Bill and Dottie : The Penthouse Aquarium

  I finally upgraded Bill and Dottie to a bigger tank! After the incident with the leaky tank and the eggs that didn't hatch,my dad and I went to this quaint old fish shop and bought this tank for RM26. Surprisingly my mom didn't kill me for getting more fish stuff :)
  I really like the old shop where I bought the stuff. It's really tiny, the size of a small room and with old glass aquariums but its really clean and the old man that sells it is nice. Every time I pay a visit there with my dad there's something new to see.This time there were some kind of newts.I wish I could have one.They look so cute and are pretty laid back. These two kinda remind me of two bachelors in their bachelor pad

  I also saw some really nice ram cichlid. I used to keep a pair of these a few years back and they have these really brilliant colors and opaque spots and fins, seriously pretty. The water here is kinda blue though coz I think a fish caught the white spot disease and the shop owners son put the blue colored medicine into the water

If I'm not mistaken these are ram cichlids  or mikrogeophagus ramirezi. I didn't really have a good look at them so I can't be very sure. But here's a clearer pic of it which I shamelessly googled.You can see how brilliant their colors are

  Beautiful aren't they?This one is a male, you can identify it by it's dorsal fin which is slightly longer and darker colored at the front,usually blackish. Oh I wish I had a million tanks and the strength,space and time to care for them all.Gah
  Besides fish I also collect really old books. I went to a missionary school throughout my schooling years,which is SMK Convent.They had these really old books that the missionaries brought over but the school threw alot of them into an old closed off water closet or something and tehre were like mountains of them which is were I found this gem of a book written by Dr Herbert R Axelrod and William Vorderwinkler.

             Encyclopedia of Tropical Fishes( With Special Emphasis on Techniques of Breeding)

   And yeah that Ju-On wanabe behind the book is me.I can be a lil nerdy so..yeah. This book was published in 1965 so you can guess how old it is.But it's contents are still relevant.Back then rivers and streams were unpolluted and I guess catching fish was more fun. Nowadays people just go to aquariums.

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Most of the pages are in black and white with pictures and labelled descriptions of aquatic plants,fish and the different kinds of food suitable for fish ranging from infusoria to brine shrimp.

The book also has colored pictures at the back,pretty high tech for those times :)

  Ah, I just realized I have to go down for dinner, my dad just came up. Oh the bliss of being home after exams! Once again I can't resist but to post another pic of the happy couple

Live long and prosper Bill and Dottie!