Hi all, this is the recent journey of Bob, my old Siamese Fighter and his move to his retirement home.
Bob originally came to me after I picked up an old tank for £1 at a car boot in the South and then spent about £60 kitting it out! When I first got him all his fins had been ripped off by the two females he had been sharing a tank with (warning to those thinking the girls will live with the boys!). I had seen him a few times prior to this though, and liked his personality so took him anyway, complete with stubs as fins. These eventually grew and he was a stunner.
I then moved north, so bought a food grade box with lid, and he traveled with me in the car to his/my new home. It was from here that I was destined to suffer from *MTS! Sometime later on a bike ride out to a Garden Centre to purchase a plant for the garden, I happened to go and take a look at the Fish Section! I came home with a new fish tank (well it was delivered for me) and no plant for the garden! The rest is history and is in my profile...
Young Bob – August 2011
So back to Bob, he has lived in his new tank for almost two years now and would be estimated between 3-4 y/o. He comes up for his food and at times even jumps for it, but most of the time sits on the bottom of the tank. He is prone to fin-rot and fin-melt, no matter how much maintenance I seem to do.
Bob sitting on the bottom of his tank
Bob with Fin Melt
So the idea came to give him his own retirement home where he can while away his days, and I can treat him to his own special needs.
Firstly, I wanted a tunnel or log for him to settle in, so he was not always sitting on the bottom of the tank, so began a discussion on Betta Log or Small Floating Log to gain others experiences.
I then went and bought a few potential items based on Wildbettas (thanks) ideas in the above topic:
Log Options
I used items a, b and c:
a) was a plumbing pipe with a hole in the middle so that Bob could breathe without having to exit the pipe.
b) were suckers with hooks to attach to the outside of the aquarium to hold the log in place.
c) fishing floats ( I have since found some clear ones for future use)
I also used fishing line to fasten c to a and then to b.
The completed log, the first image has a temperature probe inside it so that I could monitor that it would maintain the required temperature.
To be continued ...
(as the TFF will not allow me to post more images!)
Bob originally came to me after I picked up an old tank for £1 at a car boot in the South and then spent about £60 kitting it out! When I first got him all his fins had been ripped off by the two females he had been sharing a tank with (warning to those thinking the girls will live with the boys!). I had seen him a few times prior to this though, and liked his personality so took him anyway, complete with stubs as fins. These eventually grew and he was a stunner.
I then moved north, so bought a food grade box with lid, and he traveled with me in the car to his/my new home. It was from here that I was destined to suffer from *MTS! Sometime later on a bike ride out to a Garden Centre to purchase a plant for the garden, I happened to go and take a look at the Fish Section! I came home with a new fish tank (well it was delivered for me) and no plant for the garden! The rest is history and is in my profile...
Young Bob – August 2011
So back to Bob, he has lived in his new tank for almost two years now and would be estimated between 3-4 y/o. He comes up for his food and at times even jumps for it, but most of the time sits on the bottom of the tank. He is prone to fin-rot and fin-melt, no matter how much maintenance I seem to do.
Bob sitting on the bottom of his tank
Bob with Fin Melt
So the idea came to give him his own retirement home where he can while away his days, and I can treat him to his own special needs.
Firstly, I wanted a tunnel or log for him to settle in, so he was not always sitting on the bottom of the tank, so began a discussion on Betta Log or Small Floating Log to gain others experiences.
I then went and bought a few potential items based on Wildbettas (thanks) ideas in the above topic:
Log Options
I used items a, b and c:
a) was a plumbing pipe with a hole in the middle so that Bob could breathe without having to exit the pipe.
b) were suckers with hooks to attach to the outside of the aquarium to hold the log in place.
c) fishing floats ( I have since found some clear ones for future use)
I also used fishing line to fasten c to a and then to b.
The completed log, the first image has a temperature probe inside it so that I could monitor that it would maintain the required temperature.
To be continued ...
(as the TFF will not allow me to post more images!)
