#or like a shrimp tank

[chipped-chimera]

Finally got a fancy(tm) pic of my aquarium - think I figured out the solution to awful photos is just I have to do them at night because the hugeass window in my room directly adjacent ruins everything. Going to try and take a pic like this weekly to track growth!

Anyway it's looking close? Closeish? to being cycled so the question is: WHAT COLOUR SHRIMP

#kerytalk #fish nonsense #planted tank #aquablr #fishblr #cherry shrimp or neocaridina is what I'm looking for #I just don't think I'd like reds. Or yellow #also rip I found the underground shrimp trading groups (complicated) and went from not finding any Caridina to so many #DO NOT TEMPT ME! I KNOW THEY'RE MORE SENSITIVE #they look bomb af tho rip #I do prefer them over Neos #idk how close is close but ammonia is 0.2 nitrites 0.0 and nitrates 20ppm #been sitting at that for a hot minute tho so not sure what's happening #dosing with bacteria and a fertiliser (both seachem) daily #things I've read saying as long as I have nitrates it means something is being converted so yay? it's def not in our tap water I tested

[emry-stars-art]

Have you ever heard the noises axolotls make? its kinda quiet blub!, when they reach the surface of the water to gulp down some air. Anyway any time i see JellyNeil my mind immediately goes to Neil just making that noise

I HAVE NOW. wow I made a reel for the first time in forever just so I could get this across properly, here you go

(Audio from this YouTube video)

Find the mer au masterpost here 💕

#this was DELIGHTFUL #it’s okay for the first few years I bet a jelly mer could do quite well in a tank or fishbowl #as long as you are aware it will try to eat everything in there #e v e r y t h i n g #so keep it with some crabs and snails probably #or any fish big enough to fend for itself #I cannot promise the safety of your little shrimp #and give it toys #why am I getting into ‘the care of your jellyfish’ rn #stop that we got work to do #(@ myself) #but thank you for the ask I loved this hehe #also explain to me why my brain is so sure that jelly mers can breathe air easier than most fish #not like a mammal like a whale or whatever #it’s not the ideal way to get oxygen #but jellyNeil breathes air better than the sharks #and for why #no clue #anyway #fan art #my art #aftg #all for the game #neil josten #jellyneil au #jellyfish #mer au #asks #jellyneil #mer research notes

[prince-liest]

hey, while I have all you new followers here: come look at my fish!

she is called Her Highness the Shrimp Slaughterer. the pink-red accents on her fins represent the spilled blood of her enemies.

#personal #betta fish #aquariums #bettablr #fishblr #aquablr #planted tank #petblogging #this pic was taken like 45 seconds after she ate an entire shrimp whole #look at her smug face #the temptation to declare her real name Lucy (short for Lucifer) is high because it's damn accurate #but I feel like that is a little too fandom-associate now

[water-based]

Water change photo :3

#my shrimps hate me #you can ususally see like 7 or so of them now its 0 xd #fishblr #water change #me scrubing my tank: clean clean cleanliness :) #my shrimps: 😱😱😱😱😓😓😨😨😨🫨🫨🫨🫨😩😫

[wikipedia-main]

CELEBRITY SIGHTING AT THE FISH STORE !!!!!

[ID: two pics of the inside of a reef tank, featuring a speckled brown pistol shrimp and a black & white striped goby fish with a yellow head, in a sandy den. The shrimp picks up a clawful of sand, moves it aside, retreats, and repeats, all while its right antenna rests on the goby, who is watching for predators. /end ID]

#fishblr #shrimpblr #pistol shrimp and goby fish #LITERALLY GOT SO EXCITED SEEING THEM #THE PISTOL SHRIMP WAS DIGGING & HAD ONE ANTENNA ON THE LOOKOUT GOBY #JUST LIKE I READ .. PEACE AND LOVE IS REAL #I DID NOT KNOW YOU COULD HAVE THEM IN A TANK !!!! #fishkeeping

[randybutternubber]

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He’s watching tv

#shrimp #aquarium #fish #fishblr #marine biology #cherry shrimp #don’t worry the tank has been cycling for like a year so it has a ton of algae #it’s not because I don’t clean it #the shrimp LOVE it!!! #shrimpblr

[iraprince]

Came across a few of your comics (they’re great) and was about to keep scrolling and move on with my life, but then I saw you’re into planted aquariums so I had to follow. Us nerds gotta stick together ya know?

oh hell yeah, high five. i haven't posted any pictures in ages bc as my tank has reached a kind of insane unexpected equilibrium it's also become less photogenic, and i haven't wanted to disturb a stable system just to make it photograph better lol -- BUT recently i have been thinking about finally starting to fuss over it again, maybe add some new plants and some new shrimp to transition over as my current band of amanos reach the end of their lifespan, and maybe when i have that all brushed up i'll take u guys on a little tour again. (for the shrimp nerds who may be interested: i'm thinking about nabbing some neocaridinas, likely blue jelly + carbon rilli. it would be nice to have a self-sustaining colony, since obv the amanos can't breed in fresh water.)

