Sick fish

The whitespots on the tang got even worse after the freshwater dip treatment. We had to act fast otherwise the poor thing would die as the parasites feeds on its flesh and blood..puitis sungguh! Haha

Sooooo we took action by setting up a quarantine tank. Using the previous tank, we bought a smaller filter pump, some live rock to host the bacterias, and a small bottle of chelated copper as medication for the fish. Copper works well on eliminating parasites but overdosing could cause poisoning and death to the fish. It also degrades by time so additional solution should be added and its concentration in the water should be monitored. Too high fish dies too low fish dies too lol. It says that i should put 2ml for every 50 litres, after calculating the water volume, all i needed was only 0.3ml. I din have anything to measure the exact amount but i remembered one of my lecturers used to say that a drop equals to 0.1ml. Jadi aku pun bedal la boh 4 titik. Cuak gak ni kot2 memory tu aku reka sendiri dlm kepala kan, kang mapuhh plokk ikang ni. Tgk2 keesokan harinye molek skek, yay!

Ohh and we went to the local fish shop and got a couple of ugly corals for the tank. I hate them cz theyre not as colorful as the expensive ones but whatever. We got them for free so papejela.

The hospital


The recovering blue tang


The tanks


The ugly freebies








Haaa pastuuu ada sekor ikan aku yg aku ckp missing in action and is thought to be dead and its carcass eaten by the forever hungry shrimps, rupenye mmg dah mati. Tapi tidak dimakan udang, cuma mati kering lol. He jumped out of the tank, menggeletik sensorang kat dlm baldi tu sampai laaa mati patu jadi ikan kering.

A lesson for all escapist fishiesss


Aku nak simpan tapi DH tak bagi. Dia cakap kuman. Akupun buang luar tingkap.

Hari ni aku main squash 2 kali. Pagi dgn prof hood salleh( power org tua ni, malaysias national champion of the year 1975. Lutut nak tercabut pun bully aku like crazy) ptg dgn bosto. Now kaki aku rasa malas nak berdiri... Aku nak je jalan2 lagi tapi kaki aku ckp cukup2 la seksa dia.

Marine ich

Our blue tang caught the ich today.. Well im not sure wether he had it only today or a couple of days ago cz i havent had time to look at the fishes, but yea i had a good look at it this morning and i concluded that it the nasty parasites are on him.

We cant afford the medication for the time veing cz DH is freaking himself out about getting in shape so he feels like he needs to buy a shoe this instant, and theres bills to pay yada3 so i went for the hyposalinity treatment, the dip-in-freshwater method.

I filled a jar of RO water, put in the tap water conditioner together with the API stress zyme liquid (honestly i think the stress zyme is a waste, cz its not like he needs the bacterias right now), turned on the air pump, let it run for a bit and put the tang in. I dont know if the water temp i the jar is of much difference from the main tank, the internet says it should be the same, i think its more or less the same so i din bother to check.




He looks like he's doing fine, im leaving him a bit longer in the jar cz when the 15 minutes suggested was up there still were a couple of spots on him.

I should hyposalinate the whole tank but since theres other invertabrates in it it wont be safe. Plus its not a breakout so ill cure the tang alone for now.

Crazy parasites.. And i thought my tank had enough problems already.

About DH wanting to be in shape. He got a little too over excited about it after he watched documentaries of bodybuilders on youtube. After all these years of me telling him to exercise, and he listens to youtube in an instant. Well i hope he takes it seriously this time. Being in shape needs strong discipline and will, you shouldnt do it if you couldnt stand the pain, like when your muscles hurt and stuff you let youself believe that you couldnt do anything else until you recover. You have a life, responsibilities and working out isnt the only thing youd be doing once you start it, its something you incorporate into your daily life so its your job to manage between your responsibilities and working out. Unless youre paid to do so, then that would be fine.

If you work out and start scowling at everyone else just for being drained from it then dont do it. Youre not the only one trying to get healthy, loads of other people are doing it and they manage just fine so look upon them.

Harini tak niaga.. Aku letih apa tak tau.. Malas je kot. Haih.

