FEMALE MPIMBWE FRONTOSAS

ALL THREE ARE FEALE, BUT ONE ON TOP IS HOLDING EGGS

BETA MALE MPIMBWE FRONTOSA

ALPHA MALE MPIMBWE FRONTOSA

The Ever Lovin Blue eyed THING!

The Ever Lovin Blue eyed THING!

My Alpha male mpimbwe frontosa

My Alpha male mpimbwe frontosa

Alpha male mpimbwe frontosa

Alpha male mpimbwe frontosa

mpimbwe alpha male vs beta male frontosa

mpimbwe alpha male vs beta male frontosa

Mpimbwe female frontosa holding eggs

Mpimbwe female frontosa holding eggs

Mpimbwe female frontosa

Mpimbwe female frontosa 5 inches in size and ready for breeding. She is a part of an existing colony.

Suffering

Antman Sketch

My quick sketch of Antman. Thanks Stephen for the Marvel book. I will return eventually.

My Mpimbwe Frontosa trio colony

Female frontosa swimming

New female\male Frontosa and Electric blue

Baby Frontosa

Newby baby Frontosa

Recreated as African Cichlid tank

African cichlid tank replaces Saltwater tank because of Saltwater wipe out of all fish. Nice substitute. Africans are colorful and active and transition was easy.

SALTWATER JOURNEY IS OVER

SALTWATER AQUARIUM JOURNEY IS ALL OVER!!! I have had my few years of successful experience and with my first tank wipe out, I must call it a day. I will reinvent tank as an African Cichlid tank. Easy conversion. Low cost for fish and bring back some stability financially and physcologically.

Possible causes of Ich Plague

Possible causes:

1. To many fish introduced in short period of time caused stress in tank, which brought about ICH.

2. OCD on my part once I saw the initial break out on the HIPPO, I overly reacted and tried to attack it with raising the temperature and meds(stress coat & Kordons ich(%100 natural). This may have contributed. Should have just let things be and taken the wait and see approach.

3. Hippo may have just introduced it open and closed case.

As of right now ich is gone but eye cloud and heavy breathing exists for all except for Wrasse and damsel. At this point if I loose them all, then I loose them all. I may call it a day with the Saltwater fish and give up. We shall see.... :(

The saltwater plague

Well after an initial successful introduction of my new Harlequin Tusk fish(and even got him eating), he has perished a slow suffering death. Ich had broken out full blown starting with the hippo tang. Sad to see him die. RIP 5/11/07 10:05pm.

The rest of the fish are not doing well at all except for the Mexican Wrasse and Blue damsel fish. Very Tragic. Still in the midst of trying to save everyone else.... Hippo, Maroon, Dwarf Lion and Squirrel. Wish me luck :(

Magic Aquarium potions

Three magic potions. Kordons Ich Attach, which is 100% natural organic to help with Ich. Will not harm snails, crabs or live rock. Kent Essential Elements which are great during water changes. AmQuel also awesome for water changes. Removes Chlorine, Nitrate and Nitrite. Also Last but not least Cycle for adding bacteria to new water while performing water changes. Very good to also use when adding new fish.

Second tusk pic

Another tusk pic

new Tusk fish

My new Tusk fish my cousin got me all into. He is doing well and swimming

Hippo tang curious

Fuzzy lion with tank mates hippo and damsel

Pic of Fuzzy lion dwarf below and Hippo tang with damsel above

Dwarf fuzzy lion fish

Traded my 8inch volitan lion fish for 2.5 inch Fuzzy Dwarf lion. Volitan was almost about ready to out grow the tank. Dwarf will only grow max 6 inches and is a slow grower. I already got him to eat frozen silver slides. He looks like a keeper.

Me and the family I Love Lucy pic

Flowerhorn pic from 6yrs ago

I found an old Flowerhorn pic I had. He was really very aggressive.. killed the female and preferred to just chill on his own... Called him Moby Dick! RAAAA.. traded him eventually for $60 worth of Petshop credit.

New Maestro Hulk creation #2

Another new Maestro Hulk Creation #2. He is wearing trophies of Marvel heroes he has defeated.

My custom maestro hulk creation

I have taken on a fascination with creating my own version of how marvel legends figures should look like. Here is one of my creations Maestro Hulk after defeating the Mighty Thor

My custom marvel hulk figure

my custom hulk figure I created from various other action figures. I also repainted the entire figure.

My crimson squirrel fish

My first hippo tang

My first hippo tang. After an hour he was already swimming and eating. Must continue to cross my fingers with my luck so far.

Creating my first Blog

Creating my first Blog and will be posting pics of my saltwater fish. Credit goes to my cous who convinced me into creating my first blog and posting my fish pics.