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  1. Elodie Rose
    One of the Leopard Guppy Females gave birth (pretty sure it was her) and went bent-spine, and had to be sent to the dreamlands. Club Auction July 1. Have a lot to do. Probably I should make a list. I’m having trouble moving forward. I am Artax.
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    Testing.
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    And today I had to learn a new and more humane way of euthanizing fish. Man, life is full of ups and downs. This is a necessary thing to learn and get right though. One of the tetras has been ‘off’ for a while, the trio of meds didn’t clear it up, and this morning it was suffering. My heart broke a little. The recommended method seems to be 10 drops clove oil in a liter (34 oz) warm water, shaken well to emulsify, add fish, when motionless put in freezer. I read a lot of sites and articles and listened to videos and god I just hope I did right by the little guy. Until now I used the freezer method, which I’ve learned isn’t humane. Also heartbreaking. 💔 The other one that has missing or ragged fins isn’t suffering, so I’m still trying to cure that one. Aqua Huna, to their credit, did refund me for the two. They were pretty expensive after all. My heart couldn’t give a shit less though, I don’t want to receive sick fish. Cheese and crackers!!! 😖 I need to go leave some really good reviews for my LFS and Dansfish. And a good one about Aqua Huna’s customer service I guess.
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    There are two tiny Cory fry!!! So so teeny. The only breeding box I have was in the 10 gallon in the red room, so at the moment those two little babies are in there, with a bunch of cover, and some vinegar eels. The platinum red tail dumbo mama I thought it was close to delivering babies went back into the regular tank, I guess she decided she wasn’t ready. Since I was harvesting vinegar eels, I put some in the blue gold 10, and some in the German blue ram tank. Everybody got water changes this weekend, except maybe Jacaranda. I put separators between the blue ivory males and females, two pairs, and between the koi guppy male and two females. Why do I only see 3 leopard guppies. I hope one is in a corner giving birth. 🥺
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    One of the blue ivory queens gave birth today in the 2.5!!! They are so so adorable. and now the babies are in the 2.5 with Amano shrimp and blue dream shrimp, and the 4 adults are in the … witchy cottage 5 gallon. A few new Cory eggs appeared in the White cloud 20. I managed to get 2-3 of them into the little cup with the others.
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    Nothing at all has gone to plan lately. But it’s a happy chaos, for the most part. Turns out its pretty much impossible to get *all* of the endlers out of a tank unless emptying it to bare bottom. So my plans were highly impractical. There’s a new 10 in the red room, which at the moment has Washburne, 2 dumbo guppies, and 3 habrosus cities. So far it’s going well. Tomorrow will require some filter medium and a water change. The group of leopard guppies are doing well, there are only 4 of them, 1 male and 3 females, but that’s a pretty great group. They’re lovely. A trio of koi guppies, one male and two female, have taken up residence in the Toadstool tank. There are several in the Blue-gold 5 that have started to color up, and some of them are blue. Yay! But on a more sorrowful note, I lost a Golden Queen from the Blue-gold 10 today, to bent-spine, very sad. Three of the blue-ivory guppies are still in the 2.5, with the blue shrimp and 2 Amano shrimp. One of the males was behaving a little oddly, so he went into the medicated tank, where he promptly perked up and has been the prettiest thing that tank has ever seen. But there are still a few endlers in there, so he’ll have to come out when the medication has run its course. The tones of lavender and purple and their markings are just amazing. The long-finned neon tetras, though, are not appealing to me. They’re in the medicated tank. I thought I would enjoy them, but instead I’m wondering if I can give them away or sell them. But I should give them time. There’s a reason they are in a medicated tank. I thought they’d be safe from Aqua Huna, and am wondering if I miscalculated. One of them is definitely missing a dorsal fin and has a tiny stump on one side instead of a fin… I need to go back at the pictures I took when they arrived to see if it has gotten worse, or better. More Cory eggs appeared! On the wide of the White-cloud 20! Which is now housing 3 paleatus and 4 Longfin bronze. Those are some glorious long fins, wow. But I meant to buy 4 high-fin Paleatus