Aquarium 10 gallon

Our 2 Tanks.  The 10 gallon has 3 cory catfish, 5 pgymy catfish, 2 otoculus catfish and 1 flamingo guppy.  The 2.5 gallon now has sashimi living in it with some malayasian trumpet snail.

New PETS!

Today we got 2 new pets, a 3 month old hamster named Hershey and a betta fish called Sashimi.  Our previous betta Mr. Nibbles passed away :( , so we decided to replace him so his cage won't be unused.  More pictures to come!

Aquarium History part 2 - 2.5 Gallon

From the previous aquarium post, I have decided to then buy a 2.5 gallon aqueon tank.  I initially chose the tank because it is made of acrylic instead of glass which would make it more portable and lighter.  Also it came with a built filter.  Problems are that I didn't notice that the refill cartridges for the filter was very pricey, 3 for 9.99!  I also had to buy a heater for the tank since winter was coming up and I did not want my fish to freeze to death.  The incandescent bulb that came in the tank was pretty yellow and dulled the color of the fish and providing poor light spectrum for the java fern. so I bought a compact fluorescent bulb with a 4000K rating from wallmart.  Initial plan was also to plant the tank with some java fern to soak up some of the nitrate to keep water quality high.  Initially the tank went well, it took only about 1 week for the tank to be fully cycled as we seeded the gravel with the gravel from the previous 0.8 gallon tank.  I also added nutrafin cycle which i thought helped a lot in speeding up the cycling.  

2.5 Gallon Tank - Early Stage

My First Post

My first blog will be about my aquarium, food and starcraft 2. For the aquarium, I will be talking mostly about its progress and some reviews on the products I have used. For starcraft 2, I will be sharing some of my opinions and strategies for all three races for single player and multiplayer.

I have three aquariums, a 0.8 gallon Marina tank, a 2.5 gallon Aqueon tank, and a 10 gallon tank. I first bought the 0.8 gallon for a betta fish whose name is Mr. Nibbles. The tank consists of a plastic money tree, gravel and five pebbles the pros of this setup is that the water is steady which betta fishes like. It also takes up much less space than larger tanks. A con is that maintenance has to be done every 3 days or else the ammonia and nitrite concentration will be too high. Nitrogen cycling cannot be done with this small of a tank because the water volume is just to small. Therefore, I decided to buy a 2.5 Gallon Tank for my betta fish.

Mr Nibbles the Betta Fish

Early Stage 0.8 gallon tank