But meet my other passion, although he is Daddys bird and i’m just the meany that does stuff for him.
This is Zazu my 7 year old Citrus Crested Cockatoo, we have owned him since he was 16 weeks old.
Nothing much to report with the fish/snails, same old same old, so heres Zazu instead to keep you all watching.
Yesterday saw another delivery of yellow Guppy fry, these are getting less and less now thankfully as all visible males are being removed from the tank on sight.
More snails hatched, oh dear god yes more, snails are now growing on nicely, many have reached the 1cm mark but as of yet i am not happy to let them go and shall continue growing them on myself for a further 2-3 weeks and see what size i have then. Every little helps and i want to ensure they get the best possible start before going to new homes.
Some updated photos of growth for you.
Today saw another hatch in tank 2, bang on time bless em, looks like we have had a snow storm in there.
Now for observation purposes im gonna put some pictures of growth rates, here in the first picture is our first ever batch on hatch day, next to the thermometer.
Now in this second picture you can see how 5-6 weeks later those babies have grown, the smaller snails are from a hatch last week i think.
And this next one shows their size compared to a full grown adult.
Nothing to report really, but as i had the camera out thought i’d snap away anyhow, got some funnys.
You gonna eat all that algae wafer?
Eye, i am!!!!
Police, police!! He just pushed me off, violates my human rights that does!!!
God im tired, can i hitch a lift!!!
Argh a blue one, lets get ‘im boys
incubation time of 10-11 days depending on how you count it, thats good, bang on as its normally 10-14 days.
Will add piccys to this post when i load them up.
Please excuse photo best i could do, this side of the tank is purposely never scraped so theres always natural algae for the snails, as well as wafers and pellets obviously.
Born 27th Sept, and litterally only 5mm in length, getting brave at only 10 days or so old.
Fed by her, maintained by us, Corys, Spixi Snails, Male Guppys (mostly bred by us), more to be added at a later date but slowly slow as this isnt an uber mature tank yet.
Appologies for the blue gravel, her choice not ours lol.
Male Yellow, not bred by us.
Well she was out poseing, would have been rude not too!
Finally sorted the camera this morning, one of my little monkeys had turned close up off, grrrrr, so thought i would get some Guppy photos up for you and how Tank 1 looks this morning.
Tank 1 overall.
Some of the Guppys
Some of our homebred Blues, Cherry shrimp sat on the skull
A photo of Adams Queen Arabesque
One of our Corys, Corydoras Sterbai, telling an Apple Snail to hurry up
And our Gold Ring Butterfly Fish, affectionately known as Angel
Enjoy, thanks for looking
Both tanks looking glorious again thankfully, we noted that tank 1 (Guppys) had received another delivery of fry, as indeed had tank 2 (Micky Mouse babys) we are particulaly glad of this as she’s been looking ready to pop for the past two weeks, that said she’s still abit of a porker people would assume she’s still gravid to be honest, she’s the most dominant female in the tank (especially when foods around hahaha), so lets just say *who ate all the pies* shall we, lol. Another observation that i noticed weeks back actually but didnt have my blog is that the Green swords have had a sex change, instead of one male and two females we now have 3 males, which of course is abit of a pain if you want to breed them, let alone the disruption as each male fights his territory, i can soon see a trip to LFS (not so local really) to take two back and get two more females, whom will hopefully stay female this time.
Having gone down to a closer shop yesterday ( we use them for RO) got Adams juices flowing yesterday and i can see that in the not too distant future the 4ft tank sat in the kitchen not doing anything will soon be brought back into action as Tank 4 ROTFL, now that was supposed to be my large fish display tank (including Ornate Birchirs) but i’m sure i heard a few mumbled words along differing lines yesterday, i shall keep you informed on who wins that one, that said if he decides Discus i might let him win *winks*.
Right enough waffle, see you all soon
*Who ate all the pies* I did!!!!