#reluctant to talk more abt the technical stuff bc i am an Annoying Stickler abt tank stuff #and like. okay so i've reached the fabled 'no water change' tank mostly on accident. but the stickler in me feels it's irresponsible to- #casually talk about having a 'no water change' tank when in practice u should always be extremely skeptical of that concept #there is already a lot of misinformation and irresponsible breeziness abt the hobby online and i refuse 2 contribute #god forbid i become the Guy cited in someone being like 'oh well but a guy i follow online has a tank that doesnt need water changes.' ykwi #anyway. no one asked. uhhh what else. not to sound extremely blunt but the amanos should be dead by now actually #i have no idea why they're hanging on. don't get me wrong i'm very happy but every day i peer in there and i'm like. STILL? #whatever. not looking a gift horse in the mouth. (not looking my immortal shrimp in their gross little mandibles)

[bokatan]

send help, i'm back on my "i should build a riparium" kick again

#BO NO #i have an orchidarium/terrarium. i have an aquarium. combining them means less maintenance right? right??? #i will say- this would be MUCH easier if i did not have cats. but i have cats and need to have all plants enclosed for their safety #if that were not the case- i could just put a tall rock/wood in my shrimp tank and stick my orchids and bromeliads on it #'bo arent all of those plants non-toxic to cats' yes but that doesnt mean i want them getting chewed on lmao #im just Thinking ugh #i want to so badly- but i also have enough experience with this hobby to know this will easily be a $400+ project #*especially* if i go through with the full plan and purchase a pair/trio of wild bettas +/- additional stock to go with them #this would be like THE setup of all time for a bubble nesting species. maybe get some loaches and rasboras too #and i am literally a month out from graduating- i should not be throwing myself into a money sink like this right now lmao

[ferniliciousness]

I just realized, I cannot remember if I have introduced Tumblr to the Bread Gang. I must rectify this immediately.

This is the Bread Gang. They are the best boys.

Members of the Bread Gang: Jam (red long fin guppy) Baguette (yellow tuxedo guppy) Toast (sunset guppy) and honorary member, Turbo the nerite snail.

#for anyone wondering #the algae on the glass is on purpose #i like rhe look of it and im trying to grow it over on the sides #it does not hurt the fish lol #there tank is ten gallons and full of plants #there happy and healthy fish who are living well past there expected life span #they get plenty of brine shrimp treatos as well #bread gang #fish #pets

[chipped-chimera]

Today in fish nonsense! 🐟🐠- Tank is good to go! Cool wood piece is cleaned and time to spend way too long on a plan painting.

More below the cut.

Tank has been set up, leak tested so it's good to go (after I overhauled the layout of my office ... still dealing with the fallout of that though lol) and the piece of jarrah/mirra? wood that my Dad grabbed from the tree he cut down on a farm (noting this specifically because it's actually now illegal to commercially harvest Jarrah in my state - this was on private property so it's legal) has had the absolute crap scrubbed out of it - I mean literally, in the process I found yet another interesting hole in it so that's cool, then high-pressure blasted with water so I am finally ready to think about scaping.

Which apparently means spending longer than I should drawing a plan lol. This piece is super awkward to work with I think - while functionally interesting it has a silhouette that makes me oscillate between 'boring' and 'awkward'. After talking to some artist friends, generally it was agreed I'd need to put more stuff in there to actually make it look better, right now naked glass is super harsh. Problem is, rocks and wood? Well in the aquarium hobby that shit is expensive. We're talking 60 AUD+ for pieces of wood. I mean they are fully cleaned and treated (?) and selected for being interesting, but I have a budget and I'd like to save as much of it as I can for more than just harscape sooooo planning is just the right idea here.

Thinking seiryu stone because I looooove the white veining through it, and then for the branches to break up the shape it's probably going to be spiderwood or something (as much as I love mopani wood I don't think it usually sells branched like this - but I will watch out for it) but the good part is these pieces are all probably going to be on the smaller side since I have my huge hunk of feature wood for free.

