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I've been feeling particularly friendly and bubbly today, and therefore passing that happiness onto my customers at work today. I guess somehow happiness isn't quite as addictive as I'd hoped, because they're not exactly catching or reflecting it.... ah well. Doesn't really matter, I s'pose.
On the fishy front, I have FINALLY at LONG LAST added plants and two fish to my 100g tank. I now have gorgeous buttloads of Aponogeton ulvaceous (go on, Google it! I dare you. This plant will take your breath away), a couple big hunks o' driftwood, a stunning Nymphea rubra (infatuant, you'd LOVE this plant, all amazing reds and purples! and it's the prettiest one of these I've ever seen!), some Sagittaria subulata (one of my favorite grassy "staples"), Microsorium pteropus on wood that my buddy Mike was so kind as to give me (thanks, Mike!), and some Certopteris sp. watersprite.
I put my two female Ilyodon furcidens in the 100g, so they're puttering about merrily. Most fish tend to be stressed or show obvious unhappiness when you plop them into a new tank. But not Ilyodons. They're incredibly dumb, and hungry. So hungry. All the time. If it's in front of them, they'll taste it. The larger female started eating everything she could find, from microscopic life that you and I can't see (but apparently is very tasty anyway) to - yep - a string of snail eggs hanging out of her mouth. This little veggie-eater gorged herself on protein-laden food until she was as broad as she is tall, and kept going. Needless to say, she got quite bloated and now floats. Stoopid fish. And she's still eating everything she can that's full of meaty goodness. Stoopid, stoopid fish. Floating like a cork, and making it worse. At least she was a little less floaty this morning.
I'm going to get a pair (or two) of angelfish this week and get 'em started on quarantine. Once they're in the tank, I'll aim for 4-6 Xynomystus nigri. Then 4 Pantodon buchholzi. Then I'm just going to focus on food ponds so I can grow guppies and/or Gambusia for feeding Ctenopoma acutirostre and SA leaf fish. Then I'm going to focus on (maybe) breeding the four Trichopsis pumila I obtained on Saturday, and which are merrily hiding in my 27g tank on the kitchen counter.
Then, REEF TANK! Somewhere in all that mess, I'll set up a tank outside to cure live rock, and I'll then get started on a low-light reef - Discosoma and Actinodiscus 'shrooms, leather corals, and Xeniids are all I really want to do. And sponges. Lots of sponges. Pretty sponges. Sponges are my buddies.
But that will be another story.
On the fishy front, I have FINALLY at LONG LAST added plants and two fish to my 100g tank. I now have gorgeous buttloads of Aponogeton ulvaceous (go on, Google it! I dare you. This plant will take your breath away), a couple big hunks o' driftwood, a stunning Nymphea rubra (infatuant, you'd LOVE this plant, all amazing reds and purples! and it's the prettiest one of these I've ever seen!), some Sagittaria subulata (one of my favorite grassy "staples"), Microsorium pteropus on wood that my buddy Mike was so kind as to give me (thanks, Mike!), and some Certopteris sp. watersprite.
I put my two female Ilyodon furcidens in the 100g, so they're puttering about merrily. Most fish tend to be stressed or show obvious unhappiness when you plop them into a new tank. But not Ilyodons. They're incredibly dumb, and hungry. So hungry. All the time. If it's in front of them, they'll taste it. The larger female started eating everything she could find, from microscopic life that you and I can't see (but apparently is very tasty anyway) to - yep - a string of snail eggs hanging out of her mouth. This little veggie-eater gorged herself on protein-laden food until she was as broad as she is tall, and kept going. Needless to say, she got quite bloated and now floats. Stoopid fish. And she's still eating everything she can that's full of meaty goodness. Stoopid, stoopid fish. Floating like a cork, and making it worse. At least she was a little less floaty this morning.
I'm going to get a pair (or two) of angelfish this week and get 'em started on quarantine. Once they're in the tank, I'll aim for 4-6 Xynomystus nigri. Then 4 Pantodon buchholzi. Then I'm just going to focus on food ponds so I can grow guppies and/or Gambusia for feeding Ctenopoma acutirostre and SA leaf fish. Then I'm going to focus on (maybe) breeding the four Trichopsis pumila I obtained on Saturday, and which are merrily hiding in my 27g tank on the kitchen counter.
Then, REEF TANK! Somewhere in all that mess, I'll set up a tank outside to cure live rock, and I'll then get started on a low-light reef - Discosoma and Actinodiscus 'shrooms, leather corals, and Xeniids are all I really want to do. And sponges. Lots of sponges. Pretty sponges. Sponges are my buddies.
But that will be another story.