Some changes in the works with this tank. Still struggling to grow rice, but have enough that it looks sort of like a rice paddy. I'm only seeing one of the dwarf kuhli loaches, which makes me sad--I really, really like them. Not sure if they've died for some reason (tiny fish are often short lived), or if they're still there and just hiding out in the increasingly dense undergrowth. Hopefully the latter.
I also seem to be all out of trumpet snails. These three assassin snails I put in did their jobs! Hey,
@Slaphppy7 , got any trumpet snails you can send me?
Not completely happy with the lack of color currently in the tank. The sparkling gouramis are really fun, but they haven't colored up like I hoped; they actually blend in a little too well with the emerald eye rasboras.
So, I think I'll be keeping the emerald-eye and red dwarf rasboras, adding a few of the latter along with some more dwarf kuhli loaches. The sparkling gouramis are going to move into
@TheLavenderBadger 's new tank, so I'll still get to play with them and listen to them talk things over. This will make room for one or more of the following.
Thoughts?
1. A fresh pair if betta imbellis. Maybe a male and two or three females. I LOVE their colors and personalities. I am less fond of the fact that they keep killing each other.
2. A school of blue rasboras (S. goblinus). I'm reluctant to buy them because they're wild caught, from a threatened environment, and I'm garbage at getting fish to spawn. But they are outrageously pretty fish.
3. I would still love a pair of licorice gouramis. But they too are usually wild caught, from a threatened environment, plus they need live food. So probably not. Or maybe...
What says the FF peanut gallery?
