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This Friday's meme is: the perfect being

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Local shrimp quietly unhappy about his neighbours number suddenly increasing from one to thirty overnight, decide to carry on as usual anyway

#shrimpblr #shrimps #aquarium shrimps #amano shrimp #fishblr #guppy fish #guppy fry #hexagonal tank #like honestly i am in awe how much kids dont bother shrimps

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can you recommend a good floating plant for a smaller tank? please not red root floater anything but red root floater

Hello anon, of course I can!

I would say the easiest and most common would be duckweed.

It has lots of pros:

✔️its really common so its easy to acquire

✔️its really sturdy so it will survive anything

✔️it grows fast so in no time you can have it cover entire water surface giving your fish perfect shade

But it has also cons:

❌it grows fast, really fast if you dont pay attention to it, it can literally cut any light reaching your plants and make it really hard for fish to reach water surface

❌its really hard to get rid of, because of its grow rate and because it reproduce by vegetative propagation leaving just one duckweed leaf may lead to once again having water surface completely covered

❌i dont know if its something that bother other people but i find it tedious also because of how small it is. You cant just avoid it, if you put hand in the water with duckweed you will end up with your hands covered in duckweed.

My second recomendation would be Limnobium laevigatum or amazon frogbit.

Honestly i think its one od the pretiest floating plants i have. :3

Laevigatum is supposed to easier in maintanance then its cousin spongia but i cant tell from experience, cus i dont think i ever had spongia.

✔️beautiful effective plant

✔️in right condition it easily reproduce covering water surface but not completely giving fishes a way to reach it

✔️it produce extensive root system that can be a hiding place for fry

❌ its delicate and dont like water on the surface on the leaves, you can even see that on the photo above the brown spots are where water droplets sat on the plant

❌the root system is BIG. This plant wants to dig in the supstrate and it will do it.

You can see its roots here. I had to move plant so we dont see the whole root system but it is reaching the ground. It might not be a big problem in big tanks but in small, if you dont keep an eye on it, it might hid all other plants behind its roots.

Last plant and my absolute favourite is Salvinia natans.

Its bigger than duckweed but not as big as limnobium. It grow fast but not as fast and all consuming as duckweed. Its sturdy and hardy and its roots system, while thick never grows longer than centimeter or two. It doesnt care if some water land on leaves ir if you even fully submerge it for some time. Truly a perfect floating plant

And anon while i have no experience with red root floater i would love to hear from you why you dont like it so much :D

Hope this helped you at least a little bit!

#sorry for any spelling mistakes #i dont feel like proof reading this #thanks for the question! #it was a pleasure to nerd out!

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Have you heard of contraception? Yeah well my fish HAVEN'T. GIRL, WHAT THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSE TO DO WITH 30 BABIES?????

#micro fish tank #fishblr #fish tank #guppy fish #guppies #guppys fry #i am coming back from work like #hey baby girl how do you do #and she is like 4 sizes smaller and have a small kindergarden behind her

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He’s retrieving

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You guys will not fucking believe this

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DA BABY CAN ATAND NOW

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Various patterns and colors of Trout skin

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Kinda in love with the idea that different places on other sides of the world can look so similar. Something something universal human experiences

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14.12.21

Have you ever seen how black cats looks in the sunlight? Have ever seen how their fur colour change?

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Water change photo :3

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i'm being watched

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I think I forgot actually to tell you all guys that I work (for now) in pet shop and I think I want to actually share some wacky things that happend form time to time, so be ready :)

#we dont have animals so none of that #but you can visit us with animals which is great #i have petted so many dogs! #pet shop work

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OP of the original post turned off reblogs but as of 3 hours ago 3/3/24 Deux Face is still alive and doing well!! According to the farm's Facebook she is starting to try to stand and getting better at holding up her head. The farm has been very clear that they're going to care for her and do their best to meet her needs, they are not planning to sell her or show her off to the media. They also haven't mentioned any other noticeable deformities inside or out and have noted that both heads connect at the same throat, and she's lived for about 5.5 days at this point which is shockingly long for an animal with this level of deformities. Go Deux Face!

#oh this is most fascinating!

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