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Tuesday, May 29th, 2007
I received my package of Almost Natural Tropical Fish Food today from Ed in Pennsylvania, USA.
I’ve been looking for an alternative product for the fish house to bring fish into condition for breeding for a long time. I’ve received
- Super colour flake.
- Freshwater flake.
- Shrimp pellets.
Excerpt from Ed’s website
“Almost Natural Tropical Fish Foods” are offered by a true-blue tropical fish hobbyist for the other tropical fish hobbyists out there in the world who would rather go the extra mile and feed their fish a top quality tropical fish flake. This tropical fish food is hobbyist to hobbyists driven. One hobbyist helping other hobbyists. After looking at the ingredients and then the prices, you will see that it is being sold at extremely reasonable prices to you, the hobbyist.”
The contents of the package Super colour flake, Freshwater flake, Shrimp pellets.
Let me know if you are interested in placing an order from the UK, we can combine the order!
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Tuesday, May 29th, 2007
My hostas and bedding plants are getting worse, if I don’t do something soon, my plants will die, and will resemble stalks!
So my friendly, excellent Coffee Shop opposite where I work, Banjos, Museum Street, York has supplied me with some used Coffee Granules. If you are ever in York, pop in, and tell Beth, I sent you! Excellent Coffee, hot and cold baguettes.
Used Coffee Granules from Banjos, Museum Street, York
Tags: andysworld, bblog, blog, host, house, plants
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Monday, May 28th, 2007
I’ve been pre-occupied with DIY on the house, but I’ve finally received the additional stands, to add six new tanks to the fish house.
I’ve also been working, on re-sealing the insulation in the fish house, and working on my new RO storage tanks – water experiment.
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Monday, May 28th, 2007
I had hoped to complete Hector’s House today, but the bad wet/windy weather has put a stop to that. It’s almost complete, just requires another paint with Cuprinol “Seagrass”. The new wood, has had four-five coats of paint already, it’s been re-roofed with new “felt”, this was a pain in the bum last weekend, when the weather went cold again! Very difficult to work with hard cold/felt.
Spot the new roof!
add some new battens to rear of house.
another coat of paint and another DIY job completed!
PS I’m building up Reward points from you know who! Now next project operation board out loft!
UPDATE Snails and Slugs are still eating my hostas, despite sharp grit, garlic solution and beer traps, I think I’m going to have to find another solution!
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Tuesday, May 15th, 2007
The classic 70’s children’s TV programme featuring Hector the dog, Zsazsa the cat and their neighbour Kiki the frog.
Well it could be, this is what we call a shed, but it’s a Wendy House for children, it was described as a shed in the fixtures and fittings and left by the previous occupants. We or I find it handy to fit things in that don’t fit in the garage because the fish house is in there!
It’s in a bad state of repair, and if I don’t attend to it quickly, I think it will rot to compost. I think I could have purchased another one for what the wood, roofing felt, and wood preserver has cost me from B and Q!
All the wood that has been painted in “seagrass” is new. The old wood was removed because it had rotted out.
covered-up for the evening, whilst I paint and seal the wood.
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Tuesday, May 15th, 2007
Since I’ve been having a few problems with the slugs and snails eating one of my prize Hostas, I thought I’d upload some close-up pictures of them. I’ve always wanted to grow hostas, and now I have a shaddy part of the garden, ideal. I’ve used some sharp grit to mulch the area around the plants, and I’ve boiled-up some garlic cloves in water, and I’ve been spraying the plants and ground to keep the slugs and snails off.
Close up of the three Hostas
If you click the picture and look at the larger image, you’ll see where the snails/slugs have been eating this plant.
I do have the latin names if interested!
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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.
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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.
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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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