Recent content by shinygrape

I'm a movie producer and festival director, so I only know people and talk to people about movies, festivals, actors, and the like. I love it, but I have very few freshwater fish friends, and the guys at the pet store don't know what they're talking about. One of my friends just got a job at the...

Hmm, interesting, I never thought of that. I'm keeping the lights on for about 10-12 hours a day because I have no windows in my office (I have a dark & awful basement office for my startup non-profit, so my fishtank is what spruces the place up!) Tested the water, everything seems ok in the way...

Oh, also, my first set of female platys were Shake & Bake, but Shake died. Right after she died, I found a baby she had, so I named her Shake-ira (get it...Shakira?) I'm not funny.

I named one of my live-bearing fish named Uwe Boll because she's daaaaaark and broooding. Turns out, Uwe is a female, so I'm naming her progeny after Uwe Boll's films. So far, I have Postal, BloodRayne, and Rampage. Let's see who cranks 'em out faster - my fish that does nothing but screw and...

I have three adult female platys (I know they stay pregnant for a long time, so no point in buying a male), 6 fry (2 of them newborn), 3 (maybe 4) ghost shrimp, and 6 long-finned danios. Tank has been established bit-by-bit since June, and I'm finally getting algae on my ornaments & on the side...