3 posts tagged “fish tank”

Had a small disaster with my little tank today... as in, the little tank was leaking all over my floor. *DOH!* Gave me a great excuse to get a 10 gallon tank, though! Got some new fish over the past day or two, and most of them are now in the 10 gallon. Replaced the two False Julii Corys (I don't much like them, but they're the next best thing to loaches to stir up my sand... and loaches are too big :( ) got 4 Cardinal Tetras as an experiment- if they can survive my water, then Blue Rams most certainly could! And got two Penguin Tetras. Wanted more, but they only had the two left. Got a couple more Otos too, for the other tank. My stock as it stands right now:

20 Gallon- 3 Otos, 6 Danios, 2 Shrimps, 1 Pleco, 2 Penguin Tetras
10 Gallon- 2 Otos, 3 Corys, 4 Tetras, 1 Betta.

To be added: 2 Blue Rams to the 20 gallon, failing those due to pH/GH/KH: 2 Flame Dwarf Gourami. And maybe a couple of shrimps for the 10 gallon. :D

Also: if you ever have to ship a saddle, STUFF IT INTO THE SMALLEST BOX IT WILL FIT. I'm having a devil of a time shipping this damned western saddle for less than $80 because I can't find a box of the right size.*shakes fist at post office* I swear, this saddle is like the bane of my existence. First time I tried to sell it on ebay, it sold, but then didn't go away. Now it's well and truly sold, and I can't get it shipped. It just wants to sit in my tack room for all eternity, collecting dust and staring at me. Stupid thing. I may just take the hit and have the pack and ship place ship it, just so I can get rid of the damn thing.

Today was kinda the day from hell. It was nice, ya know, getting fish n stuff to start off the day. Drove up to Keene, stopped by Judy's to see if she was gonna have any puppies any time soon (she wasn't there) got home, ran off to the post office to try and ship this saddle again, after cutting down the box size. It's *2 inches* bigger than it needs to be to ship for $30, and there isn't much room left to cut it down. 2 fucking inches.  So very pissed. I lugged the thing in there to get told that. So, pissed off, I went and dropped by the pet store for sand for my small tank, then stopped at the pack and ship place to see what they'd charge me. $80. Which is an improvement over the $127 the Post Office is telling me, but not much. Now I've lugged that almost unmanageable box into two shipping places, grated my knuckles on each of their doors, and I'm getting progressively angrier as time goes on. At least the guy at the pack and ship place offered to get the door for me.

Get home, go upstairs to mess with the small tank and hopefully let off some steam. Drain off a few inches, remove the fish, scoop out the gravel, add the sand. Forgot to turn the filter off, and jammed the filter. Now dead filter. No biggie, grab the sorry excuse for an internal filter, plug the media in, and make a note to grab another filter before work tomorrow. I turn around to grab decor, and hear *drip, drip, drip* Fabulous. Nice big puddle from the leak in the tank on the floor between my tanks. Chuck a towel down, drain the tank (fast!) run it downstairs, and sigh over my miserable fucking day. But, went to Wallyworld, grabbed a new tank, now have suitable homes for all fishies.

Looking a little bare right now, but I'm slowly stuffing it with plants. And fish. :D 20 gallons, wicked filtration... my first foray into planted tanks. So far, so good. Though my heater just went ape-shit... it's set for 73F and the two thermometers are reading 82F. Gotta get a new one tomorrow, I guess, I'm just glad I caught it before it cooked my fish! And I've got a Cory with cotton mouth... not sure if he's gonna make it. Was hoping to keep the tank disease-free, but apparently I'm going to have to try a little harder. I'm just hoping this stuff doesn't spread, I don't wanna start over. So far in the tank I have:

6 Zebra Danios, 3 Otos, 2 False Julii Corys, 2 Japonica Amano shrimps, and 1 Clown Panaque (fancy word for Pleco)

I also have a ton of Java Fern, a Lutea or two, some Vallis (Spiraling and Jungle) an Ozelot Sword, and a Bronze Wendtii. Just ordered some Weeping Moss, 2 Moss Balls, and a bunch of Glossostigma as a carpeting plant. So we'll see how it turns out. Gotta get stronger lighting... and I dunno if I wanna mess around with changing my pH or not for a type of fish I want... screwing with pH is tricky, and dangerous for the fish. Anyway... some highlights!

So that's the tank(s) so far... I'll keep posting on here about the tank as time goes on and things change. Right now all I can say is WHEE!!