Cories, and yet I ordered Longfin bronze. The pond-tub was too weak to put water in, I realize now. That is a sad realization and it will have to be corrected very soon. Heaters were switched around today, because the heater that went into the pond in march or whenever was super long, and didn’t fit in the 10 at all, so it’s in the 20 now. The one that had kept the Endler 5 so warm went down into the Red room 10, and that one is somewhere. In a tank. Toadstool maybe. It made sense at the time. I’m setting up the bedside 5, which I’d love to have for the blue-ivory guppies, so the 2.5 is shrimp only. That’s really the only thing that size is suited to, other than temporary housing, like now. It lost its shrimp cave today though, which one of the Amano shrimp was *very* indignant about. It needs to be replaced with something else. I wanted to make sure the habrosus Cories in the red room 10 had a way to evade Wash if he happened to take a dislike to them. The shrimp in the 2.5 still have the Tardis to hide in, if they want to hide, and there are a ton of plants in that tank (hornwort, java moss, anacharis and the inevitable duckweed), and a new catappa leaf. The platinum Medaka rice fish are doing great in the darkwater tank. They are luminous, while the endlers fade into the darkness a little more easily. On the other hand, that’s what the 2nd light is for in that tank. It’s gotten a bit too dark lately, I haven’t done a big enough water change to lighten it. The water lettuce also needs to be thinned. I didn’t even know the roots *got* that big. They’re not done, either. Water lettuce has successfully been transferred to the Blue-gold 10, the pondette, the Jacaranda 10, and possibly the Blue-gold 5. It wasn’t long ago that I despaired of having water lettuce survive in any tank. I wonder if some of it would help soften the light in the 2.5. That is one exceedingly bright tank-lid light, and it is placed so that I look up at it, which is super annoying. It’s also growing some algae, which the Amano shrimp are far too well-fed to bother with. Jacaranda did get the two envelopes of para cleanse on the first and third day, and one envelope of maracyn for at LEAST four days. I should have put it on a sticky note. I’m taking it very seriously, surely it got 5 days, but it’s been longer than that, so now I can’t remember. I think that covers all the recent additions to the mini menagerie. It’s the 2nd meaningful expansion of the Chandelle fishkeeping enterprise, and while it is an overall success, I think, it’s been a bit rocky as I’ve learned. And learned, and then started to learn how much I really *don’t* know. Why is that bucket so so so much larger than the knowledge bucket. I used to think my knowledge bucket was bigger, lol. But then I started breeding fish, and keeping planted tanks, and invertebrates, and worlds just opened up. It’s such a beautiful hobby. I let it ride for a while before this 2nd wave of expansion, and I’m very pleased with how it’s shaping up. Every tank is its own little world. The new tanks need filter media from the established tanks. Gotta look at that, I think it’s been about the amount of time they need more bacteria. I tested today. Also added some easy green to the tanks without measurable nitrates, if they’re heavily planted. Dragon seems to be an endless well for easy green, even after the addition of the rice fish.
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    So much action happening! I suddenly have ten things to do in every moment, and I love it. Washburne is in the BG5 at the moment, I was afraid the long, flowy fins on the guppies might aggravate him… but also he really does not seem to like that tank, he is always in the corner when I come into the kitchen, and emerges when I talk to him. We’ll see if he Ike’s this 5 better, I’ll soon be making it a better home for him. It’s the 2nd warmest tank, at 77.
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    Guppies galore!!! The Blue-Ivory fancies are with Washburne, the BG younglings that’d been keeping him company went back into the BG 10. I meant to put them in the BG 5 but here we are. And that’s fine too. The Leopard guppy group is in a breeder box in the BG 5, and the Platinum red-tails are in a breeder box in the BG 10. And last but not least, the blue dream Neocardinas are also in with Washburne. Oh and the Longfin Bronze Cories are in the WC 20. So are the Paleatus. It’s the biggest tank. (I’m seeing a lot more shrimp in Jacaranda now that the Cories aren’t out-competing them for food.) There’s a new 10 and a new 5 both getting started, which will free up some space, and the 55 gal pondette is also getting started. But for a couple days, everybody gets stable temps and stable perimeters in established tanks.
