Ninjoma Posted August 7, 2023 Author Share Posted August 7, 2023 Someone on the Facebook group shared a picture of their gold roseline shark. It was so pretty I decided to order some to join my other roseline sharks. While doing so, I saw a crab species I haven't kept before (Terrathelphusa cf. chilensis), so I will be trying them as well. I'm currently preparing my 40g for them. Here is my reworked tank: I have also given up on s. repens in the midground of my 10g. I've tried it several different times and it never flourishes. I'm pretty sure there is just too much shade in the spot I want to put them in. I decided to try blyxa japonica for the first time. I think it looks great so far! Under high lighting it is supposed to turn goldish or reddish, so I am excited to see how it turns out. 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninjoma Posted August 8, 2023 Author Share Posted August 8, 2023 I finished preparing my 40g for the crabs I will be receiving on Wednesday. -Added Ttree pleco caves for a total of 4 to give everyone a place to hide/ molt. 1. Back right side of tank facing the side glass. 2. In the center to the right of the wood piece. 3. In the center to the left of the wood piece. 4. Didn't get a photo, but it's behind the front right side plants. Here's the wide shot. -I got the HOB breeder box all setup as the land area and I got all the openings closed off with mesh. The crabs can climb the wood piece in the middle to get to the land area. Some bonus photos I took: 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennie Posted August 8, 2023 Share Posted August 8, 2023 Looking good! Could you please update me about schooling and group behavior between different roseline shark colors in the future 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chick-In-Of-TheSea Posted August 8, 2023 Share Posted August 8, 2023 Very cool land area with the HOB breeder box @Ninjoma. Is your snail ok? Not acting lethargic, is she? Are your new crabs brackish? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninjoma Posted August 8, 2023 Author Share Posted August 8, 2023 On 8/8/2023 at 1:18 AM, Lennie said: Could you please update me about schooling and group behavior between different roseline shark colors in the future Yeah, totally. On 8/8/2023 at 2:51 AM, Chick-In-Of-TheSea said: Is your snail ok? Not acting lethargic, is she? I'm not 100% sure. They have been relatively active, but my partner notice they were struggling earlier. On 8/8/2023 at 2:51 AM, Chick-In-Of-TheSea said: Are your new crabs brackish? Nope, they are freshwater. I think the only brackish crabs I've seen for aquariums are fiddler crabs and red claw crabs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chick-In-Of-TheSea Posted August 8, 2023 Share Posted August 8, 2023 On 8/8/2023 at 10:44 AM, Ninjoma said: I'm not 100% sure. They have been relatively active, but my partner notice they were struggling earlier. If they are curling their foot forward, I tend to worry. The lifespan on a mystery snail is about a year. Have you had your snail that long? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninjoma Posted August 8, 2023 Author Share Posted August 8, 2023 On 8/8/2023 at 11:52 AM, Chick-In-Of-TheSea said: If they are curling their foot forward, I tend to worry. The lifespan on a mystery snail is about a year. Have you had your snail that long? Yeah, I'm familiar with foot curling being an old age symptom of mystery snails. I'm not sure if that is what is going on here because their foot looked normal when they were on the glass. I can't remember how long I've had this particular snail, or how old they were when I got them initially. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chick-In-Of-TheSea Posted August 8, 2023 Share Posted August 8, 2023 On 8/8/2023 at 3:24 PM, Ninjoma said: Yeah, I'm familiar with foot curling being an old age symptom of mystery snails. I'm not sure if that is what is going on here because their foot looked normal when they were on the glass. I can't remember how long I've had this particular snail, or how old they were when I got them initially. Best you can do is good water quality, and plenty of food with protein, vegetable material, and calcium. They eat more than people think. 🙂 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninjoma Posted August 9, 2023 Author Share Posted August 9, 2023 Unfortunately I lost Morti, my crayfish a couple of weeks ago. It was very surprising and sudden with no apparent symptoms beforehand. My best guess is it was a unlucky failed molt, as other inhabitants seem to be flourishing. However, today I received some new crustaceans. Baby Blueberry the crayfish. Lemon and Peach, the crabs. 2 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennie Posted August 9, 2023 Share Posted August 9, 2023 On 8/10/2023 at 1:59 AM, Ninjoma said: Unfortunately I lost Morti, my crayfish a couple of weeks ago. It was very surprising and sudden with no apparent symptoms beforehand. My best guess is it was a unlucky failed molt, as other inhabitants seem to be flourishing. However, today I received some new crustaceans. Baby Blueberry the crayfish. Lemon and Peach, the crabs. I named my gold mystery and blue mystery snails Rick and Morty. Sorry for your loss. As your Morti (kinda like Morty, ey?) passed away ( RIP), maybe you can name the blue crayfish Rick to remind of him? :') Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninjoma Posted August 10, 2023 Author Share Posted August 10, 2023 On 8/9/2023 at 4:21 PM, Lennie said: Sorry for your loss. As your Morti (kinda like Morty, ey?) passed away ( RIP), maybe you can name the blue crayfish Rick to remind of him? :') It was Morti, short for Mortimer. Apparently In the Middle Ages, the Mortimers became a powerful dynasty of Marcher Lords (nobles appointed by the king of England to guard the border) in the Welsh Marches. I didn't know that explicitly, but I was going for a nobility vibe with the name. My partner already named the new crayfish Blueberry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninjoma Posted September 10, 2023 Author Share Posted September 10, 2023 (edited) 75g updates: -I caught most of the guppies in my 75g and paludarium and took them to my LFS. I ended up getting enough store credit for two three spot gourami and a gold roseline shark. -I added two three spot gourami and an electric