Added plants to the tank :D

Okay...here i type less and talk more...
As promised...added some plants and worked on the left side to reduce the current flow strength...and there as you can see...happy bichirs :)

Drift wood ftw

Here you'll see that the ropefish is kinda trying to get the lkf for meals...and err of course the new landscape to the right side of the tank....
Basically they ate two pieces of bog wood which i've been soaking for over a week in a tub downstairs toilet to wash off the brownie water thingy and to make it sink down.
Then i added a whole lot more gravel after placing it in to create that little small mount up hill thingy.....cuz at 1st just placing the 2 piece wood there didnt look at all nice till i added more gravel to bury like 1/3 of it :P then after that it looks like its been there for years...
Will be adding a plant there to make it all look nice later...and working on the left side cuz its like the change of the filter water output was changed to the direct left...which added to the current from the water pump on the top-right corner...therefore causing the current to become too strong and made all the fish like pref to stick to one corner cuz they got so tired of swimming against the current....

Adding in my 2nd ornate bichir and new ropefish

Here is a long intro post but err...totally all the way when i put in my ornate and rope fish :P
Took me like a whole month to actually see the rope fish in action trying to catch shrimps and the occasional lkf.....but recently i've been able to get him to go for blood worms and a bit of pellet...
Quite the picky fellow imo but yah...quite cool imo

Here is an older vid of when Kalifa and Diablo were younger....Aaaaannd smaller =.=
Roaming around going for bloodworms...a lil long but yeh...
Patience....already loading up better vids...got new tank setups and they get bigger later.

My Delhzie bichir's birthmark

Yep, during the time when my delhzie bichir is under quaranteen, I noticed that it had a cross sign on his head. AWSOME!!!! so cute too.

Changed back to old gravel ~.~

Here i changed the gravel back to the initial one...
Man..what a backache >.<"

Medicated the water to assist with healing.

My many mistakes for 1st timer maintaining aquarium fish >.<"

Here i have made mistakes....
1) i nvr thought about the ph value in the gravel....shud've tested it before putting in...
2) didnt change water in the aquarium before putting in the new endi. and ornate bichirs... luckily the ornate bichir is still well till today...unfortunately the endi. was too late to be saved and died shortly after this vid...
I hadnt leant about antibiotics or proper quarantine
3) i didnt add salt to the aquarium to kill parasites....which cud have been the cause of the endi's death too...
4) didnt add in the cycle bacteria and eco-bio block to help treat the water sewage

- oh well...i have to learn the painful way...1st timer with aquatics :(

As you can see the endi has like boold bubbles and the skin is like splitting....severely sick...hadnt been eating for a long time and he bloated up...i think it was internal dmg...
Part of the reason cud be the shop i bought the bichirs from cuz the ornate was not eating....but at least i managed to buy the meds to treat them...which i had to friggin change the aquarium water every alt day...
I kept calling the fish shop for advise and they got irritated as i asked so much lol

well..this vid again was taken like 2 months back....now i'm much better at it and i've got happy bichirs living well and healthy :D
sorry 1st Endi.... :'(

Changed Gravel

This was some time back...i think like 2 months ago...
Where i went out with my buddy Adrian to look for white gravel....despite the advices given to me...i still insisted that the white gravel looked nicer...
So i got to one shop which didnt have the economy bulky pack of the white gravel but had many small packs...i think i bought the whole shop off the white stone packets...
Then i found i cudnt really lift it outta my car when i got back home...had to take out like pack by pack =.="
It was still damn tiring and heavy...but thats not all...
There is the process of having to wash the gravel before we can use it...
So there i took out a bucket at my garden (so i can water the plants as well as wash my gravel without having to waste too much water in that sense)
Where i opened like 5 packs at a time (about 30 packets) to wash in the washing buckets...
It was hell as each 5 packets i had to wash it several times...kept changing the water over and over cuz it kept getting cloudy every time i washed it...
Ok..so that took like 5 hours to get done...
Took a short break...went into next process...which is putting my current bichir fish into a smaller tank first then extracting the molten gravel from the aquarium.
Then had to wash the aquarium and filter clean...hooh...another hour.
Ok so that was done....had to now have the help of 3 ppl to carry all the white gravel in a large tub up to my room...and slowly put it in...
pour in the water...treat it...then put the bichir fish back...and there as shown in the vid :D