Ninjoma

March 16

Anime: chainsaw man, cowboy bebop, steins gate, mob psycho 100, one punch man,

Manga: fire punch, berserk

TV: severance, house, scrubs, central park, the boondocks,

Movies: the art of self defense, sorry to bother you, the father, fight club

March 16

Dwarf chain sword is probably the easiest grass in my experience. Echinodorus Quadricostatus is also easy. Microsword gets my honorable mention. I can never get hair grass to do well.

March 16

My favorite fish I have currently is probably my electric blue acara.

My most wanted fish is an electric blue jack dempsey or a green terror.

Top 10 fish I have in no particular order.

1. Electric blue acara

2. Turquoise rainbowfish

3. Koi angelfish

4. Three spot gourami

5. Koi swordtail

6. Panda apisto

7. Candy koi betta

8. Honey gourami

9. Apisto borelli

10. Red neon blue eye

March 15

On 3/14/2024 at 11:57 PM, beastie said:

I have since cut it into several other pieces. All anubias in all my tanks come from one that I had 12 years ago and I just plant them, bathe them in bleach sometimes, cut them and they do that. It was sold as a nana variant, though I do not really believe that, some leaves are large as a hand..

That's rad. I'm glad it didn't catch anubias rot.

March 15

On 3/14/2024 at 7:58 AM, Scaperoot said:

Dang, those are awesome crypts. Makes me want to shop around for some less common species/variants.

March 15

On 10/10/2023 at 6:57 AM, beastie said:

I like this tank a lot. Is that a giant anubias in the middle!? How long did it take to grow that thing?

March 15

You could try an apisto borelli as a centerpiece fish. Apistos like soft water and borelli are one of the more adaptable species when it comes to ph and temperature. I have a pair in my 10g with shrimp and nano fish.

March 15

On 1/14/2024 at 8:40 AM, Chick-In-Of-TheSea said:

Sand Hill cranes. Enjoy Nature Daily

On 1/21/2024 at 8:40 PM, Chick-In-Of-TheSea said:

Red-breasted geese

Love the bird photos! I think birds are my favorite type of non-aquatic animal to observe and photograph. Especially uncommon ducks and geese.

March 15

For decor I like dragonstone and driftwood the most. For hiding places I like ceramic cichlid/pleco caves and then attaching plants to them like java moss, anubias or bucephalandra. Sometimes I like to make my own caves using rocks. Honestly I love covering all types of decor with plants.

March 13

These three I setup around October - December 2022:

75g

29g

40g

March 11

I haven't had any issues keeping fancy goldfish with peppered corys personally

March 10

New vampire crab paludarium setup + large photo dump

New Tank: 20h paludarium featuring vampire crabs, a betta, a golden dwarf cichlid, panda garra, white clouds, CPO crayfish and black ruby barbs.

These were the first plants I received, so these are all air plants.

First draft

"Saphira" the betta (f)

At this point it was just the betta and white clouds. It was looking pretty sparse, so I got these panda apistos

"Roxi" the panda apisto

Unfortunately Roxi claimed the entire tank as her territory and terrorized the other fish, so I swapped them with my golden dwarf cichlid.

"Comet" the golden dwarf cichlid

The mountain minnows were still pretty freaked out even though Roxi was gone and the rest of the fish were getting along, so I got a few dither fish.

Black ruby barbs

Several weeks later

Mandarin vampire crabs

White cloud

Panda garra

"Saphira" the candy koi betta (f)

CPO crayfish

40g

Koi swordtail

"Sky" and "Roxi" the panda apistos. Roxi has been much less of a terror in this tank

"Hazel" the goldfish

"Banana" the rabbit snail

"Penny" the albino bristelnose pleco

10g

I messed up my monte carlo carpet, so I did a bit of a rescape. This time with erio vietnam.

Before

After

Sparkling gourami

Honey gourami

"Pluto" and "Venus" the apisto borelli

Cherry shrimp

Red neon blue eye rainbowfish

75g

Turqoise rainbowfish

"Blueberry" the red cheek crayfish

"Saturn" and "Mars" the red rainbowfish

Flagfish

SAEs

"Arrie" the rainbowshark

"Opal" and "Buttercup the three spot gourami

Reticulated hillstream loach baby

"Jed" the EBA

"Pomegranate" the indian lilac crab

17g paludarium

"Cheddar" the dwarf gourami

Pacific and neon blue-eye rainbowfish

Gold claw fiddler crab

Bumblebee goby

"Falco" the peacock gudgeon

29g

Rotala blood red

"Derp" the angelfish

"Arcanis" the gold ram

"Sol" the apisto agassizii

March 7

I would just wrap each bunch in a plant weight before planting it and hope for the best.

You could also try aquarium coop easy planters.

March 7

Rainbowfish, peacock gudgeon or kribensis are some good options imo. Three spot gourami or empire gudgeon are potentially good options, but they may or may not get along with your community.

March 6

You don't have to ask me twice to share some aquarium photos. This is my 75g and its inhabitants.

