#three nerite snails

[wallflowerlovesfrogs]

This is not related to Nexomon at all (shocking considering that’s all I’ve been thinking about for the past few days) I just wanted to show all the lovely people here on Tumblr my fish tank.

[hellsitegenetics]

hello!

i'm curious if infodumping about my pet frogs will result in a genome of a bug that they could potentially eat (seems more likely than the genome being of a frog).

i have four pet frogs! one is an african dwarf frog named bonk who is an ooooold old man (he's 5, which is the standard life expectancy in captivity for their species) with a genetic deformity on his back right foot (two of his toes are partially fused together! it doesn't impact his life in any way and various foot deformities are common for his species). he is tiny and doesn't eat bugs, but if the genome is a brine shrimp, mysis shrimp, or other tiny aquatic organism, he could eat that. ...i guess those are just aquatic bugs.

my three other frogs are white's tree frogs, piphy, ollo, and beeps. they are 4 years old. piphy is my only girl frog. she is large and peach-colored with light blue starlet eyes and is an extremely physically enthusiastic eater; she does unnecessary backflips in pursuit of waxworms held by feeding tongs directly in front of her face. she also loves swimming in their pool, which has resulted in various melodic renditions of "piphy in the pool." ollo and beeps are smaller and a dark brownish green, i think they are genetically brothers! they enjoy being reverse-roosters by croaking when they wake up at night. they are energetic and enjoy climbing my walls and flinging themselves far distances when i let them out of their terrarium for nightly supervised enrichment hour.

bonus: i also have a black racer nerite snail who is the live-in algae vacuum for bonk's tank. her name is ozmi and she is canonically trans (her species is not hermaphroditic, and when i got her i decided she was a girl because i wanted to bring feminine energy into the aquarium, but she has never laid eggs so i figure she is probably trans). she is also 5 years old which means she has outlived the life expectancy for her species like 3x over. she may be immortal.

okay that's all!!! attached photo of piphy in her pool, looking elated about it (tree frogs tend to open their mouths a few times after eating a bug... i am not sure the physiological reason). i find your blog so delightful, thank you for running it !! :)

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Closest match: Hydrocotyle vulgaris genome assembly, chromosome: 39 Common name: Marsh pennywort

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[greekmythfamilytree]

Today's three!

Glaukos: Child of Nereus. God of Fishermen.

Nerites: Child of Nereus and Doris. God of Shellfish and Sea-Snails.

Delphin: Child of Nereus and Doris. God of Dolphins.

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[daycarefriendpickup]

Well, Well... whale 🐋? If it isn't that time of year!

Hello you lovely ballpit goers! We here at DCFP have been hard at work behind the scenes on events to make sure you have tons of entertainment this mermay to draw with!

Presenting you with... The official Daycare Friend Pickup Mermay Prompt List for 2024!

We've got quite a variety up here for you all to choose and draw from this year! And for us to see it all, you'll have to make sure you tag it as #dcfpmermay or #dcfpmermay2024 !

Here's the prompt list broken down in more order!

Weekly

1. Tardigrade

2. Pinnipeds (Seals, Walruses, Sea Lions etc)

3. Cetaceans (Dolphins, Whales, Orcas, etc)

4. Echinoderms (Starfish, Brittle Stars, Sea Urchins, Sea Urchins, etc)

5. Anthozoa (That's right folks, coral is a sea creature too! Time to pump out the creativity on this week!)

Biweekly Prompts (That means one every half a week!)

•Week One

1. Medusozoa (Jellyfish)

2. Cephalopoda (Octos, Squids, Cuttles, and Nautilus!)

•Week Two

1. Limulidae (Horseshoe Crabs)

2. Nephropidae (Lobster time babes! 🦞)

•Week Three

1. Pantapoda (Sea Spiders) [Istiophoridae AKA Marlins this week if spider things freak you out]

2. Neritidae Aka Freshwater Snails/Nerites [Tetraodontidae AKA Pufferfish if Snails freak you out]

•Week Four

1. Rhincodon (Whale Shark)

2. Carcharhinidae (Requiem Sharks)

•Week Five

1. Muranidae (Moray Eels)

2. Torpediniformes (Electric Rays ⚡)

Bonus week of The Deep

(For if you finished everything else but want to do a little more!)

