Friday, February 12, 2010

Woot Fish (OMG what did I get again)

kay, so as usual my going to the LFS means running the gauntlet of the fish I want to get... this time the fish won!
It has taken me 2 hours to work out what I bought...
The tank now has the following in it:
5x Labidochromis caeruleus (Electric Yellows) we think 2M, 3F but LFS said if it turned out to be 3/4M we can bring back to swap them- gotta love this LFS :D
4x Aulonocara stuartgranti Cobue 1M, 3F
4x Cynotilapia afra Cobwe 1M, 3F
4x Pseudotropheus sp. "Acei" (Msuli) 2M?/2F? who knows with these fish- they are all young and look the same- 2 are slightly bigger so they may be the boys.
It also has 2 golden gourami (cannot catch them to remove them- but will buy a 2nd net and try again) the male Mr Bossy is having a great old time bossing the entire tank around (heheh), 2 Pictus, 3 Bristlenose, 1 Clown Loach and a Pakistani Loach (both Loaches will also need 2 nets to catch them the slippery little suckers ;p )

We are also going to get some Maingano's and I saw some sweet looking Rusty cichlids- Iodotropheus sprengerae also which would be nice in the tank.

Also added some more rocks to the scape of the tank to give them all some hiding spots. Took some quick shots on the camera phone and will upload soon.

We will probably end up with a slightly crowded tank (if they were all full size) but hopefully we can move some of them out when they are getting close to being adult sizes. I have allowed 1L/cm of adult fish (not including the Maingano's or Rusty's which will mean we are going to be over by however many of these two we get.

Also I got a KH/GH test kit and tested the water (yet another test kit- sigh) and the GH is about 200ppm but the KH is a bit low at only 100ppm so I am going to add some bicarb to it slowly to up the levels to match the GH.

Oh well, off to look at them all again :D

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