Tank has resettled

Last weekend we spent a fortune at the fish shops! Denzil took us around and we visited all the Aquarium shops in Hurstville.

Strictly Aquariums was huge place off King Georges road, We got a whole heap of plants there $10 for 3 which isnt bad. The fish looked a bit dodge. Stuck to filters, swimming lopsidedly, they also had a self-service which would be interesting, probably what stresses out the fish so much, inept kiddies trying to catch their own fish with big whopping nets.
Anyway i purchased plants, and fish food (Tropical fish eat non-stop) and a CO2 difuser.

The bad thing about buying aquatic good before the end of the shopping route is you have to take them whereever you go. Denzil suggested the purchase of 2 bags of edame beans to act as a cooler, and keep the plants fresh. (Good one Denz!)

So more fish shops! (actually i thought Denzil was taking us to Korean Shops how i heard Korean from Aquarium i will never know!) We visited one place called Aquarium Warehouse, in 181 Forest Road, the goldfish collection and fish accessories was very impressive! There was a round tank going for 1280, and another tank that had fake stone and little chinese fishing men glued all over the space above the tank. Steph, Denzil and Ed did the oooh-ahh over the design, but i reminded them that it was almost $1500.

From this place I purchased a thermometer, a bigger bad fish cage, and a hot pink fishnet. The gave me a VIP card, that gave me 15% off the purchase price. Steph got to use it to buy a new airbubble wall for the goldfish tank.

But theres more! we went to the another fishshop further up forest road, called Hurstville Aquariums. 251 Forest Road. This place is pretty good!!! theres a bigger focus on fish here than the other place! we watched these little alligator fish pursue little fish for dinner, and i bought some snails for the goldfish tank here!

The goldfish are now happy. the new airwall has helped the fish, and the snails are doing wonders with the rubbish revlon and jaws leave behind.

The new tank is ordered, thats coming in on monday.

Ive soaked the peat and its a very messy pile but very good for plants im not too sure how im going to put that into the tank without wreaking the current display... who knows. maybe ill just keep buying plants and smothering the tank with greenery.

Its definetly a hobby but its so much fun! and so rewarding.