Well here we are almost half way through January and major transformations are going on in the fish room.

We decided that we had a 120 that was really not needed for how we are wanting to proceed  and consequently we put it up for sale on the Wichita aquarium club site and sold it within 24 hours! 

We have had an air blower/pump for a while but have not had the necessary funds to run the pipework and buy the valves to get everything set up. The money we got for the 120 will allow us to order the multiple gang valves   http://www.jehmco.com/html/air_accessories.html plus the upvc piping and fittings.  It is our intention to run the pipe either high up on the wall or hang it from the ceiling (yet to be decided) with two of the larger manifolds on two of the walls and two of the smaller ones.  This will probably be way too many but I would rather have to many than not enough when all is said and done.   

Vicki has also made contact with an electrician friend of hers that will be coming over to check out what needs to be done so that we do not have the breakers going off all the time.  Having said that once we are using fewer air pumps I think that will make some difference, time will tell.

I have been making a serious effort to spawn my Corydoras Zygatus but they seem just as determined not too.  I have been doing daily 60 degree f water changes to no avail.  The males get all excited but the females are not interested at all.  I have been feeding them frozen blood worm almost exclusively but for whatever reason it is not doing the trick.  Back to the drawing board and see what else can be tried.  The guys in the UK are using live bloodworm but it seems impossible to get these here.   I asked the local store if they could get California blackworm on a regular basis but they were not interested due to the shipping costs  and me being the only one that wanted to buy them.

Smile, it makes people wonder what you have been doing.

Steve/Woo