I’ve done some maintenance on my fish tanks and filters the last few weeks so everything seems to be going good. The only filter that still needs cleaning is the auxiliary filter in my turtle tank. The main purpose of this filter is to remove any large particles of dirt and poop from the turtles. The pickup of this filter is right at the bottom of the aquarium where all the large particles reside, where as my regular filter pickup is about half in the aquarium.

My large yellow belly turtle Cocco has been growing really fast and I haven’t been adding the turtle calcium block fast enough so she split her sell at the bottom a few weeks ago. Soon as I found out I changed the water to make sure it was clean for her to heal and added more of the turtle blocks in the water so she could use the calcium heal that up. She was doing good for a while when i noticed the other day that the large pleco i have in the same tank was trying to suck at the soar spot she had, soon as i saw that i transferred the pleco into my 45 gallon aquarium and now she should be able to heal up in a week or so.

My brother Paul started with the 20 gallon that I gave him but just a few days ago picked up a 55 gallon aquarium and stand and set it all up. He still needs to cycle his water but he should have some fish in it soon. You can check out his new 55 gallon aquarium here www.aquariumfishworld.com

I was also at King Ed’s with him on the weekend and picked up 12 small guppies which have now been cut down to about 7 as a couple died, and the smallest ones got eaten by other fish in my 29 gallon tank. The other fish type that I was looking for for a while now was the Lyre Tail Platy,  so I bought 5 of them too.  I had two of these before but gave them to my dad and one of them is still alive and looks really cool.