… the shrimp has been spotted crawling around the castle battlements. phew.

So last week I thought the shrimp in my fish tank had disappeared. When I inspected the filter earlier this evening to see why it was making a funny noise, I discovered that the shrimp had somehow made its way in to the filter compartment… which is a mystery in itself as it is pretty much sealed off from the tank. Anyway, as I attempted to pick it out of there it decided to flick around a lot… and vanished. Can’t find it anywhere.. could be on the floor, could have landed back in the tank. hmm.

So here goes the latest attempt at keeping a tidier fish tank. Last week I scraped all the blue gravel out and replaced it with gravel coloured gravel which should hide the dirt better. I also peeled (yes, peeled) off the algae from the glass and replaced the castle with a hollow log so as I could clean the muck off the castle. This week I put the castle back in and stuck a few plants in too. We also got a silver shark and a siamese fighting fish (blue fancy one in the photo)… I’m hoping to keep it clean this time!

I’ve decided to put some fish in my fish tank. It’s been a good few weeks since Rainbow Brite’s rotted corpse was removed and it’s pretty settled. Water tests show the balance is okay if a little hard (for Em’s peace of mind!).

Only problem is that since I put some nice real plants in there, a couple of snails came unknowingly free. They obviously found each other irresistible cuz now there’s bloomin’ thousands of them. Well, there was. A fair few of them are now floating after I got a magic potion from the pet store. My plan is to take Poppy to the pet store on Saturday to pick a few fish out… I’ll keep you posted.