March 6

It looks like they are restricted, so you would need a permit to posses them legally.

https://wildlife.ca.gov/Licensing/Restricted-Species

January 28

On 1/28/2024 at 7:32 AM, Lennie said:

can anybody tell what the gobies I got are exactly?

These do look a lot like the true freshwater gobies that Dan's and aquatic arts sell, not sure if they are though. They also do not look like the brackish ones that I have.

January 28

I agree with others that marine salt should be used rather than aquarium salt.

For plants I've had success with tiger lotus, hygrophila siamensis 53b, narrow leaf ludwigia and swords. Bolbitas fern also seems to do okay (at worst it dies very slowly) . I'm still experimenting with micro sword.

Buce, anubias and crypts I have tried and they did not work for me.

January 8

Photo updates:

40g

"Marmaduke" the dwarf araguia acara

Koi swordtail

"Aileen" the green dragon bristelnose pleco

"Gogo" the fantail goldfish

75g

"Blueberry" the red cheek crayfish

I got these pretty cool red rainbowfish recently

"Mars"

"Saturn"

"Buttercup" the gold gourami

"Opal" the opalescent gourami

Pearl gourami

"Jed" the electric blue acara

I also got some ottos to help with algae on my plants

10g

I did a pretty big rework on my 10g. I rehomed my guppies and the tank now has a pair of apisto borelli, honey gourami and sparkling gourami. I also got these pretty rad red neon blue-eye rainbowfish.

Sparkling gourami

Red neon blue-eye rainbowfish

"Pluto" the apisto borelli

"Honeybear 2" the honey gourami

Cherry shrimp

29g

"Sol" and "Luna" the apisto agassizii fire red

"Derp" the angelfish

Brackish paludarium

Neon blue-eye rainbowfish

Pacific blue-eye rainbowfish

December 21, 2023

I think rummynose tetra are the best for smallish schooling fish.

Otherwise, I really like American cichlids. Electric blue acaras are probably my favorite, but all the ones I've kept have been fun.

December 21, 2023

Here's a bunch of video clips for anyone who wants to see my fish, crustaceans and tanks.

"Pomegranate" the indian lilac crab learning about personal boundaries with "Blueberry" the red cheek crayfish.

More "Blueberry" the red cheek crayfish footage

"Pomegranate" climbing to the top of the universe and dropping down to the world below.

My 75g

Baby reticulated hillstream loach

My 10g

"Pluto" the apisto borelli

"Falco" and "Foxy" the peacock gudgeons

Gold claw fiddler crab

Watermelon fiddler crab

My 40g

My 29g

"Arcanis" the gold ram

December 19, 2023

On 12/19/2023 at 12:45 AM, beastie said:

Given you have many of my "wish list fish" would you be able to recommend to me, what in your opinion is a better fish? Especially for a standalone smaller tank (for future, I do not have one now 🙂 ) would it be the bumblebee gobies alone? the sparkling gourami? the gudgeons? Thank you

I would choose peacock gudgeon.

December 19, 2023

Brackish Paludarium

I've been trying out something potentially untested with peacock gudgeons in my low end brackish tank. The thought being that many fish in the eleotridae have brackish tolerance and spend parts of their lives in brackish water. Also the family is thought to have evolved from marine fish. So far, so good. They have been doing quite well and are very fun to watch.

"Falco" the peacock gudgeon

"Foxy" the peacock gudgeon

Fiddler crabs

Bumblebee goby

75g

"Blueberry" the red cheek crayfish

Siamease algae eaters and baby reticulated hillstream loaches

"Jed" the electric blue acara

"Lance" the guppy

10g

My two male apisto borelli that were in my 40g were lip locking, so I thought it best to separate them. I decided to put one in my 10g. Also, I was getting tired of breeding guppies, so I decided to take my female adult guppies to my LFS and moved the males to other tanks. Now the tank has a pair of apisto borelli and some sparkling gourami.

"Pluto" the apisto borelli. This is the one that was dominating the other in my 40g so I decided to move it

"Venus" the apisto borelli

Sparkling gourami

Cherry shrimp

40g

"Comet" the golden dwarf cichlid

"Mecury" the golden dwarf cichlid

"Marmaduke" the araguia dwarf acara

"Aura" the apisto borelli

"Hazel" and "Gogo" the goldfish

29g

"kuhli loach"

"Sol" the apisto agassizii fire red

"Luna" the apisto agassizii fire red

"Derp" the angelfish

December 8, 2023

My brackish paludarium is looking the best it's ever has! The only issue is that the buce and anubias died off. I may try one more time with them or just switch to bolbitas fern which seems to do better in low end brackish. Moss are another option. I'm open to suggestions for what would look good on the wood and rocks.

Fiddler Crabs

This one is missing their big claw, but seems to being doing well otherwise. I'm not exactly sure what happened, but I later saw my flagfish biting at one of the other fiddler crabs big claws so I think they are the culprit and I moved them to my 75g. The claw should grow back on their next molt.