My friend @danield managed to grab from his pond the one #goldfish I spotted last week! He brought a second one too. This is me transferring them to my #aquarium.
Meet Santa (white and red) and Big T (like Santa, but bigger — a reference to a recent KLR productions short video featuring a very fat cat named Big T)
I biked to the garden store doubled as a pet center, so I could get some newer fish food flakes. I bought a couple pots of armeria maritima rosea too, which luckily fit in my water pouch backpack 👌
Bonus photo: a baby frog (the size of a pinky finger nail) on the glass wall of a tank where the store staff held a few tadpoles among aquatic plants.
My Ancistrus sp. Calico finally grew to respectable size. I hope they will breed some day soon :)
I really don't get why they aren't more popular. I think they look fantastic (albeit the photo definitely doesn't do them justice. my iphone camera changes too many colors).
@Beiz Good looking!
I only managed them to breed once, 15yrs ago, accidentally.
I had to partially change the water several times in a sequence and then it happened.
Never succeeded again, not sure why.
@po3mah Ancistrus are finnicky. The general approach is to just give them enough caves and if it happens it happens 😅 Can't really plan for breeding them it seems (albeit my brown and albino pairs tend to breed every 2 weeks on average with about 100 fry per litter, but even those pick the weirdest nests whenever I make changes to their tank and to hell with the fancy and expensive caves lol).
There has been a file sitting on my computer for the last couple of days. Every now and then I go and add a few more googly eyes, then go and do something else.
Had a "what am I doing moment?!" and just generated the file, thinking I'd just ditch it, but now I'm tempted to try and get a better loop and do it properly 😆
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So I got this piece of driftwood but it wouldn't sink to the bottom, and I already soaked it in a bucket for days.
Maybe I just have to go for the floating upside-down/antigravity look? #aquascape#aquarium#fishkeeping
Everything you use in your aquarium is a chemical, and different water parameters or conditions will require different combinations of chemicals. There's nothing morally better about using "fewer chemicals." Whether you need them depends on what you are doing and what your local water is like.
Betta are incredibly fragile.
Some fish cannot be ethically kept in home aquariums. Some will outgrow any tank you put them in.
Random aquarium question. I've been calling these seed shrimp but I really don't know. They arrived with my plants. They're a couple of mill long and they buzz around the tank pretty quickly. Does anyone know for sure?
