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February 16, 2005
An exchange...
Brought 4 of our home-bred male guppies to AF along with the extra salvinia, Java moss, and hornwort that I clipped last week. Got about 40% off of my purchase of:
• 1 sparkling gourami
• 4 cherry shrimp
And a pack of antibiotics cause I thought my tank had an outbreak of blue-green algae which turned out not to be the case when I did a water change and cleaned out the filter. Seems to be some sort of hair algae instead I think. Anyway, that's the reason I'm buying so much shrimp. I can't get any other fish (like the American flag fish) that eat algae (besides the oto and peckolita) cause they're so much bigger than the fish that're already in the tank and I don't want to risk them getting eaten or dying from stress by being chased around.
Anyway, the sparkling gourami Tom picked out we thought would be female cause it had noticeably less markings and was looking rather pale. After acclimating it to the 5.5 gal tank, I'm not so sure anymore cause it looks more or less like the other 2 that I already have except the band in the middle is more solid and not spotty. The existing 2 gouramis don't seem to like the intrusion of this new one though cause they seem to chase it off everytime they run into him/her. Good thing it's a pretty heavily-planted tank so there's lots of cover. Will keep an eye on the situation for the next day or so, may have to move the new one to the 3 gal if things get out of hand.
Also removed most of the big pile of Java moss that I had initially put in cause I think it was preventing light from reaching the tropica and narrow leaf chain swords underneath. Just tucked a small strip between the heater and the tank wall. We'll see how long it'll take for that to grow out.
Anyway, there seems to be 6 cherry shrimp in the tank now and I don't know where the zebra shrimp ran off to. Probably already dead and decomposed. =p Ah well.
Posted by ronin at February 16, 2005 11:26 PM