Productivity?

Hello there, blog! Haven't seen you in a while! Well, to say nothing has happened in a while would be a major lie... I've just continued to be lazy and forget to maintain all these things.. I've decided the most painless way to update you is in the form of a list, so here ya go! 

-Persephone died (3/30)

-I did a ghetto water change (it involved filling up plastic Tupperware and dumping, then repeat as necessary, then reverse.) 

-My cousin is moving and all over her fish died except one, so I adopted him! Please welcome Hera (4/21) to the Underwater Empire! She will be a great friend to Aranyani after the fairly recent death of Persephone (Hera is a fancy guppy..). 

- Speaking of Aranyani, I am lightly considering changing her name to Dionysus.., just cause whenever I look at her, that's what I want to call her... Thoughts? (Leave a comment!)

- I FINALLY buried all of the fish we've lost! What's it been? 3 months? 4? Sheesh. It felt good to finally be caught up with that. Now they can finally rest in peace! (In my defense, the ground was still frozen until like March, so really my laziness as an excuse only really applies to the last month or two.) I also rewrote all the gravestone markings because they were all rubbed off after all the winter snow. Hooray! 

Is that all? I felt like I had so much more to tell you all... Huh. Well, If I remember anything dramatic, I'll be sure to update you guys (hopefully 😁)! 

Oh yeah, and as a sidenote: none of my other tabs are updated right now because I have to be on a computer to do that (I'm writing all this via ipad..) and I haven't gotten around to it yet.. But expect it soon and goodbye!

Happy Birthday, Blog!

Hey there everyone! Well, I logged on to blogspot and noticed that my last post (that I wrote a week or so ago) failed to publish. Yeah, so for the record, I'm not quite as lazy as it may seem. :) the purpose of this post is that along with all my other forgetfulness, I totally forgot that February 22nd was this blog's birthday AND the anniversary of when Aphrodite and Caligula joined my tank! It's been a fabulous two years of having this blog to record stuff, and even better to have a great (rebellious) fish like Aphrodite! Happy Birthday, Underwater Empire! 

My Extreme Negligence, and the Consequences Thereof

HELLO AGAIN. (As you can probably tell from the title..) I have been one very negligent person as of late... Posting to my fish blog being one of the many things on the list of things I haven't been doing... Anywho! Probably at the top of that list is cleaning my fish tank. Before you ask, yes. Yes I finally did it. But it was nasty. I hadn't cleaned it in weeks.. Feast your eyes on the before/after below to see what I mean. It seems the dirtier my tank gets, the less motivated I am to clean it and even take care of my fish at all....(Yeah. I know, right? Usually it would be just the opposite.) Due to my laziness, we lost a couple fishes :(. Poor Nyx and another Pachus were lost as a result of my lack of responsibility. They shall be deeply missed. Because of the snowy weather, I couldn't bury them at the time of their death, but now rain and sunshine have come and melted the snow so now it's the next thing on my list, so expect a new post soon! Anyways, there's your quick little update! Happy end of February! 

Before/ After (above)

And in case you wanted to see some close ups of the fifth that I allowed to plague my tank, here ya go! (Below)

 And viola! A whole new tank!

Happy New Year! - Remembering Napoleon

Just posting to wish everyone a Happy New Year (unless you're in China, I guess..) ;) today we're also remembering one of the original fish in my tank, Napoleon, who died on this day two years ago, making him the second fish to ever die in my tank. We miss him dearly! 

Ps- I'm making a New Years resolution to post to this blog more often-so hold me to it and look for new posts often! :)

New Arrangement, Decoration, and One-Year Anniversary of 20 gal. Tank!

Just posting to tell y'all about my new tank arrangement- I got a new decoration for my birthday, which (the day before my birthday) was also the 1 year anniversary of when I got my tank. Happy day, everyone!

Oh yeah, so in my last post I mentioned my sighting of fry, supposedly belonging to Nyx. I haven't seen anything since that post... I guess they all died? :( :(:(

The new arrangement. (Yes, I temporarily took the coliseum out..)

Here's a nice picture of Hippocrates. I thought it was strange that his shell was turning brown.

A close-up of the new decor.

Remembering the one-year anniversary of my 20 Gal. tank!

"  " 12/7/12- 12/8/12

CRAZINESS all around!

I was sitting, looking at my tank a bit after the aquarium lights had turned off, thinking to myself about a particular rock looked an awful lot like a tiny fish. Then, to my suprise it moved and I realized that it WAS! A little black fry (that looks exactly like Nyx) was swimming around by the plants! Do you know what this means??!! Nyx has been pregnant the whole time I've had her! All the signs were there- a big belly, (I thought that was normal for platys..) she had been surface resting, (I thought she might have ben ill) and a little white dot under her stomach! I feel stupid for not figuring it out before! I put her in a breeder tank in case she has more overnight. As for the rest, I'm hoping the plants will be sufficient to protect them (other fish are known to eat fry). I'll take another look in the morning to try and get a better knowledge of the situation. Let this be yet another example of how you should learn about the fish before you buy 'em! There could be 20+ fry that may not survive due to my lack of experience and ignorance on the subject! :z

Speaking of worryful things, I noticed that one of the Pachi has a big white splotch on his body. I'm crossing my fingers that it's not Neon Tetra Disease- a contagious (even to other species) and deadly disease that has no cure! :O

(The fry were too quick and tiny to take a picture of, but I promise they're there! I'm not insane! My mom and brother saw them, too!)

More Pictures of New Fish

Rameses at work

Persephone is already bonding with the new guppy!

Rameses' face

Rameses

Nyx

Nyx and Rameses are friends.

Nyx

Persephone is already buddies with the new guppy!

Rameses

Alanyani/Dioynisus/Demeter/other

Nyx