Posts Tagged ‘bblog’
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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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
Posted in All, garden, house | Comments Off on Front Garden at the end of April 2007
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.
Tags: andysworld, aquablog, bblog, blog, breeding, fish
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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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Thursday, April 12th, 2007
The Nannacara adoketa are settling in very well, feeding on Tetra Prima, Bloodworm and Diskusin, I’ve not moved them yet from their quarantine tanks. I’ll do this over the next couple of weeks, and will remove the possible pair to a setup, with sandy bottom and old leaves.
Possibly Female?
Not happy!
Younger Nannacara adoketa at the bottom.
Possibly Male?
Tags: andysworld, aquablog, bblog, blog, feeding
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Thursday, April 12th, 2007
If you’ve come via a bookmark or RSS Newsreader “thru’ the backdoor”, you will not have noticed that I’ve changed the image on the Home Page.
It’s given me an opportunity to try out a new digital camera, the “boss” doesn’t read the blog, so she’ll never know, unless you tell her, and I’ll know!
I’ve still got a Digital SLR, which gives great results, but a decent Canon macro lens and flash is very expensive for such a camera, and you can get good macro fucntions in smaller compact Digital Cameras, you can also get closer to the glass with a compact Digital Cameras – this one was a bargain!
So here’s the first picture I took with the new camera, which is also featured on the home page, if you missed it, here it is again.
Male Ancistrus sp. Bristlenose catfish to most of us fishkeepers, this one is rather special because it doesn’t have the usual colouration as most common, it is almost black with white spots, and it will not breed with any of the common females!
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Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
Oh and just when I thought I was flush with money this month, the gearbox in the Yellow Peril broke, it’s not been happy selecting 2nd Gear for over 12 months, and then it stopped going into 2nd Gear!
New gearbox required!
If you look carefully, the new silver thing is the new shiny gearbox! Hope this one does 157,000 miles!
Tags: andysworld, bblog, blog, gearbox, house, peugeot 205, rallye sport special
Posted in All, car, house | Comments Off on New Gearbox .. Ouch!
Monday, April 9th, 2007
Esther on Alfred!
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Posted in All, cats, house | Comments Off on Esther on Alfred!
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