Well thanks for all the advice and comments on the tank. I really wanted to wait to do an update on this till I really had something to update.
I could not get a response from the online plant people I spoke with, and many don't seem to want to ship to a canadian address located in saskatchewan, it seems we are to hard to ship to. Though I did manage to finally find some nice healthy plants locally that I put in and I also have found a few more that I have to wait till pont season is almost over to get for free for surface plants.
A dark cloud hit the tank one day and jennifer just stopped eating, I can not figure out why. Though I have a few suspicions of the reasoning why, she made it about 3 1/2 weeks then passed away. The week previous to her dying when she would eat fish I noticed that she was eating them fin first rather than head first, now, I don't know if that would cause an obstruction since I thought gars ate head first. When she eventually died, I did cut her open to see if there was any blockage. Nope but her liver did look like a huge balloon.
Now, I am not a fish doctor but, it looked almost ruptered neared her tail end. From what I found when I looked up stunted fish growing again, I found information that told me that many times the nitr poisioning they have experienced was the cause of death. I tried to bump up the water change regime to make the water as pristine as I could but nothing seemed to make her eat again. I did remove her head to make a future sculpture out of. In the time that I was given the care of her, she did manage to put on 3 inches of growth and have her split fins almost completely heal shut. From what the present museum staff tell me she would have be 12-15 years old, how long do gars live?
Now, the silver lining from the black cloud is that I was safely able to drop all the fish I have been growing out into the main tank. So now the population of the tank is 1 tiger shovelnose cat, 2 ornate bichir, 1 cuvier bichir, 2 spotted/florida gar, 1 bristlenose plec, 1 cae, with 1 more cuvier bichir to go in , 2 spotless knife (I removed the upsidedown cats as I did not want to worry to much about getting food to a host of bottom dwellers
here are the pictures of how the tank looks now
I offered the museum a saturday take your photo with the tank option for the public and here is the first family
and saddly jennifer post mortum
one very cool feature that the museum has is a saskatchewan wildflower garden in front of the main entrance, so I thought I would take some pics for yall to see some of the variety of flowers open right now
I could not get a response from the online plant people I spoke with, and many don't seem to want to ship to a canadian address located in saskatchewan, it seems we are to hard to ship to. Though I did manage to finally find some nice healthy plants locally that I put in and I also have found a few more that I have to wait till pont season is almost over to get for free for surface plants.
A dark cloud hit the tank one day and jennifer just stopped eating, I can not figure out why. Though I have a few suspicions of the reasoning why, she made it about 3 1/2 weeks then passed away. The week previous to her dying when she would eat fish I noticed that she was eating them fin first rather than head first, now, I don't know if that would cause an obstruction since I thought gars ate head first. When she eventually died, I did cut her open to see if there was any blockage. Nope but her liver did look like a huge balloon.
Now, I am not a fish doctor but, it looked almost ruptered neared her tail end. From what I found when I looked up stunted fish growing again, I found information that told me that many times the nitr poisioning they have experienced was the cause of death. I tried to bump up the water change regime to make the water as pristine as I could but nothing seemed to make her eat again. I did remove her head to make a future sculpture out of. In the time that I was given the care of her, she did manage to put on 3 inches of growth and have her split fins almost completely heal shut. From what the present museum staff tell me she would have be 12-15 years old, how long do gars live?
Now, the silver lining from the black cloud is that I was safely able to drop all the fish I have been growing out into the main tank. So now the population of the tank is 1 tiger shovelnose cat, 2 ornate bichir, 1 cuvier bichir, 2 spotted/florida gar, 1 bristlenose plec, 1 cae, with 1 more cuvier bichir to go in , 2 spotless knife (I removed the upsidedown cats as I did not want to worry to much about getting food to a host of bottom dwellers
here are the pictures of how the tank looks now
I offered the museum a saturday take your photo with the tank option for the public and here is the first family
and saddly jennifer post mortum
one very cool feature that the museum has is a saskatchewan wildflower garden in front of the main entrance, so I thought I would take some pics for yall to see some of the variety of flowers open right now
