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Quick Tank Update

4/17/2021

 
I've been pretty busy with work, so I've been lagging here on updates. Thankfully, I've been keeping up with my tank maintenance and things are overall going well.  Since the last update there have been a few changes:
  • I lost another panda cory. Same symptoms as the others. One day fine, the next day sideways/weird swimming, the following day dead. I got this one into my hospital tank and dosed with Maracyn, Paracleanse, and Ich-X, but it still died.
  • I added some orange pumpkin cherry shrimp that I bought off of eBay. 1 died en route, 1 died during acclimation, 1 died the following day. The remaining 8 are still there, thriving, and even multiplying! That's right, we have orange little shrimplets living in the Christmas moss (Vesicularia Montagnei).
  • I added some dwarf hair grass (Eleocharis Parvula from ADA) to the right side of the tank. It's taking well, but not going wild. Between this and the marsilea hirsuta on the left side, I should get a decent carpet going....eventually.
  • I added some Bacopa Caroliniana (Aquarium Co-op) in the rear of the tank on the path. I had too much of an empty gap and wanted to fill it with something new.
  • I have an unusual glowlight Tetra. I posted on Reddit about it. Not normal, but not that unusual. Something new to me!
  • I had an Amano shrimp crawl out of the tank and die on the floor. I guess it happened at night, and I discovered it the next morning. Tried to revive it, but no dice. All of my chemistry levels are great and stable. No idea why it decided to go on a field trip. From what I've read, this happens. It just sucks.
  • Two of my female Amano shrimp are berried/with eggs. They're so big that it's fun and easy to watch them "handle their eggs". 
  • I added a handful of red root floaters (Phyllanthus Fluitans) for fun. I originally got them for Remy's shrimp tank and had a few left over.

Panda cory catfish just really are not the hardy fish that people say they are.  Sorry, they're just not. They're so spazzy and dumb that they will willingly rip off their barbels while eating. What a silly fish. Once they're gone, the barbels are gone. They won't grow back (despite the one out of thirty people on the net that says they will). I now feed mine in a glass bowl so that this doesn't happen again. I've got one Panda Cory that has no barbels and an empty hole where his mouth should be. :(
One of my berried ladies
Rando video where I discovered an Amano was berried
The orange spot in upper center is a shrimplet. Zoomed out to show size.
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Wide shot of a messy tank

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