Kenny's 10gal - The Replacer!!

[Newman]

then add as little fert as you can...literally just shake the bottle, then put the cap part into the tank, swish it around and that'd be enough for a week lol.

 

[kenny1tothe6]

LOL, that's what I do!

I stopped dosing for a week recently and all my stargrass burnt[it grew back fast?!]. *sigh* Maybe I should just feed the Java Ferns to the Koi. lol

Sadly, a rare-er needle leaf variety is in there. Makes me mad it's only got 2 tiny [atlest] not burnt leaves.

 

[kenny1tothe6]

Poor Bamboo Shrimp.

I walked by the tank today and stepped on something and looked and it was a dried up 1.5-2" shrimp.

I won't be getting another one, but he was cool.

RIP Shrimp.

To top it off, the eMachines computer was not installing it's drivers leading me to believe it was the chipsets, burnt out...and all of a sudden, the SMBUS was recognized and it took the ATi & RealTek drivers. *sigh* today is a bad day.

 

[Newman]

damn...i know how you feel. like i mentioned somewhere before one of my RCS did the same thing. Its all these fish/animals jumping out of tanks that should get me to cover all of my tanks, yet i remain too stubborn to do so (its also quite impossible w/o blocking light from my T-5s)

 

[kenny1tothe6]

Sadly, IME, even with a cover, if they want to jump, they will!

In nature if they jump, they can jump back into the water...with these aquariums, they are lucky if my cats don't eat them[my cats bit off my Paradise Fish's tail after he jumped!]. lol

Someone in another forum blames me for not having enough current, but I don't think that was the case. I think the betta scared the sh*t out of him, but he didn't know he scared the betta quite bad. Still, the betta misses his friend and is hanging out, sad, by the filter.

 

[Newman]

um how did the shrimp ninja his way THROUGH the cover?

 

[waterguy1]

earlier u were asking about tankmates for your betta, and and I think an african dwarf frog would be okay, even though alot of people say it`s not. I have one in my 5 gallon betta tank. I also think maybe a corydory. those are always cool. remember, though, the frogs need little freeze dried worms or something close to that. btw,Very nice tank!

 

[kenny1tothe6]

FINALLY, I can reply!

Acer Empower, eNet Manager wasn't letting me get to here even tho I had a full signal. *thumbsdow

Anyways,

Newman, He followed the filter tubing I guess...

Waterguy1, I'm pretty sure, for now atleast, I'm going to just have the betta in here...It was a real blow to my stash of money losing him, so no funds to add anything else in here right now.

Pumpkin[betta] is sulking. Water tests perfect!

 

[Newman]

is the temp perfect as well? dont know what else could be the problem, the light might be bothering him today :[?

"He followed the filter tubing I guess... "
and WTF!!!??

 

[kenny1tothe6]

It seems to be, it's 79 degrees[pulled the thermometer from the 29 to check]...

Light isn't usually an issue for him???

He's swimming around alittle more, but his fins are truly transparent and no red[septicemia gone...FINALLY]? I guess he's OK...I hope he stays alive, he's literally the life of the tank!

 

[Newman]

glad to hear he still has life in him.

aquatic shrimp is aquatic...
I doubt it had the need to climb out of the water through a tiny space (left for your filter) ust to do something...maybe it was scared by something, and happened to be in the vicinity of the opening and it flew out?

 

[kenny1tothe6]

As I said I think he wanted away from the Carnivorous [who would hurt a snail, lol] betta and so he died trying to get away. :\

I put in 2 pellets and he quickly ate them and then went back in the hygros...Atleast he's eating.

 

[Newman]

tis the best sign.
my male plakat is very hard to feed cuz hes overwhelmed with all the space he gets and he just wanders about the tank...I think if a betta isnt eating, thats one of those bad signs that he's going to be in trouble soon...

what did you feed the bamboo shrimp?
I keep all my RCS with my betta girl in the open top 10 gal and they dont jump out...YET lol

 

[kenny1tothe6]

I feed Shrimpy finely crushed Tetra Color Pellets & Tetra Color Flakes...along with the occasional crushed bits of micro-algae wafers...

 

[kenny1tothe6]

I guess he wanted to say "hi" because he came up when he seen the green light on the WebCam. lol As soon as I closed the program and the light went black, he swam off, I guess ignoring me.

He's saying "Forget you Kenny!" "Hi Newman!" ROFL

You can tell he's not in one of his usual spazzy poses like the other one:

 

[Newman]

lol, sure is a nice betta, especially if you got him at a regular LFS

 

[kenny1tothe6]

More surprisingly, he's from WalMart! Most of the ones there are kinda generic [still pretty tho], but I caught his reflection and decided to get him as I did not see him until then. lol

 

[bassbonediva]

Every once in a while Walmart has beautiful bettas. My blue/yellow male (the one in my profile pic) is from there, as are my steel blue male and my cellophane male. My black/crimson female and my dark turquoise/crimson female are both Walmart bettas, as well.

 

[Newman]

while i cant even find a wallmart near me that even carries live animals.

 

[bassbonediva]

Which is probably a good thing. I haven't had much luck with regular fish (excluding bettas) I've gotten from Walmart in the past. I bought three little tiger barbs from them when I first got my Hex5 years ago and they died within a couple of months. And then there was the incredible mis-labelling of my upside down cat. I'm hoping he survives 'cuz he is adorable. He's found where the otos hang out in the rock cave and chills with them all day.