Question about tank lid

Sure do! This is Axel's new aquarium - the babies are hanging on the edge. I have 6 nursery baskets in all. You have to look hard to find Axel in this picture - you can see his tail underneath the filter's intake pipe. He's working on his tactical strategy for catching the fish (one week later, he still hasn't caught a single one). Lotte's aquarium is not as easy to photograph as it is in a darker corner.
 

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This is Lotte doing the Happy Food Dance. Her tank looks funky but it's really clean, just dark. I'm also not much of a photographer.

And yes, that's gravel on her floor. We're moving house in August and I'm waiting until then before I redo her aquarium (can't wait!)
 

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Wow very nice set up. I wish I had bought a wider tank now. The one I got is 30x12x12, there is not much room in mine width wise for them to races around the tank. I am wondering now if I didnt put to much "stuff" in my tank.

I really like how you have the baskets hanging on the sides for the babies. Really good idea!!! I was planning on getting a 10 gallon tank to keep any babies we might have. But I like your setup better.
 
Is it there now? I see it on my screen.
 
Yes, it's there now. From what I can tell she looks very healthy. Do you think I should take some of the stuff out of my tank? Atleast until I can afford to get a wider tank.
 
No, I think your tank looks nice. You have it cozy-close on the one side and space on the other, do I see that correctly? I think that's a nice idea because they can seek out what they want at any particular moment.

I just tried to take a pic of Lotte's aquarium but someone has the flash turned on and I don't know how to turn it off. Darned high-tech gizmo. Need the kids to set it for me.
 
Yes, you see it correctly. Ok I will leave it the way it is.

I agree with you on the high tech gizmo things.. My husband is a major computer programer and website developer. Even though it is only his hobby, he spends as much time doing that as he does at his full time job. ha ha ha I keep telling him he needs to charge for what he does but, noway will he do that. He tries to talk to me about coding and programing but it all sounds like gibberish to me.
 
My husband is actually a "Prof. Dr." in computer science or information technology or whatever we call it in English ("Informatik" in German) - but you should watch him change a lightbulb har har har
 
HA Ha ha!!! I know what you mean. Men think they have to know it all and do it all, but to actually get them to do it is another story.
 
Ooh we better be careful here now with what we say hehehe

Seriously, I have to admit that I am thankful that my hubby is indulgent enough to let me turn our dining room into an aquatic zoo. He even moved his holy electric piano somewhere else so I could set up Axel's tank. And he defended my babies against my father and sister, who insist that axolotls are ugly. I even asked him, "Do you like the axolotls?" and he - get this - admitted, "A little." Wow, high praise and exuberant enthusiasm from a German, let me tell you!
 
Now that made me really laugh!!!!!! My hubby has been VERY supportive on me getting my axolotls, as he knows I have wanted them for so long. Granted he has not helped with the set up of the new tank, other then carrying the tank inside, and of course the most important thing.....PAYING FOR IT!! But he is excited to in his manly way... I bet you were amazed at the enthusiasm from a German, One of my good friends in New Zealand is German and boy to get any emotion out of him is a miracle. hehehehe
 
I have to laugh there. Since we have this new house with a large (for Berlin) back yard, my husband wanted to install a pool. I said no way, what a waste of water! And got all ecologically conscious on him - "In 20 years, 25% of the world's population won't have enough fresh water to survive the day, and you want to dig a hole in the earth and fill it with fresh water and poisonous chemicals so you can PLAY in it!?" (I'm such a nag.) And now I'm dumping about 20 gallons a day into the terlet. He hasn't noticed (or commented on) that yet... He didn't help me set up the tank either - I couldn't even wait for him to get home to carry the 45 pound bag of sand up to the apartment, much less to hold it over the aquarium to fill it. Heck, he hasn't even got the brilliant idea of offering to fill one watering can while I'm emptying the other - even after I said, "In our new house I want at least one sink faucet where I can attach a hose." I'm much too subtle for him, I guess. However, each day when he comes home and every time we leave and return, he takes my hand and says, "Let's go look at your babies" and we go and stare at the aquariums together haha. He hasn't noticed yet but I'm turning him into a nerd, too hehehe
 
Now thats too funny!! I read our posts to my hubby and he was chuckling at us. hehehehe.
He thinks its gonna be cool to watch and study them.
Well we are off to go look at a house for sale down the road. The house we have now is 2 stories with the laundry in the basement, so thats to many flights of stairs for me, so we are looking at a single story house with a fenced yard for our huge german shepard and ut ohhh it has a pool too!!! hehhehehe. wonder if i can turn the pool into a nice tank for the axolotls.. hahahah

Be back in a bit

p.s. I really enjoy chatting with you. It's good to get a good laugh in once in awhile, and look forward to talking more with you.
 
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haha OK m'dear, I'm sure to be here (axolotls and axolotl forums have become my life...)
 
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