What’s Happening?

Winter was downtime for my fishroom, and because it was unusually cold for an unusually long period of time, my water changes and maintenance got off track… it’s warming up now and stuff is starting to come back into shape. Greg set up air for all the tanks so I was able to lose about 8 little air pumps in favor for a big quiet pump, and I traded out most of my nasty standard aquarium hood lights for some nice, sleek T-5’s that zip-tied nicely to the bottom of the shelf above each row of tanks. A timer here and there and my plants should be happy.

In February, our club held an auction and I got my hands on some new critters… I grabbed some cute little Dwarf Red Tuxedo Platies, a few Keyhole Cichlids, another several Dario darios, and a berried Electric Blue Crayfish, who has since had her babies… all are doing well and they’re growing VERY fast! I also won a catfish raffle and managed to get a couple of pretty little L204’s. Not long after the auction I grabbed a small group of Corydoras habrosus from a LFS as well.

I have quite a few baby Neolamprologus multifasciatus, and baby bristlenose EVERYWHERE. I even got a cluster of mystery snail eggs, but I’m not sure at this point if they’re even fertile. I have baby livebearers running out my ears… guppies, metallicus, and several different goodeid species.

One shrimp tank (the one containing the crystal reds) has had a population implosion 😦 and my plant/shrimp jar is chock full of cherry shrimp.

Once I get the next round of water changes out of the way (and much-needed spring cleaning), I’ll start posting pics and videos again. Stay tuned!