{"id":116,"date":"2007-04-03T08:26:38","date_gmt":"2007-04-03T00:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=116"},"modified":"2007-04-03T08:26:38","modified_gmt":"2007-04-03T00:26:38","slug":"tank-version-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2007\/04\/03\/tank-version-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Tank Version 5.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last of the four Lionheads, Patches, expired a fortnight ago after losing a bout with white spots. Ling was especially sad since they were the four critters that got us started on our aquarium hobby. We decided to start anew with a new tank, so on the 19 March Sunday, headed out after the morning service at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wesleymc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wesley<\/a> to several aquarium shops all over Singapore to pick up what we need.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image253\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/blog-2007-aquarium-PICT3241-new-tank.jpg\" alt=\"blog-2007-aquarium-PICT3241-new-tank.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/>Many Singaporeans would have kept an aquarium at some point of their lives, but for those who haven\u2019t, here\u2019s a quick orientation to the (very) low initial costs involved in getting into the hobby and enjoying these lovely fellows.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>14 inch glass tank (Lam Hong Aquarium at Ang Mo Kio) &#8211; $18<\/li>\n<li>Hagen external filter (Sea View at Seletar) &#8211; $17<\/li>\n<li>Critters (two Guppies, three Corys, two Gobys)  &#8211; $7<\/li>\n<li>10 kg of Aquarium gravel (Aquastar at Yishun) &#8211; $10<\/li>\n<li>24 hour Timer (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.coldstorage.com.sg\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cold Storage<\/a>) &#8211; $12<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Several items were recycled from the old tank, including the fluorescent lamp for lighting, water treatment, gravel stones, a cooling fan, with the plants taken from the larger living room tank. Our expenditure for the Sunday setup was just $65ish, and Ling now gets a pretty nice view on her table.:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last of the four Lionheads, Patches, expired a fortnight ago after losing a bout with white spots. Ling was especially sad since they were the four critters that got us started on our aquarium hobby. We decided to start<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2007\/04\/03\/tank-version-50\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Tank Version 5.0<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aquarium-pets","category-at-home","wpcat-5-id","wpcat-6-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}