Owwwww

I did like some minor weights on biceps and tri, 2 kilo je bai sebelah tangan, aku g pasar borong angkat 20 kilo kot. Tapi yg 2 kilo ni.. Sakitnye lengan aku woihh. I cant straighten my arms for the time being. Jalan rase mcm gorilla.

Moral is, dont stop exercising for too long or you might just be discouraged when you start again. This doesnt apply to me though :p

I was super tired yesterday, that i din even feel squash was necessary. Maybe ill go today, maybe not. Cz my arms are throbbing, i might not be able to play as good in this condition, now that wont be fun. Maybe if it isnt raining or too hot i could go for a swim, just to ease the muscles.

Or maybe i could just stay home and sleep.

the most fucking hilarious video shane has ever made

ive been watching shanes vids for quite a while now, and my verdict is that this guy is soo good, haha, born with the talent. i literally laughed until i cried wehh, like lepas aku gelak gila babi yg tak keluar suara tu, sakit perut, patu rasa sedih like all of a sudden, patu nangis plak, hahahaha, haduii.

dah byk kali aku tgk vid ni, and i still laugh like hell towards the end of the vid.

Changes

Lets just hope aku kental dgn tangki ni after this. Lumut tgh menggila skarang. Poning2.

Apa ini?

Buah tu tambah performance..

So finally the ukm officials all of which i got to know from squash, have all united to help me with my application. Alhamdulillah la kan, nasib baik la aku main sukan. Ada la jugak gunanye bersosial kat court tu.

My admission is yet to be confirmed but they said its just a matter of time cz theres definitely a place for me. I dont know what im gonna be studying though. Might be geology, environmental or maybe marine science. Dang son, i really want to go for marine, boleh g scuba sokmo! But DH wont let me, so kedekut. Tuih. But whatever, aku pun malas nak memilih sgt.. Janji habis degree je.

Masa cite2 dgn geng2 tu aku bising la yg pasal aku malas nak mintak kerajaan ni sbb kerajaan poyo. Mintak tuka pun macam2 alasan dia bagi konon nak bagi nampak mcm susah gila nak masuk uni tu. Patu smalam time dia tepon aku dia cakap ' pasni takyah ckp la kerajaan tak bgs kan, kerajaan bagus tau nak tolong u ni. Haha.bila lagi nak pekena u!' ahaha. Untung la sporting. Kalau jenis poyo tu susah gak.

MOP is like a couple of days away je homaigodddd kene cari duit cepat ni! Patu activated carbon kat filter tank nak kene tuka.. Dah pakai sebulan. Patu haritu my yellow butterfly died, kecian dia. I think the drastic water change shocked the little fella. The tank is doing well. Every living thing in it is eating regularly. I dug the small anemone out from the hole and put him away from the big ones so that he could have his own space and not shut itself up all the time, its hard to feed it when its shrivelled. Only the purple anemone seems stressed, cz it looks like its about to split itself up. Or maybe its splitting cz its time to do so, i dont know. Its not like i can ask it why. Anyways splitting doesnt harm it, its just a way of how they reproduce.

If the water parameters are right by the end of this weekend were gonna start on reefing. We bought a live rock recently that still has a living coral on it, thought it was dying but it still glows brightly after a week. I think it lives cz the temperature is low, and the water isnt so bad either. Corals need to be placed in a 26c or lower tempd tank to survive or theyd perish...other important supplements for it to thrive-calcium and magnesium.for the colors to pop out pun ada, and it also feeds on phytoplankton dan seangkatan dengannye and every single bottle of those stuff(reefs in tanks are all maintained by liquid conponents) costs no less than 40 each. Aaaaaaaaahhhhhh!!!!

I miss my mom and my sibs. Not the idiot brother though. Jerk who thinks he's all it.

Muscle sore

I went for squash and hit the gym yesterday. I did some leg curls and extensions.. Damn my whole body feels super sore. Starting something i hadnt done in months sure feels painful. Lucky i love the fact that it hurts, obviously meaning im doing it right.

My underarms are getting flabby, i need to have them reduced. If only squash is like tennis, like you get to use both hands on the swings. DH's cousin plays used to play tennis for the state, he thinks i play tennis so he thought of asking me to spar. A dissapointment of course lol. I wish i could play the sport properly, it would be fun to be good in it. Nevertheless i asked him if we could play sometime. Well see.

