3rd Dec 2005 AQ Round Island Excursion Details (Pix intensive)

[stormhawk]

Sharyn, that's sad to hear that the gertrudaes are gone. Well at least you have one and its not too bad. They're pretty common in the hobby and appear at the stores every now and then so don't worry, you'll definitely be able to get some. I suppose they were highly stressed by the long trip around the farms.

The checkerboards will do fine with frozen foods like frozen bloodworms, though I'd prefer to feed them with live food. If you can't get live tubifex, there's always live brine shrimp and bloodworms. The thing with live foods is that you'll need to exercise some caution when using them. They need adequate rinsing because more often than not, they're pretty dirty to start with, except for the brine shrimp that is. Clementi sells live adult brine shrimp every now and then. I am currently "training" my checkerboards to accept sinking tablets.

Nicholas, Pseudomugil gertrudae are actually rainbowfishes and commonly called Gertrude's Blue-eye. The lampeyes are not tetras either, they're killifishes of the genus Poropanchax.

[hwchoy]

Thanks Nicholas 'Pseudomugil Gertrudae' to be correct. I think blue eyes is kinda appropriate even though not correct cause they do sorta have blue eyes - a tiny little bit anyhow!

hey ebony, good to see you're enjoying your fishes and the outing. just a little point, scientific names are written with the genus (the first word) in capitalised first letter, while the second (the specific epithet, or the "species name") is all in lowercase. better still you write them all in italics, like so…

Pseudomugil gertrudae

[Ebony]

hey ebony, good to see you're enjoying your fishes and the outing. just a little point, scientific names are written with the genus (the first word) in capitalised first letter, while the second (the specific epithet, or the "species name") is all in lowercase. better still you write them all in italics, like so…

Pseudomugil gertrudae

Thanks Nicholas Good point! When researching my fish I did notice that the specific was writen in lower case but when I'm typing I just forget lah
In the future I will write the scientific in italics!

Stormhawk - How do you train the checkers to accept sinking tablets??

[benny]

How do you train the checkers to accept sinking tablets??

Being wild caught fishes, they will usually not miss any opportunity for food, so it's easier. Coupled with the fact that they are not mid/top level fishes, it's in their nature to looks around the substrate for any goodies too.

Cheers,

[hwchoy]

Thanks Nicholas Good point! When researching my fish I did notice that the specific was writen in lower case but when I'm typing I just forget lah
In the future I will write the scientific in italics!

Stormhawk - How do you train the checkers to accept sinking tablets??

who's nicholas?

[benny]

who's nicholas?

Now you are Nicholas!! Nicholas Choy Heng Wah?

Cheers,

[XnSdVd]

He is??

Btw, those little "pods" I got from the farm that day make great fish food! and I don't even know how they breed but I've been harvesting about 20 - 30 a day from a small cup and the population still seems to be growing. No idea what they are though... any info? stormhawk?

[Justikanz]

Aiyoh... Benny is confusing people now...

Ebony got the names mixed up in the first place lah...

[ranmasatome]

Too 'neat' to be Java moss leh... They look really fissiden-like close up, and I still can't do close ups... I have had Java moss that grew upright but these look too neat...

well its not fissidens and its not erect.. at least by the looks of the fronds.. but with all this molecular work going on you never can tell anymore..
anyway..neat cannot=java moss meh? never see neat patch of java moss ah..lol..

[Justikanz]

Seriously, never... All the Java moss patches I'd seen are usually 'clumpy'... And that include mine too... In person, that patch looks very much like erect moss... Probably the way I take it doesn't show the moss very well...

[ccs]

hey how come no picture of the tetra with the bright red spot in Gan's planted tank

[Simon]

didnt come out good ;P.. perhaps hwchoy got a better shot with Benny's camera

[hwchoy]

all CMI according to benny.

[ccs]

all CMI according to benny.

Too bad what a pity.

[hwchoy]

justikanz, borrow your pix…


barmby sez: "dear, wouldn't it be great if we have such a tank in our living room "





minister of home affairs: "you tan gu gu water and electricity very cheap ah?"

[solonavi]

lol. Great subtitles!

JC

[XnSdVd]

LOL!

[Ebony]

who's nicholas?

Sorry my mistake Thanks for the advise anyhow

[stormhawk]

Sharyn, I did not "train" them actually. When you keep fishes in a community setup, chances are, there'll be some greedy fellas in there that will take bites at anything you throw in, say tablets. When the checkers see the other fishes feeding on the tabs, they'll somehow "know" that the tabs mean food.

Like Benny has mentioned, they are inquisitive creatures and will try to ingest anything that moves, or doesn't.

xNs, the "pods" you brought home are probably some type of freshwater ostracod, possibly of the genus Cypris, which does have freshwater species among them. They are primarily scavengers and will feed gladly on detritus. Keep them in a tank with plant life and they will do just fine. Some fishes don't eat them, some will.

[XnSdVd]

Interesting note: The pods eat snail eggs. They literally cover swarm all over it untill all you see is a little brown ball. After about a day the eggs are gone... Interesting no?