Baby shrimps in my tank!

Finally, like a sheperd or herdsmen, finally seeing your flocks of animals under your care finally give birth, the feeling is high and exciting!

If you do follow on my blog, about 1 month ago, i over-dosed the Flourish Excel in my tank, killed fishes and beneficial snails in my tank and caused slight algae bloom, and now it is full of new life, this has been encouraging for me as a newbie on aqua planting and fish keeping.

For the past few days, I finally see some baby shrimps appearing on java moss in my tank, i had let the moss to grow as much as it can and not trimming it. Now it is a heaven for the baby shrimps.

I do have 10 Neon Tetras, 2 Otocinclus and many adults red cherry shrimps in the tank, which might be attacking the baby shrimps, however as the moss provided a natural protection for the baby shrimps, they survive!

Am so happy to see them grow, so tiny, have to look at them carefully to find where they are. Once you found them, they are happily picking the algae from the moss.

Hope they will grow and mature in the couple weeks.

Cute otocinclus behavior

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Crystal Skull

This the lastest Indiana Jones movie shown on cinemas now. The adventure starts in the desert Southwest in 1957 - the height of Cold War.

In this movie too, Indian Jones met his son for the first time.

Well, my reviews on this movie, the original taste of Indiana Jones is still there, no more no less. Just that I am watching an old man running, jumping and performing all the stunts... haha.

The crystal looked abit plasticky, it is not as crystal as it says. But overall, the movies never stop entertaining you with all the stunts.

If you like Indiana Jones's adventure, don't miss it! I am not sure whether Harrison Ford will still be able to perform in all those stunts!

Official Website : http://www.indianajones.com/

J.CO Donuts & Coffee

Had 1 donut from them today, not bad. Soft texture... I not a big fan of donuts anyway...

In case you don't know, the J.CO Donuts & Coffee found in Singapore is under master franchiser, Breaktalk.

Surprise no? Actually not surprising, since diversifying is the way to maintain or further grow the company's revenue.

This actually happened during Dec 2007. So, who is this J.Co Donuts?
*J.Co is the fastest growing donut & coffee chain in South-East Asia. Within a short
span of 2.5 years, J.Co has grown to 30 outlets in 9 cities in Indonesia. It recently
began its foray into Malaysia with the opening of an outlet in Pavilion Shopping Mall
in Kuala Lumpur. *

Their webite : www.jcodonuts.com

Overdose of Flourish Excel

Did something stupid, overdose flourish excel into my fish tank. Why did I do such act? There left a bit of liquid in the bottle, so just pour every single drop in it, i believe the volume is more than 15 ml.

The observation:
Fishes started to swim on the water surface, grasping for air.

The effect:
Fishes suffocated and died.

All the neon tetras in my tank died except the 2 hard and strong Oto survive the ordeal. So sad as these tetras have grown alot, some up to 1.5 inch long.
How the Oto survive? They have suckle that helps them to hold on to the tank's wall. I saw one of the Oto, stick their mouth above the water surface and breathe heavily.

However, this do not mean that flourish excel is no good, it is good for all the living creatures in the tank when you use it at the right quantity.

Added 50 little cherry shrimps and black peat.

Went to C328 to get Flourish Excel as the supply is running low.

As usual when you make a trip there, you will want to shop around to see what you can buy, maybe this is how guys spend their money. lol.

I saw a bag of baby cherry shrimps 50 for $10. Thinking I got nothing much in my tank, so I bought it. haha. Then got a pack of Algae wafer for them to feast.

On the other hand, I had been thinking how to lower the pH in my aqua tank, always in the range of 7.5. My cousin did recommend me some solutions but abit difficult to maintain like using Reverse Osmosis water to remove the bad substances from the tap water.

So when paying for my stuffs, I spoke to the shopowner's helper, maybe son,on how to reduce tank's pH, he told me can try to use black peat in the filter instead of dosing with chemical liquids. It is safer this way and friendlier to the fishes. So i got 1 box of black peat and put into my canister filter.

This morning before leaving for work, the water had turned abit cloudy, I believe it should be caused by the black peat. Will blog again whether the peat had managed to reduce the pH and make the tank a happy place for fishes.

Short Holiday In Malacca (Melaka) Part 2

Chicken Rice Ball! 5 chicken rice ball = 1 bowl of rice.

Kampung Chicken, Chicken feet and bean sprout to go along with the chicken rice ball.

The famous quote by some famous person's wife, "It is worth a peanut."
Now I understand where does that come from.. haha. This is a peanut money exhibit at Malacca historical museum and thus confirming the saying, "It is worth a peanut."

Another exhibit, Peacock head boat.