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One Year Anniversary of Our Tank

Monday was the 1 year anniversary of our fish tank. To celebrate, I created a little photo slide show. Enjoy!  Unfortunately, our fish Hanna got starting showing symptoms of illness the day after I posted this video. She died sometime last night. It’s a challenging hobby! I’ll have a much longer and in depth year review up when I can.…

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Hank is now Hanna

The discus that rules our tank was originally named Jack…until she laid eggs and we had to rename her Jackie. Well, last week the low man on the totem pole decided to lay eggs. That’s right, Hank is now Hanna!    Sarah first noticed Hanna doing the pre-egg laying routine of pecking and swimming alongside the candidate branch like object. Being my know-it-all self, I insisted that Hanna was just looking for food.…

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Random Tank Update

One of our tank lights comes with LED moonlights, but the light is on a timer. The moonlights don’t have a separate power cord, so they can’t be run after the timer switches the light off. We were thinking of buying a moonlight, but then we remembered that we had some left over lights from Christmas. MacGuyver!…

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We lost our first discus

Last Monday night, Sarah and I lost our first discus. It was Lloyd, one of our favorites. We’re pretty bummed. Lloyd had been sickly from almost the time we got him last August at 2.5 inches, but he was feisty and full of personality. His symptoms were stringy poo, hiding and lack of appetite. When he first started showing symptoms, we dosed with Metronidazole. It was before we really knew much about discus health and it didn’t help.…

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