Thanks!

Just wanted to say thanks to all the members of:

www.irishfishkeepers.com

for their kind words and support!

Beachwood!!

Went down to the beach yesterday and found these lovelies:

I have not decided exactly what to do with them but I am certain they will come in useful.

Melander

I have started to work on the 160 litre tank.















During Christmas it sprung a leak in the joint of the front and "side" glass.

I have stripped all the silicone in that corner, in retrospect I should just have stripped the inner silicone but I hope this will work anyway. I also stripped quite a bit extra were there was no leak.

When that was done I cleaned the area with acetone and let it dry.

With the joints all clean and dry I applied masking tape so that my newly applied silicone will get a nice straight shape.

The picture above is taken after the silicone was applied, I smeared it out using a glove and then ripped the tape of before the silicone had time to dry.

I really hope this will do it but just to be safe I'm going to fix plastic supports in the joints, I'll post a pic when that's done too.

After that it's just the leak test left.

Melander

Ancistrus sp., sexing

These fish were sold as Ancistrus sp. L180

They have now started to "bristle up" and three are obvious males, like this lad:

I'm however hopefull that this one is a girl:

I have already had comments on this but would like to hear from more people so please feel free to comment below!

Cheers, Melander

Photos!

Added a whole bunch of photographs, mainly of Ancistrus fry!

Managed to upload some photos, create links and buttons, this might just become a blog after all.

First post! Trial and error I suppose, we'll se how it goes.

Anyway, of all times to start a blog this might be the worst, I am in the process of moving and one tank is empty due to a leak. Hmm.. perhaps I should talk about that.