hobbies New aquarium!

[Tinkerbelle]

aaaaahhh fishies - they look very content.
Do you think they would be happier with one of them castles and some pretty coloured stones, maybe a mermaid or two?
*ducks*

 

[Uncle Eckley]

PT duck FTW!

No, lol! No kitsch!

 

[Uncle Eckley]

First water change tomorrow. Will be interesting to see where my parameters are.

I've been considering radical action to remove that last fish from the box. Something like siphoning him into a bucket. Even if he manages to avoid the suction (and I suspect he might), with the box empty I ought to be able to just grab him, the little shit.

 

[Downriver]

... the little shit.

Hey, that's what I call one of our cats! ...Wait a minute! I thought you didn't name your fish!?!

 

[Tinkerbelle]

Hey, that's what I call one of our cats! ...Wait a minute! I thought you didn't name your fish!?!

I think that's what he calls me behind my back

 

[Uncle Eckley]

Finally performed the first water change. Levels were perfect - really didn't even need the change, but I was able to divine a few little quirks of the system in the process.

Daughter helped me extricate the little bastard hermit fish from the overflow box. He's back in with the rest of the group now, earning his keep.

I saw several pretty vicious strikes last night watching the tank. Little devils are growing up fast.

 

[Tinkerbelle]

I am missing the fishies
and taking the pishies

how's that for poetry?

 

[Uncle Eckley]

They're there, doing fish things as they should. Nothing to report, really. Been lazy, putting off the new canopy.

 

[Tinkerbelle]

no one has mentioned fish lately

How's the fishies Eck?

 

[Siv]

9000 posts when there were no fish and 3 when there are. That's about the same as my glog - 9000 post waiting on germination and 3 of the actual plants.

 

[Tinkerbelle]

I'm trying to keep this post alive

 

[Uncle Eckley]

I made some changes to the filtration and got an unsightly bacterial bloom. UV sterilizer will be here Friday. I'll post some pics once I get it cleared up.

 

[CaneDog]

I'll post some pics once I get it cleared up.

Hey, at least we know now that the check is in the mail!

Happy New Year Unc!

 

[Uncle Eckley]

Happy New Year Unc!

Same to you, Dr. Dog!

 

[Uncle Eckley]

Got the UV installed. It's supposed to work pretty fast.

 

[Uncle Eckley]

 

[CaneDog]

Looking sharp E! Knife fish and pleco additions?

 

[Grass Snake]

That little algae bloom aint nothing, looks more natural.

 

[Uncle Eckley]

Looking sharp E! Knife fish and pleco additions?

Thanks! Nah, plecos make a lot more of a mess than they clean up. They get huge, too. Knife fish are soft water.

That little algae bloom aint nothing, looks more natural.

Yeah, I like the colors on the rock, too! That's not the algae bloom I had to fight back, though. It was free in the water. You can still see it a bit in some of the photos, especially the fifth one. See that long shadow under the fish toward the top right? It shouldn't look like that - you should only see shadow on the rock or sand, not in the water. A couple weeks ago it was so bad the water looked a bit milky.

 

[CaneDog]

Wow! Too many hours in front of a screen today, I guess. I thought that piping (?) upper left was the fins of a knife fish and that small rock on the sand directly below it was pleco. Think I'll go eat a carrot.