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    The Longfin Neon Tetras from Aqua Huna arrived yesterday, and were put into Jacaranda. Most of the endlers from Jacaranda are in the Endler 5 and in the Pondette. Jacaranda has been treated today with: Maracyn, ParaCleanse, and Ich-X. They are all eating, but some of them are swimming rather oddly, and I think they’re imported from the Czech Republic (might have to double check the Aqua Huna site). So they might have had a long, tough trip from there to here, and a little proactive/preventative care seems a good idea. The pearl galaxy Medaka rice fish also arrived yesterday, from Aqua Huna, and were put into Dragon. I didn’t see them all eat this morning, a few of them were hanging out in the corner. I wasn’t able to watch them as closely, that tank was so dark last night. Today I am getting some guppies!!!
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    Finally, I broke down the Jacaranda 10, and removed *almost* all of the Endlers to a holding tank, until the pond is filled up. Which would be *now*, if I could figure out how to get the generic python to work. Some of the males went into the White Cloud 20, a few others out into the proto-pond. The Paleatus Cories are in the White Cloud 20 at last. Now I can add several more to their little group. That was just really hard to do in the 10. Finally broke down and bought some rice fish for Dragon, and some long-fin neon tetras for Jacaranda. Very exciting! I’ve also chosen a few pairs of fancy guppies that I’m planning for, and making arrangements for. The Leopards from Dansfish are the ones I chose, and because he has some really gorgeous fancies right now, I couldn’t resist. The shipping is so so SO expensive, it’s tough not to make the most of it. The last pair of guppies that I bought from him, the blue-gold double sword-tail, are fantastic. I should probably go update my review on his site. And see if I’ve left one on google yet. The current plan: Medaka rice fish - Dragon (hopefully they, unlike the Endlers, will show up) Longfin neon tetras - Jacaranda Leopard guppies - currently BG 5 (the BG’s to finish growing out in the new 10 in living room) Blue ivory guppies and LF Corydoras aeneus (don’t they have a nickname?) - currently Endler 5 (Endlers to go into the 55 gal pondette-upgrade for fun in the sun all summer) Platinum red-tail pair and blue dream shrimp - Washburne’s tank - Washburne to go into the new 10 in the living room ***the Amano shrimp are doing really well in that tank, both of them, I’m not sure if that means the Neocardina shrimp won’t do as well, need to test and research.*** The decor in the three newer 5s (the GBR kiddos are in a palace, lol, as befitting their royal status) leaves a LOT to be desired, they are uuugly. Especially the one with the pink grow light. Can’t even get pics of them. They need plants, at least one needs a better light, possibly more gravel, all kinds of things. Since those are now going to be home tanks instead of holding tanks, I am gonna give them a little extra TLC. I have so much TLC to give, I’m enjoying each of these unique little worlds in glass boxes. BUT I have to figure out what to do with the blackworms. ASAP. I guess I need bigger substrate, and not being able to figure that out has gotten me paralyzed. I should grab some pebbles at the… wait a minute, don’t I have pebbles from the dollar store? Where ARE those? I know I got a couple bags. Maybe I used them in the BG 10, but… maybe I’ll go check.
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    The 4 largest vinegar eel cultures were fed plums today and replaced beneath the utility sink. The Pondette is getting an upgrade to a 55 gallon tub, which will be great. Now all the Endlers can be in one place! Unless I put the white clouds in it instead… hmm. Look at that big ol’ belly on that Paleatus Cory! Goodness. Fat and sassy indeed.
