i used to be one of those insufferable living statue people, staying still enough to fade into invisibility comes naturally to me, but she is done doing that trick for the day, sorry 🙏 I'm thrilled the shrimp are being enriched this way!

the floating platform of java moss, duckweed, salvia minima + a forest of hair algae acts as a nursery + cantina for newly born fry. It's also a popular foraging spot for snails and shrimp, the female below having only just *walked up out of the water* to cross the moss to nibble on some fresh food

an ich/worm infestation tore through the tank and killed 60% - 90% of my stock :< thankfully the meds are working and my water change procedure is easy + automatic, so overall its looking a lot better than it was.

discovered the first fry born from this 2-week collection tub!! these will go in a 5 gallon bucket that finished dark cycling, so as not to be eaten by their older siblings in the #bucetank.

the packaging for this baby food i feed to my fry makes me feel very weird

raising these fry has been very easy so far; if i could sell off half my colony every 4 months this would be a very low-stress income stream 🙏🙏🙏

noticed this flowering #buce in the "moonlight"...buce flowers are so cool

egg log! i have harvested 154 eggs in less than a month. I've decided to raise the sexually mature offspring with their parents in a colony inside the 30g, and just practice periodic culls to keep the gene pool strong. Realistically the only way to do it w/o buying another tank (I'm tanked out)

i count about 16 of these oldest fry, who are at most 2.5 weeks old, alongside a swarm of freshly hatched babies i hope they wont eat. I'm keeping a log of the eggs i harvest every few days, and am trying to organize a fry-growout system that makes sense.

#pseudomugil

my threading is all over the place, but here's a video of the #bucetank with fry in it---their color really came in the past day or two, that yellow in their bodies is so lemon-candy vibrant up close

slim pickins girl, im sorry

stay cool

The Good Lookin Snail got moved to the #frytank and is Lookin Good

is this some kind of freshwater aptasia?

this suitor has shown up to dinner with a rather tacky rented tux, and i am biding my time until i meet his replacement

she is stunning...absolute perfection. highest grade possible. unfortunately...

i wonder if the males are excited by how fat I'm letting the females get

buce at night---you can see the diamonds in the leaves here if you zoom in

I finally documented the courtship display/dance-off my Pseudomugil Gertrudae Aru IVs do for the females at feeding time! Ah, these fish are so cool.

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i tried to catch the two male Pseudomugils doing their dance-off over brine shrimp breakfast, but i had to take a call. Here is that snail again.

i count 5 fry in here, with one being significantly older/larger than the others. Hopefully the roots offer plenty of hiding spots for the younger fry!

my passport needs to be renewed, so I'm grounded for the next 3-6 weeks

good lookin snail