First Post in Six Years

Hello Blogspot!

It’s been a while, 6 years to be exact.  What can I say, life took a different turn, & I needed to focus my attention on other things.  I’m really glad to be back!  .

As usual, this will be a blog about my random musings.  It will be a mixture of things I love, places I want to see, tutorials, hobbies, etc.

Today, I’d like to share that I have some new hobbies that I acquired since January of this year, & that is my love of aquascaping & fish keeping.  I started in this hobby because my kids really wanted a pet.  We started off with a frail betta named, Gloop-Gloop, who was a mustard gas betta.  He has since passed, but here is our favourite photo of him (months after being in our tank):

Wasn’t he gorgeous?  He passed away due to stress.  We housed a golden algae eater with him who started to chase him around quite a bit, most likely sucking on his slime coat.  Due to my lack of experience, I didn’t realize how aggressive & territorial algae eaters can get.  We separated him from the algae eater, but Gloop-Gloop’s immune system was compromised, & eventually he stopped eating.  Although, I placed him in a hospital tank, he succumbed to his condition.  

This is a story of one fish & one tank, but can you believe that we have 6 fish tanks running at the moment?  We have a myriad of aquatic life, from the smallest pond, nerite, & ramshorn snails, emperor tetras, panda corydoras, cherry shrimp, crystal red shrimp, & bettas!  All our tanks are filled with aquatic plants too, like amazon sword, Madagascar lace, javafern, pellia moss, Christmas moss, filamentous algae, anubias nana petite, hygrophylia, cabomba, & water lettuce.  

I’ll introduce you to each tank on a separate post.  

It will be a long weekend for us, so no Monday blues tomorrow for me!

Have a wonderful Sunday,

Carla XO