Posted by Sarah on November 3, 2008
I’ve got lots to tell you - but I don’t have time right now.
The old discus fry are doing great, and getting bigger - and we have a new batch of discus fry, the eggs hatched yesterday.
Things are going to get pretty interesting here soon.
Jeff moved the parents when he noticed that the male seemed irritated and was shaking himself to get the fry to fall off him.
They’d fall off and swim right back too him, so Jeff decided that it was time to move the parents.
We’d heard that if the parents are ready to spawn again they might eat the fry, and we didn’t want that to happen.
Now everyone is wondering how we’ll be able to find homes for all of the fry, but I’m sure we’ll figure out something.
Posted by Sarah on October 31, 2008
We’ve got more discus eggs - and the current batch of discus is doing great.
We haven’t noticed any dead fry, but they’re already chasing each other around and nipping at each other - or at least one of them is.
I was surprised it started so early.
What’s going on in your fish tank?
Posted by Sarah on October 27, 2008
Our half black angelfish was dead Sunday morning - I kept asking Jeff “Did we really get it on Thursday?”
It seems longer ago than that, but it was really short - oh and this was a saltwater angelfish.
There were a few people who were confused since there are freshwater angelfish too.
I don’t think that taking care of a marine aquarium is what causes people so much trouble - it’s finding healthy fish that are actually going to survive.
I knew that Jeff didn’t want to do a quarantine tank - but we got the fish anyways, and we shouldn’t have, we should have waited.
We didn’t - and now we have a dead fish.
Jeff thinks that our fish - especially the yellow tang, might have been picking on the angelfish, but I don’t know what happened.
She was fine when we got her, so she obviously had a rapid decline.
Posted by Sarah on October 21, 2008
We got a new fish for our saltwater tank last week - a half black angelfish.
We’ve been looking at Flame Angelfish, and Coral Beauty Angelfish, but we couldn’t find them around here - then we went to a pet store and they had a half black angelfish that was hiding in a rock.
It was so cute - all you could see were the big orange eyes peeking out.
So we ordered one from the Tropical Fish Shoppe after we asked about all three and it was the only one on her list.
We got him (or her) Thursday, and since Half Blacks are notoriously shy, I’ve been surprised at how much we’ve seen him out in front of the rocks.
None of our other fish have given him any trouble, and we even saw him swimming around with the two clownfish and the yellow tang.
It’s fun to see all of the fish in the tank near each other, and not fighting.
We’re still looking for a sponge based food for the new fish, which I call Half Black or Angel, depending on my mood.
Very original, I know, but it works until I think of another name.
Hopefully, I’ll have pictures soon.
If you have any experience with Half Black Angelfish, or with fish that need a sponge based diet, I’d love to hear about it.
Oddly enough I think we have a few sponges on our live rock, but I’m sure that they won’t last long.