Upgrades!

We upgraded to a bigger tank. Like a few cms bigger je.. I din think it was necessary cz we were still struggling to maintain the previous tank. Tapi dah DH nak. Ikut jela. Kang tak bagi memerap plak.. I married a child. What can i say.

Bought a blue tang today. Also known as dory in finding nemo ;)

Upgraded tank


We bought this starfish like a week ago. Cuma susah nak amek gambar sbb dia dok menyorok kat blakang batu.


Im starting on wow today. New expansion is coming out in a week. Gotta learn the macros and stuff.

And squash too! Omg how i miss the sport! My fitness has gone wayy low cz ive been doing stuff i aint supposed to but it shouldnt be a problem to get it back to normal cz i know exactly how to. Gotta be super disciplined though.

New stuff in the tank

Went to subang again yesterday. Spent on these..
Nemos in anemones comel kan

I dont know these fishes names






Overall new tank arrangement



Aku nak beli clam.. Tapi DH xbagi sbb mahal. Takut nanti mampos sbb air tak stable lagi. Beli anemone besar gila yg murah je boleh.ish. Perasaan nak tu sampai termimpi2 tau. Haha. Takpela.. Janji the clowns have somewhere to play.

Clowns that are captured from the ocean will immediately make anemones in a new tank their home, whereas tank breds prefer to linger around wide space. So if you want your tank to look like an authentic seascape, get stuff that came from the sea! Cuma bende dari laut ni mungkin susah nak acclimate to tank conditions and they might have like a short life la kan.tapi takpe la, usaha maju jaya weh.

I had a look at the new civic for the first time yesterday while we were stuck in traffic on federal highway. Dang sonn, it sure is ugly. I like the previous one a thousand times over. Crz kan menjadi kegilaan skarang. Dari depan dari blakang, cantik gak. Tapi dari tepi mcm tahik. Bagi aku la kan. Aku boleh komen on looks je sbb aku xpenah bawak. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder lol.Tapi kete jepun, bak kata DH, dari segi estetik mmg cap ayam. Bawak ok. Tak bole lawan continental though.

Aku nak main wow ni, tapi dok dang. Asek tido je lepas nege smpi petang buat keje patu malam dah tak ramai kat server sbb mat salleh tido. Nak ramai kene main dlm kol 1a.m onwards. Malas la nak bejaga.. Taknak bengkakkan lagi mataku yang dah sembap ni. Kang tambah hitam plak habishhh tau. MOP nak keluar dah on the 25th but DH and me, were so unprepared. Damn.

So it died

The sick fish died sometime yesterday while we were out getting the test kit.

Now the other one looks sick. And its not eating either.. Something is wrong with the water. I checked the nitrate level and it was pretty high, as the recommended value should be 0. Should check the ammonia level too, unfortunately the tester for it wasnt included with the set. Gotta go buy the fish test kit next.

Nevertheless, the invertebrates are pretty healthy. One of the shrimps molted yesterday.



My anemone, it eats alot now.


The dying fish, if find a solution then it wont be.


Ohh and we bought two mushrooms in addition to our tank.







I spotted something baby like(in animal terms la.. Takkan ada baby dlm tank?! Mari mane pulok..) but not sure what it is. Too small to be identified.

Bawang putih

Sesungguhnya hanya tuhan yang tahu betapa aku gilakan flavour bawang putih.

Every dish i cook (tak termasuk masak melayu) wajib 4ulas or more. I dont know wether DH likes it or not but he never did complain once, well except hari tu aku ada masak termasin sket haha kecian tau. Honestly, bagi aku, 4ulas tu means nothing, because i cant taste the garlicky essence. Jgn nak suruh aku makan cmtu je ehh, sbb aku geli. Kalau makan saje rasa nak terbelahak ada ahh.

Ini sume adalah salah Fabio Viviani for making me cook like an italian(perasan nyeee lahai)


Baru ni aku ada dengar yg ada laa manusia2 yg tak habis nak cari salah dan silap org lain, berkata;

Sarah tu kawen sbb dia ingat mamat tu byk duit. Tgk2 kawen kene jual nasik je, menyesal xsudah la dia.