1. Chaulios (Viperfish)

2. Halosauridae (Halosaurs)

The event will go on from April 28th to June 2nd to give everyone who wants to pump out those mermaid drawings all that extra time to put love and attention into these prompts!

And remember, you do NOT have to do all of them! Just do what you feel comfortable with and draw to your fishy daycare's freedom ❤️.

Get ready folks, because it's going to be a splashing Mermay here at the pickup! 🌊

[cyanocoraxx]

[image description: three images showing the same male betta fish in his aquarium. he is a silver or grey colour with a yellow tint. the first image shows the betta fish swimming towards sinking bloodworms. it is falling amongst the plants behind him as well. the second image shows him close to the bottom of the aquarium and he is facing left. the third image shows him close to a pile of bloodworms, which he is investigating. there is a strong red tint to this image due to the lighting of the aquarium. a red nerite snail is also visible beneath the bloodworms. a very small golden ramshorn snail is visible on the glass above the betta fish's back. end ID.]

the handsomest boy is having his breakfast !!!! & finally some good pics of his colouration

[prince-liest]

TIL you guys also like fish!!!! please let me introduce you to the rest of my fishy community!

first of all, these are my fish tanks:

this is a 20 gallon tall tank that I will be upgrading to a 37 long next year when I find out where I’m going for residency. the 5lb pressurized cannister is a CO2 tank that I use to inject carbon dioxide into the water (on a timer)! CO2 is the limiting “nutrient” for plant growth underwater in a tank like mine (with bright light and fertilizers added), so it helps encourage plant growth and more vibrant colors in plants with red and orange tones, as well as carpeting plants.

this is a 6.4 gallon tank that also has CO2 injection, and currently no fish because it is cycling (and will be for about 4 weeks). it will be her highness the betta fish’s new home once it is cycled, because she keeps murdering my shrimp in the community tank. once she is moved, I will probably get a pair of honey gouramis for the community tank.

this is one of the shrimp in question! she is pregnant. (eggnant, you might say.) I love her.

these are my kuhli loaches! I have 6 black and 6 banded. they are technically different species and the banded ones are much more shy. they spend a lot of time swimming circles along the glass and draping themselves over plants upside-down to make me think they are dead. they get very offended when you poke them to make sure they’re not dead.

I have 8 neon tetras. they’re all fat and extremely hard to take non-blurry photos of.

I also have 3 hillstream loaches, which are one of my favorite fish of all time. they’re juveniles that bred from a friend’s tank, and they look like tiny little stingrays that are frequently stuck to the side of the glass. they are aufwuchs-eaters which means they scrape algae and biofilm off the surfaces of things, but they also like sifting through sand and need sufficient protein (aka. not pure algae eaters).

here’s what they look like from the bottom:

I also have snails:

this is the biggest of my three nerite snails! I like nerites because they have bright colors and they don’t reproduce in fresh water. however, if you get a female (like this one), they WILL lay tiny white little sesame seed eggs everywhere, even though they can’t hatch. I used to have “pest” snails in the form of bladder snails and freshwater limpets but, uh, I have a total of 15 loaches in the tank, so. I no longer have pest snails and my loaches are all well-fed. :”)

thank u for coming to my ted talk. I love fish. I love my fish. please come talk to me about fish. I leave u with one last photo of her highness in all her glory:

[wachi-delectrico]

Tank update!

On plants:

I keep having to trim back the rotala rotundifolia because it grows at insane rates and covers all the other plants, the light gluttons. The cryptocorine wendtii are doing much better: one that had completely melted is growing back leaves at really quick pace for a crypt; the one I accidentally cut the leaves of (was trying to cut a bad leaf and accidentally cut that one and the only other healthy leaf the plant had) is coming back and growing a new leaf slowly but surely after I cut its bad-looking roots and replanted it.

