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.

Growing fast!

Happy New Year! It's been just over a month since we bought home Saffron and Voodoo and they have already grown so much. They are starting to get fat little bodies on them now, so cute!

Saf' almost doesn't look like the same fish! (Compared to the photos from when we first got him).

Voodoo was a bit camera shy tonight, I couldn't get a good shot of his growth. He looks really grumpy at me here.

Cosmos is still trucking along, and I am happy to report that he no longer floats upside down due to his swim-bladder disorder. He still has floating issues but... right-way-up only now =)

This skeleton ornament was Cosmos's Christmas present from some of our family haha. It's awesome, seems to suit Cos' as well, in a cheating death kind of way.

Lastly here is Saffi in the log ornament I've put back into their tank. I can think of him saying "Ah! you found me!" that or he's just really shocked to see me... haha.

Other than that, my fiance and I may be looking at upgrading / getting another tank soon!! Depending if our local pet shop has a sale on. 

The New Addtions - Voodoo & Saffron

Welcoming Saffron (gold fantail) and Voodoo (black moor). They have been happily swimming around in the 100L tank, that finally hit correct parameters last week!! We got Saffi and Voo on Sunday, 17th Dec.

Enough writing, here are photos!!...

Saffron

Saffron and Voodoo

Voodoo

Fishless Cycle Update - 100L Tank

As you may or may not know I have started my 100L tank from scratch, a good few weeks ago. I'm doing a fishless cycle with it. Given the difficulties of acquiring exactly what is described as needed in the information linked. I had to resort to putting fish food in my tank everyday for 5 days and leaving that to decompose. (Something I was recommended from the Koko's).

In my previous post I wrote about how I could see a slight reading of Nitrites when I did the parameter test. Today, I got the following readings for Ammonia, Nitrite and Nitrate...

Ammonia = 4.0-8.0   Nitrite = 0.50-1.0   Nitrate = 0

Most importantly is that the Nitrites reading has jumped! It was barely purple yesterday now it's definitely unmistakeable. I'm rather happy with these results! It means we are closer to adding to our fish collection and family hehe! *insert happy dance*