Ordered a wild caught colony & some tank revisions
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180gNabbig2;1566104; said:
Frontosa; Burundi'soscar n redtail cat;1566146; said:
Thanks for the kind comments so far. It's really ugly outside and misty. I expected a sunny dry day to move rock in/out of the house and empty my filters via hoses, but not in this weather.
Hopefully tomorrow will be better.
UPDATE
WOW, what a day.
I slept until 12:30 and then lumbered around for a while. One of my new lil Fronts was gone this morning. It could have been anything really, but I have a venustus and 2 eye biters in with the colony.
I decided to move the eye biters and the venustus over to a 100g. In order to do this, I had to get rid of some fish. Not a big deal, was never really into them. Luckily, Global Aquatics in Ontario was willing to take them. I know the owner, Mike, pretty well through buying fish. He said he'd work with me. I ended up bringing in a rainbow peacock, electric blue, snow white, and a jewel cichlid. All right around 4". He said to look around and pick out what I wanted. I chose a green phantom pleco, probably 3 - 4" and he gave it to me straight trade. Yahoo!
Anyway, brought it home and tried moving over the venustus and both eye biters, but the bastards kept hiding in the new rock. So... out with the rock, out with the decor, and finally caught them all. Moved them over to the Malawi tank and put the phantom in with the Fronts. Cleaned the filters and added the rest of the lace rock to the Front tank. Tank still has a lot of floating stuff from the rock so I'll get pics soon.
In the meantime, I never imagined my 7" Oscar would even attempt to eat a 3 1/2" eye biter, but low and behold, he was sticking out of the Oscars mouth.
Pics to come soon!
WOW, what a day.
I slept until 12:30 and then lumbered around for a while. One of my new lil Fronts was gone this morning. It could have been anything really, but I have a venustus and 2 eye biters in with the colony.
I decided to move the eye biters and the venustus over to a 100g. In order to do this, I had to get rid of some fish. Not a big deal, was never really into them. Luckily, Global Aquatics in Ontario was willing to take them. I know the owner, Mike, pretty well through buying fish. He said he'd work with me. I ended up bringing in a rainbow peacock, electric blue, snow white, and a jewel cichlid. All right around 4". He said to look around and pick out what I wanted. I chose a green phantom pleco, probably 3 - 4" and he gave it to me straight trade. Yahoo!
Anyway, brought it home and tried moving over the venustus and both eye biters, but the bastards kept hiding in the new rock. So... out with the rock, out with the decor, and finally caught them all. Moved them over to the Malawi tank and put the phantom in with the Fronts. Cleaned the filters and added the rest of the lace rock to the Front tank. Tank still has a lot of floating stuff from the rock so I'll get pics soon.
In the meantime, I never imagined my 7" Oscar would even attempt to eat a 3 1/2" eye biter, but low and behold, he was sticking out of the Oscars mouth.
Pics to come soon!
