Nothing like having to go into the LFS and buy 4 heaters. Got the old skool ones that you have to set, but they were cheap and good for small tanks. I never had one give me trouble once set. I need to hook up the freebie 300 watt I got today too.
Looks like there's a lot of coloring up in the port tank. Hopefully, they will spawn soon.
The big festae continue to have ich and not much of an appetite. Been treating with standard temp/salt with Aquarisol for a little boost. Bought 3 giant danios to stimulate them. The other pair is on the other side of the divider with Jaws and they are showing no signs of ich or appetite loss. Finally getting to hook the UV up tonight.
Got the giant danios and 5 yoyo loaches with part of the blood parrot store credit!
Aggravation:
Yesterday Used last of Prime
Petco only had 8oz bottle of Prime didn't look at price
LFS only had 8 oz bottle of Prime with 30% bonus. $10.99 Uggh...passed. And no Tetra Food Sticks for the festae
Today
LFS #3 Sucky place didn't have anything worthwhile
PetSmart only had 8 oz bottle of Prime without the bonus for $9.99 and only a small container of the Tetra Food Sticks...Pass
Petco had large Tetra Food Sticks and 8 oz bottle of Prime without bonus for $8.99 bought it
Favorite LFS
HAD every size of Prime even the $98 container and the 16oz for $14.99
They didn't have the Tetra Food Sticks, so I bought fish with credit and headed out
Home Depot pit stop quickly since I had fish in the truck. 25' 16 gauge holiday green extension cords $4.83 vs. 12' 16 gauge black extension cord $6.97!!! WTF!!! Both light duty, both 16 gauge. Go figure.
Been rearranging power strips, hooking up heaters to the 210, acclimating fish, and anticipating Saturday when the electrician will split the some of the fish room off the shared circuit with the dining room and kitchen. Uggh.
Discus come in tomorrow. They'll be temporarily in the 65 until I'm sure they are eating well.
I think I'm going to put the flagfish in with the small pair of festae and Jaws. I'll just have to watch him for fin eating. That's the only thing I don't like about them. Tiger barbs nip, while flagfish eat fins. Mean little buggers, but they do a number on algae.
The flagfish has to get out of the 210, so that the contents of the 90H and 65H can move to the 210. I don't have any known fin nippers in those tanks, but I'll have to watch them with the angels.
The 210 is going to get planted in a special way. I'm going to put my Eco-Complete in containers then put the container on something to elevate them. This will create big cave areas under the containers.
My main problem was that I didn't want to mix my eco-complete with the substrate that's in the tank. I may even use cat litter pans with the litter guard around the edge to keep the Eco-Complete in the container. The lights off the 110 will be moved to the 210 and the CO2 hooked up to the tank as well.
I need to make room for fish coming home with me from my friend Jack's Sunday after we drain the ponds and rearrange the 210. He already has an 18" deep kid pool set up and another one will be before Sunday. We'll also be able to put fish in the indoor alligator pond. He said the ones that are too big for the gators to eat, but I think I'm going to make sure the fence is up. They'll likely eat the fish I want. Jack invited over some other fish friends, so we're going to watch some fish footage and talk shop too. Should be a blast and yes, I'm bringing the camera this time.
