Guppysnail Aquarium Journal

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

Do you still have like 50 nerites and are you just feeding like, spirulina powder, etc?

[Guppysnail]

On 4/9/2023 at 7:11 PM, Chick-In-Of-TheSea said:

Do you still have like 50 nerites and are you just feeding like, spirulina powder, etc?

Yes I do. Spirulina, Kats aquatic chips, lazy pellets and they are all learning to eat veggies. All but my black racers. They have no interest in anything I feed. 

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

On 4/9/2023 at 7:26 PM, Guppysnail said:

Yes I do. Spirulina, Kats aquatic chips, lazy pellets and they are all learning to eat veggies. All but my black racers. They have no interest in anything I feed. 

That’s great!  I noticed mine accepting zucchini sometimes. They seem to have particular interest in the rind. They tend to go after that after the shrimps or mysteries have eaten the inside part.

Your snails had fun decorating that driftwood!

I also like to pinch Repashy powder under the water for the nerites. And bacter ae 

[Guppysnail]

Froggin has finally killed her favorite leaf. She is still perched precariously on it though. 

Oh my I just saw we were photobombed by one of the powder orange isopods 🥰

[Guppysnail]

I declare today as my fish relax day. I’m spending my day parked on my butt with dry hands and just enjoying my kids. 🤗

so lots of photos. 

 

Edited April 11, 2023 by Guppysnail

[Guppysnail]

Exciting stuff. I wanted Pseudomugil gertrudae for in the White Wizard tank. They are so hard for me to find unless I have them shipped 😝

Went to the LFS today “for frogs crickets 🤣) and they had these pretty little ones. So I bought the 13 they had. I just put them in the tank so lights are dim. I’ll post videos once they settle in. They are still juveniles. 

Edited April 12, 2023 by Guppysnail

[Guppysnail]

I love seeing mom n dads ritual when she is ready to lay. It is so loving and so identical every time I swear it’s choreographed. 

[TheSwissAquarist]

On 4/13/2023 at 3:03 AM, Guppysnail said:

Exciting stuff. I wanted Pseudomugil gertrudae for in the White Wizard tank. They are so hard for me to find unless I have them shipped 😝

Went to the LFS today “for frogs crickets 🤣) and they had these pretty little ones. So I bought the 13 they had. I just put them in the tank so lights are dim. I’ll post videos once they settle in. They are still juveniles. 

Did you get Gertrudae or Luminatus? 

[Guppysnail]

On 4/17/2023 at 5:52 AM, TheSwissAquarist said:

Did you get Gertrudae or Luminatus? 

Luminatus. Gertrudae I can’t find near me. But these little cuties are very fun.  

[Guppysnail]

My babies are making babies already 😍

 

[Streetwise]

Looking good!

[Guppysnail]

@Lennie🪱 ❤️

The kids are eating good tonight 

Edited April 19, 2023 by Guppysnail

[Lennie]

On 4/19/2023 at 3:03 AM, Guppysnail said:

@Lennie🪱 ❤️

The kids are eating good tonight 

sharing is caring guppy!

[Guppysnail]

When I put the GBR in the original panda group tank. I redid the tank and replaced gravel and a new ugf plate as I broke the other 🤣

I saw some odd thing in the GBR tank this months later. 
I was crazy surprised to find this cute little panda bopping about at 81-82 degrees unmolested by the GBR juveniles. 

[Guppysnail]

Iteration #5,462 of the Dr. Seuss tree and the 29 gallon. 
 

I took my bumblebee cats to the club meeting. Someone there had 1 and took my 3. I loved them but the 29 is my hardest tank to maintain due to me being short. Several times they swam up the siphon. I was prepared to never see them without a flashlight. I was ok with that. Just putting the extra food in and being so hard to clean it was tough. 
If I had an open shorter tank I would have moved them but I did not. I got to experience them though. Simply stunning. They grew so much and I think the girl is holding eggs. This is them in the bucket leaving my care. 🥰

So now what to put on the bottom in the 29 that will not stress my honey gourami that I had not done already and were NOT tetras, schooling fish or livebearers  

I pondered and pestered folks I know that also enjoy less common fish. Much like @beastie I could not come up with my own answer and one can only do so many cory and pleco before they all seem the same. 
 

I was watching my juvenile Badis badis. He was outgrowing his 10g. This weekend my big Java moss ball moved of its own accord. I saw eggs from my anchor cats in it and when I returned with a spec cup Buddy was coming out of a now bereft of eggs moss ball looking smug and satisfied.
 

