Spider's Aquarium Delights

XD The CPDs are still shy of me and the camera but they're finally getting some good exploration done of their new home. Definitely have two adult males because they have been Dance Battling a little bit while the one adult female watches.

CPDs... Amanos... Otocinclus babies.

Should certainly have enough alga growth and/or enough fine-leaved plants for such a plethora of wonderful beasts!!!! *dies on the ground in battle, honorably, and not like a wuss*

Just kidding, I am stoked for the little groups of each I found. :D Also grabbed some B-grade Nerite snails since they are just as good at being cute little tank roombas, and got some American Frogbit for the pond's recovery, and some Amazon Frogbit for the tank I plan to make the Amano permanent home!

Panda Corydoras are always so pleasant. :D

My school have been separated from the Chaos tank and put in the former shrimp-only tank as the only fish. They love their new Tiger Lotus.

Loose Dog Activity in the wintertime messed up my 200+ gallon outdoor pond, so it lost a ton of water to Dog Digging It Out With Leaf Litter and had a lining puncture so it would forever be only fillable to about three inches to maximum. I lost my beloved Shubunkin goldfish group except for one of the first-year babies, and he (Bruno) now lives in this 20 long for the time being.

I took this photo before I had this dog-pond disaster happen, and was planning for the tank to house a group of coldwater species (hadn't decided between about five choices). Thankfully I did have the thing fully cycled when I realized I needed to rescue a goldfish and use this new tank as his impromptu hospital tank. He had deep dog-claw gouges on one side at first, fully raw muscle exposed, and his dorsal and upper tail fin were also ripped up terribly. That was months ago, shortly after this photo was taken.

Some cheer-up Shrimp posting.

My shrimp do always make me feel better. Can you count the sprimps in this one? There are... many. XD Some flake had gotten stuck up under the floaters instead of sinking eventually, thus the population density.

Fully random Orange Rili appears!

And experience a Shrimppleganger--double shramps. Not a great focus but I thought it was a cool shot.

In April of this year, my beautiful rescue Lila passed away. She had a hard start, but despite that she was pampered and happy for as long as I knew her. She was to my closest estimate 3 years old.

I'm making a design for a tiny memorial but needing to research what sorts of clays are safe for future critters. I've been working my wax-based modeling clay and if all else fails I can make a tiny limestone carving if it isn't possible to cast that and use the mold safely. My main idea for the nano-terrarium vacancy now is possibly dairy cow isopods, once the memorial is finished.