So, I was looking at my little fish swimming about with their new plants. They seem to really like them. It suddenly occurred to me that maybe I should get some gravel for the bottom? The main benefits seem to be it looks nicer, you don't see all the rubbish. But I don't really mind that...maybe I'm just used to it. Plus it lets me see when it should be cleaned. Maybe there's some other, more important reason for having gravel that I'm missing?
Also, little Eye-lene and her friend aren't growing much. I don't want them to be eaten when the bigger ones get big enough. I don't know whether the fish tank is big enough for all of them either, there's eight of them, with the biggest one being 2cm. I know they can only grow as big as their tank, and I don't want to prevent them growing! But on the other hand I don't want to traumatise them by splitting them up.
Another issue (this is turning into an essay!) are Eye-lene's eyes. Are they supposed to be black? I read that could be an infection, so I started watching her to make sure she could see. She seemed to be finding bits of food alright, so I guess she's okay. I just don't know why she's got purely black eyes. Birth defect, perhaps.
I shall ponder these things a little longer I think....
Showing posts with label aquarium. Show all posts
Showing posts with label aquarium. Show all posts
Tuesday, 23 August 2011
Wednesday, 13 July 2011
The Baby Pond Fish
Hi all!
I decided to start a blog about the baby fish we found in our pond. Two reasons - I'm quite attached to the little things, and secondly I realised I don't know much about them! So hopefully by sharing with you all some more experienced people may be to give some advice?
How about some background. Here is our fish pond. It has been recently cleaned.
We have koi carp, goldfish and shubunkins. We're going to add their lovely clean plants soon. The exciting thing though, and what brought about this blog, is that while cleaning we found some baby fish. We decided to separate them until they were a bit bigger, so now they have their own little aquarium in the living room. The tiny baby ones unfortunately died, maybe due to water change or stress. But nine are still going strong.
Today I gave them a quick clean, because there was some white stuff in their tank on some left-over food. Maybe the fish equivalent of mould? Was I right to do this? Anyway, I shall keep you posted. It was a very quick clean so the fish were hopefully not too bothered by it, they swam out the way of the net.
I decided to start a blog about the baby fish we found in our pond. Two reasons - I'm quite attached to the little things, and secondly I realised I don't know much about them! So hopefully by sharing with you all some more experienced people may be to give some advice?
How about some background. Here is our fish pond. It has been recently cleaned.
We have koi carp, goldfish and shubunkins. We're going to add their lovely clean plants soon. The exciting thing though, and what brought about this blog, is that while cleaning we found some baby fish. We decided to separate them until they were a bit bigger, so now they have their own little aquarium in the living room. The tiny baby ones unfortunately died, maybe due to water change or stress. But nine are still going strong.
Today I gave them a quick clean, because there was some white stuff in their tank on some left-over food. Maybe the fish equivalent of mould? Was I right to do this? Anyway, I shall keep you posted. It was a very quick clean so the fish were hopefully not too bothered by it, they swam out the way of the net.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)