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Red Claw Male and Female Crayfish – Cherax quadricarinatus

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

This is my male Red Claw Male Crayfish Cherax quadricarinatus, this is the only crayfish that can be kept legally in the United Kingdom. Often sold as the Blue Lobster!

The above video is the Male, with the red claws.

The above video is the Female, no red claws, she has just released young crayfish into the rearing tank, they have disappeared into the rock!

I also found there is a company in the UK called Flinders Redclaw that import these crayfish from Australia for the table for eating!

Watch them on episode 5 of BBC2’s “Dragons Den”. Click HERE !

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Tropheus Moorii Ikola & Synodontis Petricola

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

These are currently two of my favourite fish, Tropheus Moorii Ikola cichlids and Synodontis Petricola catfish. I have five wild sub adults Tropheus Moorii Ikola and six Wild Synodontis Petricola. I’m very tempted to convert to Lake Tanganyikan Cichlids, the water here in Yorkshire is suited to these fish. Watch this space. There are many different colour variations of Tropheus Moorii, and these little fish, are very aggressive. I hope to breed them in the future.

Technology has moved on, and it’s easier for me to pop into the fish house with a DV Camcorder, hook up to PC, capture the contents to a Windows Media Video (WMV) file, and upload to YouTube for hosting. So here’s the first one, you can expect some more in the future.

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Teething issues again!

Sunday, November 11th, 2007

Web hosting server is still giveing me issues again!, appears to be back on again!

I’ll update the webcam pages, and relocate the camera tomorrow.

One of the Geophagus that I removed from the display tank of other Geos’ started to beat-up the catfish in the quarantine tank, so now his tail has grown back, I’ve moved him into the 6″ display tank with all the Angels. Hopefully he’ll calm down with fish his own size.

Lobsters have hatched and disappeared in a 48x18x18 tank, with lots of ocean rock, time to remove the female lobster, if I can catch her, and return to the breeding tank with the male.

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Angelfishcam 1 is back!

Friday, November 9th, 2007

Just needs further alignment and focsus in the fish house!

I probably rename it FishHouse Blog Cam 1!

The image is currently uploaded every 10 seconds from the fish house wireless web cam. Click the picture in the right-hand column under the Fish House Thermometer and it will refresh every 30 seconds.

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Apologies for loss of service!

Friday, November 9th, 2007

Apologies for loss of service!

This was caused for reasons unknown, and my web hosting broke on Saturday 3rd November 2007 at midday!

No basic web services have been available until now.

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Little Outage!

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

Web Hosting has gone a little strange, it’s being investigated!

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Halloween Update

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Spent a few minutes in the fish house this evening, tidying up the larger hole I cut in the jablite, to get the 18″ wide fish tanks in! Most of the fish house and tanks were originally sited, when the insulation wasn’t in place.

I’ve also moved five bleeding heart tetras (the ones that ate my Galaxy Rasboras!) and the Female Blue Lobster (red claw crayfish – although no red claws this is a female!) into one of the 48x18x18 tanks, it’s not long until the young lobsters “hatch/develop”, I then want to move her back to her tank with her mate.

There is plenty of ocean rock, stones for the young lobsters to hide. One of the problems, is the young lobsters when they shed their shells within the first 24 hours, will start eating each other, if there are not plenty of hiding spaces.

I’ve also been drying out the cracked fish tank, I’m going to get a piece of 6/8mm glass cut to size, and try and patch it for a tenner! I can only try, what’s the worst that can happen, a bit more water on the floor!

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and this is a Wattson!

Monday, October 29th, 2007

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Disaster Stikes! Need another fish tank now!

Monday, October 29th, 2007

Finally moved the final three 48x18x18 fish tanks into the fish hosue yesterday.

On filling one of the tanks it cracked! The 10mm base cracked, I’m not too sure if it was too cold, as I was filling with water at approx 24 degrees C, or it was weak!

oh #!?* Need another fish tank now!

They’ve been soak testing outside for a few months, with no issues! I might find some glass to patch it with!

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Locked in the fish house!

Monday, October 29th, 2007

I’ve made some modifications to the insulation at the front of the fish house. I’ve blocked up a 6″x6″ hole that was cut, so I could open and close the front-door latch from within the fish house, the problem with this hole, it was letting in too much cold air. So I blocked it up!

On Saturday, the weather was warm, dry and decided to move the final three 48x18x18 fish tanks into the fish house, but whilst I was working in the fish house, my partner on leaving I asked her to “close” the door, I didn’t notice, that she had closed and locked the door behind here, leaving me locked in!

When I tried to leave, I couldn’t get out!

I banged for an hour on the walls and ceiling to no avail! When I heard the front-door open I shouted and banged!

She thought I was just banging as usual in the fish house, and didn’t know I was locked-in.

So after this lock-in event, it was too late to move fish tanks!

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