Finally ... CRS Venture!!

After months of thinking, I finally decided to try my luck with crystal red shrimp (CRS). Got 9 yesterday and they are all still happily swimming this morning. Hopefully they stay that way ... only time will tell. :)

Ultimate Sacrifice - An Irony Tale

Well, I guess I spoke too soon when I said lucky me ... a few days back, both the adult tiger endler females caught the ick and one died the day after I saw the white spots. I quickly transferred the last adult female tiger endler into a separate treatment tank (with general cure and salt).

To my surprise, she dropped a liter of 19 endler frys 2 days later. I was over joyed when that happened but it all came crumbling down a day later when the adult female also froze like a stick. Well, it looks like the ultimate sacrifice for the adult female but at least she made sure her babies are alive ...

Fresh start for 2010 ... at least close to a fresh start ...

As luck would have it, I am unable to battle off the hair algae. Currently trying out the last resort of a blackout for a week or two (recommended by Johnny ... a friend I met at MAC). Hopefully, this will help with the hair algae.

Along with the algae problem, my entire population of peacock snake endlers were also wiped out and so I had to get 2 new pairs of tiger endlers ... and I must admit, they are indeed very beautiful. To my pleasure, the females gave birth in just a week after I got them ... lucky me??

Major Setback

We went out of town for a few months recently and came back to an aquarium jungle. Time for some major housekeeping work ... :S

RCS Eggs!!!

Finally, the time may have come for my RCS to thrive!!! Finally saw that 2 of the female RCS's carrying yellow eggs in their belly. Hopefully, it may be time for them to breed in the re-scaped tank. I guess all the re-scaping effort has not gone to waste. :)

3rd Generation Endler Frys!!!!

When I woke up today, I took a quick look at the temporary tank that I've setup for the endlers (1 male and 1 female) and found little slithers that zipped by real fast. Much to my pleasure, they are endler frys ... yes, these are the 3rd generation endler frys!!! YES!!! I've finally made it in breeding endlers!!! I've counted 10 frys altogether.

In fear of the frys suffering issues in the temporary tank, I've moved 8 of them over to the re-scaped tank (the last two is kind of hard to catch). Hopefully, some of these will grow up to be peacock snake endlers to even out the population of the tank that is currently fully dominated by the red chested endlers.