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February 5, 2006

Random search strings from fishblog

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Well, as promised here’s a brief discourse, vaguely dancing round things that people have searched for before being dissapointed not to find any information on the “fishies weblog”

The snails seem popular, and they are indeed “water snails” and we did indeed get them from “snailshop” (free plug for www.snailshop.co.uk becuase the service was very good imo, the only minor gripe being that one (or more) are still scoffing our nice plants from our “tidy tank”, we try not to let it get to the “dirty tank” stage you see. This is probably helped by doing the regular water changes, including the “wool filter” change, which we tend to do each time we change the water, this is the white “wool filter” layer and is the first the dirt hits.

“platties” were requested 7 times, which is good, given that we’ve got 7 platties, we started off with 6, three orange, and three yellow and black which are the “tuxedo platty” type, (so called because apparently it looks like they’re wearing a tuxedo!) there were a few orange babies, but only one lived on so now there are 7. I dunno if we’ve a mix of male and female orange platties (I haven’t looked that close!), or if a female was pregnent when she arrived. We haven’t had a “baby tuxedo”

I’m afraid that I can’t help at all with “pics of all salt water fishes” as all the fish in there are tropical freshwater, does make me ponder about coldwater saltwater and warmwater saltwater, i guess it must work something along those lines. Same holds true for “salt water tank filter”

The more morbid among you wanted to “see dead fishes” and to know “do fish float when they die”, the answer is that they don’t, typically, and unfortunately I’ve a fair sample size. This probably relates to “what is the lifespan of a guppy”; well not very long, I’d say a couple of years for your average captive-reared guppy. Luckily we get lots of “baby guppies”. “how the fishes have babies” is another issue, and I don’t know about the conception but certainly watching babies being born is very spectacular, the guppies and platties (or would they be guppys and plattys?) are both livebearing species which means they give birth to a living breathing swiming fish. We haven’t had any “fighting fish babies”, but lots do get eaten, if you asked “do female platty fish eat their babies” i’d certainly have to say a resounding yes to that one!

I haven’t mentioned it yet but we do have a “bristlenose catfish”, “Chinese algae Fish”, and a corydoras. We do occasionally feed this lot (the bottom dwellers really) “cucumber in fish tank”. I’ve not looked into the “corydoras lifespan” as much, but it’s at least a couple of years, as we’ve had ours that long

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February 1, 2006

Water change

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