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I decided to make a little fish journal thing on here so that you guys would know what your guild owner was up to and all of that. Also, I figured as long as I keep adding to the journal then my guild will never die. So..in my random community tank (cherry barbs, pearl gouramis, corys, rasboras) The pearl gouramis were fighting for a while but they seem to have gotten over it. Last week (or maybe the week before) the 2 male cherry barbs staked out their teritory for mating and had lots of little mock battles, noone got hurt and it was fun to watch. Now they've began to chase the females around the tank and try to get them to mate, sometimes they accidently chase my rasboras on accident lol. But, i've only seen one male getting any action, him and a female have followed eachother around the little forest (where he wont let any other fish go) and another time he was following a female around a plant that is used to hide an air stone. I haven't seen any eggs or babies but I love watching males shimmy around the tank. Also, one of my rasboras has a little neon stripe now which none of the others have, I think they are going to mate soon too. Well, if I'm lucky i'll have some baby fish soon lol and I'm also considering adding more rasboras to the tank.

I've been planning out my new 55g tank for quite some time and I've finaly decided to have a Malawi Mbuna Cichlid tank, these fish have verry vibrant collors and breed easily. Hopefuly I'll get the rocks for the tank by this weekend and I'm ordering special gravel offline that is supposed to be enriched with good bacteria. I will also be making "under gravel jets" to add circulation to the tank, and it is also supposed to make it so that I NEVER have to clean my gravel. It'll be a nice little DIY experience and if it doesnt work out like that it will still add current and extra filtration to the tank.

My snake recently upgraded his housing so I was left with a leaky 10g tank, it took 4 days to seal and 2 3oz tubes of silicon but it doesn't leak any more (and with all that silicon it never will). I also made a little shelf for the tank and my girlfriends 10g tank (which is kept at my house) it sits below my new 55g since it came with a wire stand.

My girlfriend had a pretty tough run in with ich lately and lost her 2 pregnant platties, she still has a male guppy (which has lived through the deaths of 10 fish at least) but has decided to take a break from live bearers and is getting a goldfish, After her guppy has been quarintined for a few weeks it will go in my tank so she can turn her tank into a coldwater habitat. She's also going to add White Clouds, but they will probably get eaten when the goldfish grows up (sad but true).

As you can see I've been pretty busy lately, and this is just what I've done in my spare time. This will probably be the biggest post I make in this topic, but trust me, I'll have something to share with you guys at least every week.

We're having a huge garage sale next weekend, everyone on our whole street has one and its advertised in the news paper. I'm planing on selling my PSP and maybe my DS ther and I might sell my basses with this money I was considering buying this fish tank up by my sisters that has all the decorations and everything, even fish. It comes with a really nice set of lights but I think its for salt water not fresh, I have to look into it. Anyways it all depends on how well it goes, too bad none of you live near Cincinnati Ohio

Almost done laying out my cave setup, -part time ninja- came over and helped too and I bought a powerhead to make under gravel jets but I dont think its powerful enough stressed It's pretty strong but the guy that originaly told me how to make the jets said to use one thats like 3x stronger so I might be screwed crying anyways, I have to go spend "quality time" before my gf goes home lol c ya

^_^ I cant wait to see it when its done... since you have been keeping a journal.... you should DEFINATLY post picture on here love

waiting on my stuff from drsfostersmith.com....it should be here by tuesday but untill I get it there's nothing else to do lol Anyways, after being bored i started messing with my UGJs (under gravel jets) and I blew into the spot for the new pump to see how hard it was and I could smell the primer. It should have all cured by now so IDK maybe I put too much on and not all of it had a chance to dry, but I was worried that it might not all have dried up in the tube. So, I figured if I ran air through the tube it would dry up so I took my air pump for this tank and fed the air tube into the piping just far enough so that it wouldn't come back out the way it came in. It worked, but only for half of the setup, so I took off the other pump and fed the tubing through there and let it run over night

well, here's the new tank. I might be getting some fish today depending on what my lfs has in stock. I"m going to get a total of 16 fish when I'm done and it will consist of yellow labs, yellow tail acei, saulosi and afra. I might redo the rockwork though, try to end up with more caves and whatnot

They're so pretty...

I got a job XD I'm a lovestock associate at superpetz, I have to help people make decisions about their animals and equipment for taking care of them lol I have an 8 hour training shift sweatdrop on tuesday and I have to get a physical tomorrow for my work permit stressed