I ran out of algae wafers for Allan and Budgie last night, so I went to the fish shop to buy some more. Found me a nice big packet of them and stocked up on a big packet of flakes for when they run out too. However, I also found myself tempted to buy a fish or so for my tank.
I told myself, and one of the assistants, "No, I'll go home and think on it and just stick to the food for now." Later, I came to the front counter and purchased the food and 2 little albino corydoras catfish...Sigh.
I don't know their genders yet, though one is noticeably smaller than the other. Both are quite young, I don't really know much about sexing corydoras, I hear males are smaller and thinner, but any differences I find now may not mean anything till they're both older. We shall see.
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Aww, they're so friendly. |
Currently they both only come to about an inch in length, but I'm told they may get to 3 times that.
The smaller one has been sedately exploring it's new tank, while the larger has been zipping up, down, left, right, all over the tank.
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Oooh! A rock! |
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In other news, the number of visible snails has leaped. They're all over the place, but not too populous yet. Though while I was cleaning the tank, I found a snail shell, nearly 5mm in diameter (compared to up to 2.5mm of the ramshorns), of a different sort. I figured it had been with the gravel as just an empty shell. But I later noticed that it was climbing up the side of the tank. No idea where it came from, nor why I'd never seen it before. Can snails survive for extended periods in the substrate? Ah well.