Consolidating the fish

Posted by Sarah on January 13, 2009

We’ve run into a snafu with our fish room downstairs, so we’re having to consolidate some of our fish.

We got some new windows a couple of months ago, and now that the air isn’t leaking into and out of the house so much we’re having humidity problems, even with our new dehumidifier.

We moved the parent discus into the 75 gallon with the blue rams, badis buxar, a clown loach, some harlequin rasboras, and some queen botia’s and they seem to be really enjoying it.

It’s fun to see them zooming all over the place when they used to sit in that tank by themselves and hide.

We have seen them chasing The Lone Wolf, our male discus around, so we might have to look at rearranging that tank pretty soon.

We moved the Blue Gularis into our bedroom, which houses cories, guppies, swordtails, platies, and 6 Limia vitatta, which I call the lima bean fish.

I love lima beans, and Jeff doesn’t and even though I plant them in my garden every year, I haven’t gotten one single plant to survive.

Do you think he’s sabotaging me?

Unfortunately, the Blue Gularis were full grown when we got them, and since their life span is usually 12 months I don’t think they are going to make it too much longer.

We have an empty 20 that we are going to move the Australian Desert Gobies into – I wanted to move the Blue Gularis there to try to get some eggs, and put the gobies in the community tank, but Jeff vetoed that since he doesn’t think we are getting any eggs from the Blue Gularis.

He’d rather have desert goby fry, and so would I.

I am so excited that I will be able to see them again!

I love my desert gobies.

We still have an empty 55 gallon from our ongoing tiling project, so the larger ram and discus fry will go into that.

It should be an exciting tank, and I hope the larger tank will help the fry grow faster.

We’ll definitely be keeping an eye on the discus and the German Blue Ram fry to make sure that no one is getting picked on too much.

Hopefully we’ll get everything under control soon, and we’ll be able to put more fish in the fishroom, but even if we can’t it was fun while we tried.