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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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Sturisoma Aureum Fry – 4 Days Old

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!

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Condensation

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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Ancistrus sp. on an algae holiday

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

Before the introduction of two albino Bristlenose catfish Ancistrus sp. into an 18x18x18 cube, heavily covered in algae.

After

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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