Replenished Stocks

Today we are off to The Goldfish Bowl to pick up some new fish to replace the ones that we lost whilst we were on holidays. We've waited for a week or so just to make sure that the water is ok and that the fish we didn't lose haven't developed anything nasty - there would be little point in forking out a small fortune on more fish only to see them snuff it the next day.

So after having a good gander at all the fish they have, we finally decide on what we are going to get. Some of the usual of course in the form of 6 Cardinal Tetras, 4 Zebra Danios and 4 Guppys (2 blue and 2 yellow). But we also opt for some slightly different fish too, and we both quite like the look of the Glass Catfish. The are very different, and get their name because they are transparent and so quite difficult to spot unless you've got a keen eye. We also get an Orange Spot Plecostomus to keep up the housework around the tank, and at 20 quid a pop we hope he's worth his money :)

Back home and we accustomise the new fish with our tanks water and finally let them loose. We had bought a piece of bog wood at the fish shop under the recommendation for the sales bod who told us that Plecos like bog wood an awful lot to hid out under, and sure enough as soon as we'd sunk the bog wood the Pleco quickly assumed position under it, making it quite clear to the other fish that this was now his crib.

I also set about putting my triops eggs into the tank, the water temperature is about right so I'm hoping that in the next day or 2 we'll get some babies.

The afternoon is spent with doing a bit of shopping for the coming week, and then for tea we have Smoked Haddock (I don't know if thats appropriate or not with all the fish antics of today) with some rather nice potatoes (even if I do say so myself). We eat that whilst watching another load of dissolutioned people competing in The X-Factor... honest to god, do they really believe they can sing?

Posted by Abi on the September 17, 2005 9:44 PM