Yesterday I bought a 50lb. bag of Quikrete Premium Play Sand for $3.56 after tax. That sure beats the $19.95 they want for a 20lb. bag at the LFS. I poured about 6 inches of sand into my 5 gallon bucket. I ran it under water, stirring it often, until it came clean. This took about 6-9 rinses until I was satisfied enough. I am really pleased with how it looks. It is a lot darker than some of the other sand I have seen. It is not that bleached white looking sand, it looks like the sand you see at the beaches on the East Coast.

I am going to move the Clown Loach from the 10g into the 30g temporarily until I get the gravel replaced with sand. There is some algae on the glass so I think I will take this time to clean it really well. I might even reseal the seams.  I want to remove a lot of the java moss in the 10g and also and some of the red slate to the 10g. I might stop at a few LFS's on my way home to see if I can find some rocks or some more plants. I might also pick up some cories if I can find some decent ones at a good price.

I will post some pictures later once I get things going. It should be sometime later tonight or tomorrow morning. Thanks for stopping by!

I gave my six female guppies and six male Tequila Sunrise guppies to a guy I met on Aquarium Advice. Hopefully this will solve my guppy problem, hopefully is the key word. I was joking with my girlfriend saying that even after I net all the females out of the 10g I would still have fry in there somehow. Sure enough, got back home from dropping off the fish and there was one fry swimming around. Quickly netted him and fed him to my Angelfish.

Now I have to figure out what I am going to do with my 10g tank. I really don't need three tanks running. I am hoping to get Scott's 30g tall sometime next week. Even if I take apart the 10g, I will still run the filter on the 30g so that the filter media stays seeded.

It seems like I may have found a solution to my over populating guppies; a big Koi Angelfish. I got home from work yesterday and I noticed that the Angelfish was moving around quite a bit more than it was the first day. It seems to be getting used to its new tank. I watched him for a few minutes and realized that he was chasing all the small guppy fry around. The fry move kind of quick so the Angelfish had its work cut out for him. It didn't take long for him to realize what he had to do, be patient. Every time a fry would swim in front of him he would simply swim forward a little and suck the fry into his mouth. I'd say he probably ate a good dozen or more in the course of 30 minutes.

I think I will leave them in there for the rest of the day and remove tonight when the lights go off. I'll see how the guppy population responds to the thinning of the 'herd'. I know for certain that all the larger guppies are females, there are still some fry that I cannot sex yet. I'll have to wait and see what they are, who knows, they might be eaten already!

I'll post some better pictures sometime later this week. I got a busy weekend a head of me so it will have to wait till next week.