I'm fiddling with the amount of potassium I should add as fertilizer, since many plants started showing signs of a potassium overdose - started at 5ml, now 3ml to see if any signs of a potassium deficit show up.

I've also been experimenting with the placement for the CO3 diffuser* (*see: a chunk of aquarium sponge pushed into hose, lol). I've now moved it to where the bubbles rise to the filter's waterfall, so it naturally pushes and distributes smaller bubbles around while bigger bubbles get broken into smaller bubbles. The first location I put it on, one of the corners, worked ok-ish but it wasted a lot of CO2. The second location was right underneath the filter intake, testing if the filter's impeller could maybe break the bubbles and dissolve the CO2 in the water before going back into the tank, but that not only didn't work but also put extra stress on the impeller which made it very noisy and annoying lol. Its current location as previously described seems to be doing the best out of the three, with the plants releasing a lot of oxygen! :3

Lastly, I'm still experimenting with the light fixture. Went from two 325lm 6500k bulbs and one 475lm 2700k bulb, to changing one of the 325lm bulbs for an 800ml 6500k one, two having two 800lm 6500k + one 475lm 2700k, to taking the 2700k out. The two 800lm bulbs have a good reach and colour temperature, buuuut they did leave a darker spot right in the middle where the hygrophilla angustifolia are, so I added one little 325lm 6500k bulb back. Right now, I'm using two 800lm bulbs and one 325lm bulb, all 6500k, with the dimmer one right in the middle.

On water chemistry:

I've gotten the nitrate levels down considerably, from 120ppm (very unsafe and bad) to 20ppm (good :3), turns out the food I was using to up the ammonia created inconmensurable and uncontrollable amounts of waste, gracias Shulet ni para ciclar acuarios servís.

Speaking of ammonia, I'd gotten the ammonia down to 0ppm but these last few days I've noticed it increase up to 0.25ppm - possibly due to a drop in pH caused by the DIY CO2, which could mean the "ammonia" detected is actually ammonium, much less toxic than ammonia, as the API Ammonia test detects both and has no way to distinguish between the two. As An Autistic Guy obsessed with numbers and data and accuracy I'm so happy that the numbers are inaccurate and the test is so vague, I love that so much, it doesn't make me want to pull my teeth out at all (I am in pain).

Despite the "ammonia" issues, things look good rn! Especially thanks to keeping nitrates under control at long last, the presence of visible algae has started to decrease. I've been taking the brown algae out with a stick, and have been dosing hydrogen peroxide locally to the harder-to-deal-with filament algae to weaken it enough for the snails to go at it. I'm happy to report that the hydrogen peroxide has weakened the filament algae to a point where the nerite snail is able to eat it.

(All the little dots floating in the water are planorbis snail larvae that hatched today!! Yippee!!!)

On stocking:

It's still just snails for now. A week or two ago I discovered a bunch of dead or half dead planorbis snails in the filter intake tube, victims of the siren call of all the brown algae within it - apparently - though two adults survived and have laid various egg sacks on the glass, on plants, etc, so their presence in the tank will make a triumphant comeback for sure. The one adult bladder snail I had also fell victim to the filter intake, though that one's babies had been crawling around for a few days before its untimely death; there'll be plenty of snails going around for everyone. Don't worry, I've fixed the issue now and snails with shells that are 2mm thick or more will be safe from now on. The nerite hasn't laid any eggs yet, though when it does I'll probably scrape them off (they don't hatch in freshwater).

I'll be gone from monday til thursday, and though I'm a little worried (as always) I am also confident in that things will be fine once I come back. I'm really excited, I should be able to add the tank's main attraction, a betta fish, very soon. :3

[eiimiegames]

just saw the 1st warriors game post and i cant believe it generated the name "lightfall" thats SO gorgeous??? "palepuddle"???? anyway im cvurious abt what names like prefixes n suffixes ur using!!

