May 1st, 2009 by Romelda
Well, I think I am really hooked on the macro feature on my camera. I LOVE IT. I love capturing things that are hard to capture, particularly the close-up details. So, I was sitting here this morning, looking at my lovely fish in the 20 gallon aquarium that sits next to my desk. It is home to: Hotlips Hulahan (a Mickey Mouse platy), Frick and Frack (two red coral platys), Good Golly (Miss Molly), Larry, Curly and Moe (three raspboras), Snip, Blade, Sir (rated), Cutter, and Pinky (scissor tail tetras), a few neons (they just go by number 1, 2, 3 etc.), Betty Boop a black skirted Tetra and a host of ghost shrimp.
Miss Molly - she is a curious fish.
Red Coral Platys - Frick and Frack
Miss Molly strikes a pose.
Frick, Hot Lips Hulahan, and Betty Boop
One of the Ghost Shrimp who happens to be orange.
Ghost Shrimp, also not camera shy.
He seemed to get closer for his portrait
April 30th, 2009 by Romelda
As I was walking the dogs today, I began to really look at how fast things burst to life around us when spring is in the air. Just a couple days ago, everything was brown and dead, and lifeless really, and we all still felt like hibernating. I have been hibernating. You may have noticed that there has been a significant gap since my last post. Ok, I’ve been a bit busy too, but also hibernating. Just waiting for spring to come arrive ernest. So, after my morning dog-walk, I had to go on a subsequent dog jaunt around 2 in the afternoon, as I baby-sit a friend’s puppy, and we had to go out, so her and Fynnegan and I went out and even the dogs I think noticed the change in scenery.
July 5th, 2008 by Romelda
In February 2008, after having the Betta fish, named “Futi Maki” adorn my desk for several months while I worked at my computer, die suddenly, I became interested in the possibility of having an aquarium, and hoping that maybe a nice community tank might be more appropriate for fish than a still bowl, with no filtration or moving water or heater. I have always liked fish, and the thought of keeping a lovely tank intrigued me for several reasons:
- You get to design/build the aquarium and choose things like the gravel colour, the plant types and make it feel somewhat realistic, and that is a challenge.
- A tank can hold more fish and is far more eye-catching than a bowl with one single fish in it.
- You can have a variety of fish coexist in harmony.
- Watching an aquarium of fish and hearing the slight trickle of water over the filter is very peaceful – especially if the tank is in one’s office and can help alleviate work-related stress.
- Watching the fish swim and glide and just float in the current reminds me of the freedom of swimming.
Now, I was a bad first-time aquarium owner. I didn’t do my homework before getting the aquarium, I just went out and got a nice 10 gallon tank at Big Al’s with some gravel and some plants (plastic – because I knew just enough to know that real plants are very hard to take care of and I was really going for a stres-free tank – I wanted it to be as little work as possible.)
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