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May 17, 2005
Starting anew (Part I)
Before Erin left for Taiwan last week she took the time out to clear out all the dead and dying plants from the 12 gal tank. This left us with a rather bare tank. Guess we've been sorta neglecting our fish-keeping duties for the last month. Anyway, I started the replanting process by picking up two tall and thin onion plants from AF to plug into the area right in front of the filter output. May be too thin and flexible to provide a stable platform for the bamboo shrimp though. Also moved over some of the extra java ferns, anubias and crypts that I had temporarily kept in the 3 gal tank. So now it's not looking too bad. Will wait abit to see how the new plants grow out.
Cleaned up the clear plastic shell covering the light so the tank is nice and bright again. Well, as bright as it could be for a 13 watt light. And took the time last night to clean up the filter too which re-upped the water flow dramatically. So now it's a decent looking tank again. Put up some pics when I get the chance.
Oh and the 4 sick female guppies all seem to be ok now. Also thinking of clearing out some of the fish by donating them back to AF. Even though we've already lost a bunch of fish to attrition, with the 4 large gold barbs around I think we need to slim down some more. Thinking about giving up 2 of the gold barbs (if Tom'll actually take them, may be too large), the 2 cherry barbs, the gold pristella tetra and the 4 espei rasboras. Hopefully that'll clear up a lot more room for the remnants... that is if I can catch them. Always an adventure, netting fish.
Posted by ronin at May 17, 2005 11:22 AM