2012 Photo Challenge: Week 12
This is the twelfth week of our 365 Photo Challenge. Time’s really flying isn’t it?
Rough week. Especially Tuesday. I caught a nasty sinus infection and spent most of that day with a 102˚F fever. I nearly forgot to take a picture that day. Luckily, I had a doctor’s appointment already scheduled for Wednesday morning and a good dose of antibiotics has helped immensely.
Today was field trip day. Nothing regularly scheduled, but DS wanted to check out a retro gaming store down in Ocean Beach. So first up, we hit a good Peruvian restaurant that we’d never been to before, and headed down to OB. I got a few other pictures other than the kid running for the water, but I haven’t posted them up on flickr yet. And I’ll apologize now, if anyone noticed a radical shift in the earth’s axis either this afternoon or this evening. I had to “fix” the horizon by about -1.8 degrees on most of my pictures from today. I’m blaming it on the congestion messing with my sense of balance! Yeah, that’s the ticket. That’s my story & I’m sticking to it!
What you see below are links to my flickr set for the photos I’m posting for this challenge. Click on any photo below to go to flickr and then you can navigate through the set with the “Previous” and “Next” arrows at the top.
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Great pictures! Hope the fishies finally got into the new tank and are liking the surroundings. Fascinating image of the bedpost. Thanks for sharing all of them and hope you’re better still.
Thanks, Julie! Still coughing, but feeling human again!
Many of the fish in the old tank are going off to the pet store at some point. The pretty orange/gold ones are plant eaters. So we’ll be moving the two khuli loaches and the three panda corys at some point and probably adding in some gentler-on-the-plants fish like Neons. The biggest problem with a new tank is cycling it. We having issues getting the pH up to 7.0 and then the bacteria need to be re-established. Otherwise, you just get ammonia spikes, which tend to kill fish. So it’s a patience game.
I admire your patience and the hard work involved to provide a good home for fishies. I had a 10gal tank many moons ago in high school. I loved them but was uneducated about fish.
I’ve since had a beta off and on through the years, also uneducated but better did do better.
Last year I had a terrible time with a small 2gal home for my beta & sucker fish so eventually educated myself and went ooohhhh… 🙂 I realized I was NOT dedicated enough to get a larger tank and swore off fish.
Ran into a problem though, my 2 year old nephew was missing the fish… so, eventually I took about 3 weeks to try to get the little bitty tank to a healthy state and just got a couple slightly-fancier-than-normal goldfish. Nephew’s happy, cat’s happy (she loves watching them and “playing” with them) and fish seem to be happy & healthy enough… so far.
That’s interesting, we’ve always found the bigger the tank, once you get it set up and going, the easier it is to maintain. A 2 gallon tank to me would be a nightmare =) We’ve done ok with 20 gallon tanks, but our 37 was probably our best tank for a long while. We’ve had a few issues in the last 8 years with our 80 gallon tank (seen here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kristen_koster/6914278937/lightbox/) but they were mostly problems with algae overgrowth.
Glad the nephew’s happy! (I’ll be honest… I like watching the fish, but I mostly like the sound when the water level starts to run a little low. I know! Expensive fountain!)