Hi everybody, meet my fishes........ |
I have been keeping fishes since little child. Nowadays, i still
keep a small aquarium at my rented room. Well, actually it was my
baobei's aquarium, but now i am keeping it. Throughout its days,
there have been various inhabitants in this tiny water paradise....
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My aquarium with its thriving plants, and armed with only
a small air pump as can be seen at the right hand side corner.
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I plant some water plants in my aquarium, which i got free from
my university river. I put my aquarium near window, thereby ensuing
a proper sunlight source for my plants. The pump serves to help
filter out toxic and waste (anyway, now it is spoilt, and my aquarium
still ok). This shows that an all natural source (without man-made
pump) is already sufficient for maintaining a proper aquarium. Believe
it or not, i can change the water only once every 3 weeks.
However, i have been facing problem with algae. Due to sunlight,
algae thrives. It actually makes my fish healthier in a 'green'
water, but it is not nice to see. There is only two ways to solve
that problem. 1) A more frequent water change and wash. 2) Put aquarium
to a less sunlight place. I found that the second option turns out
to be fairly good choice. Although the lower part of my plants also
die, my aquarium is virtually free from algae nowadays, and most
of my plants still live on.
Previous Inhabitants
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My catfishes. These cute bottom dwellers are constantly active,
browsing every stone with their 'nose'. Unfortunately, they
are all dead now. |
29 NOV 2001
After moving my aquarium to a new place without sunlight, most of
the plant died. The decaying stuff was ugly and my goldfish died---probably
due to toxic. Later, i installed an aquarium light system. That
cost me a handsome RM40 including the housing. By turning it on
12 hour per day, i successfully 'resurrect' all the dying plants.
Now, the inhabitants are two 'Satay', or swordtail as commonly known.
30 DEC 2001
I tried to 'fabricate' my own aquarium, with a help of my friend.
We got free glass from abandoned premises.
5 JAN 2002
My swordtail gave birth to some 20 fries. They seems not attacking
their babies, a usual habit of swordtail. I fed them with shrimp
meal + yeast in powder form.
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