October 29, 1999: What's new? / Latest photo scans
What's new? The second tank seems to be well started. The number of fish has been gradually increased over some three weeks. This tank differs greatly from the other in one important way: There is no large carnivore. The first tank has cichlids and quite a large crayfish. Any very small fish could potentially become food. (They do have lots of cover.)
The second tank was intended from the start to be a place
where the very small fish can swim freely throughout the
whole volume. No fish exceeds about 7 cm, and that's a
darter or two. A crayfish about 7 cm long is about to be
banished to an outdoor pond, probably after its next molt.
Update Jan 17, 2000: The crayfish remains peaceable, and
is still present, as is one of equal size in the "first" tank.
Both are now some 12 or 13 cm long now, maybe 5 inches. They
don't threaten the fish at all.
...and enough text for now. Better to look at them than talk about them. Click on any filename to see it. The first tank has the awful blue gravel. The second has natural quartz gravel mostly light brown in color; and rocks.
crayfish, 3cm = 1 1/4 inch +/-
crayfish, 8 cm or so = 3 inches+
tadpole, 9cm = nearly 4 inches
crayfish, 8 cm or so = 3 inches+
crayfish, 8 cm or so = 3 inches+
shrimp, 3 cm or less = 1 inch+
shrimp, 3 cm or less = 1 inch+
acara, 9 cm +/- = 3 1/2 inches+
darter, 6 cm+ = 2 1/2 inches+/-
darter, 6 cm+ = 2 1/2 inches+/-
marbled Gambusia, 3.5 cm = 1 3/8 inches+/-
Elassoma, 2.5 cm = 1 inch
Elassoma, 2.5 cm = 1 inch
Elassoma, 2.5 cm = 1 inch
shrimp, 3 cm or less = 1 inch+
Elassoma, 2.5 cm = 1 inch
killie, 4 cm +/- = 1 5/8 inches
killie, 4 cm +/- = 1 5/8 inches
darter, 5 cm+/- = 2 inches
Lucania goodei, 3.8 cm = 1 1/2 inches +/-
(bluefin minnow)
Contact me! All comments and questions and advice will be welcome. I would especially like to know species names for these critters.
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