Ok I am a slacker when it comes to posting my own updates ..Too much has happened..Good and bad ..
The bad first ..It is two fold ..My stupidity and bad luck or nature ..
First worked evenings / nights for a bit and must have been in space the next day after working till 1 am and going back to work at 11 am and left my water running in the fish room ..More specifically the 60 gallonwith my silver Dantumns ..Flooded the fish room [running water for 3-4 hours] and killed 5 silvers and one albino , about $400 worth of angels that never spawned for me … Mrs bandit is not thrilled with me flooding the basement again either !Yea I said again ! Years ago I had a thread called " I Spill Water Everyday " and I still do ! Next comes the wind storm ,
power failure and back up generator failure ...Nice week ! Got another generator and still hate the world ! Lost 2 maybe 3 of my pipe fish in power outage and generator failure along with my 5+ year old sebae mono that was all of 8 inches tall and an older Roseline from my 180.. Not the worst on losses by numbers but as far as replaceable fish I got burned hard IMO.. Not new to living in NY ...All in all the fish room held up great to over 24 hours without power and then only having
sponge filters back on when replacement generator got running [only 5000w] for the next 24 hours .
I now know you can hate something/someone but appreciate the service they provide ..National Grid sucks wind like Verizon but try to live without them ..ead:
So enough rage ..Got discus wigglers just waiting to attach to parents ! This could be the spawn ? Ah they do what they want !
On losing the angels and just trying to get the fish room organized the loss creates an open door ..
Spent what I lost in angels on new swordtails ! Have new Cauliflower and Sabre tail cauliflower swords from Mexico, MO and Los Angeles CA.
Waiting on a trio of long fin ruby reds to breed and add to my alpha line ..LONG FINNED ALPHAS anyone ??
Got a couple long fins going here and feel a theme ??
So when all the bad is added up and the good figured in I am still feeling very lucky..
I lost some special fish ,but was lucky to even keep some of them I think ..
I just got some very special fish I think [time will tell] and am like a child excited !
Swordtails seem so plain to some but I manage to find ones that offer a breeding challenge greater then rams for me and many others !
Word on the cauliflowers is I did it again..They are a very difficult fish to breed from all my sources and several said they had TRIED ..
I linked pics of the cauliflowers in
Some Of The Fish I Breed In My Fish Room - Freshwater Fish and Tank Photos 351610
They are all of that !
Hope you have a rocking weekend !
Change your water ..just remember to shut it off if you run a hose like me !