As I Xi It v2.3

Been on a bit of an aquatic splurge these days and have tidied up my smaller tanks.

The Nanoquarium has had a number of new inhabitants move in – Blue tetras (Boehlkea fredcochui), Pygmy cories (Corydoras pygmaeus) and Red Wagtailed Platies (Xiphophorus maculatus). Some Amano shrimps (Cardina japonica) were introduced, but perished less than 24 hours later, the water parameters were all fine so I’m puzzled about their rapid demise. I don’t seem to do very well with crustaceans, unless its Daphnia.

Nanoquarium

Miniquarium

Did a bit of a tidy up and refurb over the weekend. Trimmed down the water wisteria and added some Limnophila, Didiplis, Alternanthera and Rotala.

The shrimp tank is still devoid of shrimp since there weren’t any red cherry shrimps at my LFS.

60L nano aquarium

20L shrimp tank

Updated photos of some of my tanks.

Freshwater planted nano aquarium.

Shrimp tank.

Hmn… should’ve used a graduated ND for this one.

It’s been about a week since I migrated the livestock and plants from the old nano to the new nano. Time for some pics a month or so on.

Plants – Egeria densa, Echinodorous bleheri, Sagittaria subulata, Cryptocoryne beckettii, Cryptocoryne wendtii and Hydrocotyle verticillata.

Fish – Xiphophorus maculatus, Hyphessobrycon herbertaxelrodi, Hyphessobrycon amandae, Tanichthys albonubes, Corydoras paleatus, Otocinclus affinis and Corydoras pygmaeus.

Six and a half hours, 1013 frames, a shot every twenty seconds. Phew, took a while but I’m pretty pleased with the outcome. Needs some more plants.

Tank Transfer from Xi on Vimeo.

It’s now 5.00 pm and I’ve been doing the whole tank transfer since about 1.30 pm. It’s taken a while and I’m still not done! Fish have be put in and the filter’s running to clear the murky water so I’ll be able to see what and where I’m planting.

I’ve time-lapsed the whole process so it should be interesting to watch it progress in super-fast time.

Not entirely sure as to what to do with my old nano now. I’m open to suggestions.

Today all the stuff I’d ordered from Aqua Essentials arrived. The gravel looks good.

No doubt I’ll be spending a good chunk of my weekend setting up my new tank! Hurrah!

As a moderately early birthday present to myself, I brought a new tank. This will be replacing the current nano in my room.

This is a ca. 60 L bow-fronted tank. The lighting that comes with it is only a combined 22 w, I’ll be modifying it to accept my current 35 w power compact. I can’t wait to set it up. I’ve still got to order some fine black gravel since my fish shop only has the resin coated kind which looks tacky. It’s all very exciting.