F's G-Thread

Lifestyle must have got 8 different bags of good looking males and females - Saigon I think the shipments originated from ..

Just wanted the one BIG female .. but ended with two in the bag.



Do not have lights on at the moment so all flash.



Later Ferdie

 

Haha Ferdie that female almost went home with me. Was there when they dripped them and put them in the tank.

That female is very close to the one I am going to use.

 

They got nice big tail fins.

 

Yeah think that was Monday when the stock arrived .. I normally let them sit a few days but did not think she would be around much longer.

Chatted to the guys a bit - they had the tanks at 28 degrees so hope these do OK in my 22 degree tanks.

If anything I will be happy to take the fry from these two and add them to general population - getting some new blood in my tanks will be a good thing. They are pre-hit so lets see.

Later Ferdie

 

So those 2ft LED T8 tubes - to bright and to much power....

Found these 1ft T5 "tubes" running at rated 5W - still need to measure and calculate.



Either the 2ft tube are degrading real fast or the 1ft sting is just a bit brighter.



But on a side note the T5 enclosure has less aluminium but also a tighter angle due to light coming off the extrusion.



I am very happy with a bit of shadow in the tank against the sponges..



Later Ferdie

 

Looks great.. Are those new beauties breeding yet?

 

No no --- the challenge starts 1 December - only kidding.

Actually I have not introduces new guppies into any of my existing tanks for a very long time, must be years .. so I am reluctant to the point that I will probably only introduce the off spring.

Still finishing some of the setup so that it is as low maintenance as possible, I have a tendency on these smaller projects to set things up so that they can run for 6 months to a year without me having to en cure extra costs or re-do time. Also waiting for a Thailand shipment next week, that might bring in some other strains that I might want to breed with rather, but then it is done.

I am little behind, should have had the planting all done by now.. even if it is just stuff stuck to rocks.


Later Ferdie

 

hmm - had a quick look in the outside tanks .... could almost not spot a single guppy (been moving some out to make space for the challenge),my fears have been confirmed



The guys did not take kindly to that temperature drop we had ...

Oh well ... moving on to the living.

Later Ferdie

 

Hi Ferdie where is that shipment landing? Got 5 guppies he other day, two red males like yours just slightly darker, but all of them where dead the next day so also very reluctant to add new stock.

 

Lifestyle, order went in on Wednesday ... they expecting it this Tuesday / Wednesday. (They have so many at the moment not sure what tanks they going to be putting the new stock in).

Mine are still ok .. but they have not joined any of the other tanks yet. Will probably look at adding them shortly.

Will post when I see them ..


I have also asked that they not mix the thai with the Vietnam or remaining Sri Lanka stock - not sure if that will happen.


Later Ferdie

 

Ag nice man, take your camera for some pics. Tell them it's free advertising.

 

Since I have no heaters running, thought I would take a quick look at power consumption

Filters only - 180 Watt (and let me qualify since not all my tanks have filtration - 5 canisters, 3 HOB's, 3 internal that drive the HMF's in this thread and 3 airpumps for outside - plus other stuff in the room that is on 24x7)

Light and Filters - 390 Watt
Computer 90 Watt with LED screen.

Above all measure at plug.

Now for the numbers ..

180 x 24 + 210x9 + 90x6 = 4320 + 1890 + 540 = 6750 in 24 hours or 282 watts per hour on avg.

Don' t think I am in the top consumption range for the house but lets say I am then we should be paying R1.4 kW/h for city Power.

282/1000*1.4 if my math is right means 40c per hour on avg so R10 a day or R310 a month.

For a hobby that gives so much back I am more than happy to spend this on power.

Later Ferdie

 

Decided to seed some moss on the one HMF ...


also filled the last of the tanks.



Later Ferdie

 

and this is why you need a QT for guppies from any LFS ......

Spotted a problem this morning in the one tank, lucky I have not added my males yet.


Added some rooibos to the tank .. maybe she can win the fight.



not sure it will survive the night - but then it is what it is .. weak genes must go



Later Ferdie

 

Well she did not make it .. and this after arrived home with some microbe-lift artemiss ... dosed the tank in any case - to see if the other two will stay OK.

Later Ferdie.

 

Good luck man. The positive is that you may find an even better female to mate with. I mean for your male gippies of course

 

Hope your others will be OK

 

He he ... yeah - been feeding the other tanks mosquito larvae, oh boy that seems to but the growth thing in overdrive, so I actually have some goodly sized females for the red's. Just glad I have for the first time in years been doing QT's very out of past character, but seems to have paid off.

BTW seems like the Thailand shipment if postponed ... so will have to start with the stock I have on hand.

Later Ferdie

 

I must remember to setup mossy possy

 

Getting a good hall from the one tank - say every 2-3 days or so ...





I do not bother to divide these ... just feed a different tank every time I harvest some.

Later Ferdie