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.
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Posted by Sarah on December 31, 2008
If Jeff and I ever get better (we both have colds) we are going to tile the upstairs – since we have a 20 gallon long (20L) aquarium and a 20 tall (20T) that share a stand, and a 55 gallon aquarium that need to be moved this is going to be one interesting project.
In order to make things a little bit easier we decided to move all of the fish from the 55 into the 75 downstairs, which only held a pair of Blue Gularis killifish.
The killies are now happy in their new 29 in the fish room, and the other fish are all happy in the 75.
We were planning to move the German Blue Ram Fry and the Discus fry into the 75 and use that as a grow out tank, but I think we will put them in the 55 instead.
I don’t want to move all of those fish again, and it will be nice to be able to keep an eye on them a little bit more, since we spend most of our time upstairs.
While Jeff was in the process of moving the plants and caves out of the 55 so we could catch the fish more easily he noticed something streak across the tank.
Yup – we’d forgotten that the Pangio anguillaris were still in there.
Oops.
They only occasionally pop out while we’re watching, and we’d only seen two of them at a time when we had see them, so we had no idea how many were left.
We caught two relatively easily after we’d drained all but 6 inches out of the tank and caught all of the other fish, and then Jeff figured out that if he ran his hands along the sides of the tank he could find the loaches.
After he’d exhausted that method he started scooping up some of the substrate into the net, and when he caught a Pangio angullaris in with the substrate, it swam to the top of the net, where it could be easily caught with another net.
We have a lot of nets.
With a lot of work Jeff caught 4 of them, and then he started wondering if we’d only gotten 4 instead of 6.
We fired up the old computer, looked up the Aquabid auction, and sure enough – we’d gotten 6 of them.
Jeff managed to catch one more loach that night, then he waited until the next morning to see if we could find the other one.
Sure enough it was swimming around in the water when we got up, and Jeff caught it easily.
I still can’t believe that we forgot all about them – and it’s a good thing we noticed them swimming in the tank before we drained it completely.
Have you ever forgotten your fish, or found some sign of life in a neglected tank?
Leave a comment and let me know.
