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Second batch of Sturisoma Aureum Fry start to hatch

Sunday, November 20th, 2005

The second batch of Sturisoma Aureum fry start to hatch this evening. I’ve added some magical Polyfilter to the aquarium this evening, I always use Polyfilter in many tanks, just as a safeguard to remove organics from the water, this is no substitute for regular partial changes, but just a two pronged attack against rise in ammonia and nitrite, when growing on young fish. When the young Sturisoma Aureum from the first hatching are a month old, they will be removed to a grow-out tank (which has yet to be sited!).

I’m currently trialing the use of a 3kW fan heater in the fish house set at 1kW, on an electric thermotstat set to 20 degreesC to take the evening chill off the fish house.

I’ve also been using vast quantities of silicon sealer and odd bits of polysterene to stop the condensation drips! In my lunch break tomorrow, I’ll be making another trip to Barnitts to purchase some aquarium silicone sealer at bargain basement prices. Barnitts is an Hardware/Ironmonger/DIY store located in York. If they don’t stock it in Barnitts give up!

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Huey Hung Bio Sponge Filters

Friday, November 18th, 2005

No this isn’t an article about the cartoon character Hong Kong Phooey, but with a name like Huey Hung you might think so. Taiwan Huey Hung Aquarium Equipment Co was established in 1986, has been devoting all effort in aquaria equipments developing, producing and selling. They have the finest quality, most variety choices, such as fish food, technical filters, medical powder for discus, aquarium nurses medicines. They are not only successful in Taiwan but also in China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia. They have gained many high opinions and approvals from many countries. It is also well know around the world, but little is known of them in the United Kingdom, unless you are in the Discus breeding community, where their sponge filters and medications are well known.

I’ve been considering switching to the Huey Hung Bio Sponge Filters range, they have certain advantages over the more common, less expensive Algarde Bio-Foam Internal 200 Sponge filters.

  • Larger surface area.
  • Power-heads can be attached.
  • No need for airstone.
  • No need for suckers.

Huey Hung Sponge Filter
This is a photograph of a test Huey Hung Bio Sponge Filters in my grow-out tank. This sponge filter is the HH-02 Super leader sponge filter 200L model, I purchased this in an auction for a fiver, which is very cheap, RRP is about 8 GBP. The problems I’ve found with the Algarde sponge filters are

  • Airstones need regular replacement.
  • Suckers need regular replacement.

This costs time and money, the airstones shouldn’t be a problem, because I’ve got a box of 250, but the suckers keeping wearing out every few months, and I need to keep replacing them at a cost of approx 1 GBP per sucker. It’s getting expensive, replacing suckers.

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Outside Temperature Probe False Readings

Thursday, November 17th, 2005

Ignore the outside temperature probe readings, because it’s not 60 degrees C outside!

I’ll investigate tomorrow.

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Silver Tri-bar/Pearlscale pair of Angelfish spawn

Thursday, November 17th, 2005

A Silver Tri-Bar/Pearlscale Pair of Angelfish spawn, must have been triggered by the partial water change, the male is guarding the eggs, which have been fertilised, there are a few that have fungus, but the male fish seems to be doing a good job.

This pair of Silver angels are have different markings to Standard silver angels, because they have three bars, rather than the usual two, on a pearscale pattern background.

The female Platinum seems to be recovering well at present, still treating the tank with 7ml MelaFix daily.

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Sturisoma Aureum

Wednesday, November 16th, 2005

I’ve managed to obtain some better pictures after getting my Leica Digilux wet, after dunking the lens in the tank, I hope it’s waterproof.

Sturisoma Aureum feeding on courgette
Sturisoma Aureum fry feeding on courgette.

Male Sturisoma Aureum on eggs
Male Sturisoma Aureum guarding and fanning the eggs.

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Female Platinum Angelfish

Wednesday, November 16th, 2005

This picture shows the level of damage to one of the female’s eyes, the eye has been removed, the cornea can be seen attached, not a pleasant sight.

Platinum Female Angelfish Eye

I’m still treating the tank with 7ml of MelaFix, but she did not feed this evening, and I’m now concerned that she may be blinded in both eyes because of the attack by the male fish.

I’m consulting with my Vet next week on another animal matter, so I’m may talk to the Vet about the best possible treatment or euthanasia for this fish.

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Sturisoma Aureum Second Spawning Attempt

Wednesday, November 16th, 2005

The fry are approximately 10mm and growing fast. I’ll try and capture some good quality photographs over the next few days, I’ll make sure my camera is charged and the smartmedia is not corrupted.

I’ve also discovered the Sturisoma Aureum have spawned again, it might be an easier location to take photographs.

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Blog is Back!

Tuesday, November 15th, 2005

The Hosting Company that hosts this website decided to move it to another server early this morning at 01:08 because of resource issues. They didn’t communicate this we me, and the first I spotted it when I was notified by Walter early this morning at 06:45. I checked the website and I had noticed that, it had moved to another server, but some embedded code in the blog, was preventing it from working correctly.

Thanks Walter for spotting it and letting me know!

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Another violent male angelfish

Monday, November 14th, 2005

This tale is a rather gruesome, so stop reading now you’ve been warned, and is the worst violence committed by a Male Angelfish I have ever witnessed.

I noticed yesterday evening that the Male Platinum Angelfish was behaving very aggressively towards his Female partner, so I decided to separate them with a fish divider. I fed all the fish as normal this evening at 6.00pm, and carried out some partial water changes on breeding and grow-out tanks.

Before I left the fish house at 8.45pm this evening I noticed the Male Platinum Angelfish had jumped the divider and had been attacking the Female, the result of which has left the Female with damaged eyes, it is possible the female will lose at least one eye. I immediately removed the Male Platinum Angelfish.

To my knowledge, this pair has only spawned three times, one successfully, two failures. I do not know why the Male Platinum Angelfish, has started to behave this way.

I have now treated the tank with 7ml of MelaFix, which I will repeat daily for a week, in the hope I can save the Female Platinum Angelfish, as for re-introduction with the Male Platinum Angelfish, I’m uncertain.

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Spam Spam Spam and more Spam

Sunday, November 13th, 2005

Working the late shift last week and dealing with the spam attacks on this blog, I’ve not had chance to update my fish blog daily. Hopefully the spam attack will now stop, since I’ve changed some of the blog code, sorry if you spotted any stupid comments on this blog.

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