It’s hardwork Sunday! We redo the shrimp tank from using sand to soil.
It was good with white sand, but you know, shrimps shit too. So their shit are so obvious in the sand. And remember the previous post I mentioned about the sudden death of my shrimps?
In order to find out the death of my shrimps, my friend suggested that I separate the crayfish and shrimps. So I did what he say. I moved it to a small container. And tada! We found the culprit. It was the crayfish afterall. We reckon it was hungry because it didnt wanna eat the crab food that we put in, so end up attacking the shrimps.
Initially, I thought, ‘Yay! It’s finally eating!’ But no, it only touched it for a few seconds then it stopped.And the next day, I woke up and found the other crayfish dead.
I was thinking, one crayfish shed shell and the other crayfish did not. So the one that have shed shell must have murdered his friend. Hunger. Hunger makes one crazy. So my crayfish has became a murderer. Murdered shrimps and crayfish, its own kind.
So I kept it as a prisoner. As a punishment for murdering shrimps and crayfish.Living a good life now.Emptying the sand in process.Moved the shrimps to the small container while we redo the setup.Empty the sand, washed the tank and put in the soil. And final step is to start filling up water!Done! And I think it looks perfect now. For now. And the crayfish is kept as a prisoner in the shrimp tank. 🤭Bought 5 new shrimps, blue shrimps.
And since we redo the shrimp tank, I supposed we have recycle the tank. And lets hope that the shrimps will all survive.
Hope he gets better after seeing vet.
Andddd! We are going to bring Baluku to vet tomorrow. It seems like he couldn’t move. Ciaos!
Hi there! I am going to share more updates on my goldfish, Baluku. If you have been following my previous posts, I have wrote about him having some swim bladder problem. I have started the pea treatment the moment I found him floating on top of the tank. And I am glad, he’s recovering. Not fully, but slowly. I have also reduced the food intake for them. I did not place him in a quarantine tank, because the last time I did, the other pearly I had did not survived.
This was previous Sunday I found him. I was really horrified to find it in this kind of condition. I will not forgive myself if he dies.
Now he looks better, with all the redness gone. Just swimming upside down. I spoon feed him for a couple of days to make sure that he did have some peas. After that it was quite impossible for me to do so since now he’s at the bottom of the tank again. And I was making sure, he have chances to eat the peas too.
I am kinda sad today. Because I have death in my shrimp tank. I woke up and saw at least 10 shrimps died at the bottom of the shrimp tank. I am a bit lost, and not sure what went wrong? Was the crayfish being aggressive? I am not sure. I am pretty sure the crayfish ain’t eating too. I need to go and buy new food for them. Damn atas. I think they dont wanna eat the cheap (still hikari brand) food.
Staring at the food. And not eating it.
I hope I will be able to find the cause of the shrimps death. And I guess, before my shrimp colony can grow, I will have to buy new shrimps for my shrimp tank. 😭
Happy Valentine’s Day to everyone out there! This year, I am in a very surprise mood! Just as I was saying laogong doesn’t really surprise me with flowers in the past years. This year, he actually did.
My favourite sunflowers!
And I have actually prepared to cook for this evening’s dinner. Because eating outside on Valentine’s day is so expensive and plus the COVID-19 situation, I think it’s best to stay home and avoid crowded places. I mean, can go out lah. Just don’t stay out too long. Or maybe, age is catching up on me. I preferred having home cooked food these days.
And I got my recipe from Pinterest, as usual. Here is the link for the Black Pepper Chicken Chop that I prepared this evening. I have marinated the chicken thighs and leg overnight because I won’t have enough time to prepared it today.
Funny thing is, I forgotten to take it out to defrost before cooking. So I only realized it, too late, when I was about to put it into the non stick pan. I know i know. Due to time constraint, I put everything (including the marinated sauce because it was sort of frozen) into the pan. I just had to cook everything slightly longer to ensure that it’s thoroughly cooked.
