Some boring post, read on if you have time 😛
HISTORY
It all started from the old house we used to stay. We made an aquarium as a replacement of the wall. So when you enter the house, on the left side, you can see thru to the other side (the fridge). Most of our guest finds it intriguing and something special. We started our first batch of raring fish with Goldfish. They all look so cute and nice, but high maintenance fish. And the thing with Goldfish, they are very sensitive with water. If not right, they will fall sick. All sorts of sickness from white spots, torn tails and dunno what else. And the worse is it spreads from one to another!!! We started with 9, in the end all died..wohoohoo..*RIP PRAYERS*.
So after the batch of goldfish, we put in some carps there…just for stabilizing the water. But carps are no good for aquarium, they all look so ugly hehe…and they attempt to jump out of it too!! After a while, we decide not to put carps.
Oh..by the way, other than having an aquarium between the wall, we had a 6×4 ft tank in our balcony back then. That’s where all the carps reside. Daddy’s favourite fish. So whenever we buy new carps, they will go into the transit aquarium first, after they are considered *healthcheck pass*, they will be transferred into the carp tank.
After the carps, we decided to rare parrot fish. Parrot fish are very cute. They’ve got chubby cheeks and their mouth is like a heart shape hahaha….And if you are lucky, you can see them kissing each other sometimes 😛
Other than the aquarium & tank, we also have a pot full of mollies, where we have some water lilies there as well.
NOW
When we moved, we migrated all the fishes. yes all of them!!! We actually transfer them in batches in pails and move them from old house to new house. Thank god the distance is not far, or else we would have resorted into putting them to sleep.
We added more fish into the family apart from the parrot and carps. Daddy initially bought 4 arowanas (cheap – mid range rate – most expensive is about 200). They came in different colour, one silver, one gold, one RTG (red tail gold) and one dunno what colour, looks like green to me. They were all same size and all in the same side of the tank (1 side for parrot, 1 side for arowana). Then they started to fight with each other, so they got separated, each side 2 arowana.
Surprisingly, arowana don’t dare to attack the parrots cause they are dominant fishes too. When Daddy went to China last year, one of it died (the cheap one). Pheww….luckily that was not his favourite. So we were left with 3. The silver one wasn’t doing well as well, so we moved it to our old house (that time MIL was staying there temporarily while her house got renovated).
So now only left 2 big arowana. They are growing more and more beautiful each day…especially when we put on different colour lights (blue, red or white), you can see the scales are so nicely defined. OOppss…can’t see any numbers yet to buy 4D though. They have blended in pretty well with the parrots and some cheapo lampan. So one side of the aquarium, you’ll see arowana with parrot, the other side is arowana with lampan.
What do they feed on? That’s the high maintenance. Arowana doesn’t take pallets like other fishes. They are carnivores. Try putting your finger in, chances are they might just attempt to bite it off if they are seriously hungry.
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So here’s what we’ve got for them: Crickets & Frogs. Sometimes we buy worms as well. Faythe is very much aware of the additional residents in our house.
like a wet zoo liao 😛
Wow, that’s a lot of fishes at home. But Faythe has a good past time then.. watching the fishes. It is also very calming to have fishes, isn’t it.
Champion loves fishes too.. and loves to feed them.
eeee, see the rickets & frogs, i already feel geli ler…me very chicken wan la!
u not scare faythe hold them & put into her pocket? lol
I like to read your blog, sometime i feel you’re quite a humor lady. I like your topic too, “Residents of the house” , hehe, but those fishes not under human species!
Wow, didn’t know u’ve an AQUARIA at home. Arowanas bite? Really? I thought they are docile types, didn’t know they are so ferocious.
U rear crickets and frogs? Wuah lau eh! What if they jump out from their ‘cages’? Can imagine Faythe chasing after the frogs. Kekekekeke.
I’m afraid of fish, only dare to touch them when they’re dead and cook! But my boy likes them, so I let hubby bring him to see fish, not me…
egghead: yalor..luckily no crocs!!!
geetha: yup fish is calming :)..faythe not so interested in the fish though 🙁
jesslyn: keke yaya me oso geli 😛 don’t dare to touch. wahh..no lah, i think she oso scared 😛
huisia: hehe thx thx..yah i very *fai fai tei* one 😛
tracy: yalerr, they sometimes hungry they will attack other fish oso!! hehe..i think she will chase, i will runaway first :p
shoppingmum: oo..it’s very geli rite their body, like so slippery. I’m also scare to catch them alive
wow, your hubby also likes fishes one ah? my hubby also la. we use to have one huge tank but we lived in a small apartment. so you imagine walking into the house and the tank is all you see! he use to have 18 gold fishes (sat fatt) then one by one died. yes, hard to rare gold fishes. many attempts to rare, if i am not mistaken hubby bought almost 50 of them over the period of 2 years. hehe…… now the tank all emptied liow cos the last one also died liow…..
alamak..
I would freak out with the crickets and the frogs!!
mylittlechampion: wah wah..invested so many!! hmm..then ur hubby n mine can talk fish lah hahaha….ask him to get parrot fish, very hardy and cute also 🙂
zara’s mama: heheh…same here, lucky I don’t need to feed them 😛
U mean Arowana eat frogs too?? I remembered my dad’s Arowana only eat crickets and roaches. I hates those noisy crickets and smelly roaches.
My hubby loves pet too his favourite is goldfish. Used to have birds but now only left goldfish.
Ou wow! A mini aquarium in ur house, Faythe no need to go KLCC Aquaria…hah!
I also hate to see fishes die. So sad, upside down and floating….sob!
contended mum: i like goldfish too, they look so pretty but tough to maitain hoh
allyfeel: hehe yah..mini aquaria :p. not only sad, but geli also lah..it’s so so slimy
My hubby also likes fich very very very much. He wish to order a big tank too, when we move into our new house, maybe that time can seek for your hubby’s opinion, ha ha!