Long Overdue Update

[kagome]

Hey everybody at EA!! I’m sorry that I haven’t been around much in the last year; let’s just say that my personal life has been kind of rough financially and so I have been working either full-time or more than full-time quite a bit. I still have tanks and I still love all of you guys and since I know I have been really remiss in communicating with everyone I thought I would give an update with some pictures of my fish life.

I still have my rainbow tank and am still totally in love with it. As you can see from the before and after pictures the plants have come in very nicely. The pleco is hard on the amazon swords but I think that’s probably good or they might take over the tank! He completely leaves the java fern alone and only cleans the algae off of the Anubis. In this tank I still have the same 3 Boesmani Rainbows and same 4 Praecox Rainbows and they have matured into beautiful fish. In this tank I also have my adult High-fin spotted pleco, Rocco. For gravel clean up I now have 2 Pictus Catfish, I think they’re the Peruvian variety, they are spotted and I just love them. They are very comical and do a great job of scouring for uneaten food left by the messy rainbows.

These first 3 pictures show the tank when I first added the live plants many moons ago.

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Same tank but a lot of time has gone past and as you can see the plants are WAY bigger!





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I got an awesome surprise present for my birthday, a new 36 gallon bowfront aquarium to replace my 20 long. I have been wanting to try some barbs for quite a while so I decided that since I was starting all over again anyway that I would go with barbs. So in this tank I have a mixed school of Rosie and Tiger Barbs and I must say that I really love them! For clean up crew I have 4 Zebra Loaches and a high-fin spotted pleco (yes I know he will get quite large, I have an adult in my other tank). I used seasoned media to cycle the tank and so that went pretty smoothly but Ich rode in on a few barbs so right now I’m going through a 10 day treatment cycle and the fish are responding well. I have this tank lightly planted at the moment, I want to see how the amazon swords are going to fill in before I add more plants. I have 2 swords, 2 Anubis and some java fern in there right now.







I hope I can be around more often, I really miss talking to you guys all the time. Here are the links to the full albums so you can look at all the pictures.
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[Carl]

Nice seeing you here again Kagome; welcome back!!

Also congrats on your new bowfront barb aquarium!

I still really like your rainbow tank, the picture of the rainbows in front of the Buddha statue is really awesome (a great contrast in colors and shapes)!

I like this picture too:


Carl

[babygeige]

Hi Kagome! We've missed you!
I'm glad to see that you and you're fishies are doing well.
Tanks look great!

[goldenpuon]

Welcome back Kagome! I'm happy that your fish and plants are doing well! Your plants have quadrupled in size which is a very good sign.

Very nice pictures as well. I found the bottom-dwelling cagtfish (don't know the species) in your last picture very cute!

Take care and I hope things get better for you financially!

Renee

[kagome]

Thank you for the warm welcome.

@ Renee - I believe the catfish you are referring to is one of my Zebra Loaches, smaller cousin of the Clown Loach. I have a school of 4 in that tank. I wanted something feisty enough to deal with the barbs but something that wouldn't get too huge like clown loaches. The Zebras usually max out at 5-6 inches so they won't get too big. The catfish with the spots and the huge whiskers are my Pictus catfish, they're in the rainbow tank.

I love my plants and can't wait for the ones in the barb tank to get big, too!