Author Topic: The Cookie Crew (Read 28328 times)

plankton · « **Reply #390 on:** June 12, 2018, 08:21:14 am »

Yes, black oto (hisonotus notatus) now you mention it, never seen them before (I really must get up to Wharf at some stage).

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TopCookie · « **Reply #391 on:** June 12, 2018, 10:46:34 am »

I was cheekily hoping they may have some Zebra Otos at a bargain price... No such luck, unsurprisingly...

Stephen · « **Reply #392 on:** June 13, 2018, 02:59:37 pm »

Quote from: TopCookie on June 12, 2018, 10:46:34 am

I was cheekily hoping they may have some Zebra Otos at a bargain price... No such luck, unsurprisingly...

I was also looking for Zebra otos but too expensive.

TopCookie · « **Reply #393 on:** June 13, 2018, 03:50:25 pm »

They are a bit nice, eh Stephen... but to be fair, the most commonly seen Vittatus are too... But, at £12 per fish plus £12 shipping, there are no plans for Zebra Otos at Cookie Towers either...

TopCookie · « **Reply #394 on:** June 13, 2018, 03:55:40 pm »

One or two of you may know of my tank woes lately, with stalled plant growth which in turn looked to open the door to some serious algae issues... I did have some Hygrophila Costata which just plain died on me, and there were a few of them too...!!! All the symptoms appeared to be of the similar looking signs of nitrogen and potassium deficiencies... Easy enough to check nitrogen levels, but potassium is a lot trickier to check... Based on my assumptions, I came close to buying some potassium supplement... Instead, I got hold of an "Easy-Life" Potassium Test Kit and finally got around to doing the test today... Results are 20ppm, which is pretty much spot on really... Glad I didn't just buy potassium and start dumping it in the tank now...!!!

TopCookie · « **Reply #395 on:** June 15, 2018, 12:46:57 am »

plankton · « **Reply #396 on:** June 15, 2018, 08:55:32 am »

Looks good to me

Gingerlove05 · « **Reply #397 on:** June 15, 2018, 11:54:13 am »

My hygrophila did the same TC, it just died off slowly until nothing was left.
Tank looks good though

TopCookie · « **Reply #398 on:** June 15, 2018, 12:39:36 pm »

Ironically, they say they're an easy plant to keep, but mine flourished for a while and then eventually started looking malnourished and came under attack from algae... no matter what I did, they just plain refused to recover and so I ended up just taking them all out and replacing them with plants that tend to do ok in my water, mostly different varieties of Echinodorus...

TopCookie · « **Reply #399 on:** June 21, 2018, 02:09:21 pm »

Two new members of The Cookie Crew have just arrived... a pair of the rare Red Racer Nerite snails (Vittina Waigiensis)

TopCookie · « **Reply #400 on:** June 21, 2018, 03:30:14 pm »

plankton · « **Reply #401 on:** June 22, 2018, 08:23:06 am »

When I had them a couple of years ago they were called red onion nerites.
I still think they look quite like tyretrack (or as the Americans call them tire track) nerites......
They are nice patterns though.

Stephen · « **Reply #402 on:** June 22, 2018, 01:40:32 pm »

Now that tank looks really nice Pierre

TopCookie · « **Reply #403 on:** June 22, 2018, 10:35:36 pm »

Thank you Stephen...

TopCookie · « **Reply #404 on:** June 27, 2018, 05:17:58 pm »

OMG...!!! x 10,000,000

Korea have just knocked Germany out of the World Cup, leaving them finished at the very bottom of their group...!!!

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