{"id":5233,"date":"2022-04-11T20:50:42","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T20:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=5233"},"modified":"2024-02-08T09:37:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T09:37:00","slug":"home-fishtank-aquarium-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=5233","title":{"rendered":"HOME: Fishtank\/aquarium stuff\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"\"
Ta-dah! (No fish as yet.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I drove to Fulbourn, Cambs, today, to collect a free aquarium. The weather was sublime. So I drove top down. Gorgeous! Sometimes it feels great just to be alive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The guy giving away the aquarium, via Freecycle, was a thoroughly decent chap. Dave gave us not only the aquarium itself (a 70l capacity job) but also a bag of gravel, a thermometer, a spare bulb, and – oh frabjous day – it came with an integral filter\/pump system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
A \u2018before\u2019 type cleaning shot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I spent about an hour or two cleaning the tank, the lid\/pump, etc, and even washing the gravel (three times!). I then put the gravel in, followed by the water. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
An \u2018after\u2019 shot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Time and energy allowing, we\u2019d like to visit an aquatics shop later, to have a gander at potential stock. We\u2019re thinking two goldfish. We\u2019ll also need to learn a bit about maintaining the right conditions, and generally looking after wee little fishies!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ah, me, what fun!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
Lid down, all cleaned!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After doing\/writing all of the above, we did<\/em> indeed get out, to Maidenhead Aquatics, on the edge of Peterborough. We asked a few questions, and bought five real plants (plastic ones are very<\/em> dear!). Once home these went into the tank, along with a few rocks and a couple of knotty root type bits of wood. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We hope the plants will last a decent while? The rocks are fine, obviously. The wood? Well, it\u2019s currently a-floating, as wood does. Maidenhead Aquatics advised that we let the water stand a full week afore introducing fish. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patience is hard!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I drove to Fulbourn, Cambs, today, to collect a free aquarium. The weather was sublime. So I drove top down. Gorgeous! Sometimes it feels great just to be alive. The guy giving away the aquarium, via Freecycle, was a thoroughly decent chap. Dave gave us not only the aquarium itself (a 70l capacity job) but … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “HOME: Fishtank\/aquarium stuff\u2026”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[67,82],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-1mp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5233"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5233"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11517,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5233\/revisions\/11517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}