My Managerie of Tanks

[CassCats]

Added some botanicals to the Paraguay tank

 

[Jinx_]

Beautiful as always!

 

[CassCats]

I think the apistos approve

 

[Jinx_]

Lil guy!

 

[CassCats]

Botanicals also added to this tank

One of my Megalamphodus bentosi, the largest male.

Megalamphodus sweglesi, male. Initially identified as M. Heraldschultzi but consensus leans towards sweglesi now, can't wait to find more because he's a little turd stirring things up with bossy boy bentosi pictured above lol

From another tank, rare nice photo of a couple older purple harlies.

And one of the Bucephalandra in my betta tank flowered

 

[Jinx_]

Beautiful! And that buce flower is absolutely gorgeous!

 

[CassCats]

Beautiful! And that buce flower is absolutely gorgeous!

It was, until the snails ate it hahaha dunno, they found it very tasty

 

[Jinx_]

It was, until the snails ate it hahaha dunno, they found it very tasty

Average snails smh...

 

[CassCats]

A month later and my hydrocolotyle leucocephala (Brazilian pennywort) seeds have finally sprouted! I had a couple flowers bloom on my emersed hydrocolotyle in my goldfish filters, which I had pollinated them by hand and then collected the seeds which developed, and now they have finally sprouted

Shifted the wood in my 20g to the left more and added another piece, plus moved some young ferns over to that piece as well. I'm liking this more.

Apistogramma borelli pics
Mr Borelli

Both, though he's not been letting her in the pod at first.

First time she's ever been in it

And finally got a pic of Spicy Leaf, the female apisto in natural lighting. Showing off how pretty they can be, even she's got a touch of blue that's hard to capture in most lighting.

Lorgie Georgie, male domestic bristlenose, father of the hybrid fry. The ancistrus triradiatus mother has been moved to another tank without male plecos around, so no more accidental hybrids.

Hoplisoma paleatum

All 3 of my bamboo shrimp out and about

Rasbora sarawakensis. @fishorama I caught these guys spawning the other morning, to my surprise. Of course loaches ate the eggs so nothing to collect lol

And lastly, some not so happy news. I had to say goodbye to one of my goldfish nous yesterday. The other day I moved some hardscape in my goldfish tank and apparently had an anaerobic pocket under it which sent up some bubbles. I watched for issues, other fish fine, but Hammerhead the youngest goldfish unfortunately started being unable to stay up in the water and couldn't right himself, and despite trying to treat him with some Epsom salt for the negative swim bladder issue, he became worse and developed internal bleeding on his lower belly. This would hint at a possible internal infection of aeromonas being my best guess based on it being one of those anaerobic bacterias found in tanks and with the timing and symptoms also being a red flag for it. I had to clove him since he was suffering. The other fish still remain fine, so I am hopeful it was just a single case of it.

 

[fishorama]

Your sarawaks look fabulous! But I'm sad about Hammerhead

 

[CassCats]

Your sarawaks look fabulous! But I'm sad about Hammerhead

Me too. He was too young to go, not even full grown. But fancy goldfish are more prone to problems if things go wrong, thanks to their compressed anatomy. It's their biggest downfall.

 

[Jinx_]

I'm so sorry for your loss

 

[CassCats]

Rare photo of my L240 pleco completely out of his cave during lights on.

I knew I was gonna kill that new rotala

Hybrid pleco juvenile

Pygmy cory

Maple the Maine coon discovered the tanks

I got bored and made a clay cory with my kids oven-bake clay

 

[Jinx_]

I know your pain with the rotala I couldn't stop mine from melting, it met its creator rather too soon But that goes for most of my plants anyways, only my vallis grows faster than hair

Oh the hybrid pleco is an adorable lil nugget!
Looks tasty

Love the oven baked cory, you got talent fr!

 

[CassCats]

I know your pain with the rotala I couldn't stop mine from melting, it met its creator rather too soon But that goes for most of my plants anyways, only my vallis grows faster than hair

Oh the hybrid pleco is an adorable lil nugget!
Looks tasty

Love the oven baked cory, you got talent fr!

Was my 4th try with rotala
Some plants just don't work for some people, but hey, sometimes several tries can yield results, but looking like rotala is going into my "not compatible" plant list along with wisteria and water sprite lol

Did another oven baked cory today tol, brochis splendens this time. This one's a Keychain