I finally got a chance to put up my new blog banner with my new logo today. The new logo will be used in all my future videos so come back soon to check that out.
And since it was a quiet day today and didn’t have much time to do anything here are some great pictures of a baby slider turtle that I took at a pet shop I was at a few weeks ago. Enjoy.
I went to Mr.Pets tonight to pickup a bottle of cycle the good beneficial bacteria for my 125 gallon tank. While walking by some fish tanks I spotted a cute little yellow belly slider turtle in the tank. Check him out he’s so cute.
I have not posted any articles here for a while as I’ve been busy with other projects and blogs but since I have some new pictures I thought I would post them up.
My large angelfish in the 45 gallon tank has had large swollen lips for a few weeks now so I did some research and found out she has some kind of fungus growth on her lips. So today at lunch I went to Big Al’s Aquarium Store and picked up some API Fungus Cure and will try it on the weekend and let you know how it works.
As you can see in the picture above, her lips are quit large and swollen.
This is the API Fungus Cure I will try this on the weekend and see if my Angelfish lips get smaller.
Today I also bought these calcium blocks for my two turtles as they add calcium into their diets to build a healthy strong shell.
This is a picture of one of my new Firemouth Cichlids that I bought about a month ago, they are pretty tough fish and always chase my other fish around. My Chinese algae eater and this Firemouth always have standoff’s.
I stopped by Pet land after work today and picked up a 100watt heat lamp to replace the heat bulb they broke last night. This ceramic one should have a longer life span and also not burst when cold water hits it as I suspect that’s what happened to my other bulb by one of the turtles. While I was there I also picked up some algae wafers and shrimp pellets as I was out of both of them. I give the wafers to my Plecos every other day or a few times a week to cut down on over feeding them. The shrimp pellets are for my crayfish and my small algae eaters. These particular shrimp pellets are good for keeping your tank cleaner as they don’t make as much mess as some other brands while they get consumed.
After screwing in the ceramic heat lamp I changed the water in the turtle tank. This water change was larger then usual as I wanted to suck out as much of the old water as possible and any bottom debre using my gravel cleaner.
100w Ceramic Heat Lamp
Algae Waffers and Shrimp Pellets
OH MY!
I was just about to go to sleep when I noticed some funny looking things on the bottom of my turtle tank. I looked closer and I was like what the heck, there are pieces of glass in the tank. I looked around and was confused, how did pieces of glass get into my aquarium. Then I looked up and I saw the turtle heat bulb all broken and not working. I quickly disconnected the power and grabbed my net and started to scoop all the glass out of the tank. I got it all out and tomorrow I will do a water change and make sure there is no more there. I think the the bulb must of been really hot and the turtle splashed some water at it and it exploded. I tell yeah turtles are like kids they get into lots of trouble. 
I changed the water in all my aquariums yesterday and used the Python NO SPILL which made it a breeze. The Python NO SPILL is a 25 foot hose with an adapter at one end that attaches to your sink faucet. The adapter allows you to add and drain water from your aquarium with no spills or any heavy lifting. If you have a 30 gallon tank or bigger then I would definitely recommend getting one of these. But if your aquarium is smaller then 30 gallons I would stick with the hose and bucket system. The reason it’s not worth it for smaller aquariums is that it will take you longer to hook it up then to change your water.
I would also recommend that if you have any type of external canister filter, do a weekly check of your hoses to make sure they are not pinched. Yesterday while cleaning my water in my turtle tank I spotted that both my inlet and outlet hoses were pinched and the filter was only working at 20% efficiency. This would makes sense why my water in my turtle tank was not the cleanest the last few weeks.
My ammonia is down and my turtles have duckweed to eat now.
I added Zeolite Ammonia Remover to my XP3 filter and now 6 days later my ammonia level has dropped to a good rating. As you can see from the image to the left, the vile on the right is yellow which is today’s reading where as the one on left was from 3 days ago and it is green. Anything that is not yellow means you have large amounts of ammonia in your aquarim which is stressful to your fish. As far as my results are concerned, I am really happy with this product as you can see it has worked really well for me.
I went to my Dads place at lunch today and he gave me a bunch of duckweed. Duckweed is a really small aquatic plant that grows very fast in aquariums. He bought some about a month ago and has since spread in his 10 gallon aquarium really fast. It started to cut the light to the bottom part of his aquarium so he gave me all that he had in that tank. He has spare duckweed in his other tanks so he can grow it really fast and replenish his stock. The reason I wanted duckweed was because is it good plant source for turtles and it’s pretty easy to replenish with it’s fast growth rate. When I got home today I put some in all 3 of my tanks and as soon as I added some to my turtle tank, my female turtle Cocco had a hay day! She loves this stuff as much as lettuce but I can’t say the same about my other turtle Rocco who ate a little bit but then gaveup on it. Rocco is a male turtle and is more of a meat eater where as Cocco my female turtle loves vegetables and could care less about fish in the tank even if they swim right infront of her mouth.
