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I wanted a smaller schooling fish to accompany my empire gudgeons in my brackish paludarium, so I got a group of neon blue eyes (Pseudomugil cyanodorsalis). Unfortunately they started disappearing in the night and I think the gudgeons were the culprit, so I moved the gudgeons to my 75g. I got another group of neon blue eyes and a group of pacific blue eyes (Pseudomugil signifer) as an alternate option in case there was some other reason the neon blue eyes were disappearing. I also got a group of bumble bee gobies. They are so cute! I love them. The tank still doesn't look great though.20231013_181257.jpg.6dcfeaf90f282ef08fbcf176070667f2.jpg

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In my 75g, I am trying out blyxa japonica on the left foreground.

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On 11/4/2023 at 9:23 AM, Pokey said:

Where did the barnacles come from? Is that the brackish tank or are there freshwater barnacles too? Very interesting, thanks for sharing!

The nerite snails came with the barnacles from my LFS. I believe they are collected from a brackish area. This is a brackish tank.

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On 11/22/2023 at 8:27 AM, Pokey said:

Pomegranate looks so happy and healthy! I bet she’s really enjoying the renovation on her land area too.

 That's actually the land area in my brackish paludarium for my fiddler crabs. Pomegranate is in my 75g.

On 11/22/2023 at 8:27 AM, Pokey said:

Is she part of the vampire crab family? 

No, she is an indian lilac crab (Globithelphusa cf. kaufen). I believe they are from the family Gecarcinucidae.

On 11/22/2023 at 8:27 AM, Pokey said:

Your tanks are looking good and that angelfish is stunning!

Thanks!

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Some photos and videos from the weekend.

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"Arcanis" the gold ram

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Brackish paludarium

Bumblebee goby

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Fiddler crabs

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Bonus

"Honeybear" the cat

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More fish photos

29g

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75g

Roseline sharks

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Siamese algae eater

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"Arrie" the rainbow shark

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Baby reticulated hillstream loach

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Platies

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"Jed" the electric blue acara

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"Opal" and "Buttercup" the threespot gourami

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Empire gudegeon

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40g

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Brackish

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My 10g when its overgrown

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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.20231206_162837.jpg.04ae11dfb0b1e687f9a294aa6c83748b.jpg

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Fiddler Crabs

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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.

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Ghost Shrimp

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bumblee goby

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Pacific blue-eye rainbowfish

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75g

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"Pomegranate" the indian lilac crab surveilling her kingdom from on high. Look out below!

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"\Reticulated hillstream loach

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Roseline shark

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Rainbow shark

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Siamese algae eater

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"Blueberry" the red cheek crayfish

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40g

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"Aileen" the green dragon pleco

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Apisto Borelli

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"Marmaduke" the dwarf araguia acara

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"Gogo" and "Hazel" the fantail goldfish

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10g

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Guppies

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Cherry shrimp

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Brackish Paludarium
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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

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"Foxy" the peacock gudgeon

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Fiddler crabs

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Bumblebee goby

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75g

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"Blueberry" the red cheek crayfish

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Siamease algae eaters and baby reticulated hillstream loaches

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"Jed" the electric blue acara

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"Lance" the guppy

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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. 

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

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"Venus" the apisto borelli

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Sparkling gourami

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Cherry shrimp

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40g

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"Comet" the golden dwarf cichlid

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"Mecury" the golden dwarf cichlid

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"Marmaduke" the araguia dwarf acara

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"Hazel" and "Gogo" the goldfish

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29g

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"kuhli loach"

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"Sol" the apisto agassizii fire red

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"Luna" the apisto agassizii fire red

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"Derp" the angelfish

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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

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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. 

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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

 

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