Shark Observation

I have been watching the Red tailed Shark, its quite fascinating watching it swim about, its quite graceful in moving through the water, but what surprise me and also interests me is when its eating algae and other stuff it can swim and eat sideways and upside down and not be worried at all about it.

It is the only fish i have seen that has used every hole in the castle, all the other fish avoid it, only the female platy swim in the bottom hole but that is it.

Feeding the African Dwarf Frog

Finally gave the frog some food but it was a real challenge
I did not want to feed it the fist night so waited till today after I did the water change. It took me about 2 hours to find it and then unfroze the blood worms and put it near the frog but it just would not get the hint there was food about or that i was trying to feed it.

I waited till it moved again to a corner and droped food right on its nose and it finally ate a tiny worm, it only ate one worm but as the frog is so small thats probably filled it.

I did notice that all the other fish dont like frozen bloodworms, they spit them all back out and ignore them after that.

 

Here it is eating its first mean, a frozen bloodworm

 

Some more images

6th January 2011

I got up today and examined my tank and its new inhabitents, they all seem to be doing ok, although could not find the frog it took me two hours before i found it.

The tank was due its clean so changed the filter, only the white one needed changed, next time it will be the black one as well. The white filter was extremely dirty, think it must be a mix of food and fish poo.

I changed roughly 22 litres of water and a lot of the dirty water had many old poo and food scraps, was quite a lot, but the platy are really bad poo'ers.

After I added the new water the temprature lowered to 24.4c but in two hours time was back up at its usual 25.2c-25.7c average.

Current Tank Inhabitants

As of 4th January 2011 my tank has the following:-

8 x Platy, 2 male and 6 Female
1 x Black Widow Tetra
10 x Neon Tetra
1 x African Dwarf Frog
1 x Red Tailed Shark
1 x Female Guppy
2 x Horse Face Loach
7 x Platy Fry

New Additions

I have been to my LFS and got myself some new additions.

1 x African Dwarf Frog

1 x Male Orange Platy

1 x Red Tailed Shark

3 x Neon Tetras

I had been wanting to get a frog for a while now but its never been in stock but today was my lucky day. It is soooooo small.

I had to get another male platy, the male i currently have does not seem interested in the Mickey Mouse Platy Females I have, they are much bigger than him so either he is intimidated by their size or he does not realise its the same species. This way hopefully the new male which is larger in size and similar to the yellow ones should help.

I have replaced the neon tetras that was killed by the guppy. They are now a group of 10 again.

While in the LFS I saw the Red Tailed Shark, it looked interesting so got it, since I put it in the tank it has been active licking stuff from the gravel and the castle, its been all over the tank and is sharp and nimble in cunning and speed and while eating been upside down and sideways while getting into small crevices.

Horse Face Loach Videos

Here are videos taken off the Horse Face Loach on 3rd January 2011

Horse Face Loach Climing Stairs

The Horse Face Loach is captured climbing the stairs of the castle on its fins.