What a boring day! But hey, it's friday... and the weekend is here soon. Yes, I'm still debugging the seemingly undebuggable codes...
Anyway, yesterday I had the luxury of time to spend with my little fishes again (cos no one is at home when I reach home)... The joy of keeping fish is to watch them swim, feed, grow and live in harmony (lucky me, they did). I said lucky because I like a mix of varieties in my tank but it was the ignorant me when I go on my first few impulse buying sprees (now that I know more, I don't) after I took over an empty tank in my house. Maybe let me share with you some of my tank residents (trying to break away from the codes for a while):
My
Penguins, aka
hockey-stick tetras, are active swimmers but they do not jump at all (even though some sites classify them as good jumpers). My
Zebra Danios are also very active and are heavy eaters. They are beautiful, fast but graceful long-finned swimmers. My four
honey gouramis are orangy red and they are the ones who eat the most and always beat their tank mates to the food during feeding times. Their occasional dashes to the surface for air (sometimes around the same time) are fun to watch.
My
Pink Corydoras Catfishs, aka cute scavengers, seem to be forever hungry and are always busy roaming around the gravels and hide-outs looking for food. The only time they stay very still on the gravels is when they are feeding on their new-found food. Hmm, I hardly ever see my catfish go to the surface to swallow air bubbles down their intestines… and if I do, it’s during feeding times (to take in oxygen and to feed at the same time?).
And yes, my one and only
rainbow shark is great to watch too. “Jaw” is pretty energetic and likes to swim in and out of hide-outs but is not aggressive to its tank mates except for several games of chase with my honey gouramis during feeding times. Again, people say sharks are jumpers but mine isn’t.
The ones that will breed without any assistance are my
shrimps, and unfortunately the
trapdoor snails and
ram’s horn snails that come undetected with the moss (I help myself to all these freebies from Kim Peng’s pond… keke…). My brother and I enjoy treasure-hunting these shrimps as they usually hide. Hmm, I’m wondering if it’s okay putting 2-3 fresh-water clams in? Wait till I find them…
Oh btw, if you have noticed... I’m a “scientific-name” idiot. And that’s also the reason why I never take any module that is related to Biology. Haha…