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    The male Endlers are coming out of the Endler 5 and going to the White Cloud 20. None have colored up yet in the BG 5. The only male currently in the BG 10 is from Dansfish. The BG males in Washburne’s tank are coloring up, and are lovely. They’re not blue-gold yet, if they ever will be? No clue. They too need to go to the WC 20. They are the future examples of what is in the BG 5. That’s where Wash’s companions were taken from. I’m going to give either the Vienna guppies from Aquarium Co-op a try, or the Leopard guppies from Dansfish. Those are the ones I keep coming back to over and over, loving them and pining for them, lol. So it wasn’t that tough of a decision, but now I’m sourcing. This part is important, and too much fun to rush. The hornwort and java moss have been removed from the Jacaranda 10, and distributed between tanks, along with a stalk of anacharis, to see where else it might grow. The main clump of it is in the BG 5, which is where the java moss is too - oh but some of it is in the cup of Paleatus corydoras eggs in the Jacarando 10. A lot of it is brown in that cup. But the female Cory seemed to really, really prefer wriggling around in it and depositing her eggs on the glass beside it. Jacaranda is going to get broken down, so that the endlers and Cories can be rehoused. Endlers males to a 5 that is currently incoming, Cories to the WC 20 where they belong. Many of them to go to the July fish swap with GuppySnail, I hope. The Endlers also need to come out of the GBR 5, and replaced with a very tiny tetra or a type of fancy guppy that like the high temperatures. I keep worrying about the Endlers in there, especially after I bumped it up a couple degrees. Although figuring out how to bring them down, even to 80, then to 78, might be tricky. I don’t want to shock them, but I also don’t have any other heaters quite *that* strong (thank you GuppySnail for that one!). Might be getting a new 10 tomorrow, we’ll see. This house has the *weirdest* outlets, there are so many walls that don’t have any. It makes placing aquariums very difficult, when they need at least 3 outlets. Filter/air, heater, light. As it gets warmer in the house I’ll pull some of the heaters… possibly. The blackworms are at 68?? How on earth. Must change out that substrate so I can get even the vaguest idea of how many there are… which is easier said than done.
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    Temps today: Dragon 10 - 70 GBR 5 - 85 Endlers 5 - 77 Blue-gold 5 - 76 Blue-gold 10 - 75 Blackworm 6 - 68 White Cloud 20 - 72 Jacaranda 10 - 71 Washburne 2.5 - 77
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    They’re so beautiful! I would *love* it if they got into a spawning mood. I retrieved some shelves from my shed and am working on my grow-out tanks. I enjoy spending time with these two every day. ❤️
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    They’re so orange-red lately!
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    The Paleatus Cories were spawning yesterday!! I managed to save a few eggs and put them into a little container that is floating in the tank. I still really want that trio put into the White Cloud 20. The hornwort and java moss are starting to dye off in Jacaranda, because the duckweed and dwarf water lettuce have grown in so thick at the top. All the other tanks are doing well, this weekend there were water changes, easy green dosing, and some spot cleaning.
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    All the tanks got dry food today, since they got frozen food yesterday. Topped up the upstairs tanks this weekend, and topped up the bottom ones today. The blue-gold males that are finishing their coloring up in Washburne’s tank have orange, green, and blue! What on earth! I’m pretty sure their parents were the golden queens! But the smaller ones are doing fine, and Wash is his lovely self. We’ll just see how those beautiful bois turn out. Jacaranda has started to show some really gorgeous coloring up, particularly from the males I -still- need to cull/separate. I think I might be able to catch the Cories with tubifex worms, and transfer them to the White Cloud 20. Still planning on getting some Longfin Paleatus Cories. Simon and River are great, gorgeous. I’m watching to see if the Endlers in their tank are outcompeting them for food. Those Endlers are pretty quick. I don’t see it yet, but I’ve been thinking about other tank mates, and places those Endlers could go, just in case I see something like that. The Dansfish Blue-gold Male has been returned to the Blue-gold tank, that beautiful, beautiful boy. He seems to be doing well. There are more babies in that tank! I need a couple of ponds to raise all these babies! I’m more interested in the gold-blue ones than the more traditional Endler ones, and I’ve been thinking about changing one of the 10s to a fancy-guppy breeding colony. Pondette is doing fabulous, those fish get frozen food a little more often than the others. The White Clouds are growing out, I’m watching them to see how long-finned they are, and loving how *gorgeous* they ALL are, long fins or growing ones. The pothos in that tank is growing like crazy, and seems to be keeping the levels fairly decent. Dragon is doing well, the lowered levels suit the tank, and I’ll probably be introducing a female betta soon. That is going to become more of a community tank, I think. I miss Zoe. Painfully. I feel very strongly that I failed her, which is undeniable. She deserved better. There are gaps along both sides of the Dragon’s lid, I can’t possibly put a betta in there without figuring out a better lid. Nothing else has changed much, everybody seems to be in a good holding pattern. I top up tanks when they’re low, add Easy Green when the nitrates get low, and change the water every 2-3 weeks. They’re still getting the same mixture of foods. Everybody needs more crushed coral, more catappa leaves, and more snail calcium/food. Haven’t been to Go Fish in a while, might go tomorrow, just to look at their bettas, and see if my heart can find another wet-pet. She was so lovely. That electric-blue edge to her fins was gorgeous. I’ll have to be sure about the lid before I bring another lady betta into the house.
