Think Fish Keepers Daily News. [2016-2019]

Went to MA this morning to get some RO water., and I've had another accident...
I swore I'd never get another betta after the recent loss of both Kimi and Seb, but as soon as I saw this little fella I fell for him, so meet Spot.
He's been reserved, and is still at the store until I get a tank set up for him.

Ooooh, I love reading about your " accidents" - if anything, it perturbs me if some time has passed without one occurring as it seems as though the world is out-of-sorts.

He is indeed lovely. Looking forward to seeing him in his new home in due course.

That is the store that has been having a bit of a refurbishment, and got the extra plant tanks recently. They also seem to be getting some really nice looking fish in over the past couple of months, and I think I'm going to have to start going to that store wearing blinkers because there is far too much temptation. 

The MA website still says Stokesley is re-opening end November, but I haven't been to investigate yet. Garden centres are so busy at this time of year, and in the small temporary building it would probably take me half an hour to reach the MA through the crowds 

According to its Facebook page (https://en-gb.facebook.com/MAStokesley/), and an update yesterday, there is no livestock in just yet.

In that case it's a good thing we haven't braved the Christmas crush  I don't use Facebook, I just go by MA's website. Presumably they do have dry goods?

Yes, according to a comment on that page. 

There is so much "activity" going on in the tank that I'm having to avert my eyes. Suffice to say that the elderly harlequins, even Bent Spine/Tail Harley who I thought had only a matter of days/weeks to live, have somehow mustered up sufficient energy to spend ages frolicking with one another. This seemed to put ideas in the minds of the young neon green rasboras who were frolicking in the hornwort this morning. Just glanced in again and "activity" is rife!

Oh, what terrible news about Spot, @Littlefish - really sorry to learn of that but, as you say, better to have happened before he came home with you than afterwards.

Or was it just a goldfish bowl? I haven't seen the film in years.....

I won myself a Tropica Award Box! 

Quite a nice little surprise! I entered a competition on Instagram (I'm @ScapeEasy if anyone wants to look me up) to advertise the inspiration pages on the Tropica website. Below was my entry.

From what I can tell the award box includes a Tropica towel, some root tabs, some plant fertiliser, along with a load of stickers/leaflets etc etc.

Very happy indeed

Thanks @fcmf it arrived today actually... rubbish photo on a cold dark blow night alert...

The little note in the lid is cute and I really like the towel... a 'can't buy in the shops' exclusive apparently!

The co2 diffuser is a bit of a new one on me. My site and style is all about easy, low maintnenace and low tech aquascaping, but!... I do suppose I can't really claim to know my trade until I've tried it... maybe I can rig something up with the co2 canisters I have for bike wheels that I got on the cheap some time back and use this in the 12litre nano tank... I'll see what I can do with the bits I've got this weekend... if I can't get everything attached properly, this may have to go unused though!... shame really...

Anyway I picked the package up from a neighbour who was very interested with a parcel from Norway relating to aquariums which he kept years ago and has passed onto his son (really nice guy who we see around quite a bit) so I think I'm going t get a visit from the son soon... I got the life story a little bit but it was quite nice to know there are local people into aquariums... they might be getting asked to fish sit next time we are away little do they know lol...