Import Laws on Turtles ...SUCK

You cant ship turtles into BC unless its for zoological/scientific/educational purposes. Ridiculous.

It's ok to sell cigarettes but god forbid importing pet turtles. Fuckers.

MIA

the weird thing about fish keeping is sometimes your fish just disappear. Sometimes they jump and you dont find a shrivelled up dry piece of lint you mistake for a piece of paper.. its your fish. Sometimes they die and they get eaten and decompose , the carcass just vanishes.

I bring this up caz I've done a major tank rearrangement and I discovered my amano shrimp have died , two ottos are gone , sailfin pleco gone , ... too much That's what happens when I neglect my tanks for 8-10 months.

I picked up a new basking dock for my Map , perfect.. sometimes plan B works out better. They didnt have the hang on back ones I wanted , I bought the magnet ones but it turns out it looks sharper and it works just fine .

UPdate May 1 2011

On the day Bin Laden was killed...

I havent posted here in a long time. I moved my tanks around again.. moved my 55 and 75 side by side with my turtles. Moved by 5Gs into my home office and into hallway. Moved my CtendoPomas into the 20g , that's about it... I just plan on getting more small turtles for Map tank. I would love to get my hands on some Razors , Reeves , Muds...  Im gonna try Apple Snails one more time. I've tried breeding them on 3 seperate occasions. they keep dying. I think it's a PH thing..maybe. I dunno.

So Im still a geeking it up with my herps and fish , just havent posted in almost a year.

FINALLY! NEW SHRIMP! 8/21/10

After 2 goddamn years of trying to breed my cherry shrimp , kept buying them , they would die off and no babies , I got fed up with buying them in 10s and shit so I bought a 100 in Feb off Aquabid for $60 total including shipping. Yet for the last 6 months STILL NO FUCKING BABIES!!!....

finally I spotted a bunch of babies this week. I think my tank is fucking finally ready to breed a army of cherries.. motehr fuckers..

Now only if I can get my goddamn Apple Snails to fuckign fuck and breed. Mother fuckers.

Goddamn planaria and ramshorns taking over my cherry tank..but ironically now i get babies!!

fuckers.

Mappy update

I moved my Map turtle into the 20G .... he's still small and growing slowly. He's healthy and active... would still like to gethim a buddy.

I currently have my Betta , Hank McCoy with him and a stray baby white cloud minnow ... those are all Java Ferns.. some are stuck to the wood , hopefully the rest will latch on soon.

SPonge filters , I do weekly water changes.. twice a week.

UPDATE: 7/19/10

okee , I downsized since I last posted 5 months ago. Im in the process of downsizing a tad more.

My apples snails arent fucking fucking. They havent bred shit. I emptied out my 33G , I will moving my Apps , my cherry shrimp... and plants into the 33G.

Moving my map turtle into the 10G or 20G.. Black Calvus will take what left over.

I moved my Betta again and Loach into the 75G. All Asian tank. Ill be clearing out 2 more 10G tank/tubs. Will have it down to the core group of tanks. I will have to let some nice sponge die out.

Thats it , Ill be pretty happy with this group of tanks. Im not looking to expand anymore , Im dedicating myself to my comics and graphic novels.

fish profile: Tanichthys albonubes 'White Cloud Minnow'

White Cloud Minnows breeding tub.

I had 3 white clouds left over , they bred and I have 9 now. I know I have 1 breeding female good to go.



Keeping them with Java Moss , Hornwort , Bamboo .. they breed with heated tank but Im not heating the tank. Im gonna let them breed in the summer when it gets naturally hot. So by then my hornwort and Java Moss will be bigger , lots of goodies for fry to eat.