Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Posted by Sarah on October 15, 2008
Since Jeff bought all the 29’s at the $1/gallon sale, we’ve got a lot of fish tanks that need lids.
We’re experimenting with plexiglass, to see how that works, since we can cut a few hoods out of one piece of plexiglass.
It should be interesting.
Have you used plexiglass for fish tanks before?
Posted by Sarah on October 9, 2008
The one thing I worried about when Jeff said he wanted a fish room - other than the looks we get when we tell people we have 3 dogs, 2 chameleons, 2 snakes, a leopard gecko, and however many fish tanks, is that I’d never see the fish.
The fish are in our laundry room, but there’s really no where to pull up a chair and enjoy watching the fish, so I don’t spend as much time with them.
In fact - yesterday when I fed the fish, I completely forgot about the baby rams, discus, and Australian Desert Gobies in the fish room.
The desert gobies are my favorite fish!
And I forgot about them!
I can’t believe it.
In my defense, Jeff usually does feed the fish, but still.
You can only bend over and watch them for so long before you get bored, cold, or an achy back :-).
And of course, it’s a lot harder to take good pictures!
Do you have a fish room?
If so do you still spend a lot of time watching the fish, and doing things other than maintenance?
Posted by Sarah on October 6, 2008
I miss my dwarf puffers, and I want some more, but since we’ve had so many bad experiences with puffers, I’m kind of scared to get more.
None of the local stores carry them though, so it’s probably not going to happen for a while.
It’s funny, someone was over yesterday, and we were showing off 8-Ball, our figure eight puffer, and our visitor asked asked if puffers were hard to take care of.
Jeff and I immediately said no - the only trouble we’ve had with 8-Ball was him jumping out of a cup we were using to transport him to his new tank.
Fortunately he didn’t puff up, and didn’t experience any health problems after that little escapade.
We feed him some freeze dried krill, snails, and an occasional ghost shrimp, and we don’t have any problems with him.
Of course after a second we remembered all the puffers we’d lost 3 dwarf puffers and two green spotted puffers.
Taking care of puffers isn’t the hard part - it’s getting ones that actually survive so that you can take care of them.
If you’ve had puffers where did you get them - and how long did they survive?
