lu's aquablog

[pleopoddity]

welcome to @seaglassc 's awesome aquarium blog. 19 he/him 🦐

🐟 currently running: 5gal 🍀 next projects: shrimp bowl, 20gal long

i'm most fond of freshwater aquaria so you won't see much marine stuff here. enjoy!

[thepeacefulpleco]

What if we all cleaned the stick together?

[pleopoddity]

quarantine setup... guess who.....

[pleopoddity]

been meaning to share for a while but here is the 20 gallon!! she's a bit foggy for now (seachem flocculant 😖) but i added some jackfruit leaves and moved some shrimps in from the 5 gallon.

they seem to be enjoying the extra legroom! 🍂🍂🦐 can't wait to get some honey gourami in as well

[herpsandbirds]

Yucatán Box Turtle (Terrapene yucatana), female, family Emydidae, endemic to Yucatán, Mexico

unbothered.

moisturized.

happy.

in her lane.

focused.

flourishing

photograph by Chris Drake

[cloevr]

i have too many fish but ill never give them up not even for a million more fish

[pleopoddity]

they've finally caught up to me. planaria in the shrimp tank

[pleopoddity]

To anyone in Canada, more specifically southern Ontario/GTA specifically having trouble finding No-Planaria (because it seems to be regulated here and/or discontinued in a lot of places), Shrimp Fever in Toronto sells this, a plant extract (presumably betel nut, like Biomax's version) that's worked wonders against hydra in my tank, and probably planaria too as I haven't seen any since dosing.

Not sponsored lol but figured I would share in case it helps anyone else! Happy shrimping 🦐❤️

[ashenmind]

[pleopoddity]

they've finally caught up to me. planaria in the shrimp tank

[gh0stienj0yer]

i need to get off tumblr i’m at the aquarium admiring the fish and my brain goes “posts that make you want to get in the water” what are you talking about. these are live fish in the room with you. what post.

[gh0stienj0yer]

posts that make you want to get in the water

[pleopoddity]

no pics yet because its a mess but! trimmed down my 5gal and used the cuttings (plus some extras from redoing the 20 cus it needed more substrate) to finally plant the 3gal bowl again. val, rotala, ludwigia, guppy grass, salvinia, and a couple other miscellaneous bits that i'm too lazy to id.

my plan with the bowl is to just blast it with light and see what does well. once it's nice and overgrown, i'll introduce some shrimps! and quite possibly use the 5gal for a betta.

[sixth-extinction]

Potosi pupfish (Cyprinodon alvarezi) Extinct in the wild since the 1990’s, this species of pupfish is now bred in captivity by dedicated aquarium hobbyists. [Source]

[pleopoddity]

finally got a lid for the 20gal.... plus some more substrate cus i felt it was too shallow towards the front. going to take most of the scape out, add more sand, finally tie down a particular piece of driftwood that refuses to sink (or find a way to screw it down to flagstone), test params (and get back to cycling bcus ive been slacking on ammonia dosing these past weeks) . but it should be cycled by now or most of the way there. then fish. i am so excited wow wow

[herpsandbirds]

River Frog (Lithobates heckscheri), family Ranidae, found in the SE United States

The tadpoles of this species are capable of over-wintering through up to 2 winters, and overwintering tadpoles get rather large, growing up to 97 mm (3.8 in). 

The above individual was handled under permit for a scientific study, and was released after capture.

photographs: rreams, lucan pigeon, rreams, & phils1stpix

[cococoffeee]

my son whom i hate

[imanartsandwich]

Some more fishies because fishies are awesome <3

[fuwungi]

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