changes in my water world

Sometimes writing in English is just too time consuming to do it, for a non-native speaker. And most of last topics are concerned with Situation in Slovenia that is going completely off the control before the parliamentarian elections that will took place in autumn. However, important part of the story is connected to the democracy question but still today I prefer to introduce another, much more pleasant change - my new 230l aquarium.
My Amazon world in 80l become too small so I upgraded it to 230 - It should be enough for some time.

So, what we have - two angle fish form previous 80l tank (another two died for no reason), 3 bronze Cories (Coridoras aeneus), 2 ancistrus, one pimelodus pictus, one mystus vittatus, one Platydoras Costatus (this fucker is guilty of reducing 10 neon fish to 3), 1 red ram (anotherone had also enough of me). This bunch of characters I lately accompanied with 4 Congo tetras (they do not belong in this tank but at least they are big enough that it will not be so easy to platydoras to have nice dinner of them) Ant there are another two fresh newcomers - discus. System works fine at the moment and it seems that they are happy in general for now.

Stanje mojih akvarijev.

Ljudje me že nekaj časa sprašujejo, kako je z mojimi akvariji in glede na to, da mineva nekako 3 mesece od kar je celoten projekt stekel podajam ustrezno poročilo :D Še vedno ostajam zvest Mr. Pet trgovini, ki me zalaga predvsem z znanjem in uporabnimi nasveti (lahko je prodat ribe za dober nasvet je pa potrebno nekaj znanja - zato se mi zdi primerno izpostaviti predvsem trgovino, kjer sem dobil tudi znanje ne samo materiale. Glede na to, da sem v osnovi čisti začetnik, pomemben delež uspeha pri preživetju ribje populacije pripisujem njim. Torej obstajata dva akvarija, Eden se je iz rubrike malo mešano preselil v poskus Amazonka, drugi je bil pa že v osnovi zamišljen kot Malawi. Oba sta v preteklosti že bila predstavljena. Še vedno si štejem v čast, da je razmerje med poginulimi in požrtimi ribami takšno, da napeljuje na požrešnost določenih prebivalcev in ne na slabo stanje v akvarijih. V Amazonki so v dveh rundah čudežno izginile štiri neonke (dežurni krivec je v dnevnem času skriva pod neko korenino kjer se je po vsej verjetnosti bolj ali manj zagozdil - ponoči pa naredi red med rastlinjem in ribami - Ta pošast se imenuje trnasti somič ali nekaj podobnega - zabavna zadeva, ki jo ne vidim zunaj razen kadar se prenežre in gre potem začasno umirat za grelec (ko pride k sebi ponovno spremeni svoje bivališče in zgine z dnevne svetlobe pod svojo korenino). Drugače se je V tem času pridružil še pikčasti som nitkar, ki je za spoznanje bolj opazen. Diskus se z izjemo slabih prebavnih navad počuti odlično za moje pojme - vsekakor z malo sreče ga ne bo na hitro pobralo pa še res lep primerek sem dobil (glej video). Skalarke pa rastejo kot nore - na žalost nič ne kaže na kak parček zaenkrat.

Malawi - jah ta največja pošast mi je zjagala lastno partnerko - dokaz, da velika želja po spolni aktivnosti in glavobol lahko pripeljeta do smrti :D. Splošno počutje zadovoljivo, včasih zvije rumene ustonoše ampak so še vedno vse štiri zelo med živimi. Bo pa potrebno poiskat kako učinkovito rešitev proti algam - trenutno sem zmanjšal čas osvetlitve in malo podrgnil po šipah.
Ugotavljam da bi potreboval dva ogromna in ne zgolj velika akvarija in nekoga ki bi zadevo vzdrževal, kadar se meni nebi dalo.
Drugače pa je največja zabava urejanje Amazonke - ker skalarke pogosto delujejo bolj kot piranje. Takoj ko namočim roko napadejo in me cukajo - tak bedno zabaven občutek. Drug štos je prehranjevanje - predvsem v Malawiju - stvar spominja na krdelo psov. Vsi se nabijejo tik pod površje in se prerivajo ter poskakujejo, če bo kaj hrane. Potem ko kaj pade v vodo je pa masaker. Dobivam občutek, da te ribe dejansko niso tako zelo glupe - vsaj za hrano fehtat so se zelo dobro naučile. Posledično sem vsake 14 dni v trgovini in kupujem novih 500 ml zaloge. O tem da je posrano dno akvarija pač stranski produkt pa tako ali tako ni vredno razpravljat.

In moj Malawi mini biotop v popolni funkcionalnosti

Končno par minutk odvečnega časa. Uspel sem dokončno vzpostaviti še drugi akvarij, Tokrat Malawi biotop z ostrižniki ter družbo treh somičev zadolženih za red in čistočo. Vse sicer ne sodi popolnoma skupaj ampak zaenkrat ni težva - nič še ni prišlo preč in tudi Amazonka se lepo drži. Je pa nekaj sprememb o katerih ob kaki drugi priložnosti.

Akvarijski odvisnik

Ne seveda, da ne. Kako drugace si itak ni mogoce predstavljati zadeve pri meni. Pred dobrim mesecem sem poskusno postavil prvi akvarij in sedaj ze pretiravam. - te dni dodajam drugega, vecjega. Tokrat 200 litrov jezera Malawi. Trenutno je cela zadeva v pripravi in samo zacetni video za pokusino kako okolje bo tukaj.

My first aquarium

Since I was a kid I dreamed about having fish in aquarium. First I wanted me a big aquarium (50x50 x 50 cm what is far from big, but for 8-year-old boy it was great. And parents said no way. OK. Than I wanted me a bowl with small fish (I even bought me a bowl but I never have balls to go and buy fish - thanks God for this). Than I forgot about aquarium and I was riding horses for a long while (more than a decade). However, I got that crazy idea back when I saw that I have nothing to do and almost no time for anything. And one day I saw nice aquarium full of fish and I got that childish look on my face and I started "Daddy I want my aquarium too, I want, want want". Ant that want was strong enough to search "Bolha" (Slovenian version of E-bay) portal and Find me nice middle-sized aquarium (80x40x50 cm). And then I started. I rearranged room, I bought all necessary stuff (I was listening and reading carefully before for a week or two to get at least basic information) I paid fucking lot of money. And then I started. I washed sand, I measured quality of water, I put first plants and decorations inside and almost broke Outside filter on first run (strange smell came out, because I wanted to run it dry. And then I finally managed to run it for first few days controlling water conditions and so on. Water was good and stable, first plants were fine and I added some more. And they are also good.
Then I added first two Ancistrus. They were doing fine (and still are), so I added also additional three Corydoras and they are preforming also great. Than I needed additional decoration and hiding place so I added nice root and some stone. things were doing just great but water was still empty. Aquarium was running for 14 days now - I is not much but I risked according to the fact that I had almost perfect water conditions. And here we go again. I started new cycle of developing my mixed area. I got me Platydoras (I am crazy about cat-fish), than I got me four scalares (Angelfish) - two classic white and black and two dark. I also got me also two Electric yellow cichlids and than I found out that my aquarium is almost perfect.

But only Almost so I added additional two plants and artificial cave for yellows.
For all professional attitude and good advices I am mostly indebted and grateful to Mr Pet zoo center in Ljubljana BTC. They provided me with most of what you can find in my aquarium or around it. But most important, they provided me constant monitoring of my aquarium and great new knowledge that helped that none of my fish died and none of my plants rotted so far.And here is my first aquarium in final version. It is not meant to be some natural habitat but it is my first attempt in aqaristics, where I want some of most interesting fish to live in the most optimal conditions I can gave to them.