Sophia

Spock

one of my shrimps was doing a funny thing this evening, it had curled it's tail right up under itself and was scratching at itself with it's back legs. Like a furry mammal scratching a flea :lol:

blisters

urf :oops: at least I will know for next time

Yes from around 16 earlier in the week I can count only 8 daphnia now. I've cut the air down to a stream of single bubbles in case that is part of it, and started a new bucket of green water to feed them. I still want to know what daphnia feeding look like. ----------------------------------------------------- It could just be that they have reached the end of their lives as more reading says they live from 40-56 days and I've had them for a few weeks. Which means they just aren't reproducing or not as quickly as I envisage. I watched one die earlier, it sunk to the bottom and jerked around erratically like in a death throe (very dramatic it was) and sunk. Then every little while it would jigger about a bit and sink again until I gave up watching it. . I still have my biggest green ostracod and a handful of small beige ones. Copepods/Cyclops are doing very well and there are also some white swimming worm or leech like creatures that are less than a mm wide and about 3 long. Tried to see if any thing was interacting with the mystery fungus creatures, as if eggs etc, but nope. And the (tubifex?) worms are also quite active. Some waving in the gravel, another crawling about in the leaves and another crawling about on top of the wood.

Hmmmm. We had a blob of kneadit on the glass and the wood was pressed into it, it did come up around the base of the wood at least a centimetre.

are you asking how the game is played? you just write a word you associate with the one before, like the first thing that pops in to your head. It's nonsense really. barbeque

yeah

cat

They are like lots of tiny white dots built up in a hollow shape as if you made a cup shape with your hand and then cupped that against a flat palm. There is no jelly involved, they don't seem anything like snail eggs. They don't move when disturbed. I poked one and it seperated but it either reformed or grew back. The bugs take no notice of them. How do I know if daphnia are feeding? (don't say they get out knives and forks). I dropped some yeasted water into the tank, they just hoicked themselves up and down as usual. I'm pretty sure their numbers are dwindling.

otter

In an evening I can take half an hour feeding and looking and poking about looking for another millimetre of algae or a new fry, but it will take 5 mins if I've got other things to do. Can do a water change in about 10 mins but if there is 'housework' to do it can take an hour.

a sneel?

The main thing is to learn about stuff you are interested in and enjoy working on, because it sucks if you do something you don't enjoy and then have to get a job doing that afterwards. Life's too short 8)

iraq

right then, into the smoker

hand it over to Bear Grylls. He will know what to do with it. why is it not an eel?

My original bits of driftwood were aquakneadited to pieces of glass so they would stand up, but they came unstuck quite quickly. We had followed all the instructions on the packet but it still didn't work. It did work when we jammed a bit of plastic into a dent in a rock though, so maybe the metal idea has merit if it's screwed into the woody end and stuck to less non porous at the other.

mine

Yes they are getting much cuter and seem to have expressions. This evening I was out for a walk in the park and walking along the grass was a family of 2 grown ups and 2 kids and they were walking along with a chicken chick. Wherever they went this little white chicken ran after them peeping. We went to see it and they picked it up and gave it to me for a stroke, it was their pet. It was hilarious to watch but it seemed rather dangerous as there are dogs about. The chicken didn't seem to care. It's body only just fitted in my hand, so it wasn't little-little but it had no head feathers to speak of yet. :happy2:

htaitai (suburb in Wellington)

Since last post I have removed the shrimps back to their bugs tank and we are now back to fish and a few snails. I think the salt in the water inhibits the snail population taking off, I regularly find white shells and partially transparent snails whereas in my last tank with no salt they just grew and grew. Also got some more twisted val, will be rearranging the long plants on the weekend so will post plant photos later. Click on the picture to see a little video of some silly killie business.

here is The Smaller Shrimp - cousin of Simon it's very tempting to get some more since they have survived so well compared to everything else. Like naughty children they have strewn their bits of pea to various places now

Here's the mystery cauliflower coral thingy. Growing in a few spots now. This is what was on the moss. And here's a shrimp inspecting one of Jennifer's java ferns

Spotted another small damselfly last night. Smaller than the last, not much thicker than a hair. Gone to the pond in the sky now though. The neighbour's cat knocked over my jar of green water as well :-? Does anyone know can I just drop a couple of strands of activated yeast into the tank to feed the daphnia?