Aquarama 2009

Are your fish ready for competition?

This year its in May, click for details

Graveyard Tanks

The supposedly female tank and mating tank of mine seems to be an execution site for guppies. Anything that goes inside cannot survive for longer than a week, some even die straight away overnight.

Well i'm giving the female tank one final chance, by adding in 2 tuxedo blue guppies from a LFS. The tank is completely empty, no air pump even, just empty tank, with 2 guppies.

If those 2 guppies die on me, i'm throwing the tank away.


Will update with details soon...

Maintenance: Female Tank

1. 20% WC
2. 2 Teaspoon of Salt

Totalled Fish @ Community Tank, Mating Tank/ Maintanences

Community Tank:

Fish totaled:
1.
Runny Nose * 1
Observation: Dropsy/Popping Eye

2.
Cherry Red Shrimp * 1 (the last of the CRS, one Sunkist shrimp left)
Observation: Died of natural cause

Maintanence:
1. 40% WC
2. 4 Teaspoon of Salt
3. Removed 3 plants rooted to a driftwood

Mating Tank

Fish Totaled:
1.
25c Feeder fish * 1
Observation: Torn Tail, Cotton Wool on tail, body
2.
Texas Red Fry * 1
Observation: Cotton Wool on tail, mouth, body

Maintenance:
1. 100% WC
2. 2 teaspoon of salt
3. Washed the Tank completely
4. Used back the same filter and moss wall
5. Threw away all the small rocks


*Other Notes:
I am thinking of converting my mating tank to fry tank, vice versa
Will wait till the current mating tank to be more stable and those fry in the fry tank grow up a little more before i confirm my decision


Angel Fish Tank

Maintenance:
1. Scrubbed of the diatom (Brown Algae)
2. 40% WC
3. 4 teaspoon of salt

Maintanence: 15 Feb

Completed:
1.
50% WC on Fry Tank
Added 1 Teaspoon of Salt

2.
50% WC on Mating Tank
Added 1 Teaspoon of Salt

Maintanence: 14 Feb 09, Female & Mating Tank

Completed:

1. 20% WC on both tanks
2. 2 teaspoon of salt for Female Tank
3. 1 teaspoon of salt for Mating Tank

Gone Angel...

Just this morning when i woke up to check on the poor Angelfish, it is already dead...

Sick Angel

An angel fish given by Mr. Teh (who sponsored all my huge tanks and filters and pumps and rack thank you so much!) is sick today.

Had red streaks along its head with some white thing coming out of it..doesn't look good.

This is what I did this morning:
1. Quarantined the Fish
2. Add aged water with anti-chlorine
3. Add the green medication from ocean free product
4. Add 2 teaspoon of salt
5. Pumped in air through airstone

When i came home, there were bubbles gathering up on the edges of the tank, the red streaks seem to be worst.

This is what I did when I came back:
1. 50% WC
2. Added 1 teaspoon of Salt

After awhile there are still bubbles gathering at the edge, though the amount seem to have reduced.

Mr Teh gave me 9 angel fish and through the 4 months, they are down to 4 left. All of them died from red streaks. I'm having a bad feeling for this one too, since it is the same symptom, but I'll just do what I can to save it.

*Every week i do 20~30% WC but still this happens, this is just so sad...*sigh*

My Tanks...

Mating:



Volume: 9l or 2gal

Female only:



Volume: 18l or 5gal

Fry cum Delivery:



Volume: 12l or 3gal


males will be put in a community tank when they are identified and safe to be transferred

Guppy Genetics

Click here to read about Guppy Genetics.

Summary:

Recessive traits of a guppy are always represented by small letters e.g (a)
Dominant traits are always represented by capital letters e.g (A)

There is then the X/Y Genes. It is always the case where:
Females = XX
Males = XY

The X/Y Trait then becomes very complicated for me to understand. This is what I know for now:

X-Link Trait (e.g Traits: Pattern, Colour, Finnage):
Means that the traits of the particular strain can be passed down from either the female or the male guppy.

E.g: Female Snakeskin(ss) + Male Full Red(fr) [this is an example, don't bother about the caps]

If the fishes are X-Link, it means that their offspring can be:

Punnet Square:
(For info on Punnet Square click here.)

	X(fr)	Y(fr)
X(ss)	X(ss)X(fr)	X(ss)Y(fr)
X(ss)	X(ss)X(fr)	X(ss)Y(fr)

The results will be:
1. Female Snakeskin + Full Red
2. Male Snakeskin + Full Red

Both Male and Female Fries will show Full Red Snakeskin patterns!

Y-Link Trait:
Means that the genes of the particular strain can be only be passed down from the male guppy:

Using the above example again (the example is not real!)

Punnet Square:
E.g: Female Snakeskin(ss) + Male Full Red(fr) [this is an example, don't bother about the caps]

	X	Y(fr)
X(ss)	X(ss)X	X(ss)Y(fr)
X(ss)	X(ss)X	X(ss)Y(fr)

The results will be:
1. Female Snakeskin
2. Male Snakeskin + Full Red

Only the male fries will get Snakeskin + Full Red!

Interesting! This is like a math formular!

The problem now is that I am not sure if I am calculating this thing properly haha!

Next issue is:

How do I tell if the fish is X-Link or Y-Link =_=