Fishes! An illustrated history, part 4

06/15/09
We move! Also, there's like 3 months without photos. I wonder where those went...
We're only moving 2 miles away, though. We drain the water, leaving ~3 gallons, carefully move it to the car, drive as smoothly as possible, and carefully setup the tank in the new location, but we still end up stirring up tons of sediment and some of the scenery (e.g. the log) settles during the move.
The fishes seem to be okay, though, and we slowly fill up the tank with new water.

Somewhere around this time, we also begin our battle with blue-green algae (cyanobacteria). You can see some in this photo. We begin waging a war of manual removal

08/15/09
Manual removal is not working. We buy some erythromycin from Aqua Forest aquarium in the city. We're a bit apprehensive, but the biological weapons work great.

08/28/09
We'd been talking about setting up a new tank for some time now, and we finally go for it. It's a soil substrate covered with fine sand and gravel in some places. As we add water, though, we find that the soil doesn't wet very well and is therefore quite buoyant. We'll need to let it soak for a few days.

Meanwhile, a short fuzzy algae is taking over our old tank. We've also lost a lot of plants in the cyanobacteria campaign.

09/06/09
This is our trumpet snail. He's HUGE. We think this is probably the trumpet snail we discovered way back (because we enacted a policy of systematic genocide of any subsequent snails we discovered), which would give him the longest tenancy of any animal in the tank.

This is one of our Otos. We used to have 3: Crazyfish, Sedatefish, and Bigfish, but then one disappeared (kinda like how non-broken-tail Gourami disappeared a while back, but in Gourami's case we found him weeks later on the floor).

Here are some Rasboras. They're a funny lot.

And here's a very characteristic shot of broken-tail Gourami, peering out at you from behind some cover. When we first got him, we still had the moss-ball-on-a-string hanging in the tank, and he'd spend lots of time hiding underneath it. I guess his main concern was aerial attack...

Today we got some cherry shrimp! Two big ones and a little one. We quickly lost the little one, and the big ones tend to stay out of sight, but we catch a glimpse of them every now and then.

Our new tank is coming along. We moved Nana over and planted some new plants.