My favourite name that got randomly generated is Bluebranch ☺️ so pretty that I might have to steal it to make an oc with! To answer your question, currently, Warriors: Generations uses a traditional naming system*. The player will be able to name cats or rename them, but the game will also randomly generate a name for some. When that happens, their prefix will be selected depending on the cat's appearance, and their suffix will be randomly selected. The github repository (raw code) of the game is linked on that post, so if you'd like, you can go poking around to see what names I'm using yourself! But here's a list of every prefix and suffix currently available in the game. Suffixes are limited (the classic traditional naming system usually has a very limited amount), so at some point I would like to add in some more, but it's not really a huge priority at the moment.

*Traditional naming system, for those who may not be aware, is a method of naming warriors that aims to follow more in line to the first arc books. If you'd like to learn more, I would highly recommend reading ailuronymy's blog.

Prefixes

Black Prefixes

Ant, Bat, Beetle, Black, Coot, Cormorant, Crow, Dark, Dipper, Fly, Ivy, Mole, Night, Privet, Rat, Raven, Rook, Sledge, Shade, Shadow, Sheep, Sloe, Slug, Soot, Spider, Starling, Swift

Blue Prefixes

Ash, Aspen, Aster, Birch, Bleak, Blizzard, Blue, Bream, Burdock, Cinder, Cuckoo, Comfrey, Crane, Dace, Dark, Dove, Evening, Falcon, Fir, Fly, Fog, Gadwall, Goose, Grey, Hail, Ivy, Juniper, Lavender, Minnow, Mint, Pigeon, Pine, Rain, Roach, Storm, Sycamore, Teasel, Thistle, Thrift, Thrush, Thyme, Vervain, Willow, Wisteria

Brown Prefixes

Acorn, Adder, Alder, Ant, Argus, Barley, Bat, Beech, Beetle, Bittern, Boulder, Bramble, Brambling, Briar, Brown, Buzzard, Carp, Cedar, Chub, Curlew, Cypress, Dark, Deer, Dipper, Duck, Dunnock, Dusk, Dust, Eagle, Eel, Elder, Elm, Fallow, Fawn, Frog, Goose, Grouse, Gudgeon, Hare, Harrier, Hazel, Honey, Ivy, Jay, Kestrel, Lamprey, Larch, Lark, Limpet, Linnet, Lizard, Loach, Marten, Mink, Minnow, Mosquito, Moth, Mouse, Mud, Muntjac, Nightingale, Oak, Oat, Otter, Owl, Partridge, Pebble, Pheasant, Pipit, Pike, Quail, Rabbit, Rail, Rat, Reed, Robin, Rock, Rudd, Rush, Rye, Sedge, Shell, Shrew, Snail, Snake, Sparrow, Spider, Stone, Swift, Tawny, Teasel, Tiger, Thrush, Toad, Trout, Twite, Vole, Weasel, Weevil, Whimbrel, Whinchat, Wren, Yew

Red Prefixes

Ant, Apple, Asphodel, Burnet, Campion, Chanterelle, Cherry, Cypress, Daisy, Dawn, Fire, Fox, Fritillary, Ginger, Heather, Holly, Honey, Hornet, Lion, Maple, Marigold, Morning, Pear, Plum, Poppy, Red, Rose, Rowan, Russet, Skipper, Stoat, Tawny, Thrift, Tiger, Valerian, Wasp, Wisteria, Yarrow

Golden Prefixes

Acorn, Apple, Asphodel, Bee, Carp, Chanterelle, Clover, Daffodil, Daisy, Dawn, Fennel, Fritillary, Golden, Gorse, Honey, Hornet, Laburnum, Larch, Leopard, Lightning, Lion, Maple, Marigold, Morning, Oat, Reed, Rush, Rye, Sand, Tansy, Wax, Wasp, Yellow

Bi (Two-Colored) Prefixes

Avocet, Badger, Bright, Chub, Cuckoo, Diver, Duck, Dunlin, Godwit, Gull, Heron, Knot, Lamprey, Lichen, Loon, Magpie, Martin, Mottle, Nerite, Pansy, Patch, Plover, Shrike, Swift, Tern

