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Fun fish in appearance or behavior? but compatible with the current inhabitants, yes? Due to the gourami, I suspect tank is low flow?

I am starting to reduce the moss. I cant do much at once, as it stirs too much mess (which happened yesterday) and the shrimp were not happy. I have the frogbit and I added a pennywort I will keep either on the surface, or root it once I remove the moss. I took out two fistfuls and what do you...

Sunlight hits this tank at sunset for like 20 minutes

Suspected female

So it has been two weeks since adding the new "pair" of honey gourami to the tank, they are doing well and deserve their own journal. Tank dimensions are 60x30x30cm. It is super low tech, sponge filter, an ikea clip on lamp with one bulb above the tank (+some light from a nearby window) and a...

Yup, the feeding is going to be a problem. At this point I dont even know if all are alive, cause the most I have seen is 5 at once. They blend in so well, unless they move they are impossible to see and they hide under leaf litter!! I can only see half of the bottom of the tank, and they hang...

I can only comment one small thing, shell dwellers are awesome, yes the water parameters are a bit challenging, and often the shell dwellers do better with a dither fish (but find one that matches the water parameters and dont eat young, not so easy) Having said that, shelldwellers are an...

My indostomus paradoxus arrived and oh boy I am in love!! I was not able to obtain the bamboo yet, some issue with the seller and the fact that I have a brutal cold. I ordered assorted widths and lenghts. I have one cholla wood there that I propped against the glass in a horizontal position, and...

I feed very regularly now so i also bumped the water changes to once every two weeks, sift the water through my artemia nets to make sure the shrimp are safe. I see my shrimp carrying, some small shrimp are visible too, not sure how they are doing but looks good. My 8 Indostomus paradoxus will...

Nothing dull about them, yellow, red tints but they are so active, sort of glass surfing, watching you, doing something non stop. I was more afraid they will be hidden in caves and seeing them will be a rare occurrence, but not at all. Fun fish

What a difference month and a half can make in the coloring of panda garra. Luckily they are easy to feed and they love what I am giving them :)

Two weeks ago, I got the final inhabitants - five sewellia linoleata. They are slightly bigger than the garras and the minnows. Since there is enough algae, they are doing great, low water temp, high oxygen. I also seen some fin flaring and some scaring from a favorite stone. Such a cool bunch...

So at this point I have two tanks and an inkling for some stocking, but would appreciate a feedback. one tank, 60x30x30cm, heavily planted mid and upper levels (but not surface), low flow air sponge filter. Heater, so 25°C, am expecting higher in the summer. Houses my tylomelania snail, so the...

Found that they are close to maturity 9-10 months in and at 4 cm or so, will hopefully find another source to confirm

Today I obtained 5 bolivian ram cichlids. They are in a quarantine and will be for few weeks, they are juveniles, 3 or so months if I understood the breeder correctly. Per my research I will be aiming for a harem, one male, 4 females. The breeder agreed with me to switch males to females when...

I am also keeping two heater-less fishtanks, and they are not as cold water as you would think. My shrimp tank, with a lid in a home office reached 28C degrees last summer, since the heatwaves hit. The lowest it went to is 14 C this november when our heat went out, otherwise in early autumn it...

I obtained 10 more red cherries and will set an alarm to feed like every other days to help with the breeding. I see two or three 5mm ones and two females are berried. The moss grew but so did the algae, so I just now put in the frogbit to help with that. Maybe the frogbit will get better too, I...