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 
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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.
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December 5, 2008 at 6:29 pm (All, Care, Plants and decoration)
Tags: 128 litre South America, 32 l white cloud
Added fertiliser to the substrate today, Tetra Initial Sticks. It’s actually meant to be mixed into the substrate/gravel when setting up an aquarium, but I’m too cheap to buy the larger tablets and this looked like a better bargain, though I had to use a pincer to place each stick in the gravel one by one. Wasn’t difficult and the experience was sweetened by thinking of the money I saved 
I could save even more by making my own clay-based fertiliser tablets, but I’m trying to stay away from using plain clay as it would be annoying to wash out of the substrate the day I decide to redo this tank, and I hope this works a little better.
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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.
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December 1, 2008 at 6:34 pm (All, Plants and decoration)
Tags: 63 l glass catfish
5 bunches of java fern and 4 small anubias bound to lava rock. I find this an easy way to handle these plants, easy to setup and move around later – and it’s even close to the way they grow naturally. The root is a very old one I’ve had for years. I love teh shape, but I’m afraid it won’t last more than a few years. It’s slowly falling apart, and I had to screw a split together as it was close to breaking point.
With plants (hornwort floating)
I think the end result turned out nicely – even though it can’t compete with properly aquascaped scenes Java ferns ‘fill out’ the space well, and in the long run I want lower lights – hence plants that can live well under those conditions.
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November 29, 2008 at 6:27 pm (All, Plants and decoration)
Tags: 63 l glass catfish
Bought it last Tuesday, 25 Nov. on sale for half price, as one can always use an extra aquarium I had at first thought to use it for Tanganyika dwarf cichlids, but I found it was a little too tall at 35 cm. Then I found the glass catfish instead, so now it’s waiting for them.
Initialy, I thought it would be great to decorate it รก la swamp biotope, with rushes in the background – I still think so – but the glass catfish is supposed to be a little delicate, and I don’t want to risk mildewing decorating material with new fish. So right now it’ll be some java ferns and anubias, as they don’t need a lot of light – which is best for these fish – and some tree roots.
A small school of cory catfish would be great (why I’ve used sand on the bottom), but it would create a heavier bioload than what is ideal, so I’ll have to wait a while and see how things turn out.
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