OceanTruth Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 Nice to see they are in their new home now. You must be so stoked to see them swim around in that nicely aquascaped tank. Love all the little branches they can swim through. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sapere_Ceta Posted February 2, 2021 Author Share Posted February 2, 2021 7 minutes ago, OceanTruth said: Nice to see they are in their new home now. You must be so stoked to see them swim around in that nicely aquascaped tank. Love all the little branches they can swim through. Thanks! I’m really happy to see them in the aquarium. They seem to already enjoy it, as the males were sparring with each other! The betta is cutely antisocial, and I got a quick photo of him before he zoomed off from me haha. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanTruth Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 That is a REALLY cool looking shot of Wulfgar! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Streetwise Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 Beautiful photo! I love the extensive wood and plants, and the use of shadows. Your Betta is serene. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betsy Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 I am loving how you've styled your tank - it's like a fantasy story book vignette! I eagerly await more tales of Wulfgar and Gandr - I'm very invested in their story lines! 🤓👍 Thank you so much for the wonderful photography and sharing!!! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sapere_Ceta Posted February 8, 2021 Author Share Posted February 8, 2021 (edited) Hello, everyone! You all are so sweet, haha. I haven’t been doing much, as I’ve been dealing with some pretty terrible flare ups. I had a doctor’s appointment today, and got some nice news that I will be able to get exploratory and corrective surgeries done for my endometriosis. I’ve been waiting since early last May, when I started getting ER visits because of it to hopefully get the OK for surgeries. I actually just got the call from scheduling while typing this, and have the surgery now set for March 11th! On another note, some cool things are occurring in the aquarium. One of my Indian ricefish is carrying an adorable clutch of eggs. I also, have found a small army of Hydra, which makes sense why there’s so many, because there has been much so much bacteria, biofilm, and copepods in the tank. I’m waiting on some Panacur C to arrive, so I can eradicate them. Here is Wulfgar attempting to eat one. The Indian ricefish will buddy up and try to munch on them as well. The Hydra seemingly have not anticipated that this, and have clustered their army up more and more to raise their defenses, seemingly to some avail. I also have some other shots of Wulfgar, just doing his little thing. He investigates everything, but usually prefers to live in the shadows, like the brooding betta he is.. a true Greybeard haha. Here are some photos of the other fish as well, just chilling. I also have a big ramshorn snail, who I will remove from the tank when I dose the Panacur C. He and the fish have been eating the yucky remains of my biofilm and a little bit of algae that started to build up, but hasn’t shown any new growth. You can see how much it’s been decreasing too, so far. For Gandr, I’m thinking about making a separate thread about his weirdness. But to summarize, I’ve talk to experts at this point, as well the place that I’ve gotten him from, and a whole lot of people on forums with experience in crayfish. The behavior he's been demonstrating has seemingly been never documented before, and it definitely could be some rare disease or condition that is extremely rare or never even seen before. So, my little guy is a lot more work than I had hoped, and I am going to attempt to make a setup that will hopefully mitigate his symptoms depending on if it gets worse, or if he passes. But regardless, I definitely don’t think that he is suffering right now, so I will keep him comfortable and try to offer him the best life that I can. But any specifics is just going to be put on a different thread eventually, because I don’t want it to take up a lot of space here, and I think a thread on documenting what’s occurring with him, and his future setup, seeing how things go, deserves its own spot. Edited February 8, 2021 by Sapere_Ceta 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanTruth Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 Wulfgar is really pretty. Love his colors. Great shot of the ricefish holding a clutch of eggs. That always looks so cool to me how ricefish do that. Good luck with the surgery!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbit Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 Yay!! Congrats on the surgery date and the tank progress! Looking forward to another report on the hydra war. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sapere_Ceta Posted April 8, 2021 Author Share Posted April 8, 2021 Hey everyone, I’ve had a pretty chaotic time lately, health related and somewhat aquarium related. I likely won’t be talking much still, but I felt like hopping on today to give a short update, and later ask a question in a different location about the aquarium problems I’ve been having. February 21st I displayed symptoms of the notorious illness going around and affecting the world, my grandpa unfortunately had it at the time, never took it seriously, and refused to quarantine around me (I live in the living room of the same house so this was obviously going to be an issue, even when I was practicing the proper courses of precaution and avoidance). I got the results the 24th and I did have it as well. It was 28 days until my symptoms finally started decreasing, and it was pretty terrible for me. I did recover, thankfully, though I do have some leftover effects that still won’t go away. I hope everyone stays has been and will stay safe. Because of this, my surgery was understandably moved to a later date of April 1st. It went well, but was disappointing. I do not know the full results because I haven’t been able to discuss them or see my doctor, but will April 16th. But what I know is that I am 0.1% of people with a Unicornuate Uterus (only having half of a fully formed uterus, however in my case the other half tried to form and instead formed into a sharp knotted mass, even with an ovary somehow, and has permanently been digging into my body and causing extreme amounts of problems). I will need more unfortunately invasive surgeries likely soon, and that’s what the April 16th appointment will discuss. I am still in recovery, and I’m in severe pain because my issue has been aggravated, because they could only examine it, but couldn’t do anything else. So the endometriosis was a misdiagnosis, though I’ll be grateful I don’t have that issue. I haven’t been able to do much, aquarium wise because of my symptoms, being sick, and having surgery. During all of this, my aquarium has been somewhat problematic, I’ve had casualties unfortunately, and I’ve considered taking it down multiple times. But I’m going to give it one more full-hearted attempt when I can, seek advice from others here soon, and see how I should approach this all when possible. In the period of time before my surgery and after I recovered from being sick, I was working on Gandr’s future setup and it’s been going very well. I’m very excited and hopeful about it. Gandr has been being his amazing, goofy self, and I am happy to say that he successfully had his first molt March 23rd. He refused to eat his molt, and buried it with leaves, and would stare at it for the multiple days I had it in there. It was creepy both me and possibly him out, so I removed it. It was perfectly intact, so I decided to position it and let it harden as a little keepsake. Here you can see his extremely weird behavior where he decided to tear and pile leaves onto his molt, and sat there for hours (it was 3am at the time of this photo) staring at it, each day it was in there. I hid behind a pillow to take the photo. Nothing at all was seemingly normal about this situation 🙃 Here is Gandr’s molt, and his tail to his claws (minus the antennae) is around 4.5 inches. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbit Posted April 9, 2021 Share Posted April 9, 2021 @Sapere_Ceta I’ve been thinking about you! How awful that you got COVID on top of everything. I hope the April 16 appointment goes well. That’s so weird and hilarious that Gandr got creeped out by his molt! Although honestly I had no idea his molt would be that thick, so I kind of don’t blame him. 😄 It really does look like it could come alive at any second. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lefty o Posted April 9, 2021 Share Posted April 9, 2021 good to see you back. cray fish molts are cool. i used to take em out and set them on top of the lights for my big tank. sort of looked like crayfish crawled out of the tank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betsy Posted April 11, 2021 Share Posted April 11, 2021 That is an intense sequence of events - I'm glad you're on the up-and-up! I hope all of the leftover effects go away soon and your recovery continues!! 💪😊👍 That molt looks wildddd! Go Gandr!! It blows my mind that they can squiggle their legs out and leave the old exo so perfect! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrozenFins Posted April 11, 2021 Share Posted April 11, 2021 Is it just me or would that mold be perfect for april fools?! Glad to see your back on your feet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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