Monthly Archives: August 2010

Morphs.

Middle section.

The water is “looking” VERY clean but as of today the Nitrate test still reads 50ppm (high!). I’ve posted up a call for help here: http://www.masa.asn.au/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=219668

There are a few great suggestions in there. I’ve just got to try to give some of them a go slowly and not all at once!

I really wanted to know what was under the rock work. The middle bommie is the smallest so I took the entire bommie apart (moved rocks to the side) and to my surprise there wasn’t THAT much crap under there. I siphoned the substrate clean and put the rocks back a little more centred than before to allow water flow behind the bommie.

PS: I did find some fleshy bits on some rock from corals which have long died off (their bases). I’ve removed these pieces of rock. I also did find 2 peppermint shrimp under the biggest rock at the base and one MASSIVE dark brown brittle starfish the size of my hand!

Mia playing.

We were a little worried that little Mia would cry all night (despite Russian Blue’s being quiet cats the breeders let us know that Mia was the most vocal of the bunch!). Amazingly she slept through the entire night, in the kitty room without making a sound (phew!).

Our little bundle of fluff, early in the morning, checking out the garden.

We couldn’t resist letting her out of her kitty room. She’s a good explorer though she cries when she’s exploring an area where she can’t see or hear us.

She’s tiny but she’s grown twice the size in just 3 weeks (since we first saw her at the breeders).

Later that day Jamie, Richie and Mum came over to play!

Mia’s getting lots and lots of pressies too (so funny).

Jamie (might as well call my sister ‘cat lady’!) played with Mia so much that she conked out early afternoon and pretty much stayed KO’d until bed time and once again she slept through the entire night without a meow. She’s so good!

Nyaw!

Mia came home this morning. She’s settled into her kitty room nicely and right now she’s fast asleep! We’re pretty sure she’ll cry when she wakes up and realises we’re not still in the room with her though!

Latest full tank shot.

I use a 4 stage reverse osmosis filter system to create freshwater for dehydration top-ups and I hadn’t changed the filters since buying the unit in 2007 (!). Today I received a filter replacement kit in the mail from PSI. You can see how yellow the old sediment filter had gotten over the years.

Unfortunately my nitrates are still sitting at 50ppm despite doing small daily water changes. I might have to do one huge water change somehow (buy a big tub?!).