They don’t often rest near each other or cuddle once it gets warm out. Normally they reserve that for when it’s colder. These are the couple times I’ve caught them in the act of liking each other this summer 🤭
I’m not even finished with this book yet, about halfway through so please no spoilers, but I’m really into it. I’ve been in a bit of a reading slump and usually what I would call “popcorn” thrillers pull me out of it the fastest. I do read broadly, pretty much every genre. I guess I’m really digging the creature feature of it all (not something I thought I’d be into). I also think the atmosphere is well done, I like a plot but I’d say I read for characters and setting first. The inner workings of the museum is fascinating. I like how many different characters we follow and I think a lot of depth is imparted in few words. I like the scientific aspect and also that I can understand it for the most part.
I guess just any similar books that hit these beats would be appreciated!
I have a male guppy tank. I have 7 guppies and the past couple days I’ve noticed one was missing. I finally found it mixed in with the filter media. I have a hang on back filter, but the intake is a sponge. The lid has a cutout for the filter and the return is like a plastic waterfall. I’m trying to figure out how this happened. Is it possible he jumped into the filter reservoir or had he already died and was somehow sucked in through the sponge intake?
I have a 15 gallon tank that I’ve had about 4ish months now. I have a couple good lfs around me and eventually decided on getting one honey gourami and three amano shrimp. They’ve been in the tank 2 weeks now and everything had been going fine.
The tank has a big variety plants, including floaters, and driftwood. It’s heated and stays around 78f. I have a water test kit and test a couple times per week. For the past month I’ve had 0ppm ammonia, 0ppm nitrite, and 5ppm nitrate. I’ve been feeding micro pellets and crushed bug flakes to the honey gourami and shrimp pellets to the shrimp. But I’ve noticed all of them picking at biofilm/algae as well.
I really thought everything was going well. The honey gourami has been very calm and curious and the shrimp are always busy. Well I just happened to be walking by the tank and saw one of the shrimp dragging the honey gourami down to the bottom of the tank. I separated them as fast as I could and then removed the offending shrimp into a jar with tank water (I didn’t know what else to do because I have no other tanks to put it in). The fish was in shock of course and has just been hovering. I don’t see any wounds on it but the fins look a little torn up to me? And obviously it’s stressed.
What do I do?! I wasn’t expecting this to happen. They hardly seemed to notice each other until this incident. I tried to get a zoomed in picture of the fish but my camera isn’t the best so apologies for the blurriness.
I have a newly cycled tank that I’m planning on it being a male endler tank. It’s 10 gallons and I currently have 4. I’m adding 1 per week and I eventually want 6 or 7. Of the four I have currently one seems to be more aggressive or territorial than the rest. He is also the smallest so I’m not sure if it’s a napoleon complex thing or not.
But this one smallest guy I’ve noticed will pick one of the others to harass and just closely follow them around and bother them, I don’t notice any physical damage. Will this be mitigated with more fish? Is there anything I need to do? With each addition I’ll either get new plants/wood and move a couple things around to create new territory because I did read that would help.