My Mudskipper Paludarium

[Biulu]

It is a bit too red for my taste, but as you say: if it does what they promise, who cares!

 

[HX67]

I'm getting used to it already...
Pics look pretty bad though.

 

[Fishball7]

That made mudskippers look cute!!! Absolutely adorable in your video! And GREAT WORK on your DIY hardscape. Coming from a natural aquarium background, it is to me totally magical how well you've made that tree root look!

 

[Hunterprey]

Amazing job never knew what mudskippers are til now. Theyre adorable. Theres a mudskipper set-up @ a pet store near me, I have to check it out now.

I agree, should be nominated for FOTM or TOTM even. Again amazing job and I subscribed. Theyre lucky to have you as a pet owner, keep us updated

 

[HX67]

Thanks so much, Fishball7 and Hunterprey.

 

[HX67]

A couple of quick shots of the tank.

Anableps

An especially nice reflection from the macro...


Skippies

All and all, not too badly discolored from the Valoya led fixture.

 

[Caprichoso]

Awesome, thanks for posting more pics

 

[Biulu]

Didn't know that mudskippers had blue eyes! Cute!

 

[HX67]

This particular species (Periophthalmodon septemradiatus) has blue eyes.
Someone mentioned a while ago that his skippies have bright red hue in the eyes. He didn't specify the species.

Most of the pics of mudskippers seem to show no other color than black in the eyes...

 

[TheRedDarren]

Simply outstanding mate, very inspiring indeed. Would love to learn to make one myself.

 

[HX67]

Thank you. Everyone's been inspiring to me, I am happy to return some.

A short story of how sometimes you don't want to trash plants that look bad.

Here are my Samolus valeradis when I bought them:

Here's what they looked like a few weeks after planting:

Initially, they went worse and lost all leafs. At that time I buried the roots onto a pool.

In a month, this happened:

Kept going:

...and going

Made a gazillion pups from seeds:

And now we're here:

I think I might need to harvest some of that...

 

[PDSimon]

Looks fantastic! Great focal point.

 

[ian]

that is looking stunning!

 

[HX67]

Thanks, PDSimon and ianho.

The lazy pruner I am, samolus took over a bit

Still blooming nicely

Magnificent plant! But I rolled up my sleeves and took some of it out

Ended up with an airier skipperscape

Thanks for looking.

 

[lljdma06]

Very cool to catch up to this journal. Looking very good.