Today's a new day.

[elephantnose3334]

Yes tetras like a bigger tank but considering you are stuck with 2 tanks, I would put the tetras in the bigger of the two so they have more room to swim. It's not ideal but it gives them twice the length they currently have. In the future if you get a bigger tank, then you can move them into that.

Unfortunately I'll let them stay in the tall tank because I'm placing a betta in the long tank and nothing else. Sometimes it's the best way to do it due to a change in the betta project. But it will happen in a larger tank in the future. I should've got them a larger tank than the 10 gallon I have currently, but made a mistake and went on with it.

 

[elephantnose3334]

The tetras are doing okay at the moment, will check on them tomorrow.

 

[elephantnose3334]

It's Wednesday. The tetras are doing fine at the moment. I might do a water change this Saturday. Just waiting until the weekend for the new 45L long betta aquarium project to begin. I'm not at school for the rest of the week.

 

[Colin_T]

Why aren't you at school for the rest of the week?

Kids get to have a lot of time off school nowadays. When I was a boy (LOL I love saying that), we had 3 terms and 1 week holiday between terms. We had 6 weeks holidays over Xmas and New Year. The rest of the time we were chasing dinosaurs and doing school work.

 

[elephantnose3334]

Why aren't you at school for the rest of the week?

Kids get to have a lot of time off school nowadays. When I was a boy (LOL I love saying that), we had 3 terms and 1 week holiday between terms. We had 6 weeks holidays over Xmas and New Year. The rest of the time we were chasing dinosaurs and doing school work.

Can't tell you why, sorry. Another change of plans. Due to the long tank having a gap in the lid on the back side, and that a betta can jump from here, the tank wasn't a suitable choice for them. The only plan is to do it in the current 10 gallon, move the remaining cardinals into the 45cm cube 91L aquarium, sell the silvertips and put the betta into the 41L tall aquarium. Even though it's not wide enough for the betta to swim, it should do for the long term.

 

[Colin_T]

Put some Gladwrap over the end where it can jump out. If you want something more permanent than Gladwrap, buy some clear Perspex from Bunnings and cut that to fit or buy some clear builders plastic (it's thicker than other plastic film) and tape that in place.

 

[elephantnose3334]

Put some Gladwrap over the end where it can jump out. If you want something more permanent than Gladwrap, buy some clear Perspex from Bunnings and cut that to fit or buy some clear builders plastic (it's thicker than other plastic film) and tape that in place.

Could do, but decided not to get the 45L long aquarium. The current tank (30 x 30 x 45cm, 41L) I have is a good size for the betta, but has the tetras in it currently.

 

[elephantnose3334]

Today's Friday. Nothing special today.

 

[Colin_T]

Today's Friday. Nothing special today.

welcome to my world, except it's like this every day

 

[elephantnose3334]

It's Saturday. Sorry, I had a week-long break. Had some time to focus on things. Did a water change today. Got the February issue of Practical Fishkeeping yesterday.

 

[Colin_T]

Did you enjoy your week away
No need to apologise for being away and having some time off for yourself.

Anything interesting in the Practical Fishkeeping magazine?

 

[elephantnose3334]

Did you enjoy your week away
No need to apologise for being away and having some time off for yourself.

Anything interesting in the Practical Fishkeeping magazine?

Oh okay. In the February issue is Daisy's ricefish and the threadfin rainbowfish/peacock gudgeon aquarium (something you're interested about). The PFK magazines come late because of shipping costs from the UK to the store in Garden City. The next issue is probably March, which is way behind than the usual monthly issues because of shipping issues from Britain to Perth, Australia. It's my first PFK magazine I have owned.

 

[Colin_T]

Oh Iriatherina werneri, you got my attention

I used to collect those magazines but they got too expensive (roughly $16 I think they were about 20 years ago). You can sometimes find them in libraries and you can get them online as a digital copy from the company. The digital copies would be more recent due to not having to be shipped. They upload onto their website and you can view/ download it straight away.

 

[elephantnose3334]

Oh Iriatherina werneri, you got my attention

I used to collect those magazines but they got too expensive (roughly $16 I think they were about 20 years ago). You can sometimes find them in libraries and you can get them online as a digital copy from the company. The digital copies would be more recent due to not having to be shipped. They upload onto their website and you can view/ download it straight away.

I thought threadfin rainbows interest you because they live in New Guinea and northern Australia. And there is also a Costa Rica aquarium for common mollies (not the balloon ones) and topaz cichlids too. The PFK magazine has some good themed aquariums.

Rainbowfish are very interesting fish to keep and it's good that the magazine has an article about threadfins. I'd love to keep a small group of threadfins, but it takes time to learn how to properly keep them.

 

[Colin_T]

YouTube has heaps of videos of Iriatherina showing off. The link below has a group of males displaying to each other. They look like big fish but are tiny (1 inch long and thin). They are pretty easy to keep, soft neutral to slightly acid water if wild caught (captive stock are fine in a higher pH). feed them in microworms, newly hatched brineshrimp, finely crushed flake foods and finely chopped frozen foods. They don't normally eat their eggs or young but the babies are tiny and need green water and infusoria for the first few weeks of life.

They come in 3 colour forms with the New guinea variety being the most colourful and having more red. The ones from Queensland are mostly silver and don't have a lot of colour. The ones from the Northern Territory have a bit of yellow in them.

The first time I saw them was in 1987 and Vebas Aquarium had a tank full of them. The fish were about 10mm long and silver and looked horrible. When they matured and the males got the long fin filaments, they looked good.