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 was hoping to house a trio of Bristlenoses in my last empty quarantine tank, and now it’s home to my single bueno aires tetra, I’ll have to wait until his tail grows back before I can purchase any more fish.
After the shock of the Buenos Aires tetra tail being bitten off yesterday evening by two nasty male angelfish, the fish doesn’t seem too distressed by the event.
The male veiltail angelfish also seems to be deporting correctly, probably stress of being transported.
I’ve been reading about central filtration systems, and air ring mains, it would make my water changes easier in the fish house, rather than carrying buckets. I have a very small prototype ring main, that I made, 10 years ago, but must visit B&Q to purchase a longer length of 20mm pipe, more on that later.
I had to quickly move one of my Bueno Aires Tetras from my display tank this evening because two of my large male Angelfish had gone mad and decided they were going to eat it. I have a shoal of Bueno Aires Tetras in my display tank, and I don’t know why both Male angelfish had decided to attack it, removing it’s tail. It’s been moved into a quarantine tank in the fish house to recover. Angelfish will try and consume anything they can fit in their mouths, young Neon Tetras are prime candidates, and young bristlenose catfish, but I’ve never seen them take on full grown Bueno Aires Tetras.
I’ve collected some Adult Angel fish, Syndontis Angelicus, An Orange Gourami and a handful of Kribensis from a local breeder in Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire, they have decided to concentrate on Discus. All the fish are sexually mature and will help the gene pool here at Angelfish house. These fish have all gone into quarantine for four weeks, until, they are moved to other tanks. All quarantine tanks are now full in the fish house, so no more fish purchases for a month, and I wanted to purchase a trio of Ancistrus. I’ll have to find some room, anybody got any space in the cupboard. Here are the fish as promised:-
Black Male Angelfish
Female Koi Veiltail Angelfish
Koi Angelfish – sex unknown
Male Half Black Angelfish
Male Koi Angelfish
Male Koi Veiltail Angelfish
Male Silver Angelfish
Syndontis Angelicus – not an angel fish, but a cracking catfish!
In search of Hikari Algae Wafers I travelled to one of my favourite Tropical Fish Outlets in Bately near Leeds in West Yorkshire. I often visit Animal House every few months to purchase some dry goods and have a look at the Tropical Fish section. I’ve been purchasing dry goods from Animal House for 25 years and they always used to advertise in Practical Fish Keeping. Something was odd, I noticed that their website had a statement stating the following
The Animal House website is currently suspended as at 20th August 2005. Customers with outstanding orders will receive letters within the next few days.
I thought this was very strange and may they had technical difficulties with the website or had a securirty breach. I telephone on Friday 26 August 2005, the answering machine message stated they were stocking taking but the store was still open.
On arriving at the store today, it was clearly obvious by the lack of cars the store was closed. Animal House has CLOSED DOWN. The store always seemed very busy at weekends, especially Bank Holiday Weekends, I never understood why they stopped advertising in Practical Fishkeeping.
Many rumours are circulating as to why they have closed, we will probably never know. What’s happening my local Garden Centre has closed their Tropical Fish Section trading; Maybe eBay Traders are to blame with their low overheads operating from bedrooms and garages across the country. Why not visit a local tropical fish shop this Bank Holiday Weekend and put some of your hard earned coppers in their pockets, If we lose all the high street tropical fish outlets, will we have to result to purchasing Online! I hope not!
Goodbye Animal House and thanks for all the dry goods I’ve purchased from you in the last 25 years.
P.S. Where do I cash in my Privilege Gold card points?
I’ll add some more photographs of the fish in the fish house over the weekend time permitting, I’m on the search for the elusive Hikari Algae Wafers, and I’ve got to fit time in to collect more fish, but more on that when I’ve got the fish. I’ve spent a little time this morning re-coding the blog, and adding some more fun stuff.
..and the Bristlenose catfish are settling in fine, overnight the 20 small catfish have removed all the algae from their quarantine tanks. I use Triton and PowerGlo tubes in the fish house to encourage maxiumum algae growth to feed L’s and other algae eating catfish. If you look at Angelfishcam1 the tank is covered in algae which also helps feed the fry, but the last time I introduced a young Bristlenose catfish the pair of Angelfish thought it was live food and ate it!
The nights are getting shorter and colder, the minimum fish house temperature has dropped to 20 degrees C during the night, I’ve now started to unwrap my “curtain” which is an old pink blanket, I use over the fish house external door to keep the cold draught out, and I’ve blocked the fish house entrance with a spare off-cut of jablite, I had to remove these during the summer because the fish house temperature rose to a staggering 40 degrees C. NOTE to self start to move items under the metal roof beams before condensation starts in the Winter and drips over items outside the fish house! Coming soon real-time temperatures of aquariums in fish house displayed via the web.
I’ve just obtained some bulk quantities of Hagen Nutrafin Cycle, 236ml (8oz) bottles, Expiry Date 04/2006. I use it in the fish house all the time for maturing breeding tanks, and filters. TIP Pour a little Cycle on new filter media
A bargain at 5.00 GBP a bottle, a little less than RRP 7.49 GBP including p&p.
Nutrafin Cycle can be used to mature new aquaria and as a general filter booster.
Hagen claims that its bacterial cultures can remain viable for up to two years in unopened bottles, and for up to six months in opened bottles stored at room temperature.
Hagen also claims that it provides the highest bacterial dose on the market at around 500 billion live bacteria a time.
For maturing new tanks, you need to add 10ml per 35 l./8 gal. once a week during the first month and then switch to a regular maintenance dose.
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