FlyAnglerFishKeeper
Aquarium Advice Regular
I told myself I knew what I was doing. LOL
Last night I acquired three tiny pumpkinseed bream for my native aquarium. They were naturally a little freaked out by the experience, even though we tried to explain to them that they would no longer have to fear being eaten by a bass. Apparently, pumpkinseed bream do not speak English.
After a few minutes in the tank, Dr. Sheldon Cooper found some rocks and fake plants to his liking and settled in, but the other two - Raj and Leonard, continued to swim along the tank wall. My smarter-than-I-will-ever-be wife said "Why don't we turn the blue light on for them - maybe they will think it's night-time." I was like "Oh yeah, that's really going to help..." but I said "ok. do it."
Within five minutes all three were resting peacefully, as bream will do apparently, on the bottom of the tank. Each one staked out a little rock-pile to hide in over night. One of them got in it and hardly moved for two hours.
Then, the storms came. Now, I'm not sure if all fish do this or not - I'm guessing the ones bred for aquariums wouldn't - but I got up to check our extra freezer during the storm to make sure the breaker hadn't tripped and shut off the freezer and I thought - I'll check on the guys, too.
All three of them were side-by-side, huddled up in one bare(except for the gravel) corner of the aquarium. The thunder was unreal and I'm sure the barometric pressure change was pretty steep. I knew it affected fish(and fishing), but I didn't know they'd all huddle up together. That was quite the surprise for this old fisherman.
So on one hand, I'm learning stuff about one of my favorite fish already. On the other hand, I'm learning stuff about how fast flake food can dump out of a sample packet.
I'm off to the store for some mystery snails and a suction hose thing to clean my gravel before I get a spike.
Anyway, like you guys want pics of some plain old bream....I'm going to post them anyway later this afternoon.
PS - they tried the flakes, and promptly turned up their little green and blue noses at them. I'm also going to pick up a few crickets. Would those be cheaper at the bait shop than the LFS? ( I'm assuming that stands for "local fish store")
Last night I acquired three tiny pumpkinseed bream for my native aquarium. They were naturally a little freaked out by the experience, even though we tried to explain to them that they would no longer have to fear being eaten by a bass. Apparently, pumpkinseed bream do not speak English.
After a few minutes in the tank, Dr. Sheldon Cooper found some rocks and fake plants to his liking and settled in, but the other two - Raj and Leonard, continued to swim along the tank wall. My smarter-than-I-will-ever-be wife said "Why don't we turn the blue light on for them - maybe they will think it's night-time." I was like "Oh yeah, that's really going to help..." but I said "ok. do it."
Within five minutes all three were resting peacefully, as bream will do apparently, on the bottom of the tank. Each one staked out a little rock-pile to hide in over night. One of them got in it and hardly moved for two hours.
Then, the storms came. Now, I'm not sure if all fish do this or not - I'm guessing the ones bred for aquariums wouldn't - but I got up to check our extra freezer during the storm to make sure the breaker hadn't tripped and shut off the freezer and I thought - I'll check on the guys, too.
All three of them were side-by-side, huddled up in one bare(except for the gravel) corner of the aquarium. The thunder was unreal and I'm sure the barometric pressure change was pretty steep. I knew it affected fish(and fishing), but I didn't know they'd all huddle up together. That was quite the surprise for this old fisherman.
So on one hand, I'm learning stuff about one of my favorite fish already. On the other hand, I'm learning stuff about how fast flake food can dump out of a sample packet.
I'm off to the store for some mystery snails and a suction hose thing to clean my gravel before I get a spike.
Anyway, like you guys want pics of some plain old bream....I'm going to post them anyway later this afternoon.
PS - they tried the flakes, and promptly turned up their little green and blue noses at them. I'm also going to pick up a few crickets. Would those be cheaper at the bait shop than the LFS? ( I'm assuming that stands for "local fish store")