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the journal of Michael Werneburg

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Toronto, 2013.08.05

The recent heat wave killed the dwarf plecostomus in my larger aquarium 2-3 weeks ago. Today Ken and I cycled up into the wilds of the Scarborough plateau and bought two more: one for each aquarium.

I have lost a few of the interesting little algae eaters in the smaller aquarium despite the presence of driftwood, but this time I have a plan. Yesterday we moved Gill, the antique angelfish from the smaller aquarium to the larger one, and added three tiny new cherry barbs to the tank - its only inhabitants. With such small fish the only competition, I plan on adding spirulina for the pleco at night and flake food in the morning for the barbs. That. Better. Do it. I hate killing fish.

rand()m quote

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.

—Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.