Purchased two tubs of Sera Catfish Chips this morning, as the catfish seem to prefer these now to Hikari Algae wafers, and I was told that Sera use to produce fish food for Hikari in Germany, before production was shited to Japan!
Visited Tropica near Harrogate, and Petland in York, excellent L numbers on display, and Twig catfish, but resisted the temptation, today!
I have noticed that one of my very old large Marble Angel fish may have developed Pop-Eye. Not to be confused with the Sailor!
I do not breed from this angel fish any more, this female is too old, and lives in my display tank in the house.
Pop-eye is caused by: bacterial infection, parasite infestation, metabolic disorders, and poor water quality.
Symptoms: one or both eyes swell and project from the head. In severe cases, the eye can burst from the socket.
Treatment/Control: affected fish can be treated with MelaFix.
The water quality in the aquarium checks out okay, I’ll maintain a close “eye” on her condition. Excuse the pun!
I’ve been analysing all the electricity used in the fish house, with the use of my Power Meters, and I can reveal I use an Average of 70kWh a day!
Hence I’ve recently switched suppliers in November 2005, and gain to make a saving of over 800 pound per annum.
Almost five days and no posts, not a good start to 2006!
Sorry for no posts in the last couple of days, I’m trying to repair my Father’s TiVo!
It’s taking longer that I thought!
Endlers are breeding out of control, there are hundreds of fry in the tank at present.
Sturisoma Aureum catfish are enjoying the free algae that’s growing in the growing-on tank.
or Sugar Snap Peas, what have these got to do with Andysworld you may ask?
I use to grow Mange-Tout aka Sugar Snap Peas in sections of drain pipe for easy relocation to the vegetable plot, I’ve now re-used them in the garage outside of the “fish house” to catch the condensation falling from the internal garage roof, I had more water on the floor, than in the fish tanks a few weeks ago. I don’t think a dehumidifier would work because the temperature is too low, and I’ve got a approx 2,500l of of heated water in the fish house which evaporates!
So I’ve rigged up a some guttering to catch the water, and drips by gravity into a bucket, it’s certainly much drier in the garage!
One pair of angelfish have spawned, and I’ve discovered another pair with 1-2 day old wrigglers! Missed that pair, I blame that on too much wine on Christmas Day!
I’ve noticed recently that a Hagen BioLife 55, I’m using on my L190 & L001 aquarium in the fish house, has been pulse-ing on and off. I though it was a worn impellar, so I put it on my “todo” list to purchase a new one next year, it started to get worse, so I checked it over and it looked okay, and seem to work okay when removed from the filter body.
Ah, found the problem, if the filter media gets clogged, it stops the flow of water and the impellar stops! TIPCheck the Hagen BioLife filter media regularly. I will do from now on.
There’s about 6-8 inches of snow on the ground, and the fourth batch of Sturisoma Aureum Fry start to hatch. We had a slight dusting of snow on yesterday, but it snowed through the night, and has been cold all day, and hasn’t melted yet.
The fish house is quite toasty at 25 degrees C.
I’ve moved another twenty young Sturisoma Aureum catfish into my 48x12x12 growing on tank. I’ve still got plenty of catfish to catch and move, but it’s taking a while to catch them all. I’m still feeding them on spinach, spirulina cubes and Sera catfish chips.
I’ve moved twenty young Sturisoma Aureum catfish from the breeding tank to their new growing-on tank this evening.
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