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    I tested the upstairs tanks tonight. No nitrites. Dragon Endlers 10 and Gold-blue guppies 10 could both use some more Easy Green this weekend. Zoe’s tank finally got converted into a 5 gal. Currently has 2/3 of the Dragon Endlers in it. TONS of tiny new gold/white babies in the Gold-blue double-swordtail guppy tank! They’re very cute. All the fish, downstairs included, seem to be doing fine. They’re getting frozen food every 3-4 days. I like mixing the baby brine shrimp cubes with emerald entree, and the bloodworms with daphnia. Dry foods are usually vibra bites and fry food. Sinking wafers 1-2 times per week. Tubifex worm cubes stuck to the wall 1-2 times per week. Mostly it has been maintenance. Seeing tons of shrimp in Jacaranda, and the 3 remaining Paleatus cories are doing well, don’t seem to be Longfin, or are all females, difficult to tell (for me). They really go nuts for the tubifex worm cubes. Endlers still need to be thinned in that one, mostly the males need to go into the WC 20. What a lovely tank that is right now. The 3 Dansfish LF WCCMs have a much, much brighter white stripe than the dozen or so Aquabid LF WCCMs. I can still tell which ones they are, even after they’re all growing to about the same size. The GBR pair had an overnight at 70, the heater cord got jostled when I was rearranging things. It’s secured in place now. It got back up to 82 by lunchtime. They didn’t seem fazed at all, except that maybe they got more aggressive for food when it got warmer? Hard to tell, they’re very social little things. River’s spots are as dark as Simon’s, sometimes, and they’ve both got a lot of deep yellow and orange right now. I can see them moving in and out of their favorite cave, the one on the left, the pottery bowl. That pair of bowls are from a craft festival. I have messed up with the blackworm culture, and I can’t figure out how to harvest them. I guess the gravel is too small… when I use the turkey baster I get gravel, no worms. The blackworms themselves are doing fantastic, and so are the snails, there are a couple of very large, beautiful pink ramshorn snails. That rosy shimmer often catches my eye. I guess I need to change the substrate, so I can actually harvest them. It’s not really a priority, the harvesting part. I’m still taking care of them as if they were fish. I’ve yet to see a single scud, so I guess that didn’t work. Wash’s tank needs a timer for the light. Also, Wash seems to hate that light as much as I do. There’s hair algae in that tank, I just realized what it is. It’s such a pretty, ethereal green cloud that it took me a few days to figure out what I was seeing. I think Wash’s tank is too cold, and it needs a new heater, or he needs to move to one of the warmest tanks. The two warmest tanks are the GBR 5 and the new Endler 5 (Zoe’s old… everything… but her.) Man I am bummed about that. Many tears. Still, feeding and water changes for 10 aquariums takes time each day. Everything needs to be topped up right now. Water lettuce is living in the Jacaranda 10, amidst the duckweed. They’re both covering the surface. They’re not very big yet. But there are also a few in the Blue-gold 10 that seem to be living and growing, instead of melting. I can see the stalks and connections between the ones in Dragon becoming very large. I thinned them into the new Endler 5, which was 1/2 dragon tank water, and 1/2 new water. Out of catappa leaves. Also