HI all. Long time no post!
I havent been very involved in my fish-keeping lately.
I've been dealing with some depression/anxiety issues and I haven't really been motivated to do anything but sit around and do nothing when I'm not at work. Plus we've got some breeding guinea pigs now and a very addictive xbox game...
My bristlenose breeding has been put on hold since I moved house because my female was looking very gaunt and sick recently and I've been trying to get her up to a nice chubby, healthy state before I add the cave into the tank again.
Unfortunately my longfin albino male, who I was planning to pair with my common albino female when he got bigger, was also sick but didn't recover. I have no idea what the issue was.
I had to start my tank from scratch again after moving it because I threw out all my old gravel and most of my plants due to a trumpet snail infestation.
I had a cabinet and hood built for my tank by a very nice member of another fish forum so everything is hidden away inside the cabinet now which is a nice change.
Here are some pictures of what it looks like now
I've changed to a fine black gravel for the corys and bristlenose to sift around in. I didn't want to go with sand cause it just seemed like too much effort.
I chopped up my giant anubias plant to spread it around the tank (also to clean out any hidden snails) and the log in the middle is covered with a load of java fern plantlets that came from come bigger plants I had.
Some recent additions to the tank are a couple of desert gobys and today I brought home two Julii corys and two pygmy corys.
I couldn't get a pic of the corys yet but here's one of a goby.
Enjoy
I havent been very involved in my fish-keeping lately.
I've been dealing with some depression/anxiety issues and I haven't really been motivated to do anything but sit around and do nothing when I'm not at work. Plus we've got some breeding guinea pigs now and a very addictive xbox game...
My bristlenose breeding has been put on hold since I moved house because my female was looking very gaunt and sick recently and I've been trying to get her up to a nice chubby, healthy state before I add the cave into the tank again.
Unfortunately my longfin albino male, who I was planning to pair with my common albino female when he got bigger, was also sick but didn't recover. I have no idea what the issue was.
I had to start my tank from scratch again after moving it because I threw out all my old gravel and most of my plants due to a trumpet snail infestation.
I had a cabinet and hood built for my tank by a very nice member of another fish forum so everything is hidden away inside the cabinet now which is a nice change.
Here are some pictures of what it looks like now
I've changed to a fine black gravel for the corys and bristlenose to sift around in. I didn't want to go with sand cause it just seemed like too much effort.
I chopped up my giant anubias plant to spread it around the tank (also to clean out any hidden snails) and the log in the middle is covered with a load of java fern plantlets that came from come bigger plants I had.
Some recent additions to the tank are a couple of desert gobys and today I brought home two Julii corys and two pygmy corys.
I couldn't get a pic of the corys yet but here's one of a goby.
Enjoy
