Sunday, February 28, 2010

Chiku & Experiment With Cages

Decided to try out a small Shama cage for Jambul. Chiku became the candidate due to his somersaulting in a tall cage. So, he is predisposed to somersaulting and it would be good to see his acceptance of more space in such a set-up. Chiku is OK in a Thai design cage.






A fusion of Shama and Jambul cage......
So far at day 3, all is well & good ;-)


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Molting Shama

Apollo in an advance state of molt. Hope he has a good molt this season ;-)


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The above are easily sold, if I want to. But decided that they are better off in a kampung life. Gave away to a fiend in Endau. Hope they are happy there as I can't maintain them as free roaming chickens at home anymore. Maybe another day when I really have the space. Meanwhile, less birds (or chicken) to care for is a good thing :-D

Minus another singing Magpie, ah! things will be much quieter at home...... less one crowing chicken and a Magpie on steroid, my neighbours will hate me less hahahaha!

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Finding Nemo Pt. 1/3

My son has been bugging me to get a "Nemo Fish" for him for some now. Persistent little fella, him. So bought a bag of salt today and will try to turn my 4ft fresh water aquarium into a marine tank. Did try a 1ft aquarium once but the fish died. Maybe it's difficult to control the water parameter.

Given a choice, I would have went for a planted aquarium instead. Oh, well I have the birds to worry about, better leave the aquatic plants alone.









Have a bunch of tetras that need to be rehomed. Will put them up for adoption in the forum soon. Meanwhile have to get them out before I pour the salt in. One thing about switching from fresh water to salt water or vice versa is that it would get rid of existing problem - fresh water algae or salt water algae. I had unpleasant encounter before - both with black algae and red algae.







Finding Nemo (Clown Fish) prove to be a bit trickier now - difficult find in my local fish shop. And the price has gone up - purportedly because they are captive bred.

Now, that is definitely good for our environment ;-)
Will stay away from buying live coral for the same reason.

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