hamfist
Fish Herder
Well, I've a had a busy few days what with getting the new fish and with work, but finally got round to getting a couple of half reasonable pics and writing a littel bit about them.
Bought them on weds afternoon. Arrived home to find we had a power cut, which lasted for 3 hours. Not the best timing ! I had just done a water change with cold water before I'd left the house to get the discus and was expecting the tank to be nicely up to temperature on my return. So things were not as I'd hoped. Thankfully I managed to get it up to temp by boiling water on the gas hob and tipping it in.
Sadly, i decided to rehome my female turquoise sev as she just remained rather nervous and it was getting to me. Bruce, my male sev is now in the big tank, with the Uaru and chocolate cichlid, amongst others ... all is going well there, and Bruce is behaving impecably (so far !!).
So, anyway, that left me with the 300 litre (80 US gallon) free to put my one discus (Eric) in from the big tank, and 4 new friends ! Eric had been doing OK in with the Uaru but I think was being bullied at night by someone in there and had actually sustained damage on tusday night, so the decision was made to get him into a discus-only tank with some friends.
his friends were bought from the same shop that Eric came from, as I knew that they were all raised in tap water, not an RO mix. Mew fish are another blue turquoise, about 4" long (Buster), and three smaller fish, about 2-2.5" long. They are a red-eyed blue diamond (cobalt ?) (called Sasha), a much darker one of the same (Rooney), and a pigeon blood (Peebee). Not quite sure of my accuracy in the description of teh blue diamond, but I'm not too bothered just at the moment. Got all four for £80 (from Aquajardin, Fair oak, Southampton) so I thought that was a pretty good deal. They all looked sprightly, reasonably plump, and happy in the shop.
Once in their new home with Eric, they all basically sulked for the best part of two days, but have really come out of their shells today, in that they are all swimming out and around together. All ate a few bloodworm and generally seemed happy with things.
Eric and Buster are deciding who will be boss of the tank (looks like Buster has the upper hand at the moment) but I'm sure they will sort it out in a few days. There's no bad fighting at all.
Here's some pics ...
That's the two turks and Sasha, the lighter cobalt/ bluediamond (whatever !)
And that's them all out swimming together, trying to convince me to give them some more bloodworm.
They are all real characters. I am actually thrilled with them. They are so much more interesting (even just so far) than any discus I see in LFS tanks. I'm sure they are not great examples of their strains, but I am wanting pets not show fish.
The next task will be to persuade them that bloodworm is not the only food in the world. Oh, and also to get a small bristlnose for uneaten food and algae duties.
Really looking forward to seeing these grow.
Bought them on weds afternoon. Arrived home to find we had a power cut, which lasted for 3 hours. Not the best timing ! I had just done a water change with cold water before I'd left the house to get the discus and was expecting the tank to be nicely up to temperature on my return. So things were not as I'd hoped. Thankfully I managed to get it up to temp by boiling water on the gas hob and tipping it in.
Sadly, i decided to rehome my female turquoise sev as she just remained rather nervous and it was getting to me. Bruce, my male sev is now in the big tank, with the Uaru and chocolate cichlid, amongst others ... all is going well there, and Bruce is behaving impecably (so far !!).
So, anyway, that left me with the 300 litre (80 US gallon) free to put my one discus (Eric) in from the big tank, and 4 new friends ! Eric had been doing OK in with the Uaru but I think was being bullied at night by someone in there and had actually sustained damage on tusday night, so the decision was made to get him into a discus-only tank with some friends.
his friends were bought from the same shop that Eric came from, as I knew that they were all raised in tap water, not an RO mix. Mew fish are another blue turquoise, about 4" long (Buster), and three smaller fish, about 2-2.5" long. They are a red-eyed blue diamond (cobalt ?) (called Sasha), a much darker one of the same (Rooney), and a pigeon blood (Peebee). Not quite sure of my accuracy in the description of teh blue diamond, but I'm not too bothered just at the moment. Got all four for £80 (from Aquajardin, Fair oak, Southampton) so I thought that was a pretty good deal. They all looked sprightly, reasonably plump, and happy in the shop.
Once in their new home with Eric, they all basically sulked for the best part of two days, but have really come out of their shells today, in that they are all swimming out and around together. All ate a few bloodworm and generally seemed happy with things.
Eric and Buster are deciding who will be boss of the tank (looks like Buster has the upper hand at the moment) but I'm sure they will sort it out in a few days. There's no bad fighting at all.
Here's some pics ...
That's the two turks and Sasha, the lighter cobalt/ bluediamond (whatever !)
And that's them all out swimming together, trying to convince me to give them some more bloodworm.
They are all real characters. I am actually thrilled with them. They are so much more interesting (even just so far) than any discus I see in LFS tanks. I'm sure they are not great examples of their strains, but I am wanting pets not show fish.
The next task will be to persuade them that bloodworm is not the only food in the world. Oh, and also to get a small bristlnose for uneaten food and algae duties.
Really looking forward to seeing these grow.
There was a long thread on there regarding water changes with adults in the tank, and everyone was saying w/c daily. Though think they were chucking loads of food at them to force grow them. This isn't something I agree with, but there we are.
