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Thursday, May 10th, 2007
What do you think? Does it pass for a Fine Art Installation? I was going to call it “Fishtanks”.
“Fishtanks 1”
“Fishtanks 2”
As I’ve been at home today, babysitting the fish-house due to the power outage, well looking after the petrol generator. I had some spare time on my hands to wash and clean the fish tanks I collected some weeks ago, these six 30x15x12 are due to go into the fish house, when the shelving arrives.
The fish-house was on generated electricity from 8.00am – 3.00pm today, and consumed 5 kWh (units) of electricity.
Tags: andysworld, aquablog, bblog, blog, electricity, fish, fish house, house, kWh
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Thursday, May 10th, 2007
Lindsey weeded this natural cottage garden border under the Holly Tree at the front of the garden. It already has wild garlic, a wild fern and Cuckoo Pints Arum maculatum growing in it, so these were left, but the weeds were thined out.
Plnated with White and Apricot Foxgloves Digitalis purpurea, Hostas and Geraniums.
UPDATE The bloody slugs or snails have started eating my prize hostas! I’m off to get some spent coffee granules tomorrow!
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
The petrol generators primed, I’ve got 40l of petrol, I’m ready for tomorrow’s power outage between 9.00am – 4.00pm.
I’m hoping for a warm day, so I can clean six new fish tanks outside on the lawn, otherwise it’s going to be an interesting day listening to the wind-up/solar powered radio. Maybe I’ll catch up on the last 12 months PFKs!
Tags: fish, pfk
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Sunday, May 6th, 2007
The Royal Tiger Shovelnose catfish Merodontotus tigrinus or Brachyplatystoma tigrinum has got to be the king of all Tropical catfish.
This fine specimen is owned by a fellow fishkeeper, unfortunately not by me. I’ve always wanted one!
12 inch young baby! The Royal Shovel Nose catfish Merodontotus tigrinus or Brachyplatystoma tigrinum
I’m told he eats anything, but he’s feed on white bait,larger prawns,sliced trout,bloodworm and river shrimp
UPDATE Sold to another fishkeeper for 350 GBP UK pounds.
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Friday, May 4th, 2007
Another long day at the office, and then an hours drive across the Humber Bridge to Licolnshire. Broughton near Bigg, just outside Scunthorpe.
I visited a local fishkeeper, who is shutting down his fish house, only to find he had a Royal tiger shovelnose catfish Merodontotus tigrinus or Brachyplatystoma tigrinum it’s new latin name and an fantastic Green Arrowana in his 7ft display tank.
This is the second time I’ve seen a Merodontotus tigrinus, the first one, was when it was first imported into the UK, and the price tag was well over a 1000 GBP for the fish.
More on my visit tomorrow.
Tags: catfish, fish, fish house, fishkeeper, house
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Friday, May 4th, 2007
I keep getting asked if I’ve updated my website or uploaded new pictures.
“A blog (short for web log) is a website where entries are made and displayed in a reverse chronological order.”
If you would like to be automatically updated when I’ve updated the blog, rather than asking me if I’ve updated it, uploaded new pictures or checking back regularly you may like to use an aggregator.
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Aggregators reduce the time and effort needed to regularly check websites for updates.
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So include the following URL into your Aggregators.
https://andysworld.org.uk/house/rss.php?ver=2
Set your Aggregator to update daily, and it will collect the new posts automatically.
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Sunday, April 29th, 2007
A few blog readers have asked for more pictures of the garden. He are more pictures of the front garden, because we do not have a back garden!
Right of picture is the pear tree in blossom. In the foreground is the Magnolia, flowering has almost come to an end.
We planted 10kgs of daffodills in the lawn in November 2006, so we are waiting for them to die down, before cutting the entire lawn.
Has the chimney moved?
I’ve also completed and fixed some code, I’ve been working on for months, so the pictures displayed above are thumbnail versions of the original versions which are also stored on the blog server, they are “clickable”. So if you click the pictures you will see the original images before resizing to fit the blog.
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Saturday, April 28th, 2007
This is an interesting “Ammonia Testing Kit”, it’s called the Ammonia Alert by Seachem. Designed to stay permanently in the water, and the centre indicator changes colour when ammonia levels rise. This is a similiar concept to the Carbon Monoxide detectors which change colour. Changes from yellow (safe) to blue (toxic). It’s designed to last at least 12 months. I purchased this device just under 10 GBP UK Pounds, which is about double what an ammonia testing kit will cost you. Expensive to add one of these to all my tanks! But handy in critical tanks, holding expensive breeding pairs!
I purchase this fish gadget on my travels, I have seen these advertised, as I was contacted by someone trying to sell me this device and I also believe there is a similiar device called the ph Alert.
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Saturday, April 28th, 2007
I’ve been away from my home and fish house, I’ve spent 10 days back in the West Country – Plymouth to be exact. Where the water is soft (ph 6.5-7.0) unlike my local tap water which is hard (you can stand a teaspoon in it!) and ph 8.0 – 8.5. and the vast numbers of tropical fish shops, I spent a day and a half visting them all!
I visited the following Tropical Fish Shops, when visting in and around Plymouth, and excellent stock of fish on display, South American Cichlids and Ls, I just wish I could have taken them all home!
- Bretonside Tropicals, 45 Bretonside, Plymouth, PL4 0BB
- Devon Tropicals, 146, Union St, Plymouth, Devon, PL1 3HL
- Emperor Tropicals, 9, St. Erth Rd, Plymouth, Devon, PL2 3SW
- Maidenhead Aquatics @ Plymouth,Plymouth Garden Centre, Fort Austin Avenue, Plymouth, Devon, PL6 5NU
- Plymouthdiscus.Com, 48, Thirlmere Gardens, Plymouth, Devon, PL6 5HF.
[by appointment only]
- Tamar View Aquatics, Tamar View Nurseries Garden Centre, Saltash, PL12 6PH
- Tropical Waters Aquatic Pet Centre, Christian Mill Business Park, Tamerton Foliot Rd, Plymouth, Devon, PL6 5DS
- Waterfall Aquatics, 89-91, Victoria Rd, Plymouth, Devon, PL5 1RX
and on the long journey home, I visited
Many Thanks and Good Luck to the following, hope to see you again in the future, on returning to Plymouth.
Ken at Devon Tropicals
Jerry at Bretonside Tropicals
Mark at Tropical Waters Aquatic Pet Centre
and a special thanks to
Chris at Plymouth Discus..
Tags: Discus, fish, fish house, fishkeeper, garden, house, Tropical Fish, web
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Friday, April 27th, 2007
and when we came back if looked like this:-
Lounge
Stairs and Stairwell
Landing
I need sunglasses now, to walk around the house, it’s bright! Lindsey probably now wants me to hang paintings, does it ever stop!
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