Just acclimated this big belonesox female from full Marine to full fresh, process took about 24 hours, she dropped her fry in the process but she's doing fine otherwise. She should have a few more batches of sperm stored regardless, although she ate her mate last week.
This is a big part of why I switched to only feeding frozen and live food (plus the fact that most of my fish won’t eat prepared food)
I dropped a few algae wafers in this tank last night for my pleco and now my red tail goodeids are full of gas and having a hard time swimming. This always happens to them when they eat algae wafers, they’ll be back to normal in a day or two
The Braincells! The Aquarium Related Frivolities! Look at how much they lack thought!
Poecilia wingei "El Tigre", a locality of endler's livebearer from the El Tigre stream in Campoma, Venezuela
my favourite part about raising fish fry is the moment they find out they can make things into smaller things via violence
its like overnight they go from only eating tiny particles in the water column to realizing they can grab a massive chunk of brine shrimp and wrestle it into appropriately sized pieces 😭
10g tank with 7 male blue star endlers, plants (including amazon sword, dwarf sag, lemon bacopa, pearl weed, guppy grass, jungle val, crypts, water lettuce, duckweed), some pink ramshorn snails
Livebearing fish are fish that retain eggs inside their body and give birth to live young when the babies hatch. This way of having young can be called ovoviviparity. Many popular aquarium fish are livebearing, like guppies and mollies!
A pretty reduced pattern Heterandia formosa, Least Killifish livebearer. The patterning on wild populations has a ton of variety. I have mostly individuals with bold vertical stripes.
The funniest part about having mollies is that the males are almost constantly trying to copulate with the females, literally every 15-30 seconds one of them tries.