need crushed coral. Queen Denali in the Tarheel Hearth has laid a bunch of eggs. I gave them a new super-worm (freshly cut in half) recently, and noticed. I didn’t see any workers but her nanitics, but I’m delighted that she’s starting her colony. I put some new sugar-gel in the out world, too, and topped up the water, all the maintenance things. The Floridians aren’t doing much. Not sure what’s up with them. Thinking of getting some HF Paleatus, there’s still no bottom feeder in the WC 20. I’m wondering if Wash would be okay with the GBR kiddos. Except that there’s really no salt or tannins in the tank to speak of. I see the Amano shrimp though, they seem to be doing well. Will be out of calcium chips after this week’s round. But the crushed coral would probably serve the same purpose, ish. Haven’t noticed any flashing or itching. I’m out of lights and out of air pumps. So I guess 10 is my limit, lol. Gonna have to start giving away some Endlers, stat. Or maybe putting them in a larger pondette. Maybe both. The pondette doesn’t get the same food, I’m not actually sure how many fish are in it. I give it a cube of frozen food every other day or so, and sometimes throw in some fry food. Pretty sure I tossed in some algae wafers last week. Everybody kind of gets the same thing on the same day, I just take the pouch or package through the upstairs and downstairs, and visit all of them. Sometimes its very fast, but I prefer spending time with them. The frozen food is always slower… I thaw it in a little tank water, and feed it with a pipette. It’s very fun, they all go bananas. Simon bit the pipette a couple times, which surprised me. Fierce boi. ❤️ Also out of test strips. Really need to go shopping, apparently. Not sure I’ve been to the LFS in a while. Maybe tomorrow. The nights are almost staying at 50ish, I might be able to get away with swapping the heater on the pondette with a smaller one, and using that heater on a 10. One of the 3 could be warmer, and be more of a community tank. Also I should swap out the heater in Wash’s tank… but test it before I decide its cold. I’m ridiculously terrible at telling temperature by feel. Some of the first generation of Blue-golds are finally growing out, and starting to get tails. That tank needs a makeover.
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    I buried Zoe by the cherry tree in the backyard this morning. Bettas need tight fitting lids. I wonder if I’d be this upset if I had NOT known that before. 💔
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    There are itty bitty, teeny weeny lil white-yellow babies in the Blue-gold 10, and I’m delighted. Probably only a dozen or so, but they’ve gotten some Sera Micron, some Aquarium Co Op fry food, some vinegar eels, and some frozen brine shrimp. Spoiled much?? Darn I hope so. The 3 Kuhli loaches in that tank are doing great, I see them out doing loachey things from time to time. Until the new fry, that tank had been getting mostly vibra bites / fry food the majority of the time, frozen foods every 2nd or 3rd day, and algae wafers once in a while. That’s the feeding regimen most tanks are getting these days, either a combo of large/small frozen food or large/small processed food. Except the pondette, which I has gotten some entire cubes of frozen food, a cucumber, etc., and the blackworms, which often get flakes or canned green beans. I’ve tried little bits of green beans in the other tanks, maybe once a week.