My other 3 Badis badis do ok with the Aspidora but are not near as active as they were when the melini were with them. 
 

So decision made. I AGAIN pulled out my tree and glued Xmas moss on this time. If it does not stay it will forever be accepted as the algae tree 🤣

I added rock swim through an identical to the big kids tank. I moved Buddy in his cave to the 29. I thought he would be nervous with the HG. No way!  This video is less than 5 minutes after going in (5 minutes because I misplaced my phone🤣)

He is loving life and all the caves. I left his tiny Apisto hut in there so he can escape my big boy Jaws who is almost twice his size. Jaws is far too chunky to fit in the Apisto cave. 
I will wait until tomorrow so Buddy can settle in as Jaws is more aggressive. So I’ll move Jaws and the girls tomorrow once Buddy establishes his bearings and picks a cave. So far he wants them ALL. 

HAPPY ADVENTURES…TRY SOMETHING NEW

Edited April 20, 2023 by Guppysnail

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

He is having a great time! Adorable shrimp video bomber at 0:08. ☺️

Edited April 21, 2023 by Chick-In-Of-TheSea

[TheSwissAquarist]

On 4/17/2023 at 8:22 PM, Guppysnail said:

Luminatus. Gertrudae I can’t find near me. But these little cuties are very fun.  

I remember you mentioned on my Journal that they were one of your “ someday “fish.

Congrats on actually making it a reality. 😁

[Guppysnail]

On 4/21/2023 at 8:28 AM, TheSwissAquarist said:

I remember you mentioned on my Journal that they were one of your “ someday “fish.

Congrats on actually making it a reality. 😁

Yes the gertrudae have been a someday fish for 1-2 years now. I just never find them unless they get shipped from in unknown source. These kids came in to my lfs and were dynamo healthy looking. I’m really enjoying the neon blue stripe. 
Once they are just a bit bigger they will go in the Aspidora tank hopefully so they have more room that I get to see more natural behaviors. 
Hope you’re feeling better today. 

Edited April 21, 2023 by Guppysnail

[TheSwissAquarist]

On 4/21/2023 at 8:31 PM, Guppysnail said:

Hope you’re feeling better today.

Thanks. Singapores getting to me, but I’ll manage to drag myself to a LFS before flying out tomorrow. 

[Guppysnail]

On 4/21/2023 at 8:34 AM, TheSwissAquarist said:

Thanks. Singapores getting to me, but I’ll manage to drag myself to a LFS before flying out tomorrow. 

PUCTURES PLEASE 🤗

I would love to see the LFS there. 

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

On 4/20/2023 at 3:30 PM, Guppysnail said:

and picks a cave. So far he wants them ALL

Did Buddy make a decision yet?

@TheSwissAquarist be careful with drinking the water & the ice cubes in other countries; they may have contaminants that the locals are used to, but you are not.  Travelers consider water to be potentially harmful, but forget about the ice cubes. Had a friend travel to Indonesia and her party got sick from ice cubes in their cocktails.  Fortunately she did not have any and was ok. The others lost 2 days of adventuring because they were stuck in their hotel rooms 😞

Edited April 21, 2023 by Chick-In-Of-TheSea

[Guppysnail]

@Chick-In-Of-TheSea I was puttering in the Badis big kids tank and got a bit overzealous and redid that tank. So I netted the other 3 and plopped them in. They are doing fabulous. Perfect roomies for my honeys. They and the honeys are all more active. Similarly slow laid back personalities. Buddy held his own. The other 3 quickly picked caves. Buddy still is visiting every cave there is 🤣 often Jaws will shoot out like a Moray eel to let buddy know that’s his cave. 
Im ecstatic. This is the perfect combo I was looking for to create that Zen tank. 

Edited April 21, 2023 by Guppysnail

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

This cat looks in every room to see what everyone is doing. And even insists on being in the bathroom, and on the counter looking in the sink and getting wet when we are trying to wash our face, etc. much like Buddy- she is a busybody. All up in everyone’s business at all times.

(And she catches all the printouts)

We say she “helps”

[TheSwissAquarist]

On 4/21/2023 at 11:32 PM, Chick-In-Of-TheSea said:

 

 

Does she have the same poster, but of Puss-in-Boots, above her bed? 

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

We have many nerd paraphernalia around the home. Star Wars, medieval stuff, Dungeons & Dragons…