I don't know how this piece of wood will interact with inhabitants, I've soaked it for probably a month at this point to get a large amount of the tannins out (and I know it waterlogs, which is great because I won't have to play 'how long will this take to sink') but also to help the looser material come off so all I'm left with now is the hard stuff. It's also now sitting in the sun (and I mean sun - it is going to be 40C today and the next few days so that shit is gonna bake 💀) but prior to that has been sitting in the sun either here or the farm for a total of about idk ... at least a month? Maybe more?

I've struggled to find information on whether Jarrah or Mirra wood is safe beyond one post on a forum where someone-who-knew-someone at a local fish shop had put a piece of this in his store tank and all the fish died. Beyond that? no more context. According to my freshwater ecologist friend I caught up with, she thinks it's probably going to be okay given the amount of time/work put in. I have not done a bleach soak and I don't think I really need to given the amount of time it's been soaking in regular tap water (so already contains chlorine) and sun exposure. There will still probably be tannin leakage into the water but I'm okay with having a mild blackwater tank after seeing one in my LFS, I actually like the slight tannin tint of water and how it makes everything a little 'softer'. But I do ACTUALLY want to be able to see though lmao. I've also seen Jarrah seed pods sold locally specifically for blackwater tank setups so it might be fine?

Either way the plan is going to be: Scape, plant, cycle and then introduction of some cheap shrimp as my poor guinea pigs to see if that wood actually is awful.

Right now I'll just have to painstakingly go through plant choices and placement and making sure it lines up with the planned parameters for the community. I absolutely will take suggestions btw.

More soon. Fish nonsense will contain fish ... at some point. I swear lmao.

#kerytalk #aquablr #fishblr #my art #I guess even though this is a grossly overconfident doodle #aquascaping #yes that is a sandpit for enrichment #though I'm debating corydoras #I worry tetras + corydoras might be too much schooling happening for the eventual last edition - Betta fish #if not then it'll be tetras + one pleco #... I swear I saw a video of a pleco thoroughly enjoying burrowing in sand - I'd love that #yes all of this is primarily because I want a betta #but if I only get one tank ... go hard or go home right? #ngl considering getting a small 5-10 gallon for my bedroom for shrimp breeding so that could be a feasible second plan #in case the betta is an asshole #do not tell my parents lmao #I'd love a male in the tank but know it's probably not going to work so female is more likely - or at least plakat type #it's got quite a bit of height to traverse so I don't think anything with super big fins would be great - especially with age #even if I basically have a stepped up network of holes in this wood right to where it nearly touches the surface

[kangals]

shrimp babies really just be like. ctrl+c ctrl+v ctrl+v ctrl+v ctrl+v ctrl+v

#sorry for posting shrimp pictures so much I just am enamored with them #actually I’m not sorry fuck u #anyway it looks like the ammonia issue in this tank is all clear! So that’s good #and I also may have ordered all the stuff (minus plants) to set up a little blue tank for home… hrnngh

[prince-liest]

shrimp often arch their backs and use their hind legs to clean their swimmerets, which they normally use to swim! pregnant shrimp like the larger female in the back also carry their eggs in their abdomen and use their swimmerets to fan water through the eggs, thus oxygenating them. these two will not stop breeding, even though amano shrimp are not actually able to successfully reproduce in fresh water. I suppose it means they're happy and healthy in their environment!

#fishblr #aquariums #planted tank #shrimp #amano shrimp #personal #petblogging #so I actually am not 100% sure if they're boning because she only got berried like RIGHT after I added the second shrimp #which seems really fast and I know for sure that crayfish can store semen for a VERY long time (many months) #but I haven't found evidence online that shrimp can do it to except some people saying they probably cannot #so I'm tentatively assuming they're boning #shrimp love #low key named them he xuan and shi qingxuan in my mind and no he xuan is NOT the male #he xuan is the giant menace that's been established in the tank since basically its inception #anyway these were some really good shots of amano shrimp self-grooming considering all I have is my phone camera

[water-based]

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

[wolfstrong]

High quality shrimp video

#I was like where are all the shrimp #and I looked for like 5 minutes before I saw him in the most open area inbthe front of my tank

[just-an-emily-existing]

Splodge, the Shrimp Twins

#They act like little shrimps lmao #ttte #thomas the tank engine #thomas and friends #ttte humanized #ttte human au #my art #humanisation #Ttte Splatter #Ttte Dodge #Ttte Splodge #mermay 2023 #Shrimp #My Post

[lunar-waterlilies]

quick shrimp doodle. the lines bled when I colored it but I like her

#every time i draw shrimps i'm like wow this is fun i should do it more often #shrimp #blue cherry shrimp #freshwater shrimp #tank fish (original)