Black Pepper Chicken Chop
Doesn’t it looked professional cooked? 😋 The sauce in the recipe is really thick, and I like it. I baked some potatoes and boiled some broccoli and carrot to go along with the chicken chop. For the baked potatoes, before baking, I poked some holes and brush some olive oil (I don’t use vegetable oil) and lay some aluminum foil and I baked it for about 25 mins + another 15 mins. I used a chopstick to poke it to ensure its cooked. And boiling of vegetables, are purely based on my instinct. 😂 Plain vegetables are to compliment with the heavy black pepper sauce. And actually, today was my first time cooking this dish. I really hoped my laogong likes it.
Just yesterday, it was my boss’ last day. So, we had a little farewell for her.
Privegrill at Shaw Foundation Alumni House
The 3 of us got her a cardigan. Some practical and useful. At least, she will think of us when she wears it. 😆 I know, I am rather thick skinned. But what can you do about it?
Anyway, it’s the time of the year, where you see guys rushing to get their love ones flowers. And me? My laogong rarely buy me flower. 😅 But that’s ok. I am used to it, although sometimes I will hint him for it. 😂
That aside, I love crafting. So I made some Valentine’s day cards for my lunch kakis. Missing one, because she’s on maternity and will only be back around March/April.
Handmade cards.
The cards looked similar, but every card is unique. There is difference in coloring, placing and content. And if you are like me, and is wondering what die cutting I have used for this card, there you go! It is made from dies from ‘Stamps of Life’ – Squirrel2stamp + die and the word – LOVE. Last but not least, the grass patch is created from Lawn Fawn’s die cut – Grassy Border. After looking at this cards that I made, I realized that I could have made it better. Give it more shades for the grass patch etc. But there is always improvements to be made right? I hope, I will get more inspirations for projects like that.
Wall of memory
I have printed a lot of photos of us. And I really need time and make effort to decorate this wall. Once done, I think it will be another great achievement. What do you think?
And I had a pre-vday lunch with my colleagues because I won’t be seeing them tomorrow. ❤
My poor little Baluku! I hope you get better. I will be feeding them peas every night. And I hope this will improve the current situation. It hurts me to see the redness on his little body. Please hang in there!
As you all know, Singapore’s DORSCON yellow have turned Orange as of 07 Feb 2020. 😣 And I heard, everyone was in the panic mode, stocking up food (esp can food, maggie mee, rice etc) and even toiletries (esp toilet paper rolls, hand wash and tissue papers are sold out everywhere). All I saw was post and post of Singaporean’s kiasu-ness online. But since I went to Don Don Donki to buy some meat for steamboat gathering on Saturday, I didn’t get to see the exaggerating reaction from fellow Singaporeans. That was Friday.
So it was Saturday yesterday, and I still need to buy some food (fresh food items, and lucky these cannot keep for long. Otherwise I dont think I stand a chance to buy since I only head to the supermarket at 3plus in the afternoon) for the steamboat. The queue for payment was extremely long. What was disheartening to see is, seeing baskets and baskets of food (which includes food item from the freezer, fridge) lying around on the floor. I wanna buy a small can of luncheon meat also don’t have. WHY ARE YOU PEOPLE DEPRIVING PEOPLE LIKE ME FROM GETTING FOOD? I don’t store food at home, just so you know.
Baskets lying around, Rice section only left brown rice. And some more premium rice.
I mean, you guys are adults. Have some common sense please? There is no need to stock up food because life still goes on during DORSCON Orange. It doesn’t mean it’s the end of the world. It doesn’t mean you cannot go out. It doesn’t mean hawkers, wet markets, supermarkets, shopping malls are closed during this period of time. And, WHY do you wanna create more work for those working in supermarket? It’s not an easy job since everyone is rushing to stock up food at home, and they have to keep restocking items on the shelves for you selfish and kiasi idiots, and now they have to walk around and put back all those stuffs that YOU IRRESPONSIBLE PEOPLE left behind in basket or trolley. You all seriously buay paiseh one meh?
