thoughts escaping my mind
It’s about time I took photos of these guys in my tank. It’s easy to always find the Crystal Red Shrimps (CRS) and Red Cherry Shrimps (RCS) and in your excitement forget these chaps – the Green Neon Shrimp I mentioned in my previous post.
Be warned. The rest of the post is image intensive. Continue reading “Green Neon Shrimp”
I was delighted to see that some of the red cherry shrimp (Neocaridina denticulata sinensis) or RCS, I’d gotten had mated and were with eggs.
But when I saw some of the rasboras I had hovering near potential hiding places for the babies, I knew they were seeing something juicy and I had to fish them out. Continue reading “Baby Cherries”
Didn’t I say I had itchy fingers?
It’s barely past a week and I’ve already messed around with my new planted tank.
I’ve added:
I’m beginning to think, due to the colouration and markings of the boraras I got, that the fish is not actually the mosquito boraras (Boraras Brigittae) but Boraras Urophthalmoides.
My fish have the signature exclammation point marking of the Boraras Urophtalmoides. That is, a dark/black lateral stripe across the body and ending with a black dot on the peduncle (the junction of the end of the fish body and beginning of the tail). See it? Continue reading “Boraras confusion, the danionin influx and Glofish”
After admiring these shrimp in the shop for several months, I decided to plonk down $3 to get one.
My fancy new tanks are much bigger than I thought they’d be.
About three quarters of the existing tanks’ water barely fills one quarter of the new tank. I didn’t think 8″ x 6″ of difference on the height and breadth would make such a big difference.
Here, you can see the old tanks next to the new:
I ordered a set of fish tanks from Soon Heng. They’re a family run business that have been making tanks in Singapore for many years. They make the tanks and family members also deliver the tanks. Continue reading “My fish tanks have arrived!”
