H.K.Luterman Posted March 11, 2021 Author Share Posted March 11, 2021 2 hours ago, Lifeisgood said: The soap dish was a great idea! Do you have to put food in front of your Bichers when feeding or will they both come out and find it before it’s all gone? Do you put food basically in the same place every feeding? I feed them tilapia with long planting tweezers to make sure they both get food. Sometimes I do just drop in sinking carnivore pellets, scattering them around the tank, but they're less likely to get them before Igor does. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H.K.Luterman Posted March 13, 2021 Author Share Posted March 13, 2021 It was a busy morning/early afternoon giving all 7 tanks their weekly maintenance. I found two clutches of mystery snail eggs in the 29! My first time ever! I know soon enough I'll be buried in baby snails, but for now it's very exciting. The 29 was completely overgrown. Did a big trim on the hornwort and removed a few dwarf chain swords. I decided to move some plants around in the 75. Took a clipping from my bolbitis and put it on the other side of the tank, and rearranged the anubias. The lily made a baby! It was growing in the back, so I moved it to be beside the main plant. Still working on encouraging the jungle val to grow in. It's getting there, but isn't nearly as dense as I would like. Wondering if I could get away with growing some stem plants in there, or if Dragon will just bulldoze them all up. Igor was a very helpful supervisor during all these chores, of course. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanTruth Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 Your plants must be really happy. They’re doing amazing! Congratulations on the snail eggs as well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbit Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 Is that spot on Igor’s hump new? My honey has a freckle and I’m always interested to hear if other fish develop random brown spots. I haven’t found anything about innocuous fish spots online. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H.K.Luterman Posted March 14, 2021 Author Share Posted March 14, 2021 Blood parrots are actually grey/black colored when they're babies and then they slowly turn orange as they mature. Igor's dark spots are just his baby colors; they've been slowly shrinking. Blood parrots also get a weird visual sign of stress on them that looks like black smudges and freckles. They pop up when the fish is upset over something, and then slowly fade over time. When I first got him he developed some smudges on his lips and fins from the stress of being bought, coming home, and then being moved again out of quarantine. He eventually lost those. Here he is all smudgy and freckled: Here he is now: 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbit Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 Cool! I must not have noticed the spot before because it blended in with the others. 😄 Aww he’s growing up! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H.K.Luterman Posted March 14, 2021 Author Share Posted March 14, 2021 Dinky's doing good in the quarantine bin. Hope he/she's not too bored. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanTruth Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 Glad to see Dinky is doing well in the quarantine tub. How long are you planning on keeping him there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H.K.Luterman Posted March 14, 2021 Author Share Posted March 14, 2021 3 minutes ago, OceanTruth said: Glad to see Dinky is doing well in the quarantine tub. How long are you planning on keeping him there? Ehhhhhhhh I don't know. I'm probably being an over protective mom. Maybe when April rolls around I'll stick him back in the 75. He'd have to have grown a bit bigger by then. He'd probably be fine now but... I'm a worrier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanTruth Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 13 minutes ago, H.K.Luterman said: Ehhhhhhhh I don't know. I'm probably being an over protective mom. Maybe when April rolls around I'll stick him back in the 75. He'd have to have grown a bit bigger by then. He'd probably be fine now but... I'm a worrier. That’s totally understandable. I was just curious. Hope he beefs up quickly. 🙂 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H.K.Luterman Posted March 16, 2021 Author Share Posted March 16, 2021 Got some spy footage tonight, holding my camera over the back of my chair and zooming in on the 75, so the quality isn't great, but it's the best way to get some footage of the shananigans that goes on in there. I added some large ramshorns into the 75 to maybe try to help with the algae going on in there, thinking they were too big for Igor. Turns out, nope, he'll just peck at them. At one point towards the end he does this behavior I've seen him do a few times where he tries to push plant leaves around out of his way. It's very interesting. And then I caught this, which was pretty cute. Though at the end I guess Igor gets mad Gertrude was in the vase and he goes and pecks her. That white spot on her tail is a loose scale, no doubt from him being a butthead to her earlier. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H.K.Luterman Posted March 16, 2021 Author Share Posted March 16, 2021 2 minutes ago, swivvr said: @H.K.LutermanI just saw a Synodontis Eupterus catfish today at my LFS! It was a nice one. Are they hard to find? They're pretty common! I see them often at one of the big box stores around here; little babies barely the size of my thumb. I always have to pause and watch them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanTruth Posted March 16, 2021 Share Posted March 16, 2021 Igor is quite the character! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H.K.Luterman Posted March 16, 2021 Author Share Posted March 16, 2021 Was playing with the camera. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anita Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 How did you manage to get everyone to smile? 😄 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbit Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 Gertrude is giving me glamor shot vibes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H.K.Luterman Posted March 17, 2021 Author Share Posted March 17, 2021 Was trying to get some footage of my platies and guess who steals the show. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanTruth Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 Pooka is adorable. Love those “whiskers.” 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H.K.Luterman Posted March 20, 2021 Author Share Posted March 20, 2021 Igor's got his naughty pants on tonight. What'd that crypt ever do to him? I moved Dinky back into the 75 this afternoon. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H.K.Luterman Posted March 23, 2021 Author Share Posted March 23, 2021 Ctenopoma Tuesday? Pooka loves lounging in the amazon sword. Igor is Igor. Dinky's doing great! Little bristlenose is growing. Does he look well fed? I think his belly looks rounded. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H.K.Luterman Posted March 23, 2021 Author Share Posted March 23, 2021 GASP! They're so tiny! I thought they were nerite eggs. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anita Posted March 24, 2021 Share Posted March 24, 2021 (edited) On 3/20/2021 at 5:45 PM, H.K.Luterman said: Igor's got his naughty pants on tonight. What'd that crypt ever do to him? I moved Dinky back into the 75 this afternoon. The way Igor keeps looking up at you... Haha! Well, if my dog was doing this, I would call it attention-seeking behavior. In fact, he does. He starts gnawing on the living room armchair. Then he stops to see if I am paying attention. Dumb dog. 😒 It would be a lot cheaper if he chewed on a plant! Edited March 24, 2021 by Anita 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H.K.Luterman Posted March 24, 2021 Author Share Posted March 24, 2021 The last video I posted in my Stupid Fish Tricks thread features Dragon totally photobombing the video. The way he backs out of the shot cracks me up so much I had to make a gif of it. "Oops! Sorry!" 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H.K.Luterman Posted March 24, 2021 Author Share Posted March 24, 2021 I was just able to measure Dinky, since they were stretching out along the front glass, and they've hit 5 inches. That means I should be able to tell their sex. It's a girl! So far, that's what it looks like at least. Here's a helpful drawing to show the difference. Here's her bum from another angle And her face because she's adorable As a comparison, here's Dragon's big boy butt. Actually all of him. Plus his butt. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbit Posted March 25, 2021 Share Posted March 25, 2021 Aww! Always fun to reach the gender reveal. She’s getting so big!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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