Category Archives: Pets

Butt lickin time

Federer is betterer than kibbles

I prefer to drink out of a glass

Catch of the day

Tap that!

A little stuck

Christina’s always snapping shots of Mia with her iPhone. Here are a few of our faves :)

Mia, ready to pounce!

Mia’s old collar (ew) at the bottom!

Mia’s been wearing the same collar since day 1 (August last year?) so we got her a new collar today, and a few different collars for Max, our new kitten who will be ready for us to pick up in Easter :)

FTS February 2011.

Crazy growth everywhere, check this piece growing onto the glass.

A few weeks ago a small hydroponic fan I had running on the tank to bring the temperature down a couple of degrees blew up. Luckily I was in front of the tank at the time as it went up in flames! Lesson learned: Salt water + electrical fans = danger! Without this fan, and with the weather being as hot as it’s been my tank temperature has gone up from it’s usual 27degrees to an average of 29.4degrees and it even hit 30 the other day. All my corals should be dead, but they’re hanging in there just fine. I’ve resorted to turning on the air-con from morning until later afternoon every day. I’d really like to know how much this is costing me. I suppose I’ll find out when I get the next electricity bill!

An original watercolor by Albert Namatjira, painted around 1954.

View the complete build thread here

Just an update on Christina’s Dad’s tank. Water is clearing and neons have been thrown in to cycle the tank. They’ve been in there for a week and doing well, if anything they kinda look thirsty huh?! Plants next week!

Our new little guy to be (Maximilian we’ve decided to name him!) is 12 days old. We’re not sure which one he is, but we’ve been getting lots of updates on his progress. Mum and all kittens are doing well! :)

Hehe.

Katinka with her babies.

Christina’s found a new breeder who has just (last night) had a new litter of Russian Blue’s. One of these little guys (we want a boy) is going to cost us almost twice the price as the last little guy we saw, but we’re going for it this time. The babies in the photo above are just 2 hours old, the next 3 weeks is crucial apparently and we’ll be update on them as time goes by.

Tony’s tank is finally wet.

We’ll get onto planting once the fog clears :)

Little runt!

So the other day Christina asked if we could get another kitten, my instant reaction was “sure!”. Next thing I know Christina was so on the ball that we were out in whoop whoop yesterday afternoon at a breeder’s place checking out this little guy.

Totally different experience to last time. Strange guy, strange vibe. Pappa cat was 3yrs old jailed up in a glass shower and as small as Mia (I’ve seen massive Russian Blue males before and it’s what I’m after, a stud!) and Mamma blue was in a cage about 3ft wide with 2 very skinny looking babies.

Despite the breeder’s push to put a deposit down we thought we’d decline and our trip back home was spent discussing and digesting the experience. In the end we decided to give this little guy a miss, the hunt to find Mia a playmate continues! :)

She’s always most affectionate when you’re actually trying to work!!!