Do you think that 2019-nCoV only affects you? ANYONE could have gotten it. ANYONE. If you have been reading news, you should know that there are cases whereby people are tested positive with 2019-nCoV even without going China or have any close contacts with those affected. So stop acting like it only affect you. Please don’t create unnecessary panic amongst us. Please don’t do stupid things like this. You know 2019-nCoV can be cured. I just don’t know if stupidity can. Even if you don’t die from 2019-nCoV, maybe you will die from eating too much unhealthy can food. 😑
Just want to remind everyone, you just need to have good hygiene practice. Wash hands with soap, reduce unnecessary hand shake, dont go touching your face, eyes and nose after touching something, take note of your personal temperature and don’t report to work if you are unwell. Wear a mask if you are unwell (if you are at home, no need to wear mask you know right? Just isolate yourself, don’t waste mask) and there is a need to go out; to see a doctor. Everyone has a part to do. Right? Protect others = Protect yourself.
Enough of the 2019-nCoV. Lucky for me, I was able to buy some prawns (to make prawn paste). But I realized, it’s more expensive now. Considering the current food situation. I bought 10 tiger prawns (around 400g) for SGD$11 on Tuesday, the same prawn I bought on Saturday cost me SGD$13 for 8 tiger prawns (around 380g). 😣
This is how my final product looks like. Around 380g of tiger prawns. Added ingredients: salt, pepper, sesame oil, and Tobiko (this time I have forgotten about adding corn flour😆) I gotten my partial recipe from this youtube video. In the video, they also added egg white, shao xing wine and ginger juice (which I can’t find). So I only add the basics. It still taste very nice lah. 😊
And I am glad we managed to pull a feast for our 元宵 party last night. And I am excited because my friend gave me some black, blue and wine red shrimps as well as some crayfishes. 😊 It’s really nice to have friends who happened to have same hobby!
My 2nd family and my ‘Laogong’s’ friend, Melvin and Daphne.
Thanks for coming over and help me fix my gundam! And giving me shrimps and crayfish! 😘 And pardon for my ugly look, because who wears makeup at home? 😅
The shrimps in my main tank seems to be striving pretty well, and we see quite a bit of baby shrimps coming out for food. And each time I watch them, my heart was pumping very fast because the fishes are always so close to them.
And now that my Pearlscale goldfish, Baluku, seems to have swim bladder problem, we started giving it salt water treatment and hopefully it will get better. The last pearly I had, died from it. 😭 And just now I checked, he’s gotten red tummy. And I think probably because the tummy is sticking outside water. I hope he get well soon. Cause, I really love him.
It’s weekly water change for our goldfish tank! And this time, I managed to record a hyper lapse video. And as always, I love to caress my fishes. 😛 It took us about an hour to do water change because we have to scrub the rocks, the glass and use sponge to clear away the algae that are starting to grow. There are also some floating plants in the tank because our goldfishes loves to bite the plants as though they are still very hungry. And on the side of my main tank, we have a small tank where we kept shrimps. And currently, we have a baby fish living in that tank. The baby fish hatched from nowhere, but we suspect it was from one of the plants that we shifted from main tank to the small tank.
The baby fish that we found. And I thought it was some kind of mosquito larva because it was first time seeing this ‘thing’ in the tank. Initially, we found 3. But only 1 of them survived. 😥
Not sure if you are able to see the baby fish swimming in the tank. It was so small and I thought it was struggling to survive.
My cherry shrimps
We tried rearing some crystal shrimps. But sadly, they didn’t survive in our tank.
Looking on the bright side, my shrimp tank community is growing. With all the adorable baby shrimps. It was so hard to notice them initially because they looked like tiny little dots and I was trying very hard to locate them. And I have some snails in the tank appearing from nowhere since we didn’t purchase any. Conclusion was, it came with some of the plants that we bought for the shrimp tank. And those plants, we didn’t soak in tap water overnight, soaking for a couple of hours each time. So now we know, must soak plants overnight. If not, I think I am also building a snail community in the shrimp tank.
Maybe next time, I can share about my goldfish rearing journey. And I am glad that Laogong is with me on this journey. 🙂
Listen to my heart beat 