After yesterday's debacle, he started asking me about angels. He knew I'd wanted some - why wasn't I pursuing them?
The more I thought about it, the more I wanted angels. But they won't fit in 29 very well when full grown. Well, he said, what about the 55? Put the skirts in the 29, put the angels upstairs, after everybody has been through quarantine in the 29g.
Genius.
Not wanting to lose the excessive BB I have in the 29 from the cycle, I went to Petco. They had five angels. I got a marbled angel and...hmm. I don't know anything about angels. I know it has stripes. I think it's a veiled. They are only quarter-sized. They won't yet be able to eat the 8 cardinal tetras I bought.
I was going to get neons because they were 5 for $5. These guys were $3 each. If my cardinals die, I'll go with neons. I just like the extra red on the cardinal. They don't look quite as healthy as I'd like, but they're surely under immense duress at Petco. I have to say, every fish I saw up there today was way better-looking than anything I saw yesterday at Pet Stop.
I also got two black skirts. They're so tiny.
After the fish were acclimated and put into the tank, I did a little aquascaping. Rearranged rocks I found outside. Turns out the neighbors beside the green house have used rocks in their landscaping, and several dozen/hundred have rolled under the fence. I think I did a decent job. I took out the floating wisteria that did a fine job of soaking up nutrients. In fact, that wisteria sucked up so many nitrates that I needn't have even done a water change yesterday. They went from around 25 to 0. Astounding.
Now if I could just get rid of my stump's hat and get a smaller heater...
The angelfish won't hold still long enough for an iPhone photo, so until I can get the big camera, we can admire the Sunset Honey Gourami...
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