What are you doing today?

[MattW]

I thought I just found a leak on my 60L tank. Turns out my airstone was the cause! Water had been splashing up against the lid clips and somehow had gone over the glass rim, which they rest on and had leaked along the back of the tank, making the mat it sits on wet and almost leaking onto my extension plugs. For a split second, I was thinking of every tank-related scenario in my head! I would have been very disappointed in Dennerle if there had been a leak, as I only got this tank 3 years ago. Thank God it hadn't

 

[GaryE]

I thought I just found a leak on my 60L tank. Turns out my airstone was the cause! Water had been splashing up against the lid clips and somehow had gone over the glass rim, which they rest on and had leaked along the back of the tank, making the mat it sits on wet and almost leaking onto my extension plugs. For a split second, I was thinking of every tank-related scenario in my head! I would have been very disappointed in Dennerle if there had been a leak, as I only got this tank 3 years ago. Thank God it hadn't

I've had that scare a few times. I once had a tank I bought as a leaker ("with a leak up high") with the intention of fixing it. It never leaked here, The poor guy had sold it when the leak must have been an HOB overflow or an airstone. I've even once had a strand of java moss cause a small wicking effect. It was good for 15 years in my old fishroom.

Water doesn't like being in fishtanks.

Today I freed some water and sent it out into nature, then imprisoned the same amount inside the glass prison walls. I seem to have a nice hatchout of black neon tetras happening. Who knows how many I'll raise, but the numbers look good. And my wild caught Carnagiella myersi pygmy hatchets have begun to eat live brine shrimp, as well as wingless fruit flies. They had me worried there. The marbled hatchets transitioned quickly, but the myersi were slower and shyer.

I put some marbled ones (C. strigata) in a breeding tank, and the eggs I saw through their flanks are largely gone. They were wolfing fruit flies. But whether those eggs will hatch is a mystery.

 

[Lanpenn]

Constantino has died. It seems that his symptoms were similar to those he felt last year. In the last months, I knew that he was terrible to eat because he had lost the attention he had years ago... now, the attention will not exist anymore, only from me, indeed, who decided to bury him in a simple plastic container, as if it were a mausoleum.

His death would happen in the early afternoon of this Friday, October 24, 2025. He had been with me since May 14, 2023. In the previous days, he hadn't eaten, his body was beginning to swell (as it had last year), and he would occasionally swim in a somewhat confused manner, with also misaligned body... and so I rushed to do a partial water change today, with half the volume of the tank, to remove the excess debris. And then, after that, he appeared lying on the substrate, showing some reflexes, and then stopped completely. I ate lunch and prepared his funeral, creating a sort of mausoleum for him inside a plastic container, with a not-so-tightly-fitted lid. I buried him, placed some dried leaves on top, partially covering the container, with the following epitaphs, as shown in the photos:

"Constantino:
Born: circa 1st quarter of 2023
Death: 24th October, 2025
With love,
Felipe Lange"

Maybe I will post something on my Instagram, but I still do not know. I think about buying Macrobrachium shrimp, I will try to find out about. Since my tank is a small one with only 7.92 gallons, there are not so many options.

I am almost finishing the "Nação mercantilista" book. It is a good book, although it is complex to try to find out Brazil's economic history from the 16th to the 19th century.