Exhausted—I’ve cleaned out the former freshwater tank, which Jane is going to use for a diorama….
\nThis involved transferring all the fishes to the new setup in the 100 gallon, which involved, first, catching them, and if I say 5 cory cats and 3 giant danios, freshwater hobbyists will understand.
\nExhausted.
\nGot the last cory cat by lowering the water level to 5 inches. The light gave up the ghost during the chase, I had to resort to flashlights, and finally got the little beggar.
\nThen I had to empty 50 pounds of sand, soaked wet sand, which no longer weighed just fifty pounds. This took a dogfood scoop we use for litter—and a lot of trips (4) with a heavy bucket to dump the sand where it can fertilize some flowers—like 10 years of fish poo and plant fertilizer. It should encourage plant life if it doesn’t burn it…
\nThen it involved a large sponge and a lot of wringing. But I have got it down now where it will evaporate and a Dustbuster can gather up the residual gravel once it’s dry.
\nNow we have only the tank that Jane wants to use for a betta tank: about 30 gallons, heavily grown and over in a nook.
\nWe have confined the giant pleco and a small one to the sump, down in the basement, in dark they prefer, while we jockey about to try to find them a home…Jane has some fish I’ll take into the big tank, and one 3″ catfish that is predatory, but I’m pretty sure the 7″ pleco can fend him off. If I see any problem, that catfish —well, I don’t do them in, but I will accelerate efforts to rehome him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Exhausted—I’ve cleaned out the former freshwater tank, which Jane is going to use for a diorama…. This involved transferring all the fishes to the new setup in the 100 gallon, which involved, first, catching them, and if I say 5 cory cats and 3 giant danios, freshwater hobbyists will understand. Exhausted. Got the last cory […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9429,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9428\/revisions\/9429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}