Our Aquarium Project

Hey all you out there in Cyberspace!!!

It's Cordelia.

How are all of you doing today? :D

I just wanted to take a moment to share a bit of our exciting new hobby with all of you. A few of you loyal readers have been with me since the beginning of the blog, way before the purge era (when we stripped a whole bunch of our older content from the site), and the era of anxiety (where a whole bunch of things kept me from writing) know that I absolutely love fish.

As a gift, my boyfriend got me a 29 gallon fish tank and we have since started building up our little family of fish. But a hobby like this takes so much time and care. Especially with  a large tank like ours. so far it has been such an incredible project he and I have worked on together, and it has given us a lot of peace and motivation along the way.

Here is a picture of our tank as we were first establishing it before adding fish:

So far we have 9 fish total living in the tank. The water looks a little green because we had just dropped in the algae tabs to feed the Rubber Lipped Plecos. We also had to hold off on a water change because we were still establishing the ecosystem of the tank. In the future we definitely wouldn't use white gravel again. Unfortunately with the white you can see every bit of dirt and algae. The Rubber Lipped Plecos are the ones that are suctioning to the glass in the picture below. We have two of those little guys:

The black fish lurking behind the Pleco is a Black Molly. They are typically really low aggression leveled fish, and live really well in community tanks with plenty of different breeds. All together we have 5 of them. Three of them can also be seen in our picture below:

The two silvery fish are White Cloud Mountain Minnows. When we originally got our tank, we had four of them, with the intent to get more as they were schooling fish. However, in one night, one of the older minnows passed away, and his mate passed shortly after. We had just gotten them, and sometimes when you get new fish, they are sick or older, and that was a risk we took.  When the ecosystem of our tank is a bit more stable we'd like to get more to build up our little school of minnows again. Eventually we would like to have 6 total.


We would eventually like to get a few more Mollies (different types), some snails, and a few other community fish.

To help raise money to help us support this hobby we have a few new designs up on our Teespring Store.

This Mug can be found at: Fishy Fund Version 1

This one can be found at: Fishy Fund v2

This one can be found at: Fishy Fund v3

If you would like to see more of our tank as it grows, or help fund our new fish home, please leave us a comment below, share this post on Facebook, give it a +1 on Google plus, share it on Twitter, or Comment on the Facebook post that goes along with this blog post.

Thank you all for  your support and we can't wait to share more with you moving forward!

~Cordelia Cross.