Thursday, September 25, 2008

25th September 2008 : Aquarium Setting

It had been sometime since I had done some work with aquarium setting. It seem that ever since I went to college I had totally stop setting up aquarium.

I think I was too lazy and seem to loss interest in fish keeping. We still do keep an matured oscar during this period. But I seem to loss any interest in it. May be the sense of ownership was loss when I was in

Today , first time since 2002 I involve in setting up the aquarium. A week ago the previous aquarium that we keep our oscar seem to be leaking. My believe is that the foam under the aquarium was terrorized by the small tiny ants. They seem to remove the foam, bits by bits. Eventually,a part of aquarium was in contact with the stand and it leaks due to the pressure of the tank is concentrated on the certain area.

So our poor old fish had to be keep in a tub for a week before we start buying a new aquarium today. Her appetite during this period was poor. Obviously she is very stress over here !!!

Well, my dad help me in this adventure and it only took about less than 2 hours before all the project was done!! However unfortunately, we dont have the anti chlorine solution. I was aware of the danger putting the fish in a newly changed tank. So I put some bait fish (the fish I give for the oscar food) first before I introduce the oscar.

Unfortunately, all the bait fish died. I strongly believe that this is due to the high chlorine concentration in the water.

So what I did was to put the filter and water pump in the aquarium. This I believe increases the rate of chlorine to disperse from the tank.

So I tried putting in new fish in the tank and this time, none of the fish died. So I believe that the chlorine level in the tank now is in the acceptable level. So I put my old oscar in the tank.

So I hope my hunch is correct! The oscar should be ok!!