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    Oops! So sorry, thought I responded to this already. The pond, which I’ve taken to calling the “pondette” because it’s so small, seems to be doing well. I had to bail it out a bit during the rain, I guess I put too much water in it recently (and we got a LOT of rain). The duckweed has covered most of the surface, the fish and snails seem to be doing fine. 🙂
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    Doing some fish maintenance this weekend, I still have 10 tanks, which is crazy nutso, and takes a bit of effort to keep up with. I think of it as “spending time with the tank,” lol, and its as important as watching the tank. Testing the water perimeters, doing a water change, checking the temperature, thinning the plants or adding some, fertilizing the plants if needed, topping them up, adding catappa leaves if needed. It’s such a joy to spend time with each of the tanks. They are all completely unique little worlds unto themselves. There are some problems I need to address with them, of course, and some other things that I hope to accomplish with them. Everyone was fed Emerald Entree and Daphnia today, frozen/thawed, except the pondette and the blackworms. Yesterday everyone got a mix of vibra bites and fry food, very lightly. There’s no bottom feeder/scavenger in the White Cloud 20. That is an issue that needs resolving. I’d miss the Paleatus Cories in Jacaranda, but it would be so much better for them to be in the larger tank. I’d have to take down the Jacaranda 10, pretty much, to catch them. But also there are a TON of male endlers in there stressing out the females, and they need to be relocated. That’s the only tank my neocardina shrimp are doing well in, and I’d like to optimize it for them rather than for endlers. I have endlers in two other 10 gallon tanks. I guess that’s something I’m doing this week, I’ve talked myself into it. Ugh I hate disturbing a system that is working. Ish. The Blue-gold tank is beautiful. It needs a light of its own, it’s sharing one with Jacaranda atm. The Kuhli loaches are darling. I don’t see them all the time, but I’ve taken chances while they’re out to sit and watch them, and they’re tons of fun. One additional CPD was liberated from the WC 20 and returned to their buddies in this tank. Their colors are gorgeous, and they’re not stressed anymore. So I guess moving them is sometimes very helpful. There are a ton of gold babies and some gray juveniles in the grow-out 5, and they need a better home. So I’d have to… 1. Remove the live plants, fake plants, and tank furniture - keep live plants in tank water 2. Put the 3 paleatus Cories in the 20 3. Put a bunch of male endlers in a finishing tank 4. Put some of the N class into their own tank? While I can still tell which ones they are? Is it even important? I haven’t decided. 5. Rescale the tank for shrimp, primarily, and let them settle in It really wouldn’t be that tough to get a few 10 gallons, put all of them on sponge filters on a single pump, and let them be grow out tanks for various fry. At the moment it’s the endlers that need space. Later it may be other fry. I could put it in the strangely large walk in closet. It would likely stay plenty warm through the summer, and could be very easily heated with a small space heater on colder nights. It would be a ton of trouble to move it in the future if/when I relocate. But that hasn’t stopped me from setting up 6 aquariums up here, lol. At least this way they’d all be in the same place.
  25. Elodie Rose
    I FOUND THE CALCIUM CHIPS. Those letters should be six feet high and en fuego. Everybody got one. Jacaranda got two. Four female blue-golds were removed from Wash’s tank today, and put into their 10. They’ve grown so quickly! I don’t know why they’re bright orange as they’re coloring up. It’s my first time doing everything with breeding, with babies, with live plants, shrimp. All I’ve ever kept in the past was fish in a glass box. These tanks are magic. There’s so much life in them. I’ve been lax on thinning the water lettuce, and finally did so today. I put a couple into each tank, to see if they will live anywhere else. This might be the 2nd or 3rd time I’ve tried, I don’t understand why it won’t transplant to anywhere else. Added about 4 gallons of water to the mini pond, apparently i need to stay on that. I didn’t realize how quickly it was evaporating. It’s been nearly covered by duckweed now, with a circle clear where the sponge filter is. Haven’t seen the Kuhli loaches in a couple days. But to be fair, I haven’t spent much time with that tank lately, other than in passing. I do pass it many times a day, which is making me wonder if such a high-traffic area is stressful for them. The endlers just come to the glass and beg for food, closely followed by the CPDs. Those little guys are much, much happier now. I’ve got to find the one or two remaining in the 20. Simon and River are *gorgeous*. I’ve never seen the ridges/stripes on River so vividly, and Simon’s fins glitter. I’m not sure fish get any prettier than GBRs. All the tanks got frozen food today, I’ve started mixing a cube of the misc food with a cube of the baby brine shrimp, to feed the different sizes of mouths in each tank. Since, naturally, most of them have endlers growing out, even if only five or six… except Zoe. There might be 3 in there. I want her in a new tank so, so badly. Plant fertilizer today, in all the tanks. Not sure I’ve dosed them in over a week, oops. The edges of the water lettuce petals are a little yellow. The texture of the big petals is beautiful, I wish it was easier to see. Health challenges the past few days have made it difficult to get around and do things. Despite that, or because of it, I still take delight in looking at each of the tanks every day, in each of the rooms that they’re in. I’ve probably never described it, and I won’t remember later. Might be fun to work on that soon.
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