Tri (Three-Colored) Prefixes

Brambling, Cherry, Comma, Ember, Fritillary, Gannet, Kestrel, Leech, Leopard, Lichen, Lizard, Maple, Morning, Newt, Pansy, Pochard, Robin, Shell, Skipper, Sorrel, Sycamore, Toad, Trout, Wigeon

Pattern Prefixes

Adder, Aspen, Ash, Avocet, Badger, Bee, Birch, Bittern, Blizzard, Bramble, Briar, Bright, Brindle, Buzzard, Cedar, Cuckoo, Curlew, Dapple, Diver, Duck, Dunnock, Elder, Falcon, Fleck, Fly, Frog, Fritillary, Gull, Heron, Ivy, Jay, Juniper, Kestrel, Kite, Knot, Leech, Leopard, Lichen, Loach, Loon, Magpie, Moth, Mottle, Nerite, Newt, Owl, Patch, Pheasant, Pike, Pipit, Plover, Quail, Robin, Salamon, Sheep, Shrike, Sleet, Slug, Smoke, Snail, Snake, Sparrow, Speckle, Spider, Spotted, Swallow, Tern, Teasel, Tiger, Toad, Trout, Twite, Wasp, Whimbrel, Whinchat, Wren

White Prefixes

Blizzard, Campion, Chervil, Cloud, Clover, Comfrey, Dandelion, Daisy, Egret, Frost, Garlic, Hemlock, Holly, Laurel, Light, Lightning, Lily, Mallow, Mistletoe, Pale, Pear, Plum, Privet, Shell, Sheep, Sloe, Snow/Ice, Swan, Valerian, White, Wisteria, Yarrow

Suffixes

All Suffixes berry, blaze, blossom, breeze, burr, claw, cloud, dapple, dash, dawn, dust, ear, eye, face, fall, fang, feather, fern, fire, flame, flower, foot, frost, fur, gaze, heart, jaw, mist, leaf, leap, leg, light, nose, pelt, petal, poppy, pounce, puddle, shine, song, splash, spring, step, storm, stream, strike, stripe, snow, spirit, speckle, tail, talon, thistle, toe, tooth, tuft, watcher, water, whisker, whisper, willow, wind, wing, wish

I hope this answered your question! ❤️

[papercutie]

a list of my snails for no reason in no particular order

mr planch (mystery snail)

Blanche (mystery snail)

Doctor Rabbit (rabbit snail)

pebble (nerite) (currently AWOL but don't worry about it)

stripy stripe (nerite)

Stomp Jomperson (largest child of blanche and mr planch)

Anthony Banthony (second largest child)

the rest of the baby mystery snails

The Brass Section (roughly ~100 trumpet snails across three different tanks)

The Pond Snail (pond snail)

the "pest snail" tank (a smallish fishtank with an unknowable and always changing number of pest snails. consists of bladder snails, two varieties of ramshorn snail, some trumpet snails, and The Pond Snail)

[fandomn00blr]

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I got tagged by @serial-chillr and @paraparadigm in this one! Tagging @funkypoacher, @pinkfadespirit, @normal-goatboy, @bengalaas, @cleverblackcat, @musetta3, @ruiniel , @nirikeehan , @blarrghe, @moss--and--bones, @genginger, @sarsaparillia, and anyone else who wants in...some of you may have already done this, and if so, I do apologize!

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(Say hello to Zebra, one of the very happy nerite snails that shares a tank with Spawn's betta...did you know snails have little scraper teeth thingies? Because I sure didn't until we added them to the tank!)

Last song you listened to: "Devil Got My Woman" by Gregg Allman

Currently reading: Listening to/reading (whatever my brain will allow) House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones

Last movie: We just watched Le Ballon Rouge with Spawn bc it was only 34 minutes long and we had promised her a movie before bed

Last TV show: I...started watching Black Sails...*ducks*

Craving: Lemon bars!

