Recent content by Tacit Blues

Thanks! I’m really pleased with it. And it’s in a great place for me to sit and look at it every evening which is good.

https://youtu.be/J7LaSh957gA What is it now, a month and a half since the Endlers went in? There’s another male coloring up. I haven’t seen any baby shrimp yet but it seems like it ought to be soon.

https://i.imgur.com/OzSaPjM.mp4 Got a good look at the berried shrimp!

So I ordered some juvenile “Key Lime” Endler’s (supposedly N Class, but line bred) and they came in a little bit battered from shipping but they seem to be bouncing back pretty good. https://youtu.be/ZfrZUafWI1s They are like little hyperactive puppies, really hard to get a good shot of them...

What size tank is it? I’m just setting up an endler/shrimp tank.

Hi all. Gosh, it’s been a while. Pretty sure having two kids takes three times as much time as one kid. But slowly slowly I’ve been accumulating the parts pieces and motivation to replace my 6 gallon Fluval Edge tank that was in the bedroom with a 20 gallon that I traded for some plants with...

Huh. Interesting! I don’t think I’ve ever seen rocks with moss like that.

Did the fish act hyperactive though? :)

There’s one behind the minnow in the middle too :) and oh yeah, the snails are very happy. I love to do little timelapse videos of the snails, they’re hilarious.

I think I got all 5 loaches in there, though the ones in back are a bit blurrier and they camouflage pretty good too.

Yay for the 80 gallon getting close!

Hey, glad to hear from you! I was just thinking that there hadn't been any updates in a while :)

Thanks! It’s been really fun to see them out and about! Meanwhile, I was experimenting with where the water comes in to the tank, and made a little spray bar thing: (Apologies for the not great picture, lots of reflections going on this morning) And then I made it do a little waterfall thing...

https://youtu.be/qWvSY45MBx4 When you put the macro lens on and put the camera on a tripod you can get some pretty fun shots! https://imgur.com/a/qGcQnfx

So went by the LFS, wandered past the tank that was labeled for hillstream loaches and peered in for a couple minutes but didn’t see any. So went around and looked at all the other tanks and contemplated flower shrimp or vampire shrimp. Thinking on these thoughts I went past the tank that...