Much news!

Well, the 220L tank has been set-up for some time now. Today we added some black sand substrate as well as some of the live plants we've been growing. Below is a picture of it. The water is a bit murky due to the newly added sand, I'm looking forward to it settling. The reason we changed it was because Voodoo seemed to really enjoy sucking up the gravel/small stones, but the thing is he has gotten to the size that he could fit some of them in his mouth and I was worried it would only be a matter of time before he got one jammed!

Opus is growing fast! He has a little belly now!!! It's so cute haha... The photo below doesn't do it justice - It's just one I liked of him that I took today.

And here is one of Voodoo ^_^

 A big welcome to the family - Astral! Astral has been in quarantine for sometime. Last weekend we tried introducing him to Cosmos, however Cosmos didn't seem to like that idea one bit and became a bit mean. Luckily we have enough tanks that Astral can have his own for now until maybe we get him a friend? We shall see! I absolutely love Astral's fins!!

A few weeks after Astral finish his quarantine we have another fish in quarantine. He's an Oranda. The wen on his head is what made us think down the line of royalty and hence spin off name "Cyden" from Poseidon. I will get photos of Cyden once he finishes quarantine, he seems to be having issues with his mouth. I think it might be the case of mouth fungus? But I'm not 100% sure yet.

Oh! and check out the photo album page as I've updated it with new pictures!!

The new addition - Opus!!

Welcome Opus our baby white Ranchu Goldfish!! So tiny and so cute! (click the images to enlarge them)

He is entirely white besides the orange spot on his left tail fin, and a little orange above his eyes (looks like eyeshadow or something haha).

Also, check out the progress of our plants!... the left is the newest photo, right being the one from last week. The Green Foxtail (middle) has gone nuts! and the Spiralis (right) has made heaps of progress. The lily on the left will get there eventually lol...

We have also finally picked up out 220L tank setup. I've been starting to cycle it since last night, added some filter media from an established tank and also have put some fish food in there to give it a good kick start. So far pH is good, ammonia is 0.5ppm and 0 nitrate and nitrate. I haven't got a photo of our set up yet but it's the Blue Planet Orient tank and stand, which I can't seem to find a photo of online either. I'll get a photo of it soon :)

Plants!

Today my partner and I started a planted tank. This is a new venture for us, as he has never had much to do with fish and tanks before and as for myself I've kept goldfish before but never a planted tank as far as I can remember.

So we thought we'd give it a go and use an old smaller tank we had lying around in the shed. Bought some supplies as well as the plants today.

Here's some photos...

We shall see how this goes! Hopefully, when these are better established, we will put some of them in with the goldfish. In with Saff and Voo anyway, not necessarily Cossi because he'd eat the plants entirely. Saff and Voo would nibble at most I'm guessing lol.

Also, we are planning on this tank shown above to be home to a fighter/beta at some stage as well.