wily fish
I took ten of the small platys over to Mike’s store last night. Catching the wee things was hard; I doubt the expression as difficult as catching platys in a planted aquarium will ever catch on, it’s...
View Articlenew greenery
Finatics were having their opening sale (yes, it seems that they were open before, but not officially) so I got a whole buncha plants to replace the rather gnawed/algaed ones I had. The algae eaters...
View Articlea good day
Lots of walking today. Went to the Vancouver Aquarium – which is beyond nifty; they even had some Corys, even though I’m supposed to mention the sea otters and belugas. Then I took a long walk through...
View Articlepoor wee sole
I have an unwell platy. I think she has swim-bladder problems, as she can only scoot around with her front fins, and pretty much sinks when she stops. I put her in an isolation tank, but it’s not...
View Articlewhen fish go bad
I don’t think even Odd-Fish would stoop this low: Q: Why were the sardines angry? A: Because they were brisling with indignation.
View Articlegerald, the tiny fish
No, he’s not dead. Quite the opposite. Gerald seems to spend a lot of his time lurking flat on the gravel. He was born this way. I think he wants to be a turbot when he grows up. He spends most of the...
View Articlelookit them li’l doozers scoot!
We have a lot of tiny snails in the aquarium. The loaches are supposed to eat them, but the tank was snail-free for a long time, and I suspect the loaches have forgotten that these little nodules are...
View ArticleRipley’s? Tripley’s, more like
On Wednesday, Catherine and I went to Ripley’s Aquarium of Canada. It was fantastic. I took some pictures:
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