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Things to Distract...
Jul. 9th, 2009 10:20 amYes, this is a fish blog. Feel free to skip or squee as your preference.
First of all, everybody is fine. In fact, I've been having some fun with our CSA produce and the goldfish. I've always heard that goldfish like peas, but frozen peas are hard on their stomachs unless you defrost them (because why? Because goldfish will attempt to eat anything dropped into the tank IMMEDIATELY). So, usually it's too putzy for me to bother with. Ah, but I have fresh, organic peas from the CSA box. Now, I should say, mostly *I* have been gobbling them up, but I decided to see if Joe and Fergus liked the tiny, not-normally-worth-the-effort to shuck peas. Boy howdie, did they!
Now a few peas at lunch time has become our new game. Joe, in particular, loves them. I can feed him four or five under-sized ones, or one or two chopped up normal-size ones.
Also, thanks to a surprise royality check for Tall, Dark & Dead, I'm starting up the new upstairs tank. My plan is, for once, not to impulse buy everything. I did sort of impluse buy the tank already: it's hexagon shaped and five gallons. Less wide, but taller than the previous upstairs tank. But I'm going to try something I've always wanted to do... aquascape, which is to say a heavily planted tank. I've always admired, but never been able to pull off, those densely planted tanks you see at the good commerical shops. My dream is to have a kind of jungle of plants and then add a school of tiny little guys (more neon? Something similar like white mountain minnow?) who can dart about playfully among the folliage.
But I'm not going to even THINK too much about fish yet (except to when I start planting, so that I can have plants that might, say, like hard/soft water, whatever goes with the fish. Though I might actually try doing plants I like FIRST and finding fish that fit.)
I'm actually hoping to establish the tank for MONTHS before I add a single fish.
My first purchase after the tank is going to be "eco-complete" (name brand) substrate that's supposed to be ideal for heavily planted tanks.
I'm off to go research some aquatic plants now. Wheee!
First of all, everybody is fine. In fact, I've been having some fun with our CSA produce and the goldfish. I've always heard that goldfish like peas, but frozen peas are hard on their stomachs unless you defrost them (because why? Because goldfish will attempt to eat anything dropped into the tank IMMEDIATELY). So, usually it's too putzy for me to bother with. Ah, but I have fresh, organic peas from the CSA box. Now, I should say, mostly *I* have been gobbling them up, but I decided to see if Joe and Fergus liked the tiny, not-normally-worth-the-effort to shuck peas. Boy howdie, did they!
Now a few peas at lunch time has become our new game. Joe, in particular, loves them. I can feed him four or five under-sized ones, or one or two chopped up normal-size ones.
Also, thanks to a surprise royality check for Tall, Dark & Dead, I'm starting up the new upstairs tank. My plan is, for once, not to impulse buy everything. I did sort of impluse buy the tank already: it's hexagon shaped and five gallons. Less wide, but taller than the previous upstairs tank. But I'm going to try something I've always wanted to do... aquascape, which is to say a heavily planted tank. I've always admired, but never been able to pull off, those densely planted tanks you see at the good commerical shops. My dream is to have a kind of jungle of plants and then add a school of tiny little guys (more neon? Something similar like white mountain minnow?) who can dart about playfully among the folliage.
But I'm not going to even THINK too much about fish yet (except to when I start planting, so that I can have plants that might, say, like hard/soft water, whatever goes with the fish. Though I might actually try doing plants I like FIRST and finding fish that fit.)
I'm actually hoping to establish the tank for MONTHS before I add a single fish.
My first purchase after the tank is going to be "eco-complete" (name brand) substrate that's supposed to be ideal for heavily planted tanks.
I'm off to go research some aquatic plants now. Wheee!