Sorry for the Blog Outage Again!
Those nice people that host this site, moved it to another server again and broke it! I didn’t notice yesterday, because I went out yesterday evening for my Birthday!
One night off, isn’t bad!
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Blog Outage Again!
Thursday, November 24th, 2005Huey Hung Bio Sponge Filters
Friday, November 18th, 2005No this isn’t an article about the cartoon character Hong Kong Phooey, but with a name like Huey Hung you might think so. Taiwan Huey Hung Aquarium Equipment Co was established in 1986, has been devoting all effort in aquaria equipments developing, producing and selling. They have the finest quality, most variety choices, such as fish food, technical filters, medical powder for discus, aquarium nurses medicines. They are not only successful in Taiwan but also in China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia. They have gained many high opinions and approvals from many countries. It is also well know around the world, but little is known of them in the United Kingdom, unless you are in the Discus breeding community, where their sponge filters and medications are well known.
I’ve been considering switching to the Huey Hung Bio Sponge Filters range, they have certain advantages over the more common, less expensive Algarde Bio-Foam Internal 200 Sponge filters.
- Larger surface area.
- Power-heads can be attached.
- No need for airstone.
- No need for suckers.
This is a photograph of a test Huey Hung Bio Sponge Filters in my grow-out tank. This sponge filter is the HH-02 Super leader sponge filter 200L model, I purchased this in an auction for a fiver, which is very cheap, RRP is about 8 GBP. The problems I’ve found with the Algarde sponge filters are
- Airstones need regular replacement.
- Suckers need regular replacement.
This costs time and money, the airstones shouldn’t be a problem, because I’ve got a box of 250, but the suckers keeping wearing out every few months, and I need to keep replacing them at a cost of approx 1 GBP per sucker. It’s getting expensive, replacing suckers.
Sturisoma Aureum
Wednesday, November 16th, 2005I’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 fry feeding on courgette.
Male Sturisoma Aureum guarding and fanning the eggs.
Female Platinum Angelfish
Wednesday, November 16th, 2005This 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.
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.
Blog is Back!
Tuesday, November 15th, 2005The 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!
Spam Spam Spam and more Spam
Sunday, November 13th, 2005Working 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.
Ancistrus sp. on an algae holiday
Tuesday, November 8th, 2005I 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 the introduction of two albino Bristlenose catfish Ancistrus sp. into an 18x18x18 cube, heavily covered in algae.
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!
Vegetarian Supper
Monday, November 7th, 2005The Sturisoma aureum fry are not yet free swimming, they will probably be free swimming late tomorrow evening or Wednesday, during this time, the fry will be absorbing the last of their yolk sac, then they will start to feed.
I’ve prepared something special for them, following the ingredients and method previously mentioned. A truly hearty vegetarian meal fit for Royal Catfish.
I’ve poured the mixture into a small ice-cube maker, I hope it sets, I wasn’t too sure on the amount of water to use. I’ll use a razor blade to cut small pieces off, to feed them.
First Sturisoma Aureum Fry
Monday, November 7th, 2005
Sturisoma Aureum eggs hatch, if you look very carefully at the photograph, on the far right on top of the eggs, you’ll see a newly hatched Sturisoma Aureum.
First picture of a Sturisoma Aureum fry.
Sturisoma Aureum Day Six
Sunday, November 6th, 2005Sturisoma Aureum eggs Still not hatched yet, but the eggs are very dark, almost black, so any day now, eggs can take up to eight days to hatch.
With the amount of rain we’ve had, I’m surprised the fish house has not floated away this morning.
Here’s a temperature graph of the fish house temperature and outdoor temperature plotted from Bonfire Night.
You can clearly see from the graph, when I relocated the external temperature probe outside the fish house. Someone left the lights on all night! Hence the fish house temperature is 26 degC, which is very high over night. The graph is produced with Microsoft Excel, but the PCtemp application logs to a *.CSV file for import into Microsoft Excel. In the future, I’ll maybe create an chart of temperature on this site (another project!).
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