Fishycat's Photo Thread!
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It's been awhile, and I've got a ton of pics. I'll focus this post on the 20H. I recently changed it up a bit. I removed the hood and laid down glass window jalousie strips (looks like this, mine are 24" long) and used clamp lights. Perhaps one day I will fully detail how I put it all together... :huh: Anyway, I only have light on one side, since the big anubias is already covered in GSA, I decided to only give it ambient light.
Here's the before shot:
And here's the after:
I see it as a calm stream bed with the roots of a dead tree provide shade & shelter. The brighter moneywort and hydroctyle leucocephala (finally got some, woot!) enhance the sunny middle of the stream along with the vertical accent of the aponogeton with the ruffled leaves giving the suggestion of water movement.
Mr. Red loooved this piece of hydrocotyle that decided to not stay planted (repeatedly, so I left it).
Did I mention my red veiltail betta loves floating plants?
Close up of the moneywort & hydrocotyle leucocephala.
Gifted riccia & a piece of salvinia from the gracious & very generous Happypoet! First day it arrived - pretty shattered, but it recovered!
The salvinia seemed to be pulling through, but I noticed the original portion was browning... (Mr. Red shows just what he thinks of the lame floating plant that he can't sleep on.)
Original salvinia gone, but life goes on!
Four days later, the outflow broke apart the salvinia (the dead part gave way), and this is the bigger side - look at all that crazy growth. (Mr. Red goes *nom nom nom* with the micro pellets.)
The smaller piece went into my new girl, Ms. Jupiter's temporary bowl. She's eyeballing a piece that got sucked up the siphon during this morning's water change. "I dunno mom, I don't think this thing is gonna make it! Can I eat it?" (Pardon the lint on the bowl! How embarrassing.)
Here's the before shot:
And here's the after:
I see it as a calm stream bed with the roots of a dead tree provide shade & shelter. The brighter moneywort and hydroctyle leucocephala (finally got some, woot!) enhance the sunny middle of the stream along with the vertical accent of the aponogeton with the ruffled leaves giving the suggestion of water movement.
Mr. Red loooved this piece of hydrocotyle that decided to not stay planted (repeatedly, so I left it).
Did I mention my red veiltail betta loves floating plants?
Close up of the moneywort & hydrocotyle leucocephala.
Gifted riccia & a piece of salvinia from the gracious & very generous Happypoet! First day it arrived - pretty shattered, but it recovered!
The salvinia seemed to be pulling through, but I noticed the original portion was browning... (Mr. Red shows just what he thinks of the lame floating plant that he can't sleep on.)
Original salvinia gone, but life goes on!
Four days later, the outflow broke apart the salvinia (the dead part gave way), and this is the bigger side - look at all that crazy growth. (Mr. Red goes *nom nom nom* with the micro pellets.)
The smaller piece went into my new girl, Ms. Jupiter's temporary bowl. She's eyeballing a piece that got sucked up the siphon during this morning's water change. "I dunno mom, I don't think this thing is gonna make it! Can I eat it?" (Pardon the lint on the bowl! How embarrassing.)
I decided to throw down some betta pics for this update... I have tons of brigg pics, but I already have a thread going in the Inverts section so I'll cool it for now.
Nazgul aka Nazzy, the hardest betta to photograph, ever.
Sephiroth aka Sephy, looking a little green due to floating riccia & some GSA. An interesting tidbit, his anal fins are as long as his body.
Don't go into the light!! Doesn't this remind you of the movie Independence Day? "Hello, boys... I'm baaack!"
Mr. Red guarding his lounge chairs - I mean, floating plants...
Resting with his dorsal fin & part of his back sticking up out of the water. Silly fish.
Mr. Red also likes snello - and will snatch it remorselessly from unsuspecting snail hands - er, feet? (Trust me, there's snello off camera there...)
My darling Ms. Jupiter, aka Jupi. She ignores other fish, but nips snails like there's no tomorrow - so into the 5g she goes.
And I'm so thrilled to see that I still have shrimp in the 20H! I only see one or two, tops.... I may get more ("feeder" shrimp sold 10/$1.50), one of these days.
:nilly: Argh, okay I can't resist... some mystery snail pics! I adore their orange spots! (names are subject to change without notice.)
Big magenta "grande"
Little magenta "latte"
Dark purple "mocha"
Blue "dax"
What an uncoordinated update! :duh: Thanks for visiting!
Nazgul aka Nazzy, the hardest betta to photograph, ever.
Sephiroth aka Sephy, looking a little green due to floating riccia & some GSA. An interesting tidbit, his anal fins are as long as his body.
Don't go into the light!! Doesn't this remind you of the movie Independence Day? "Hello, boys... I'm baaack!"
Mr. Red guarding his lounge chairs - I mean, floating plants...
Resting with his dorsal fin & part of his back sticking up out of the water. Silly fish.
Mr. Red also likes snello - and will snatch it remorselessly from unsuspecting snail hands - er, feet? (Trust me, there's snello off camera there...)
My darling Ms. Jupiter, aka Jupi. She ignores other fish, but nips snails like there's no tomorrow - so into the 5g she goes.
And I'm so thrilled to see that I still have shrimp in the 20H! I only see one or two, tops.... I may get more ("feeder" shrimp sold 10/$1.50), one of these days.
:nilly: Argh, okay I can't resist... some mystery snail pics! I adore their orange spots! (names are subject to change without notice.)
Big magenta "grande"
Little magenta "latte"
Dark purple "mocha"
Blue "dax"
What an uncoordinated update! :duh: Thanks for visiting!
