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Friday, May 11th, 2007
My suspicions have been confirmed two out of the five Nannacara adoketa in the quarantine tank have paired-off and to my astonishment have started to spawn this evening. Male and female fish confirmed, as pedicted in earlier pictures posted here.
Female Nannacara adoketa guarding eggs
Male Nannacara adoketa in foreground, female inside plant pot.
Male Nannacara adoketa fertilising eggs.
This is a young pair, and this is their first spawning, I’m not too sure how viable this spawning will be, with three other N.adoketa in the tank, plus a Bristlenose catfish, and the waters wrong, ph 8! But I wanted to get these pictures on the blog, quickly.
Tags: andysworld, aquablog, bblog, blog, catfish, fish
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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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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
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.
An aggregatoror or news aggregator or feed reader is client software that you install on your PC and uses web feed to retrieve syndicated web content such as blogs, podcasts, vlogs, and mainstream mass media websites, or in the case of a search aggregator, a customized set of search results.
Aggregators reduce the time and effort needed to regularly check websites for updates.
Aggregator features are being built into portal sites such as My Yahoo! and Google; modern web browsers; and e-mail programs. (Also known as RSS Readers).
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.
Tags: andysworld, blog, blogs, house, php, RSS, rss reader, web
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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.
Tags: andysworld, bblog, blog, garden, house, images
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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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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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Monday, April 16th, 2007
At a cost of over 250GBP UK pounds, here is the paint requried to paint the lounge, stairs and landing.
and it’s missing 10l which was required to do the ceiling, and 5l of finish for the woodwork.
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Monday, April 16th, 2007
Since we moved in last August 2006 after having the damp course fixed, we’ve been waiting for the walls to dry out, before we could decorate. A decorator has been found, and we’ve decided to have all the walls lined in the lounge, stairwell and landing, and then painted with antic white paint. (almost white but not quite). Esther’s booked into the cattery, and we are off to Plymouth for 10 days, whilst the decorator is in residence. Here are some photos before:-
Lounge
Stairs and stairwell
Landing
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