I want something that makes me happy like an algae-covered rock makes this little catfish happy. #aquarium
Urgh a small plug on one of the #aquarium filters has broken while I was cleaning it, so now I can't turn it on unless I want to flood the room.
I've found a local place where I can get a replacement ... but of course tomorrow is one of the stupidly rare days when I actually need to go into the office!
Sorry fishies, just hang in there until Friday. At least the heater and the air pump are fine, I don't think it'll be an issue.
New friends for the #aquarium arrive tomorrow! I can't wait to meet them. Then they get to have a little quarantine in a little hotel tank, just like everyone else has to go through, before they meet the rest of the family.
I moved all our tetras to their new tank, and I was worried they might be a bit stressed about the big change. I think this will help. #aquarium #fish #TheGoodPlace
Please enjoy this video of a Mystery #Snail named Dingus poking his little siphon up out of the water to take a breath!
I love these little snails: https://www.fishkeepingworld.com/mystery-snail/ #aquarium
I don't know why it makes me so happy to watch #aquarium snails crawl across rocks, going on little adventures, but it really does.
I need to have the power off at home for a whole day next Friday, and I'm already worried about my #aquarium friends.
I hope it's a nice, warm day so the water temperature doesn't drop too much.
New #aquarium friends today! Two platys in the big tank with Mr Fish, and a tiny catfish in the tiny tank to help with cleanup of some tiny scraps.
Fry, our baby #guppy, is living in our backup tank right now until she gets big enough to not get accidentally swallowed by another #fish in the main #aquarium. We've had an ongoing issue with that tank though, and the water pH keeps creeping up no matter what we do.
In a "well we've tried everything else" guess, I completely replaced all the gravel today, so Fry got to have a brief adventure in a bucket.
I chose black gravel because she seems like a bit of a goth kid to me.
I started logging and graphing my #aquarium conditions but unfortunately the conditions have been annoyingly consistent for the last 24 hours or so so it's really dull to look at.
The #aquarium monitor has a startup sequence now. I have vague plans to use animated fish behaviour, like blowing bubbles or something, to indicate things like successfully obtaining an IP address or syncing with a NTP server.
I have to do SOMETHING until my pH probe arrives ...
First steps toward constant monitoring of our #aquarium conditions! Ambient and water temperature readout, will soon start logging this and making sweet graphs.
A couple of weeks ago, I found a small dot swimming in our big fish tank. Really tiny, but moving in a very #fish like way. Turns out it was a baby #guppy who'd somehow managed to not get eaten or sucked into the filter in the two weeks since we'd brought home some new plants (and her, apparently) from the #aquarium.
I moved her to a smaller, safer tank and now she's finally big enough to get some photos of. This is Fry.
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