Sad day

Hi guys. Its been a sad day for us today, our new friend, Fie Dorra died today. Looks like he was not doing so well.  It was a pity he had to go…..We said our goodbyes and the boss took him away. I can’t really type much today…still a little sad about it. Tomorrow is another day. Elevator going down……and feeling a little down too.

Its Official

I have taken over. I feel elated to be the one to tell you all about my tank life with my buddies.  We just recently had a phone installed for easy communication with our neighbors, Derek, Hansel and Matilda. This was decided because soon, our water salinity is going to be raised, and it didn’t seem like a good idea for me to be jumping in and out of the fresh water to my brackish water.

So this is whats been going on. Zoolander is now officially Derek Zoolander. He didn’t like being called by his last name all the time. Made him feel a little like an outsider. So he asked us kindly to call him Derek. We have agreed.

Blinky moved out tonight. I was sad to see him go. We learnt a lot from him. He showed us how to hunt ghost shrimp. I was putting those lessons to use tonight, but didn’t manage to catch one. Soon! I swear I will. Anyways, we bid him a goodbye, but the boss promised to keep us all in touch with eachother.

The dwarfs have a new tank mate. A pleco named Fie Dorra. He said he was in a brackish tank for a little while, and was being bullied by Sushi….he and Blinky are friends. He asked his mommy if he could move to a freshwater tank, and she said that he could. So he has moved in with them for now. One of the ghost shrimp started bullying him early on, but the boss caught him and put him in our tank for me to learn how to hunt more.

Well, thats all for tonight. I am gonna go hone my hunting skills more now. Elevator going down!

Just to let you know

I have given Elevator full control of this blog now that I know he can handle it. We had a small meeting today with all non food tankmakes…Elevator, Halo, Derek (Zoolander, Elevator will explain later), Hansel, Matilda and even Pinchy came by. All the dwarfs agreed that they were too small to navigate the keyboard, Pinchy said I was lucky that he even showed up to the meeting, and Halo said he never did learn how to use a computer in his school. Elevator on the other hand showed great enthusiasm, seems to love writing about what he and his fellow conspecifics and pals. So I officially hand the page over to Elevator.

New stuff in the tank

Hi guys! Its Elevator again.  The boss went to bed, so I am sneaking on the computer.  We had a small talk today….he said he might install DSL in the tank if he can figure out how to get a computer in here with us, till then, he is going to design some kind of water mask for me…..something like what he saw in that Hellboy movie…he said he would let me watch it when I am older…a little violent right now, but he showed me a photo, it looks cool!

Anyways, a couple of new things in the tank today…we got one more rock to top of our little caves and caverns rock formation.  Not sure it was necessary, but it looks nice enough.  And a new bubble stone. One of those long ones that has fine bubbles coming out of. It feels nice. Like a bunch of dwarf puffers giving me a massage.

Blinky seems happy with us for now. He will be going home soon….he just got a new home from what I gather from Joanne when she talked to Blinky today.  Ok, so I was eves dropping, but its not like its a big tank either.

I had a chat with the dwarfs, Zoolander and Hansel, today. They told me their woman was just named Matilda.  She is kinda hot. But I like my women a little bit bigger. They got quite excited today, they said they got some snails.  I brought this up with the boss before he went to bed, and he dropped one in for us. It was yummy. From what I gather, the French puffers eat theirs with a butter sauce….but that kind of sounds nasty to me. I like my snail sushi.

Well, I hope everyone is having a good time. I am going to go to bed now…..my little cave is calling my name. Goodnight!  Elevator going down

The Dwarf Tank

Well, the tank seems to be coming along really nice. The two males have now been named. Zoolander and Hansel. Just cus Zoolander is such a poser, and Hansel is his competition.  I have not yet found a name for the female yet…..she has not shown me anything super unique…but time will change that.

Added some ghost shrimp with eggs in them yesterday. Hopefully will have some baby ghost shrimp running around so I can feed them to the GSP’s. Hopefully the dwarfs don’t eat them first.

Visitor

Hi guys, its Elevator again. Been quite an interesting day. Woke up kinda late, had some worms, then went exploring a little. Nothing different in the morning. Then the water level started falling. Don’t know why. But it felt really fresh when everything got back to the right level. Later this evening, the giant green thing came into the tank and started taking out the tetras. I wonder where they went…..

But, great news! We have a visitor. Blinky, a Green Spotted Puffer like me has come to stay for a little while. He tells me he was being bullied at home by a Takifugu named Sushi. Blinky says Sushi is a nice fish, just got in with the wrong crowd when he was younger, but he had to be saved, because he was getting scared. So Halo and I are showing him around here for now, making him feel at home. He has promised to show us how to hunt ghost shrimp….they are sooo fast! He says its pretty easy once you get the hang of it first.

I’ll try and sneak out the tank again and give you more updates when the boss is out. Till next time! Elevator going down!

Pictures of the Tanks

Well, finally got to get some photos of some of my fish. Trying to get macros of them in the tank is hard work. Took about 150 shots in half an hour, and still don’t have everything I want, but here are some of the shots….Not had a chance to edit them, except resizing, eventually I will.

Here is the 10G tank

Some Inhabitants..

And my 20G

AND Introducing Elevator. Halo was a little shy, but I’ll get him soon enough.

Thats it for now…more will come soon enough….

Shhhh, the boss is out

Hi guys! This is Elevator. I snuck out the tank for to use his computer…..Halo is looking out on the tank watching me tap dance on this keyboard.  I don’t have much time…I heard something about 7-11. That normally means no more than 7 minutes.

Well, the boss came home with some new rocks to make a bunch of caverns to play in. I found them fairly interesting for a while, but I kind of like looking at myself go up and down on the side of the tank.  Halo, on the other hand, has kind of an Indiana Jones thing going on…..I swear, give him a fedora hat and a whip and he would be out there saving some hot porcupine puffer from a shark.  Needless to say, he loves it.

Pinchy is being a donkey.  Keeps munching on our worms. AND snails.  But, I am still full, so I am not complaining.  At least he does not touch our krill and shrimp.

Took a peek over at our neighbor tank with the teeny puffers in em. They look happy. Gotta say hey sometim…….oh no, the boss is coming back…I hear the key turning. Till next time guys! Elevator going down!

Names

Well, I have finally done it, names for the GSP’s. I had some friends over for dinner tonight, and showed them the little guys. They loved them.  One of the GSP’s has a brighter green spot on his head, and for some strange reason, the name Halo came to mind. And it stuck. My friend noticed that the other one (that has more leopard like spots on him…almost getting him named Leopold…dorky) keeps on going up and down on the side of the tank. Ok, a small sign of stress, and boredom, but he does it more than Halo, so he is now named Elevator. The blue lobster is now named Pinchy, after the Simpsons lobster…..

The Dwarf puffers have yet to be named yet. I am starting to be able to tell them apart now. Soon, they will have their names though

My aquariums for your viewing

This is my GSP tank

And this is my Dwarf Puffer tank

Better videos I hope in the future