blue acara to replace the hoard of guppies. "Jed" the EBA "Opal" the gourami -I removed the monte carlo that was on the left. I never liked how it looked so I finally gave up on it. I moved more Eriocaulon over to the front and added anubias to the cave. Some other decent photos I took today: I also got these rad "watermelon" fiddler crabs for my paludarium. Edited September 10, 2023 by Ninjoma image order 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninjoma Posted September 11, 2023 Author Share Posted September 11, 2023 I did a pretty major rescape of my brackish paludarium. -I removed 4-6 inches of sand. I initially added a lot, so I could make a large slope, but it didn't hold it's shape. -I removed all but 6 male guppies and plan to try empire gudgeons instead. -I started injecting co2 My 10g has most of my remaining guppies. I only kept the black, blue and purple ones with decent color. My cherry shrimp also finally started to breed! I also took some photos of new three spot gourami and electric blue acara 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninjoma Posted September 17, 2023 Author Share Posted September 17, 2023 (edited) 29g -I got rummy-nose tetra. They are my new favorite schooling fish! I got a black ram and what I think looks like a gold ram. More 29g photos 75g I moved my platies over to my 75g More photos: Brackish Paludarium I got empire gudgeons More photos 10g Edited September 17, 2023 by Ninjoma 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninjoma Posted September 18, 2023 Author Share Posted September 18, 2023 I got some good photos of my empire gudgeons today. Also, here's how my 40g is doing 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSwissAquarist Posted September 18, 2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 Aren’t empire gudgeons purely freshwater? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninjoma Posted September 18, 2023 Author Share Posted September 18, 2023 On 9/18/2023 at 11:02 AM, TheSwissAquarist said: Aren’t empire gudgeons purely freshwater? In the book on brackish husbandry I have it says that adults can live in water with a salinity of up to 1.005SG. It also says when they breed, their fry generally drift down to brackish estuaries. It recommends raising fry in brackish or saltwater. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninjoma Posted September 25, 2023 Author Share Posted September 25, 2023 (edited) Some photos updates. 10g I got a trio of sparkling gourami's from @Cinnebuns 29g My new electric blue ram "Neptune" "Derp" the angelfish "Marge" the german blue ram "Shade" the german black ram 75g "Arrie" the rainbow shark "Jed" the electric blue acara "Opal" the three spot gourami "Honeybear 2" the honey gourami. Derp was bullying them in my 29g, so I moved them over here. 40g My new Araguaia dwarf acara "Marmaduke" Brackish Edited September 25, 2023 by Ninjoma Picture order 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xXInkedPhoenixX Posted September 27, 2023 Share Posted September 27, 2023 ABSOLUTELY beautiful tanks and inhabitants! Very sorry to hear about Morti. Was a beautiful little crusty. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninjoma Posted October 12, 2023 Author Share Posted October 12, 2023 Just posting some photos for today 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pokey Posted October 12, 2023 Share Posted October 12, 2023 Your tanks are beautiful! I hope to get my tank to that point when I can. How are the crabs doing? Even though I like fish, my wish list is filling up with invertebrates I’d like someday. 🤪 I found a hermit crab on the lawn with no kids around who might have dropped him. I took him in, got him a friend and named him Gomer because he made me laugh. 😃His friend’s name was Golly of course. 🤣 Golly lived five years and Gomey eight. I really enjoyed them. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninjoma Posted October 12, 2023 Author Share Posted October 12, 2023 On 10/12/2023 at 10:57 AM, Pokey said: How are the crabs doing? It's sort of a mixed bag. Some have escaped (despite my best attempts to escape proof my tanks) and passed away before I found them (my red claw crab, one of my indian lilac crab, previously some gold claw fiddler crabs). One of my banana crabs arrived in not the best shape and never recovered. My female fiddler crab also disappeared. She had eggs a few times, so I think she reached the end of her life cycle. Currently I have 3 watermelon fiddler crabs and 2 gold claw fiddler crabs in my brackish paludarium. They are doing quite well, and always up to something silly like hanging upsidedown from the mesh top waving their claw. I have one banana crab, "peach," in my 40g. She mostly likes to hang out in her pleco cave during the day, but seems to be in good shape, and presumably forages at night. I have one indian lilac crab, "pomegranate," in my 75g. She is decently active and likes to walk around in the short plants, rocks and wood in the front of the tank. or climb the dwarf sag. She rests in the pleco cave next to dwarf sag on the right of the tank, directly on top of my crayfish's burrow 🙄. She also rests on the lip of my HOB filter when she wants to get out of the water (she also has a land enclosure she ignores). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pokey Posted October 12, 2023 Share Posted October 12, 2023 I’m sorry to hear about the crabs that have passed but that’s great the others are doing well! It sounds like they each have their own little personality quirks and that’s very fun & interesting! 😃 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninjoma Posted October 12, 2023 Author Share Posted October 12, 2023 On 10/12/2023 at 1:02 PM, Pokey said: I’m sorry to hear about the crabs that have passed but that’s great the others are doing well! It sounds like they each have their own little personality quirks and that’s very fun & interesting! 😃 Yeah, they are quite amusing. I very much enjoy them other than their incredible ability to escape their enclosures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colu Posted October 12, 2023 Share Posted October 12, 2023 Just caught up great journal beautiful tanks really liking the crabs they are very interesting some great pictures @Ninjoma 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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