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His dorsal fin is gone. Ugh. Poor thing. Looks like he gets daily water changes for a bit.

I know that my guy will buy mine, so seems like that's not a bad route for this tank. They are pretty overwhelming.

I love it!

I'm trying to do more floating foods for the fish. The thing is that the assassins should be breeding by now, so I think we might have a population problem.

I love it.

Anubias and Malaysian trumpet snails are happy. Even with two assassins.

This pair also enjoys eating their fry. I'm not to the point of stealing the eggs like CoralBandit, but jeez fish. I feed you plenty.

Look at this gravid lady. Apparently this tank is good for breeding. Snails and shrimp aren't hard to breed, but furcata are close to impossible and, if I remember correctly, kuhlis have only been bred accidentally. Not that being gravid is the same as having fry, but it's still neat. I was...

One is still all eyeball, which is neat because their eyes are super bright blue. The other is a tiny version of an adult now. Yesterday it started swimming deeper in the open water, away from plants and stuff. It's really neat! We also really have just a crazy number of shrimp. I didn't expect...

We actually have two rainbow fry now. I have no idea how that has happened, but it's awesome!

We have ONE rainbow fry. It's very cute. The shrimp are still exploding. I took some of the mystery snails to the fish nerd place and immediately felt guilty because their water isn't hard enough for snails to really be happy. I was looking through pictures and realized this tank has been in...

We are now entirely overrun with shrimp. Bright red, black, clear, white, orange... Boatloads. They are eating the mystery snails, but I don't think they are killing them. I think the ramshorns are killing them and the shrimp are cleaning up. We actually have fewer ramshorns now, somehow. I'm...

My pair don't cause any problems with the plants, but, yeah, they ate the small shrimp enthusiastically. The black rose survived several weeks before I removed her.

It's pretty awful. The ramshorns get inside their shells, and then the mystery snails get lethargic and don't respond to most stimulus. Air baths are the most effective treatment I've found. The ramshorns crawl out of the mystery snail shells. So these baby shrimp-- there's a bunch of them--...

We have baby shrimp now. I'm shocked at that. We're also back to the point with the ramshorns where they are eating the mystery snails. It's really frustrating.

Yea! I'm so glad!

I have some new designs to carve. I'm curious what looks good to you guys.

Sea Life Aquarium in Auburn Hills, Michigan

I cover the birdseed with a cayenne infused oil, which keeps the grey squirrels away. Not this guy, though! Edited to question why the photo is sideways and also express embarrassment at my thawing leaf buckets that are actually little gardens.

I have an Oscar and dwarf shrimp ready to carry fish and their accoutrements.

Shiny!

We got there mixed flavors antacids, and our spoiled snails won't eat the green or yellow ones. I made more snail jelly today and used all of them in it! Muahaha

fry!

ramshorn trap