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Angels and friends - adventures in breeding

Jennifer Wayne — Wed, 12 May 2010 18:46:27 +0100

Today I noticed my two largest angels cleaning off a large clump of the radican marble queen sword leaves and their breeding tubes are dropped and ready to go. It's a shame, because when I noticed it I had just finished cleaning out the cabinet under the tank so I could hook up the Fluval 404. I also need to vacuum. I am afraid if I try either I will disturb them. I'm not putting a whole lot of faith in their success though. With nearly two dozen tetra and four oRead More...

Bolen Fishroom - March 16, 2010

Brian Bolen — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:44:22 +0100

Man, it's been a while since my last blog. Looks like it's been a long time since anyone else has been blogging. Maybe we can change that.

The biggest news in the Bolen Fishroom is the fact that I've emptied four 20 gallon tanks, two 55 gallon tanks, and four 10 gallon tanks in anticipation for the Spring collecting season. I'm looking forward to collecting in a few spots, namely, my parent's stream near Emporia, KS; then a place that Jeremy (Peanut_Power) has told meRead More...

The set up

Jennifer Wayne — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:23:03 +0100

So back in December Jeremy bought me a 75 gallon aquarium off Craigslist.

After a month and a half of ordering odds and ends equipment, planning, replanning, surfing the internet and replanning again I finally just decided to jump in. My main plan for the tank was to set it up for my angels so I decided on an Amazon biotope.

Last week I set the tank up, cleaned all the components that came with the tank, gravel, aquarium decor. I puRead More...

The First Six Months: A Newbie Retrospective - Months 2 and 3

WadeW — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:48:33 +0100

So began the second month. We'd already learned that tanks have to be cycled. And we had already gone through 4 fish. Fish keeping might very well be the hardest thing since finals week in college. We contemplated giving up the hobby, but my personalty wouldn't let me give in so easily.

We decide to wait a week without fish, to give the tank a chance to "heal", whatever that means. A week passes, and so back to the pet store we go. I pick a mostly blRead More...

The First Six Months: A Newbie Retrospective - Month 1

WadeW — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 01:44:20 +0100

I had an aquarium as a kid. As I recall, it was a 10-gallon, I had three small fish, and I don't really remember which type of fish I had. As I recall, I knew absolutely nothing about fishkeeping. I likely overfed them and neglected their water and upkeep.

So roughly 25 years later, with my Fiancee in tow, we decide to look at the fish at Walmart. Instantly, I fall in love with a beautiful pictus catfish, and she with a flowing blue betta. Still knowing abRead More...

Bolen Fishroom - December 30, 2009

Brian Bolen — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:20:13 +0100

It's been a busy couple of weeks since the last time I posted. I had a real nice Bolivian Ram spawn. The mother was doing great, but I got paranoid she was eating the wigglers, so I stole most of them and placed them in a 10 gallon. They started jumping yesterday, but I went to the fishroom this morning and they were all dead. She did eat all of her fry in the community tank as well. Next time, I'm letting her parent raise until the fry are free swimming.&nRead More...

Happy New Year all you peoples!

Katie Wells — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:30:43 +0100

YAY! It's the new year. Maybe that means new fish for some people.

Hope you dudes had a kewl holiday and a have GREAT new year!

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Marissa — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:43:20 +0100

I've used blogs before when I was breeding livebearers...hybrids actually, trying to improve certain traits. I fell out of the habit so perhaps this will help me remember. I've recently joined the Kansas City fish club. I've had fish since I was 6 (I'm currently 14), but I started keeping/breeding fish as a serious hobby about a year and a half earlier. My current tank contains: 3 anubias, well-developed wisteria plants (which I'm debating replacing because it looks a bit too much like a jungRead More...

Bolen Fishroom - December 12, 2009

Brian Bolen — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 05:34:38 +0100

Aaaah, today has been a busy day.

Started out on a trip to Lawrence to PetWorld for their semi annual sale. I was second in line at 9:30; the store opens at 10:00. I tried bribing the two kid brothers that were in front of me, for a dollar, to let me cut in front of them. They said "no way!". Nice to see that kind of enthusiasm in the youth. Of course once the doors opened, they were aghast at the cookies on the table by the entrance...so I strode riRead More...

Happy Holidays

Gustavo Molina — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:10:25 +0100

Well, whats been going on in my fish room, i shipped java moss...for the 1st time kinda scared not sure if it froze hope not...all the baby angelfish are growing really well...i have some DD blacks that look real real good i cant wait til summer time and they start pairing up..i bought some amazon swords so far so good...i made a co2 thing..thats working good also...and i made a blue light which cost me under $5 which i will blog about it maybe utube..i have been making a lot of utube videos.Read More...

