As always your pictures are excellent and so are your tanks. I was wondering where you vanished to lately. Now I know, redoing the tanks, I hope you realize you can keep doing this over and over in the coming decades. 
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I had a more in detail post on the "vanished" status in my South American build thread.As always your pictures are excellent and so are your tanks. I was wondering where you vanished to lately. Now I know, redoing the tanks, I hope you realize you can keep doing this over and over in the coming decades.
I was called back to work after being off for so long during the pandemic, had to deal with a poor erratic schedule and then drama on top of it. Left me exhausted spending more time trying to catch up on sleep and in a significant depression bout. After being overworked and understaffed (deliberately, they didn't want to schedule appropriate amount of workers to distribute workload but expected more done of those scheduled) things hit the fan and harassment issues started, I had enough and walked out. Just now starting to get myself back in order. Dealt with way too much drama. Health and safety violations and all. They had expected us to go out into the garage to clean the floor during an active tornado warning. If that ain't messed up. Union did nothing about all of the situations, blamed us for working too hard lol noped right out of all that.
The tanks are one of the things that have kept me going some days when it was just way too much to deal with. Gave me some moments to just unwind.
It's good that you're back, health is always paramount, the tanks are impressive as always.
Was fighting the guppy grass blowing everywhere in the flow. Tidied up more. Will likely have to do it again.
Bonus fish pictures too
Bonus fish pictures too
I'm sorry you were having health & work problems, we missed you! But happy your tanks provided you some good escape. I sometimes find them a source of guilt 
As always your tank & fish look great! I'm suddenly liking those rasboras a lot! I need to read up on them.
As always your tank & fish look great! I'm suddenly liking those rasboras a lot! I need to read up on them.
Here you go!I'm sorry you were having health & work problems, we missed you! But happy your tanks provided you some good escape. I sometimes find them a source of guilt
As always your tank & fish look great! I'm suddenly liking those rasboras a lot! I need to read up on them.
Rasbora sarawakensis — Seriously Fish
States that they haven't been reported to have been bred in the hobby. So, odds are my group are wild caught fish.
And yet, they beg for food and have absolutely no shyness. I've not encountered many small schooling fish with these behaviors. Rainbowfish, yes, tetras and rasboras not so much. They also readily eat anything, including duckweed.
I fell in love with them really, really fast.
Here are some gif clips
LOL, what a frenzy! Maybe they learned from your slightly slower cherry barbs. TY for the link, seriouslyfish is a fav site. I see they're from the same area as another of my rasbora species favorite r. borapetensis. I bet they'd look good together. That duckweed eating thing sounds like just what my "riverish" tank needs!
Jake, I'm disappointed your kubs were so shy for so long. They were next on my loachy list. Clowns were my only "veggie " loaches. They's put U shaped holes in swords & crypts if they didn't get enough romaine & zucchini (3x/week minimum). I've had fish "graze" on leaves, a few veg & less algae.
I'm not sure they've learned from the barbs, the barbs are blind! Years back had the hand sanitizer thing happen, the barbs survived that but are totally blind. They feed off the substrate. Actually the rasboras have been helpful with the barbs, because the barbs have picked up that when the rasboras get antsy they know there's food around, so they start searching the substrate for fallen food lol they also use the pangio loaches the same way. It's like the other fish are their "seeing eye dogs". They're also very old now too. Pushing over 5 years with the exception of the 2 born in my tanks. I've lost one already and I've noticed another lately starting some buoyancy issues, so I think she may be next. But they survived a lot and lived a long life for petsmart barbs. I've been really impressed with how hardy and adaptable they are. Definitely a fish I'd recommend for beginners based on how they are very adaptable. Being blind never bothered them a whole ton. Maybe swim into things at times, but they eat well and don't seem to mind it.
I don't even know if they taste their food tbh they just nab anything they see on the surface. If they even think I've dropped food they raid the top and then swarm the stirred up duckweed lol
I think Jake may have meant microdevario kubotai, a tiny rasbora relative. I've had them before, a big favorite of the nano fish for me.
