Aquarium Update

Of the animals that I received on April 30, 2004, all had looked like they were ok except for one of the japanese trapdoor snails. One of them started moving and eating within minutes of being put into the tank, but the other did not move so well. I was a little concerned until this afternoon. When I came home from work, I found that the second japanese trapdoor snail has started going to work. It's funny - the first snail seems to zip around and over everything just lightly touching and eating what it comes into contact with, while this one that just started moving is very deliberate and seems to cover areas more thoroughly.



What of the other animals? Well, the golden lyretail panchax killifish are always on the move, hiding from the elephant nose fish. (So much for Lang's Tropical Fish telling me that the elephant nose is "peaceful" fish. She seems to be terrorizing the killifish, swimming after them any time she catches site of them.) The japonica amano shrimp seems to hide from everyone, and the freshwater clam has almost completely submerged itself in the substrate.



So it looks like everything is ok, but looks can be deceiving so I'll be continuing my weekly water changes, as well as the water testings.