Acva Blog: My scape #3 – The great Danish (5'th of May 2015)

This is a Danish Style Aquarium, with red plants. The setup was started in october 2014. I am using Dennerle liquid fertilizers and nutritive substrate (Deponit Mix Professional), Dennerle heating cables with Duomat DeLuxe, CO2 adition controller by a Dennerle pH controller Evolution DeLuxe, and Giesemann bulbs.

Source (you can click through an read what plants are used etc.)

The eyes of a Porcupine Pufferfish

he won’t stay stillllllllll

Rhinopias eschmeyeri

Sirens are part of the salamander branch of the lissamphibians, and are some of the most unusual members of the group. They have an eel-like body shape, with small forelimbs and no hindlimbs at all, and have functional external gills as adults. Their main diet is carnivorous, with palatal teeth and a keratinous beak at the front of their jaws adapted for eating hard-shelled prey – but they’ve also been observed feeding on plant material, a rarity among amphibians.

Habrosaurus here was one of the earliest known sirens, living during the Late Cretaceous and Early Paleocene of North America (~84-58 mya). Reaching lengths of around 1.6m (5′3″), it was one of the largest known lissamphibians of all time, comparable in size to some modern giant salamanders.