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Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
I’ve made a decision with the largest aquarium (6ftx2ftx2ft – 700l) I have in the fish house, I used to use it to hold my breeding angelfish stock, but it’s been rather empty of late, as I’m not breeding angelfish currently anymore, so I’ve finally accquired some large fish for it. (it’s being filtered and heated, so I might as well use it to house some tankbusters). The first was a young Giant Red Tail Gourami Osphronemus laticlavius, I introduced a few weeks ago. (I’ll get some pictures), and yesterday evening I was called by my local vets that had rescued a large common “pleco”, approx 12 inches – they had it in their aquarium but thought it needed a larger aquarium, someone had brought it in to them because it had got too big for their aquarium.
common "pleco"
It could be a Hypostomus plecostomus, the problem with these suckermouth catfish, they are sold as “common plecos”, small specimens to people that have algae problems, but they don’t realize how large they can grow, and then they become rather boisterous. They don’t do well, in my opinion on algae wafers entirely, and require shrimp, mussels and prawns to flourish.
Tags: aquarium, catfish, fish house, giant red tail gourami, Hypostomus plecostomus, Osphronemus laticlavius, plec, pleco
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Sunday, August 16th, 2009
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Tags: doom, online games, quake
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Sunday, August 16th, 2009
This is why we don’t see many plums each year, the birds start to peck at my plums, and then the wasps come and finish them off!
wasps eating my victoria plums
click for a closer high resolution view – if you dare!
another close-up of wasps on my plums
and then my tomatoe plants got struck by bl**dy blight!
tomatoe blight
My tomatoe plants have been doing very well this year outside, but in the last few five days, with the cooler, wetter weather, it looks like all my cordon varietys have been struck by blight!
Damn it!
Oh well, there’s always next year!
Tags: blight, plums, tomatoes, wasps
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Sunday, August 16th, 2009
Un-earthed some more potatoes for tea this evening, this crop is from two tubers, planted in different bags.
more potatoes
and I thought I better pick me plums off the tree, we have an old victoria plum tree in the front garden, it’s very old, some people in the village think it was planted before the house was built, and the house was built in 1862! The plum tree is now crooked and hollow, and the number of plums it delivers each year dwindles now!
victoria plums
Some I’m surprised that this year, I’ve manged to save as many as this.
Tags: plums, potatoes
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Thursday, August 13th, 2009
These were dug up from two plants…
Salad Anya
Maincrop Organic Lady Balfour
I’ll definately be growing more of Salad Anya potatoes next year. These have done extremely well, considering a bag of these in the supermarket is about a pound.
Tags: potatoe, potatoes
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Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
I’ve just had some emails from a fellow internet user I know, that are in my address book, telling me of a get rich quick scheme.
It’s called the Google Biz Kit, do not part with your money. it’s a scam!
The website may look good, but believe, if it’s too good to be true, it probably is! Also known by many other names, Google Easy Profit scheme etc
Please don’t send me anymore emails!
ITS A SCAM!
Tags: google, google biz kit, scam
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Sunday, August 2nd, 2009
This is Teddy, a very friendly sheep, trying to steal pig nuts when I’ve been feeding the pigs…
Teddy the sheep
Tags: sheep
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Saturday, August 1st, 2009
There’s only one drainpipe that drains the water off the roof ofg the house at the front when it rains, and because we don’t have any drains, it just soaks away. I’ve had a few issues with the flatpack water butts from Rainmate, they leaked, but after some recplacement internal liners they sent me, and I’ve eventually replaced and installed them, I’ve now completed my rainwater harvesting project, I use alot of mains water in the fish house already, so it’s good to use rainwater in the garden.
Three Rainmate Water Butts
It was raining alot when I took these pictures, so you can see the flow of water running into the water butt. I have three water butts linked together, so when the first one fills, it overflows into the next and so on. Each water butt holds 200 litres of water, and with the recent rain we’ve been having in Yorkshire only takes minutes to fill all three water butts. There’s also an overflow, so when all three are filled, the water flows back to drain, (soak away) eventually I’ll connect this to some soakaway housepipe and embed it in the border under the hedgerow.
Three Rainmate Water Butts connected with Eheim aquarium tubing!
Tags: rainwater, rainwater Harvesting, water, water butt
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Thursday, July 30th, 2009
my old water feature
This is my “pond” in the front garden, I’ve had this old water feature for many years, it’s half an oak barrel. I always like to have goldfish in it, but I thought that my remaining single goldfish had not over-wintered because I’d not seen him for many months, so I purchased a bag of ten goldfish today from Pets R Wright, Hull. On checking the bag later, I had eleven!
a bag of 10 goldfish
I always like to quarantine any fish I introduce, and if you check the water feature picture above, you’ll notice that my single goldfish did survive the winter! So the gold fish remained in this small tank for a week before I introduced them into the “pond”.
Tags: goldfish, pond, water feature
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