u/Negative-Extent-1932

Second one ever, experiemented with pool filter sand and sewing thread for the first time. Plants are java fern, christmas moss, staurogyne repens, rotala rotundifolia, ludwigia repens, ambulia, pearlweed, anubias, red root floaters and amazon frogbit.

4 Month Update: 20 adult red cherry shrimp, several recent batch of shrimplets, two dozen ramshorn snails and over two dozen Malaysian trumpet snails now occupy this jar. The recently added heater has been doing great, while most of the plants are doing better than ever. Nevertheless, staurogyne repens is on the brink of dying, while holes are starting to appear in the rotala rotundifolia, likely due to a dwindling of nutrients. The jar seems to be keeping up well with the bioload and new shrimplets everywhere, while new batches are being released every week now!

Please don’t tell me that’s a black ghost knifefish…

I’ve recently achieved an English score of 80 (yes, very lazy of me considering English is first language), and was surprised by the sheer amount of likes. Is this many possible considering I only have around 200 people friended on Duolingo?

These red cherry shrimp in my 21l walstad method aquarium fighting over one hikari crab cuisine pellet, meanwhile the other pellet is getting demolished by one fat shrimp (ironic because he’s quite slim). Please excuse the disheveled and algae infested nature of my aquarium.

For context this noisy miner has been flying into our window and pecking at it at ground level intentionally for several weeks now. It typically does this in the morning and afternoon. It originally began around a year ago and lasted a few weeks before subsiding, and it started again recently. It could be that it sees its reflection, but even when curtains are intentionally lowered the bird still attacks. Anyone know why?