… in the ‘multi’ tank (Neolamprologus multifasciatus). Two females with fry. I hope some survive, as I don’t have appropriate food for them at the moment. They’ll certainly spawn again, so I’m not too worried 
Fry!
December 31, 2008 at 11:46 am (All, Fish)
New inhabitant
December 31, 2008 at 11:44 am (All, Fish)
I’ve gotten a new inhabitant for the tank with the glass catfishes, a Dwarf Gourami, (Colisa lalia) var. “powder blue”. I felt the tank needed ’something’ beside the catfishes, but not too much. This one is perfect. Gives more activity and colour wothout stealing the show completely.
New fish
December 16, 2008 at 7:46 pm (All, Fish)
I picked up eight Rasbora maculata Saturday. They’re small. Less hy than expected, and luckily they take flake food. I’m going to start up a dafnia culture after Christmas though. I’m sure the other fish will like that, too.
I’ve been looking for Jordanella floridae (American-flag fish) for some time (it’s rare here), and Sunday I got a tip that they had them in another city – not too far away. So today I made the trip and picked up eleven (5.6). And they even had three wild- type guppies, which I’ve been looking a little for. One male, one female, and one that is so far indeterminate. They’re all young and only just about sexually mature, so I guess the third one may still go either way…
First picture of the flagfish – after five minutes, they started working on the brown algae.
New shells and another moving day
December 12, 2008 at 12:44 pm (All, Fish, Plants and decoration)
Tags: 32 l tanganyika, 32 l white cloud, 63 l glass catfish
Yesterday, I finally picked up the package with the 33 Neothauma shells I’d bought for the Tanganyika shell-dweller aquarium. They look great (photo to come), and with a little shifting back and forth, I got all but one of the old shells out of the aquarium without the fish. The last one still has a squatter that guards it and it’ll have to come out at a later date.
Then I moved the White Clouds to the 63 l, as I’ve bought a small group of Rasbora maculata that needs their old aquarium – I’m picking them up tomorrow. I think it was high time, I moved the White Clouds, their old aquarium really was too small and it’ll fit the rasboras much better.
Finally, I bought a few Limnobium laevigatum – a small, floating plant. Put them in three different tanks – now I hope they’ll like the conditions in at least one of them
Hungry fish!
December 6, 2008 at 10:29 am (All, Fish, Plants and decoration)
I started to move some decoration from the 90 l into the 128 l tank Thursday, and yesterday I moved the Flag cichlids as well. Apparently they needed their veggies, because several of the plants had gotten quite new edges and holes in them by this morning Now I’ve given them a couple of plant chips to nibble on, but perhaps I should consider making salad a part of their diet.
Background
December 1, 2008 at 7:19 pm (All, Fish, Plants and decoration)
Tags: 32 l tanganyika
Put up a background for the small Tanganyika aquarium yesterday. That kind of paper backgrounds looks better in larger sizes, but at least it’s better than nothing. Added the plant yesterday as well, as I had some java ferns left over.
As can be seen, the fishes have been busy redecorating since the last photo of a few days ago. Look at the fish to the right in the background, spitting out sand.
32 litre with white cloud mountain minnows
November 29, 2008 at 5:41 pm (All, Fish)
Tags: 32 l white cloud
My other 32 litre houses 14 white cloud mountain minnows. I’ve wanted this kind of fish since I was a child, but rarely see them in the shops. So a combination of this fish and the 32 litre aquarium that would fit on my desk, made for an impulse buy, which I’ve become very happy with.
Since it’s essentially overstocked – with 14 fish in 32 litre – it’s taken a little while to find the right biological balance, but it works well now. I change 5 litres 2-3 times a week and the horn wort has turned out to work great since it’s easy and grows fast.
The background is watercolour and charcoal on cheap, slightly crumpled-up paper. I think it’s ended up as a very nice background, and it’s a good example of that a cheap, simple background can come off very well.
New 128 litre aquarium
November 29, 2008 at 4:52 pm (All, Fish)
Tags: 128 litre South America
My first ever totally new aquarium, in a nice design, and with a new lamp that fits and everything! Oh, my… what a feeling! 
I remember all the hand-me-downs and cheap solutions I’ve made do with until now. It’s great finally to be able to afford something nice.
The fish is going to be the flag cichilds and diamond tetras from my old 90 litres. Since they got sick last weekend, I’ll have to wait a couple of weeks until I’m sure they’re over it, so I can’t do much in the way of decorating yet, and the plants are waiting in their pots.
- 22 Nov: Setup. Trying gravel again instead of sand – I don’t like the algae ‘cover’ that grows on the sand in the old aquarium. Washing the gravel was a pain; last I used it, I experimented with using clay and peat moss as bottom fertiliser. It didn’t work very well, and it took a long while to wash out.
- 25 Nov: Bought a few plants: 2 amazon swords with round leaves, 1 anubias and 1 java fern. The other java ferns are for another aquarium.
- 27 Nov: Currently houses 14 glass catfish that I fell for, which are going to live in a 63 litres that I’m in the middle of setting up.
Tanganyika dwarfs again
November 29, 2008 at 4:41 pm (All, Fish)
Tags: 32 l tanganyika
Quite an impulse buy. I’ve missed having Tanganyika dwarf cichlids (I used to have a pair of Neolamprologus Similis), and 26 November I bought a 32 l aquarium and 5 Neolamprologus Multifasciatus. I hope it’ll stay big enough for them for a while – as I know it’s on the small side even for the relatively peaceful N. Multifasciatus. I’m not so worried about water quality – it’s been easy to keep my other 32 l with 14 White cloud mountain minnows healthy – and this should be more of the same.
Images from 26 and 29 November
I was worried at first that I’d gotten 5 males, but it appears that the two small ones ARE females as I’d hoped. Now I only need a background and the real Tanganyika snail shells that I’ve ordered. I know the fish don’t care, but I think they look nicer
