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A rare fish update
We do still have the indoor fish, I just haven't mentioned them in quite a while.
They survived the move, and change of water ok. Given that I was thinking that we'd have to find a new home for them rather than put them through the stress of the move / change of water, this slightly surprising.
Currently, we have:
- one glowlight tetra (c September 2009, of ten. This is ludicrously old unless they're kept in perfect conditions, sayeth the interwebs)
- at least one male japonica shrimp (c October 2010. This is also quite ludicrous, given the change in the water) (at least one: for the last few months, we'd assumed that they were all dead, but then I saw one last night)
- one Burmese Danio (c October 2010, ofeight ten) (probably. Might be a Celestial Pearl, as they're hiding a lot now there are so few of the tiny fish)
- one Celestial Pearl Danio (pre-September 2011 of five) (probably. Might be a Burmese, as they're hiding a lot now there are so few of the tiny fish)
- three White Cloud Mountain Minnows (I think, but I can't find any previous mention of them; I'd guess early 2012)
We've, I'm afraid, been kind of waiting for them to die, since we moved: the tank needs a good cleaning out, and so on, and then maybe we'd get around to starting again from scratch, although that was a nightmare so maybe we wouldn't. But I'm wondering if we shouldn't just buy a few more to get it properly stocked and keep going: I'd be horribly depressed if that bloody tetra was the last one in there and we had to put it down because there weren't enough fish to keep the filter going!
They survived the move, and change of water ok. Given that I was thinking that we'd have to find a new home for them rather than put them through the stress of the move / change of water, this slightly surprising.
Currently, we have:
- one glowlight tetra (c September 2009, of ten. This is ludicrously old unless they're kept in perfect conditions, sayeth the interwebs)
- at least one male japonica shrimp (c October 2010. This is also quite ludicrous, given the change in the water) (at least one: for the last few months, we'd assumed that they were all dead, but then I saw one last night)
- one Burmese Danio (c October 2010, of
- one Celestial Pearl Danio (pre-September 2011 of five) (probably. Might be a Burmese, as they're hiding a lot now there are so few of the tiny fish)
- three White Cloud Mountain Minnows (I think, but I can't find any previous mention of them; I'd guess early 2012)
We've, I'm afraid, been kind of waiting for them to die, since we moved: the tank needs a good cleaning out, and so on, and then maybe we'd get around to starting again from scratch, although that was a nightmare so maybe we wouldn't. But I'm wondering if we shouldn't just buy a few more to get it properly stocked and keep going: I'd be horribly depressed if that bloody tetra was the last one in there and we had to put it down because there weren't enough fish to keep the filter going!