Shouldnt i be moving on to someone else if money(which isnt available) is what i aim for in this marriage?

Takpelah. Mulut org. Nobody can satisfy anybody.

The sick clown looks really sick today. Some kind of spore is growing on its head and it hasnt been eating. Dannngggg. Now deciding wether to keep it or flush it down the drain.

Omg we cant wait!

World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria will be released on the 25th of september people! Which means more holes in DH's pockets lol.

We havent been playing wow for the past 2 months cz we were busy sleeping and working during ramadhan and we only got back from kemaman like a week after raya so we thought it wouldnt be smart to subscribe then. But now that things are back to normal, maka start bayar balik la kan.

2 bulan beb tak main wow.. Bila sign in dah jadi mcm kekok sbb skarang dah patch baru. Last time we played it was 4.3 now dah 5.0. All the new interface, the changes in the talent system, abilities added and removed, unusable macros makes it all so weird. Were gonna have to study abit before we really start playing again.

The livestock in my tank are doing pretty well. One of the anemones seem to be missing in action though, we even broke the rock to look for it cz it might be hiding between the cracks and holes but takde pun. Magic dohh. Tapi takpe la. Ada satu pun ok.. And im happy that it eats regularly. One of the clowns though, i havent seen it eat anything yet. It looks sick, but maybe he's just having a hard time adjusting himself to the tank. We havent been easy on them either.. We keep on changing the tanks layout. Maybe the fish finds it to be stressful. Who knows.

Sometimes i get to see copepods feed on the pellets that go unnoticed on the base. I hope they wont cause any trouble in the future.. Their numbers can multiply pretty fast if uncontrolled, making the tank ugly. I also notice that the live rocks in the tank has loads of stuff living in it. A good sign that the tank is doing fine. Were still gona have to get the test kit by the end of this week before adding anymore fish, dont want to take the risk since lepas ni ikan yang kitorang plan nak beli mahat nak mampuihh.

Mengantuk la.. Nak tido jap.

My marine tank update!

Kitorang cari kedai ikan laut yang ada banyak choice sket. Last2 jumpa kat kampung melayu subang. Aquatics international. Nak tau adress just google it. Besar gila weh kedai dia. Ada 2 bijik warehouse, satu yg untuk display lagi satu dia simpan yg special nye untuk eksport.


Tapi dia bukanla jual ikan laut semata2. Freshwater lagi banyak.Lower level freshwater upper saltwater.

Mcm robin kan haha

This fish has fangs.. Looks like a bat


We bought like a couple of stuff there. 2 baby anemones,a cleaning crew consisting of a pair of cleaner shrimps and some snails. Total damage is rabak poket. Haha.

Feeding it some mashed prawns

Did you know that this thing moves around? I din. Buat penat aku je pikir nak letak dia kat mana bagi nampak cantik sket tangki tu kan, patu turun bawah kejap masak naik balik tgk2 dah hilang dah. Dia nyorok celah batu. Mlm smalam satu je nyorok, pagi tdi yg lagi satu pun nyorok gakkkkk. Haih. Sama mcm tangki kosong je.

Harini ingat nak beli ikan plak. Tapi air tak test lagi. Ikan ni kira tester la hehe kalau mati then nasib dia la kan. Setiap yang hidup mesti akan mati.
The cheap and common clown.. Tank bred clowns costs a fortune. Different clown species could cost some 50bux. Manyak mahat!

Dumbest boat ride ever.

Went to the mines yesterday because dh's cousin wanted to go on the boat ride. Dh and i tagged along since we had nothing else to do and aku mmg nak merayap pun kan, bosan duduk kat umah.

Tickets were 28 per person for the wawa splash ride(the name itself sounds fishy). Mahal kan? Baik aku beli ikan. Kitorang xnak naik pun.. But kakak insisted to pay for us so naik jela.

Naik natang gonjeng ni rupenyerrr..


A boat on wheels. Nama wawa splash tu sbb splash time turun ramp nak masuk air tu. Haih..

We were told that the ride would take about 30 mins to complete, what we werent told was that the 30 mins was because the boats engine sounded and smelled like it was ready to blow up anytime.

im never going for that ride ever again.