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I've got lots of things that I want to be doing today but as always happens I got sidetracked with one in particular and so all others failed to be completed.
I do get a few things done in the morning though, the most important of which was to set up the old triop tank again, but this time to act as a fish nursery. We'd noticed that something the big tank had been laying eggs (we've no idea what, but certainly not snails) and so we thought it might be a cool idea to extract the eggs before they get eaten and see if we could hatch them out in an environment where there are is no one waiting further up the food chain.
With that in mind then, I nip to the local aquatic center and pick up some new gravel, a few plants and some decorative things to stick in the tank. Whilst I'm there I notice that they have some fresh water puffer fish which look kinda cool, and something I'll bear in mind if the nursery doesn't work out, it would be a shame to have bought the stuff to fill the spare tank only to not use it. Whilst I'm in the shop I also get a fish tank submarine which is operated by radio control and even has LED lights on it - just something for Phil to use to terrorise the fish should he feel like it! heheh:)
It takes me a while to set the tank up but it's not too long before all the water is in and the heater is on warming up the water ready for us to transfer the eggs, a job for Phil when he gets back.
I then get on with some work that needed doing - a whole heap of data amendments which involved a lot of repetitive stuff and classification of certain things (parents! just another name for slave drivers). I've got about 2000 records to amend, but by number 800 Phil is home from work and my eyes and butt are killing me so I stop for the evening, and promptly realise all the other stuff I wanted to do will now have to wait until Thursday.
It's scampi for tea, and I then watch some TV and try to sort out my ever growing bead odds and sods into yes, you guessed it, slightly better categorisation than the tried and trusted method of "all dumped in one place".
Posted by Abi on the November 1, 2005 9:37 PM
Unless you have male and female fish of the same species in that thank the eggs are unlikely to hatch.