Archive for November, 2005
Thursday, November 10th, 2005
I’ve been experimenting with different food sources for the fry, I’ve not reared Sturisoma Aureum Fry before. I’m currently feeding the following:-
- Spinach
- Iceberg Lettuce
- Courgette
- Algae and plant vegetation (amazon swords and vallis)
- Brine Shrimp
- ZM 300/400 Fry Foods
- Spirulina Cubes
They are growing very fast, I’ve broken my ice cube tray, I think it was the freezer, so I’ll need to purchase another one, now I’m making Spirulina Cubes in bulk. How you seen the price of Spirulina tablets in the health food shops!
Tags: feeding
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Wednesday, November 9th, 2005
As you’ve already probably felt today, the temperature has suddenly dropped across the country in the UK. The temperature outside the fish house, was just above freezing last night.
Because the roof of my garage is made of a single sheet of corrugated asbestos material, condensation occurs very easily, when the warm humid air hits the cold surface. Lots of condendsation must occur, above the insulation of jablite material, I’ve used to insulate the ceiling. The problem is eventually the condendation falls to earth, at the lowest point. I’ve been repairing some areas this evening, but the problem is, the water just leaks somewhere else!
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Tuesday, November 8th, 2005
I kept forgetting to upload these photographs after the Bristlenose catfish Ancistrus sp. had completed their little task.
Most of the catfish I keep and have mentioned before consume algae wholly or as part of their diet. I use various prepared manufactured foods that contain algae that I feed to my catfish, but I do prefer that they have a chance to eat the real mccoy. It’s quite a challenge to grow alage of the correct type and quantity to satisfy the vegetarian catfish.
I’ve found that using a Sunglow & PowerGlo tube in combination stimulates high algal growth on two shelves in my fish house. I harvest the algae produced and use it as a food source in other catfish tanks and on occasion my catfish have an algae holiday.
Before the introduction of two albino Bristlenose catfish Ancistrus sp. into an 18x18x18 cube, heavily covered in algae.
After 72 Hours. You can see one Bristlenose catfish Ancistrus sp. in the picture. There is still algae on the floor on the tank, that they not yet consumed.
I have also found with experimentation, that Bristlenose catfish Ancistrus sp., “Plecos” and other L numbers, become lazy, at eating natural alage in the aquarium, if they are reguarly feed on algae wafers!
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Monday, November 7th, 2005
The Sturisoma aureum fry are not yet free swimming, they will probably be free swimming late tomorrow evening or Wednesday, during this time, the fry will be absorbing the last of their yolk sac, then they will start to feed.
I’ve prepared something special for them, following the ingredients and method previously mentioned. A truly hearty vegetarian meal fit for Royal Catfish.
I’ve poured the mixture into a small ice-cube maker, I hope it sets, I wasn’t too sure on the amount of water to use. I’ll use a razor blade to cut small pieces off, to feed them.
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Monday, November 7th, 2005
Sturisoma Aureum eggs hatch, if you look very carefully at the photograph, on the far right on top of the eggs, you’ll see a newly hatched Sturisoma Aureum.
First picture of a Sturisoma Aureum fry.
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Monday, November 7th, 2005
As I type the Sturisoma Aureum eggs are hatching into perfectly formed mini versions of their parents. I’ve been trying to take pictures, but I need to have a macro function on my camera, and it is proving difficult trying to take pictures of something approx 6mm in length. So, I’ve not had much time to play with computer things.
I’ve also been installing a new 20ft USB cable to a USB Hub that I can connect all USB cameras, this will make it easier to locate all the cameras nearer interesting aquariums. Ths fish house is tuning into a computer room.
Because I’ve removed the temperature probes, and re-connected them to a different USB port, on the computer, they’ll need recalibrating. (again!). Hence, the external temperature is not 4 degC!
Tags: aquarium, computer, fish, fish house, house
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Sunday, November 6th, 2005
Sturisoma Aureum eggs Still not hatched yet, but the eggs are very dark, almost black, so any day now, eggs can take up to eight days to hatch.
With the amount of rain we’ve had, I’m surprised the fish house has not floated away this morning.
Here’s a temperature graph of the fish house temperature and outdoor temperature plotted from Bonfire Night.
You can clearly see from the graph, when I relocated the external temperature probe outside the fish house. Someone left the lights on all night! Hence the fish house temperature is 26 degC, which is very high over night. The graph is produced with Microsoft Excel, but the PCtemp application logs to a *.CSV file for import into Microsoft Excel. In the future, I’ll maybe create an chart of temperature on this site (another project!).
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Saturday, November 5th, 2005
Webcam code in side panel is playing up! Sorry for stupid test posts! I bet you only thought you saw these on Mailing lists and Usenet groups!
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Saturday, November 5th, 2005
The PC Thermometer has been re-calibrated and the temperature probes have been installed in their final positions, one inside the fish house, and one external to the fish house.
I want to record the following values:-
- Internal Temperature versus Electricity consumed
- External Temperature versus Electricity consumed
I’m trying to establish where the rising costs are in my fish house, in Electricity consumuption, is it caused by heating aquariums or poor insulation.
Tags: aquarium, electricity, fish, fish house, house
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Saturday, November 5th, 2005
Not one for liking fireworks, I’ve been in the fish house most of the evening spring cleaning and tidying it up for the winter.
I wish the neighbours would stop launching fireworks, I thought my fish house was under seige!
I’ve purchased some powdered Spirulina which is filamentous blue-green algae from ZM Systems to feed the newly hatched Sturisoma aureum fry, after reading an article by Adrian R. Tappin he made a food source based on Spirulina and agar to feed to the fry.
I’ve been told that UK Catfish Enthusiast/Expert/God David Sands has written an article in Practical Fiskeeping about feeding and rearing Sturisoma aureum, if anyone has the article, I would like to read it. Please contact me.
Tags: catfish, feeding, fish, fish house, house, practical
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