Work is slowing down for me… I may fire up the last 2 old, 30 gallon long tanks, as breeders, this winter…

[Magnum Man]

My Blue and Gold African Tetras ( Phenacogrammus aurantiacus ) are looking particularly fine, since the Wolfia ( Water Meal ) got introduced in their tank… they are eating a lot of it, and the 3 of them look nicely conditioned…

Water meal…

I inherited some water meal, in with some other floating plants… it’s literally half the size of common duck weed… it’s been choking out the Asian water moss in my African Tetra tank… but I’m noticing many of the Tetras have been eating it, some, pretty heavily… reading up on it, it’s highly...

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I think what I’m learning in my community tanks, will help, when I get time to try breeding… these are a really interesting fish, and hard to keep, so I think more rewarding, than something easy, whose offspring would be harder to get rid of…
But, this tells me I have specific goals to reach on the breeding tanks… BTW, I have a group of Zebra Oto’s ( Otocinclus cocama ) that look particularly conditioned, and they would be another interesting fish to breed… both of these seem to be thriving in soft, very dark water, that would take some time to duplicate in newly restarted tanks… I just have to resist the urge to fill them with other fish, once they are wet again…

 

[Magnum Man]

This one has dug a cave in this driftwood… he’s sitting at the mouth of it’s den…

 

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Whaaaat ? Did he nibble out that cave ?

 

[Magnum Man]

yes...

there are scattered Nerite eggs around there, but I'm not sure what the mass of eggs are just under it, on the wood... there are pest snails and assassins in the tank, but those don't look like the typical snail eggs... I'm not implying they are Oto eggs, they just don't look like the typical snail eggs I'm seeing

 

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Well , whatever they are , I say that when anything is reproducing in your aquarium then things are healthy .