What are you wearing right now: A big beige sweater with random suede elbow patches and grey 'lounge pants'...lol

How tall are you: 5'9, 5'10 if I stand up straight

Piercings: Do scarred over nose stud holes count? If so, I got three total (one in each earlobe, too)

Tattoos: I'm too indecisive to ever pick something I want permanently depicted on my body

Glasses or contacts: Glasses!

Last drink: Fountain Diet Coke (channeling my inner Deborah Vance)

Last thing you ate: Pizza! (It's Friday in the Midwest, of course we got pizza!)

Favorite color: Teal

Current obsession: Lowcountry swamp ecosystems

Any pets: In addition to the snails (4) and the betta, I cater to the needs of a geriatric mastiff mix with a chronic case of dietary indiscretion

Favorite fictional character: I love too many to pick just one, but let's just say my favorite type of fictional character is smart but also an idiot

The last place you traveled: Detroit! (Headed to sunny Milwaukee next week for Spring Break to round out our Midwest tour)

[aquariuminfobureau]

A number of neritid snails, or less formally the nerites, are now somewhat popular among freshwater aquarists. One of the prettiest of them is Vittina waigiensis, the red or gold racer nerite, from the islands of Southeast Asia as far south as Wallacea. Although this species is also traded as a zebra nerite, there are also other nerites species being traded under that descriptive name, which refers to striped patterning on their shells. V. waigiensis reach a petite size of about 3 centimeters, or not much over 1 inch, and it has attracted some degree of interest because of its colouration, which is variable and sometimes visually striking. Their patterning has been described as 'arrows' and 'racing stripes'.

Though this neritid snail is sometimes traded as an ornamental gastropod for freshwater aquariums, in the wild it is normally restricted to mangrove forests. Specifically it is associated in the wild, with the landward part of Bruguiera dominated forest. The species comprising this genus of trees show varied tolerances and preferences of salinity, but typically appear to show reduced growth at 15-20 ppt. A mild brackish salinity of 1.01 is thus intuitively the best, when keeping this snail alive in the aquarium. The water temperature should also be slightly higher, by about two or three degrees centigrade, than the 'mid twenties' that most aquarium heaters seem to be set at.

These snails are not going to complete their life cycles in the aquarium, because they are an amphidromous species. Which is to say that the larvae are a component of the marine plankton, before migrating upriver with age. It is thought that although amphidromy is a transitional stage in the contest of freshwater environments by marine species, it is maintained under strong natural selection where phenomena uch as food availability and drought make the adult friendly, low aalinity habitat less suitable for their entire life cycle, over a timescale of generations.

The nerites actually belong to quite an ancient clade of snails. A concensus of evidence from the nuclear and mitochondrial genomes of gastropods, together with a cladistic analysis of the morphological data, indicates they are quite an early diverging subclade, but less anciently so, than either the true limpets, or the vetigastropod clade, which are familiar for their including a number of subclades quite familiar for the marine aquarist - Haliotidae, Fissurellidae, Trochidae, and Turbinidae. The neritids, like the vetigastropods, have inspired attention from aquarists looking for useful algivores to work in the aquarium.

Nerites are normally classified as herbivorous gastropods, but Vittina sp. are now also known to consume the eggs of other nerite species. This is considered noteworthy because neritid eggs are among the physically toughest and best protected eggs laid by any gastropod. In any case, the species V. waigiensis assumedly feeds on algal biofilms, and vegetable detritus, moreso than it does any other food source, because this is the standard diet of the neritid snails, and they are observed to feed so in the aquarium. Fortunately nerite snails are harmless to vagile, ornamental organisms.

[deepspacedukat]

(2/2) on the pets 😂

Cinder is doing good too she has a nebulizer tank now that we put her in occasionally with anti inflammatory decongestant mist. Even though she’s prone to chronic upper respiratory issues she’s never had it develop to pneumonia yet which is good. Even when she’s not sick she’s been getting more allergies now the vet said it’s just because she’s a senior now and they tend to get more issues after 4 years of age. But she’s still running around in the evening when I let her out and I’ll make bales of hay for her to unraveling to eat for entertainment.

