Bonnie - My Apisto Caca Orange Flash Female

Got some foto's of her tonight I had to share...she is just so lovely!! She is trying her hardest to mate at the moment but Clyde the male is more interested in food...Men!! Offer it on a plate and they refuse it tsk tsk...wait til she is not in the mood anymore and he will be chasing her around the tank again...

While I am at it...a picture that show's Clyde's beautiful fins and colour

Fishy Facts

Badis Bengalensis (Dario Dario)

• Fish have been on the earth for more than 450 million years.
  
  
• Fish were well established long before dinosaurs roamed the earth.
  
  
• There are over 25,000 identified species of fish on the earth.
  
  
• It is estimated that there may still be over 15,000 fish species that have not yet been identified.
  
  
• There are more species of fish than all the species of amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals combined.
  
  
• 40% of all fish species inhabit fresh water, yet less than .01% of the earth's water is fresh water.
  
  
• The spotted climbing perch is able to absorb oxygen from the air and will crawl overland using its strong pectoral fins.
  
  
• Some fish like sharks don't posses an air bladder to help keep them afloat and must either swim continually or rest on the bottom.
  
  
• Some fish make sounds by grating their teeth and others like some catfish make sounds from their air filled swim bladder.
  
  
• Some species of fish can fly (glide) others can skip along the surface and others can even climb rock.
  
  
• Fish have a specialized sense organ called the lateral line which works much like radar and helps them navigate in dark or murky water.
  
  
• The largest fish is the great whale shark which can reach fifty feet in length.
  
  
• The smallest fish is the Philippine goby that is less than 1/3 of an inch when fully grown.
  
  
• Some species of fish have skeletons made only of cartilage.
  
  
• Fish have excellent senses of sight, touch, taste and many possess a good sense of smell and 'hearing'.
  
  
• Fish feel pain and suffer stress just like mammals and birds.
  
  
• 95% of tropical fish mortality results from improper housing and nutrition.

Is it a Fish...is it a..??...actually I have no idea...?

ROV crew spot this strange 'fish' walking along the seabed at a depth of 122 meters

Funny Fish Names

Get ready to start googling to find these...

The Bigmouth Sleeper

monkeyface prickleback, hogchoker, hog sucker, fat sleeper, bigmouth sleeper (see photo), flathead chub, fathead minnow, jumprock, madtom, windowpane, the spotted whiff, the fluffy sculpin, the hairy blenny, Batfish, lumpfish, oyster toadfish (ribbit). Threespine stickleback. Stoplight parrotfish. Blackcheek tonguefish. French grunt, lookdown, jolthead porgy.

Who on earth names these fish??? Give me a call if you have cause you have a sense of humour!

Cartoon of the Day

Famous Fish - Jaws

The second famous fish (check January for the first) is..... Jaws...watch the trailer and remember why this guy was and is so famous

Fish can save your Life

Health Benefits of Aquarium Fish Do you have a stressful life, high blood pressure, insomnia? Keeping an aquarium may be good therapy for you. Studies going back as far as the late 80’s have shown that gazing at aquarium fish reduces stress and subsequently lowers blood pressure. Fish Make a DifferenceResearchers have compared the effects of hypnosis vs. an aquarium, fishless vs. fish filled aquariums, and no aquarium vs. having an aquarium. In all cases, having some sort of aquarium reduced blood pressure. Interestingly enough, greater reduction in blood pressure occurred when there were fish in the tank, vs pleasingly decorated, but fishless, tanks. Even watching a video tape of fish has been proven to have therapeutic effects. Multitude of BenefitsSeniors who were provided with an aquarium filled with fish had significant blood pressure reduction.

Watching fish has been shown to calm children who suffer from hyperactivity disorder. Dental patients who were subjected to hypnosis vs. an aquarium experienced the same or greater benefit from the aquarium. Other studies have shown that dental patients required less pain medication after having watched fish in the office. It's little wonder that physician offices, dental clinics, and even waiting rooms for counselors have traditionally kept an aquarium in the waiting room. Aquarium Effect on Alzheimer’s Studies have shown that seniors who have Alzheimer’s experience a variety of health benefits from watching an aquarium. Alzheimer patients ate more, and required fewer supplements after an aquarium was placed in the dining room. They also exhibited less physically aggressive behaviors.

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Liquidizing Fish in Blender not Cruel

The director of Denmark's Trapholt Art Museum in Kolding was acquitted of animal cruelty charges that stemmed from a bizarre installation at the museum.

Chilean-born Danish artist Marco Evaristti set up ten blenders that contained goldfish and gave visitors the "ethical choice" to turn the machines on or not

Inevitably, somebody chose to turn on one of the blenders.

But after a two day trial Judge Preben Bagger acquitted Meyer of the animal cruelty charge. Bagger ruled that since the fish were instantly killed by the blender that their death was humnane and not cruel.

Note: The fish in the pic is a Platy so either the artist or the press did not closely look at the fish being blended - shows how much they care huh?

When will the cruelty stop?

First we had Betta's cramped into little vases with flowers then fish were injected with Neon Colours and even Glow in the Dark pigmentation and now we have Tattoo fish where you can even have your initials tattoo'd onto your fish

If all this were happening to Cat's and Dog's the world would be up in arms... and whoever did it would be in jail for animal cruelty. It is a shame that fish don't get the same fair treatment as other pets.

Plant of the Month

Limnobium laevigatum

From Mexico to South America a very easy floating plant...chuck it in the water and watch it grow and multiply. pH: 6.0-7.5; 2-12 dH; 70-81°F (21-27°C)

The long roots eerily float through the aquarium giving a beautiful look and the fish love to hide just under the plant between these roots...the roots can grow to 30cm.

If you have stong lighting and the plant is happy you can even expect some beautiful flowers. This plant multiplies at a very stong rate so there is no need to purchase more than 2-3 plants as within a few weeks you will have at least triple that.

At last some foto's

So here are the new apisto caca orange flash babies finally on foto ;) They are an absolute joy...but then they are still babies...

Bonnie & Clyde:



Ain't Bonnie cute?


Clyde like to show off:
Pucker up for those big lips ;)




And to show how small they still are some foto's with Neon Tetra's..shame they don't stay this small...hard to imagine them being 8 - 9 cm


I love watching them and they are very entertaining, not afraid of ANYTHING and already very hand tame.

They are here...

I have finally added my long awaited Apisto Caca's to my aquarium...not the triple red's as I was wanting but Flash Orange ones - 1 male - Clyde and 2 females - Bonnie & Dita. Clyde swam right up to me in the store and would not stop following me...as I walked from left to right he would swim along. How can you say no to that???

They are still tiny the females being slightly smaller than my Neon's and Clyde being slightly bigger...they have settled in with amazing ease and seem to feel right at home here...Clyde still charges up to the front of the glass whenever I approach the aquarium ;)

My picture taking skills are extremely bad so here a very short movie of Bonnie & Clyde