Doomsday
Well it didn't happen...not when it was supposed to at least... 08.08.08 was uneventful, aside from the favt I gt the flu and spend 2 days in bed, but that hardly counts as doom.
So there's approximately 3 weeks til my birthday...and I'm really looking forward to that. Not in the slightest...not the actual turning 30 bit anyway...I think the saturday is going to be fun, going for a meal with Hab and spending the night in a posh hotel...well posh for me anyhow.
Mum has been badgering me about what I want for my birthday. I'm not that arsed...I'd be quite happy with HMV vouchers, so I can build my DVD collection. Or a house, but somehow I don't thing thats going to happen.
I cleaned out my fish tank tonight...it always takes longer than I think it's going to..by the time I've done a water change and cleaned the filter and attempted to clean the tubes with pipe cleaners, it's normally a good two hours. Anyway all it needs now is fish. I'm giving tropicals one last try, and if they all die again, then I'm going to take out the heater and fill it full of goldfish. I'm tired of trying to nurture the little bastards, watching them be all pretty and swimmy, and then wake up in the mornings to find, one by one, them floating. Don't know what I'm doing wrong...I don't over feed them, I don't under feed them, I check the temperature and the pH, and the Nitrate and ammonia levels, I do water changes...I have an amazing filter and a strange industrial looking toroise shaped hing that pumps air into the water, I think they just don't like me.
I have tried platties, mollies, swordtails, gouramis, Plecs, clown loach, red-bronze catfish,neon tetras, zebra danios, dwarf blue thingies (which I can't remember th name of), zebra fin tetras, harlequins, and probably some other stuff, the big fish don't last long, the smaller fish have a better life span, so I think I might go for something small and fast and prety, like Guppies or something. Possibly a couple of silver Sharks. I did have a Japanese Fighter that did quite well. I'm tempted to try an Angel fish or two as well, but they are so nice I'd be gutted if they died. Might see if I can get some ideas by typing Tropical Fish into Google and see what comes up....
2 Comments:
oh I wondered what you were counting down to.
I had platies and tetras and didn't have too many casualties. We did a partial water change twice a week (just a bucket or two's worth). Always dechlorinated the water and tried to make sure it was about the right temperature. Fed every day or two. Occasionally gave them shelled peas. Checked the ph but didn't put any chemicals to try and change the ph- the important thing is to keep the tank water chemistry stable. That's why partial water changes are good, they stop the ph swinging around too much. And most importantly, had a small amount of fish in there. Maybe 6 tetras and 4 platies. Probably could have had a few more, but not many.
Oh we had some real plants in there too for oxygen and to give them smething to nibble on, but the platies kept pulling them up, so we had to replant them every time we did a water change.
Hope this helps.
oh and don't get angel fish. i'm pretty sure they are salt water tropical fish, not fresh water.
the only other thing I can think of is yoursupplier, make sure they are a good shop.
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