#chilli rasboras

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I've never had crypt melt this bad. I'm trying to grit my teeth until it starts regrowing ;_;

But, these chilli rasbora (some of them are phoenix rasbora, shh) look laser red when they catch the light, truly gorgeous little nano fish

Also, sparkling gourami photobomb

(the little dots are food, I just fed them. The big dots are snails, I'm cultivating them)

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Never had as big a problem with crypt melt as in this tank. Just gritting my teeth through it until they start to grow back in ;_;

The chilli rasboras (there are some phoenix rasbora in there too, shh) look amazing when the light catches them, they glow laser red, gorgeous little nano fish.

And a sparkling gourami photobomb

(the little white dots are food, I just fed them. The larger white dots are snails I am cultivating.)

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It's getting... TANNINED!

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It's getting there

The limnophilia you can kinda see peeking up behind the decor on the LHS has already grown since planting it a few days ago, hoping it'll be all tall and fill that corner in.

I moved some plants around, removed some because they were choking out the wood, and I think the eventual habrosus cories will appreciate the space

I'm busy busy busy, but plans are to eventually transfer over the chillis 5 gal filter, plus the yellow shrimp and the chilli rasbora themselves

I'm planning some kind of top dweller (rocket killies, hockeystick pencilfish or pygmy hatchetfish) so the frogbit will be useful, but I don't like the way it shades out the plants so much.

Most of them are crypts, but still.

It's currently home to two yellows I caught from the other tank, kinda like canary shrimp. The other filter currently in there is cycled, and I've had snails in there cleaning up the wood, but I still wanted to pop some life in there today

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Rescaped my little blue chilli rasboras bedside tank!

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Just fed them and the chillis are looking extra red.

Darker than the photos show, and also less blurred.

(ignore the bubbles I'm battling some weird kind of green surface algae, maybe cyano, idk)

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-_- chilli rasboras are so hard for me to get good pics of them, especially when you have The Tremors

But! New phone macro camera (Fairphone) let me get some kind of pics of some of them.

Pics don't do them justice, the females are greyer with a highlighter red stripe, and the males are a deep chilli red with the same - they look drab and pale in fish tanks at the store, and when you get them home, but after a while they become gorgeous.

Tiny little nano fish, love them.