I read the news today oh, boy
About a lucky man who made the grade
And though the news was rather sad……
(Lennon/McCartney)
Do you have days, when you have a great day at work, and then it all comes crashing down around you head?
I arrived home this evening, checked the fish house, and found that the Bueno Aires Tetra was dead, also the fish house was very hot at 35 degrees C room temperature, I also noticed that the venturi aeration device on the hyflo internal filter had stopped working, couple with a tank medicated with with MelaFix, two quarantine tanks were depleted of oxygen, 20 Ancistrus sp. were diving to the top of the tank, I assume to take in oxygen. 50% partial water changes and brisk aeration using airstones, the fish seem to be okay. I’m not too sure if this accounted for the tetras death.
I currently have 120l of HMA filtered water aerated and heated at 28 degrees C for partial water changes, another 158l of HMA filtered water on standby at room temperature.It takes approx 75 minutes to fill the water vessels.
I’ve also found the missing Danios, I found one dry and crispy on the floor underneath the quarantine tank, and bones of the other stuck in the Juwel filter. One zebra danio has disappeared from the quarantine tank with the single Purple Spotted Gudgeon, I suspect the fish was hungry.
I’ve recently filled holes in the garage walls where the fish house lives with squeezable polyfilla, to maintain the warmth over the winter, the only problem is, during these warm September days the temperature increases, I’ve opened the internal fish door this evening to decrease the temperature during the day, until winter arrives.
Overall, a very eventful day.
Fish Updates
A quick update on the fish I’ve discussed in the last week.
Ancistrus Sp.
The 40+ common and albino fish are feeding and growing on very well, eating vast quantities of cucumber, courgette and Tetra Algae Wafers.
Various Angelfish
Considering they are currently housed in the same quarantine tank with the Kribensis and Orange Gourami feeding very well on frozen bloodworm and Tetra Prima.
Bueno Aires Tetra
Dorsal and caudal tail are showing signs of re-growth. Feeding well as always.
Purple Spotted Gobies/Gudgeon
I fear I may have one casualty, the fish that I had removed to a separate quarantine tank, has a bacterial infection around the caudal peduncle. It appears very red and bloody.
The qurantine tank has been treated with MelaFix at 5 millilitres per 40 litres. I’ve also another Purple Spotted Gobies/Gudgeon because it was being attacked by the sole fish. So this quarantine tank now has only one Purple Spotted Gobies/Gudgeon left in the tank. These are very vicious fish, I think I call this fish Sid!
I was hoping to have built and completed an air ring main this evening for the fish house but our local B&Q didn’t have any 3 metre 22mm overflow pipe, so that ruined my best made plans.
I had hoped to attend the Otley Aquatic Society OPEN SHOW & AUCTION today, because I was visting Otley, West Yorkshire, but then I noticed the show is held at Wortley High School Swallow Crescent Leeds, so I didn’t have the time to route via Leeds, as the Auction was starting at 1.30pm. This will have to be an event I pencil on the calendar for next year.
Whilst in Otley I did get my “fish fix” by visting Waterscapes located in the Stephen H Smiths Garden Centre. An excellent range of tropical fish and Tropica plants on display, I especially liked the Leiarius pictus catfish, they had three small 4″ fish for 18 GBP each, but resisted the strong desire to own a large catfish again. These grow very large, a good example here at www.thetropicaltank.co.uk but are excellent catfish, and one of my favourites. But I certainly don’t have eight foot tank space in the fish house at present!
I had to remove one of the Purple Spotted Gobies and move it to a seperate quarantine tank as it was being chased by the other two fish, this fish is smaller and weaker than the other two fish, maybe a sexual difference. I have divided the six fish into two groups of three and quarantined them in separate quarantine tanks.
Sorry for the inconvience the webcams in the fish house are broke again! It’s stuck on the 31 August 2005, I’ll fix them over the weekend, the problem is the webcam application crahses and restarts the PC, and then the PC BSODs (Blue Screen Of Death) on startup, and it loops!
All webcams should update every 30 seconds, if you find the date and time stamp is not changing, please email me at andypandy00 at hotmail.com, and I’ll attend to it as soon as is humanly possible.
I’ve noticed tonight after a fish head count, that I’m missing one Zebra Danio from a few tanks, a total of three are missing from three tanks, it’s similiar to missing socks?
Purple Spotted Gobies are eating well, I fed them on frozen bloodworm tonight along with all the other fish, not long, and I think I’ll be able to hand feed these fish, they have a large appetite for a small fish.
Tetra Algae wafers have gone down well with my Lxxx unknown pleco, it has an orange body and white/blue eyes.
One of my Eheim External canister 2313 filters flow rate has dropped on my display tank and the impeller is making strange noises, must strip it down tomorrow, this doesn’t have double-taps, so it’ll be messy.
I was supposed to collect some frozen bloodworm this evening from my local supplier, but arrived home late after working the late shift in the office. So I’ll have to collect next week.
I also noticed in an aquatic outlet today some very inexpensive fish, at giveaway prices to clear, described as Purple Spotted Goby Mogurnda Asdpersa, I took all six, these were probably reduced to clear because they probably grow to two foot long in six weeks.
There’s an excellent article here on what is commonly called the Southern purple spotted gudgeon hosted at PracticalFishkeeping.co.uk
Hopefully with a colony of six, I may end up with a pair, they are handsome little character fish.
I’ve just purchased a small bag 42g of Tetra Algae Wafers, I’ve seen these on the market for a while, seem to be quite popular at present as Hikari products are having problems with the EU. These wafers are much smaller and thinner than the Hikari product, most of my Gibbiceps could swallow these whole. I’ll report back how the catfish are enjoying them. I’ve also purchase a new Interpet Gravel cleaner, my aging Algarde gravel cleaner broke, and I needed to purchase a replacement.
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