January 2011
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5-gallon Planted: 2011
It’s my newbie five-gallon planted tank’s turn to receive a little attention. An aquarium of this size (16” x 8” x 10”) is categorized/called by aquarists as a nano aquarium.
Just a little prelude. (Go to the paragraph above the second picture you see if you wish to skip this boring and uninteresting and unimportant and boring and uninteresting –now that’s annoying—part.)
I’ve been keeping...
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Biotope Chronicle: Fauna
Gobies, Halfbeaks, Gouramies, Shrimps: The Process
2nd January, 2011
Last day of the long vacation, and in fact, my deadline for this project has expired already along with the end of the year.
So I went back, with my ever supportive father, to the place where we first spotted the halfbeaks.
I was unsuccessful about improvising the suro (big net —analogy: two hand sword) and was only...
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Biotope Chronicle: Flora
For the plants, I went to Cartimar, a shopping district in Pasay City. I plan to plant Hydrilla verticillata and Cryptocoryne aponogetifolia. So far, the latter plant was the only available at the time i visited the place.
Cryptocoryne aponogetifolia
This plant, according to many articles, thrive in Albay, in the Bicol Region, which is still geographically a part of the Luzon Island....
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