Think Fish Keepers Daily News. [2016-2019]

@fcmf My evil side insists on fuelling your MTS urges... I got a new (to me) 250litre corner tank last week. The refurb is just about done and it has cleaned up very well almost looks like new just waiting for a new hose for the external.

All this talk about MTS makes me jealous since dad says i cannot have another tank 

Ill go talk to Boris the BettaŠ

Good evening all! Sorry for the long absence, I must hold my hand aloft and admit I have neglected my moderator duties and let the other mods and members down by not being here pretty much in any capacity for approximately a month! I apologise 

There are two reasons for this. I won't go too deep into the nitty gritty details but the first one was a long drawn-out reunion with my fiancees 17 year-old daughter who has been back in touch and visiting us after a 2 year absence living with my fiancees parents. It's a very long story and the development has consumed a lot of my spare time and energy.

The second is my fiancee herself who has Sciatic disc bulge. We have no idea how this happened (during our week in Tenerife in October) but it could be equally attributed to sitting for extended periods (ie the 4.5 hour flights) or by a heavy lifting movement in her work as a Care Assistant with some rather heavy-set residents... So most of my remaining energy on my time off has been keeping up with chores and tending to a missus who struggles to put one foot in front of another, never mind unload a dishwasher or washing machine... Still a few weeks to go I reckon but we are sseing improvements with physio. It's one of those things that cannot be rushed...

I have, however, been keeping up with my tank maintenance and the community is thriving. Still just the one tank on the go, I will eventually (in the new year now) do something with the 3 foot tank but for now it's a steady march towards Christmas and a promotion coming about sometime after the new year!

So lots have been occuring and I look forward to catching up with you all!   

Hey @Paddyc great to hear from you.   
Best wishes to you and your family, I hope that your fiancee gets well soon, congratulations on your imminent promotion, and good to hear that your community tank is thriving.
Take care. 

Tell your fiancee I sympathise, having myself suffered from compression of the sciatic nerve by a disc in my spine. I know just how painful it can be.

It is good news for fiancee about her daughter 

Thanks all, yeah it's lovely to be able to put a long term family dispute behind us. RE: My missus' injury, the physio has been chatting aith her and says if things don't improve over another 3-4 appointments he will be referring back to GP about surgery... 

We were up early as it's wheelie bin day and they come any time from 8 onwards. It is also foggy and was still dark at 7:45. After I'd had breakfast I went to check on the betta as he'd had plenty of time to wake up. He is getting old and likes to spend his time sitting in the hornwort. He was there this morning, but sort of stretched out, and still in the same position as when I turned the light on. I couldn't see his gills moving, or his mouth. After studying him for a couple of minutes I decided he must have passed away in the night but to be sure I got the magnifying glass to see him better. He decided that he wanted to know what was going on and his eye swivelled to look at me, he realised it was only me so swivelled his eye back again.

A bit like me when my husband decides it's time we got up and I want another 10 minutes sleep 

Well at least your husband wasn't contemplating scooping you out of bed with a net and flushing you. Poor betta I hope you gave him a treat.

My betta is definitely still in the land of the living, he spent a few hours yesterday (after he woke up properly) flaring at his snail 



But that's more than can be said about one of the rasboras. I saw what I thought was a dead leaf on the floor at the side of the tank yesterday evening. It wasn't, it was a dried out hengel's rasbora    It must have jumped during a water change. I did the last change last Friday so it could have been there since then, it was very dried out.





Doesn't say much about my housekeeping though, taking 4 days to notice something on the carpet 

Gosh, there seems to be a lot of love in the dwarf puffer tank this evening. 
I'd go as far as to say that two of the females are quite receptive, and are being persued by certain males, who have developed their colours and now have very dark belly stripes.
Thankfully it is more of the "gently nuzzling" sort of action than the more frantic activity seen in the tiger barb tank a few weeks ago.