.01. So, every Saturday I call in to ask if they have white skirt tetras. no luck thusfar. the cost of fish is usually a big discouragement for me to buy schooling fish. at $3 each, for a school of 8 whiteskirts I'd be looking at $24 which I can't really spare. $12.04 of course would be much easier to manage. ]]> malken http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/blog.php?b=739 Buying food in bulk. http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/blog.php?b=738 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:43:53 GMT I decided that I was paying an outrageous price for goldfish food at Petsmart, and they eat it so fast in this heat that I'm making at least a trip every week or two for the little can. Ridiculous.
I googled for bulk fish food and found aquatichouse.com, which sells the pellets I need in bulk. I got a 2.75 lb bag.

Calculating price, if I bought at Petsmart I would pay $1.02 per OUNCE for Omega One small pellets. Buying from Aquatic House, even with shipping I'm only paying 72 cents per ounce! I think I'll be buying in bulk much more often. 2/3 the price? Awesome. ]]> flaringshutter http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/blog.php?b=738 could anyone tell me what this is? http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/blog.php?b=737 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:45:03 GMT and should it be donated to the nearest pond? and should it be donated to the nearest pond?
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]]> stezatois http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/blog.php?b=737 general pics http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/blog.php?b=736 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:24:58 GMT the tank itself


big mama is berried again (can't wait to hear the infransonic pitter patter of wee shrimp swimming and grazing)



I promise better pics as my photography skill improves. not too bad though considering I'm using the camera on my cell phone for these ones. The memory cards for my nice camera are a different format so it's a bit more of an ordeal to get pics from the card to the cpu. ]]> malken http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/blog.php?b=736