The 40 gallon fish tank fish are doing good too, I got a new guppy a few weeks ago because my two year old female had died so I had 2 guppies and three platys and the guppies started chasing the other fish 😂 and I was able to get a picture of my two zebra Nerite snails Aztec and Bumblebee they clean the 40 gallon I also grew a separate bucket of algae for them to graze in when I clean the tank. Also my collage summer semester starts the week of June 10 but I’m only taking two classes since it’s summer I want a break 😂 and have time to volunteer at the local spca, I haven’t heard back yet but I’m applying. I like animals and I’m hoping to get more experience so when I reapply for the zoo internship I’ll have something new to add to my resume😋 that’s pretty much how my life has been going since I dropped back off the planet.

WAIT IT DIDNT EAT YOUR ASK. Somehow I'm able to answer thus through a weird workaround on the app??? Anyway.

Awww look at the sweet fluffy babyyyyyy 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙 I'm glad Cinder is doing well!! I love her v much!

And oooh look at the fishies!! I'm glad the fish are all doing well after some adjustments! And ooooh snails! I bet those are cool pets. 👀

I wish you the best of luck with your summer classes! I hope your application gets accepted! As an animal lover, that would be such a cool job to have! I hope you get it, friend!!!

[amongthebugs]

Here are my little hydra friends. Ive also noticed copepods and maybe planaria or detritus worms. Its all pretty exciting! Maybe ill eventually put some diving beetles but i havent gotten there yet

I also have three nerites and an army of ramshorn snails now which is great because there is so many things for them to eat! I enjoy watching them slide on the surface of the water tension. Though one thing is that the snails wont let me have nice things >:/ (they uproot my new plants from the substrate (ahem my poor baby tears))

Hello! I noticed my freshwater tank had some green hydra and it was pretty cool to learn about them! I was wondering your thoughts and feelings about hydra just cuz im curious :)

These are considered a "pest" in aquariums because they can harm tiny baby fish and newly hatched shrimp but I have always wanted some! The green kinds contain symbiotic algae and can be sustained by photosynthesis! I only find grey-brown ones in our nearby pond, which depend entirely on a constant supply of microorganisms to eat and don't last long in captivity for me :(

Also, when I was a kid, they were introduced to me as a "microscopic" animal in books and in an episode of Reading Rainbow. Imagine my shock when I saw some for the first time and didn't need a microscope. So few people know that tiny cnidarians live in most of the world's freshwater lakes and ponds. Also, they do not have mouths, but "rip open" their tissues to swallow food and then heal over!

[ospreysfishtank]

As of 8/31/2023 I have:

One very fluffy cat

One pea pufferfish

One ridiculous-looking baby horsefaced loach

One bumblebee dart frog

One very grumpy betta fish

One kenyan sand boa

Two peacock gudgeon minnows

Two vampire crabs

Two hillstream loaches

Two ember tetras I got for free from a guy dismantling his collection

Two emerald rasboras (see above)

Three nerite snails

At least three striped kuhli loaches

At least five black or silver kuhli loaches

Seven garden snails

Three terrariums' worth of orange powder isopod colonies

Dozens of fruit flies grown as dart frog and fish food

2 plastic shoeboxes of dirt and whiteworm colonies (fish food)

An unknowable swarm of red cherry shrimps spread out over 3 different tanks

An unfathomable amount of malaysian trumpet and other assorted freshwater snails

the only thing i don't have is a dog :/

[ceekari]

Be real careful if you use Aqua Culture aquariums

I came home to an empty tank tonight. If I’d had any kind of fish other than bettas they’d all be dead. I can’t tell what made the tank spring like that after three months; it has to be a leak in the bottom, because there was no water left at all. My fish were just lying on bare gravel, slowly dessicating.

Two of them survived. They’re in an emergency setup now- floating cups in a heated 3.5 gallon. Now we just have to deal with the ten gallons of water that’ve soaked into the floor.

[wachi-delectrico]

Currently being evil (making plans to build my own aquarium light with LED tubes)