YAYYYYYYYY!!!!!! A BABY!!!!!!

FANTASTIC NEWS!!!!!!

Im sooooooooo happy!!!!! lol. As you know one of My Bristlenose laied some eggs and when I got them they wernt all together and I thought I had picked them all up and put into the breeding net... but obviously I was wrong and at least one egg got away. Well Im very very happy to say that I have a baby Bristlenose!!!!!!! And here are some pics of the little mite. The first two pics are zoomed in shots and the last two are there to give it scale on just how small it actualy is. I hope you enjoy as much as I did this morning while on My normal snail hunting patrol

Well I have anouther new update for you. Unfortunatly the bristlenose hatchling didnt make it. so sad over that as I really thought it was going to make it, but when I checked it this morning it had died.

Hopefully the youtube links will work and show you just how determined the albino bristlenose is where food is concerned the leaf its eating from is moveing around in a air bubblr curtain and yet it still keeps eating away....
After watching each link remember to press the "back" arrow on your browser to get back to this page in order to watch the others

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28as9aTACDs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGhz5JBY_VI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx4HQZP_70I

lol I just had to share this with you. My one albino bristlenose loves to dig in the sand under the cucumber and stay there upsidedown.... it will spend hours doing this and when checking the tank just now I just had to share the sight I saw. I hope you enjoy watching it

Well anouther update. Yesterday I got told of a pet shop that was closeing and that it was its last day so I rushed over to see what I could get that was at a reduced price. Unfortunatly most stuff that was of any use to me had been sold, but I was able to get some new fish first pic is of a strange looking fish called a hillstream loach. When I bought it the guy called it a china sucker but he was useing the wrong name for it. There were 3 of them and he was keeping them in a very small plastic container as he had sold most of his fish tanks so I just had to buy them to make sure they had a good home. There was also 3 peppered cory catfish in anouther small container so I bought them also and to round things off I bought 12 neon tetra schooling fish.
I thought at first the hillstream fish was some kind of strange small plec like a bristlenose but with strange skirt like fins, and even tho they do eat alge and stick to things useing their mouths like a plec ( points to last pic in set ) they are actualy loaches.

I thought I would show a few fore pics. As you can see the fish absolutly love the mellon. Ive also updated my tank with a new plant to the right which I think ballences out the tank much better, you can also see the breeding net where the hatchling is currently liveing. And I have a updated pic of the hatchling Bristlenose fish

Ok as promised i have a pic of the bristlenose hatchling. For some reason tho I only have one and not two so where the second one is I have no idea as the breeding nets top is way out of the water so it couldnt float out or get eaten by anouther fish

But here is the pic of the first bristlenose hatchling

Well I have a few new things to share. First of all all the bristlenose eggs bar 2 died. The two that are left I THINK have hatched but Im not really sure. I will be adding a pic of them tomorrow.

In the mean time I tried a new food on my fish.... Mellon!! and they love the stuff!!!

The first post is from My smaller tank and as you can see the shrimp love the mellon also

I just thought I would share a vid of my guppies




I would also like to give a update on the Bristlenose eggs. well unfortunatly over half the eggs have turned white which means there is no way they will hatch but.... there are still some orange ones and they have a black line going through them which im told could be the baby fish forming!!!
So I will keep you informed as they should hatch withing the next day or so

We have Eggs!!!!!!

We have eggs!!!!!!!

Well the title says it all really. I found the eggs by acident. I hadnt seen the male BN for 2 days so decided to search for him in case he was ill or hurt. So I moved everything around trying to find him and so far ive still not been able to find him but what i did find was a cluster of eggs!!! so obviously he was looking after the eggs and thats why he wasnt around. I have taken a pic of the eggs for you to see. Ive also taken a few pics of some of the male guppies.

ok I added My two main Bristlenose to the new tank today and boy was it hard trying to catch them. In the end I had to fool them by putting their cucumber food inside the fish net in order to trick them. Anyway after a bit of exploring they finaly found the peice of bogwood i put in there for them to nibble on. The wood took a bit to find becouse it also has a slight hollow underneath forming a cave and anouther place for them to hide in.
The male soon found this hollow and has been busy digging diff ways to enter it and it seems the female has also found this prime peice of realestate and wants to share with him. Here is a short vid of them "playing" in and out of the bogwood cave