Bolen Fishroom - Year 2009 in Review

Brian Bolen — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:02:58 +0100

Wow. What a year it has been. The first six months were, in terms of the fishroom, uneventful, as we were still living in an apartment in the northland. At that point, I only had three aquariums setup; two 75s and a 35. I don't even remember what I kept in one of the 75s! Oh yeah, they were peacocks.

Starting in June, after we bought out house, I started working on plans for a fishroom. With the MCA coming, I had to act fast. After the fish froRead More...

Bolen Fishroom - November 25, 2009

Brian Bolen — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:40:10 +0100

Has been a great couple of days. Got my Nanochromis teugelsi have free swimming fry as of today. I'm really excited about those, as they are an unusual west african that I don't see alot of. My apistos are all doing great. Going to pull the adults from that tank here after Thanksgiving for the fry to be counted and grow out. I would like to get them to the 3/4" mark before BAPing them, and at least an 1" before selling them.

Plans for the "big" fishroom haRead More...

Bolen Fishroom - November 23, 2009

Brian Bolen — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:19:36 +0100

This is an interesting week. This is my first week of my "vacation", or as my wife would call it, months of honey do's. I will have plenty of time to work on the fishroom but also have to do Debbie's list and the house chores.

Up this week: got some corydoras schwartzi and corydoras sterbai from Woo. Other than that, no new acquisitions. Picked up a couple of 10's from Roger, so we'll be incorporating that shortly. Added a 55 from Dave, and will be aRead More...

griffrat's gallons of goodness

Rob Baker — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:52:15 +0100

This is the first entry and as every journey has a beginning of a single step. This is going be the first step of documenting two projects. The two projects are completely linked. One the finishing of the basement of the new place and the second the completion of a fish room.

The old house that Julie and I lived in did not have a fish room so the tanks were scattered all over the house. When we moved to the new location we were in a pinch to have tanks alreaRead More...

Change good or bad?

Gustavo Molina — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:55:09 +0100

Well a ton has changes i sold all my Angelfish, long story short a guy found me on aqua bid and asked if i had an adult angelfish and i said yes he came by and offered me something i couldnt say no to (damn college is expensive)so are girlfriends lol...so now i have an empty 75 gallon, to 20gallons, 40 tall....all i have is my guppies in the 55gallon, and a common pleco and the 75gallon i thought about sell or selling if anyone would trade for the pleco not sure about this idea yet and gettinRead More...

Bolen Fishroom - November 7, 2009

Brian Bolen — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:11:10 +0100

Been a while since I posted...a lot has been happening in the fishroom though.

First of all, got the furnace fixed, which the fish really appreciate. Didn't lose any fish that I could see, so you can't be too upset about it.

Second, added a three tiered rack of ten gallon tanks, five on each tier. This was intended for the Wet Spot order, as well as raising tanks. Turns out, I may be getting more cories, so it will have to be home to them instead of raising tanRead More...

Happy Halloween

Gustavo Molina — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:35:04 +0100

Well i have been super busy, went to the swap wasnt really looking to buy anything my girlfriend was looking for discus help me...well an update on the angelfish and everything else. My guppies are doing great just being guppies my angelfish, well as you all know i bought two pairs of platinum pearlscale angelfish, well i posted of aquabid, my auction went for $161 i was so pumped i sent the invoice and that gives whom ever wins my auctions 4days to pay so i could ship out any time in the weeRead More...

75 gallon vic tank II

Clint Goodson — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:37:35 +0100

Everyone in the tank is doing awesome. The PN are growing like crazy and I have two males that are really starting to color up. I am either going to have 4 males and 2 females or 5 males and 1 female. I may have to order some more to try and get females. The Zebra Obliquedens are doing great also. I haven't put a divider in because it seems like everyone is keeping to themselves and the coloration is different enough I don't think they will cross. We will sRead More...

Update blog #4

Gustavo Molina — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:22:38 +0100

Well i have been super duper busy with school work school work..heres the update, i put one of the platinum pearlscale pair on aqua bid thinking i would just make like $50 and make my money back no problem..well the auction needs in 3 days i think well the pair is at like $160 wow cant believe it..its pretty cool and that pair also spawned for me..pretty cool, i started making youtube videos cause i figured i would try it and so far im getting better i think, i plan on making it to the swap dRead More...

Bolen Fishroom - October 14, 2009

Brian Bolen — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:13:52 +0100

This being my first blog on the site, I thought I would share a little about the progress of the fishroom in the last couple of weeks.

After the MCA, my wife and I returned to find my prized 75 gallon tank leaking from the bottom seam. By leaking, I mean gushing. This put a serious dent in my carrying capacity for fish, as I had set that tank aside for my new Central American purchases (more on this later).

Then, last Friday (October 9th), I went to go turn on the fuRead More...