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Chrisello
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PhD student in biology, fishkeeper, gamer and Ukraine supporter 🔬🐠🇺🇦🎮
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Been a while, since I posted, so let me share with you a display my local pet store has set up for showing how nicely emersed aquarium plants can grow.
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A display shelf with three bowls set up with an assortment of aquarium plants like Micranthemum ‚Monte Carlo‘ and different Rotala species growing emerserd.
October 16, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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It has taken a while, but my white clouds have figured out how their food stuck to the glass works and they‘re getting excited for it now 😄
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September 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Today I came home kind of late into a dark apartment only lit by the lights of my aquariums. I really enjoy the atmosphere it created in my room and now you get to enjoy it, too!
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A brightly lit aquarium in front of the wall of a dark room. The light from the lamp makes this cone of light appear around the tank in a green-tinted light. Kind of like a lone street lamp during the city at night. It makes the dark room appear less scary, yet still a bit misterious because of the unusual color of the light. My smaller 30L tank sitting on top of the commode in my bedroom in the dark. The open top and the light makes it disperse much more than in the other tank, which has a lid. It still creates a pleasant warm light from the aquarium that lights part of the room and is a nice contrast to the dark parts that are not illuminated by the lamp or block out some light sitting in front of one of the tank‘s sides.
September 5, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Finally remembered to take before and after pictures for a maintenance session. So, here you go :D
All of the Ludwigia stems have been replanted, they‘re just not visible from this perspective.
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The before-maintenance picture of my aquarium. The surface is almost completely covered by floating plants, many stems of my Ludwigia have grown out of the water and the left part of the tank is very dark from floating plants and big leaves from Java ferns. The After-maintenance picture of my aquarium. About 80% of the floating plants have been removed, the Ludwigia has been trimmed and replanted in the back so now only a few red stems Peek out of the Java ferns. The left side is also mich brighter again and there is more space for my white cloud mountain minnows to swim.
August 31, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Been feeling quite sick the past few days but I managed to go for a walk yesterday. So here is a video of me feeding a local squirrel in the park.
Not quite my usual Aquarium stuff but I‘ll be back to that, soon.
August 28, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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Got to do a big maintenance session on the 180L for the first time in a while. I keep forgetting to take „before“ pictures to show the difference. Let‘s just say I filled a 5L bucket to the brim with trimmings.
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August 14, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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I have decided it’s time to appreciate kuhli loaches once again. Now that the front of my tank is no longer a vast jungle, they‘ve been wiggling through the Bucephalandra thicket more again.
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This and the other two pictures show a kuhli loach head leaking through some plants.
July 15, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Did a big trimming and maintenance session on the 72L. Removed some of the Helianthium bolivianum in the front because it got too large (see my hand for comparison). Replaced it with Eleocharis acicularis, which will hopefully be better.
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July 7, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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I recently saw something new in the fish store: white black neon tetras. I thought they were pretty cool, yet a quite funny concept.
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A school of Albino/white black neon tetras in the pet store. Quite ironic if you ask me. A different picture of this school of white black neon tetras. In this picture, the group of these fish is a bit more spread out
July 6, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Bit of a deviation from my usual posts but I was recently at a Guns N‘ Roses concert and I was very happy to see them supporting #Ukraine 🇺🇦
A picture of Axl Rose on a big screen during a concert. In the background on a table you can see a distinct blue and yellow sphere on the table behind him. Showing support for Ukraine A view of the main stage of the Guns N‘ Roses concert. On both sides there are two huge screens currently depicting the guitarist Slash during a solo.
July 4, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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This little guy or gal has a favorite hangout/hiding spot which is also kept quite clean. It‘s nice to see your fish develop some habits.
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July 1, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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It‘s been way too long since I posted, so here is my latest attempt to get a nice video of the emperor tetra tank. Needless to say, it was taken a bit late.
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June 23, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Today, let me just share with you a brief view into my tank. Watching my white clouds go about their business.
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May 31, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Update on my wabenmuster pleco female. She‘s been in quarantine for a few weeks and has finally started eating nicely about a week and a half ago. I also don‘t have to blanch her zucchinis anymore for her to feed on them. Getting better! ☺️
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May 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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I feel like it‘s time for an update on the tanks. The bigger 72L might need a trim for the Helianthium bolivianum but I enjoy the jungle-vibes it gives and so do my kuhli loaches 😁
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May 13, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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I‘ve been struggling recently with my female Wabenmuster pleco. She‘s been getting bullied by the male and got very thin. So today I almost completely disassembled the tank and put her into quarantine where she‘ll hopefully get back some strength munching on some zucchini 🤞
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A picture of my female wabenmuster pleco against the aquarium glass. You can see her appearing very thin. The new temporary holding tank in a plastic container with a cave and a rock with Java fern as hiding spaces for the pleco, while she recovers. Side-view of the temporary holding tank with the pleco on the outside of the ceramic cave.
May 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Today it‘s time to appreciate the undersides of some of my pets. I got this neat shot of the underside of my kuhli loach, as well as seeing a berried shrimp with the eyes of the shrimplets already visible. I‘ve only seen that once before.
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This picture shows the underside of a kuhli loach against the aquarium glass. The underside of a yellow neocaridina shrimp female carrying eggs. Another picture of a female neocaridina shrimp carrying eggs. This is also called a „berried“ shrimp. Another picture of the berried shrimp. This time, you can make out small spots on the eggs that show the eggs have developed enough for the babies‘ eyes to be visible.
April 21, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Let me share with you today some pictures of my favorite fish: the emperor tetra (Nematobrycon palmeri). I love the shimmer and blue eyes on the males as well as the green eyes on the females.
As a bonus: a Siamese algae eater.
All of them are fairly old already at 4-5 years.
A picture of a male emperor tetra. A female emperor tetra. Another picture of a male emperor tetra in slightly less optimal lighting. An adult Siamese algae eater.
April 12, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Today was waterchange day for me. My white clouds and the shrimp are excited for some fresh new water! :)
Also, as a bonus, a picture of a sneaky kuhli loach.
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March 30, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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I haven’t shared much about the plants in my tanks yet, so here is the beautiful flower of one of my Bucephalandra kedagang, as well as some newly forming leaves of my Anubis nana var. ‚pinto‘.
March 13, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Not much has changed in my tanks but I still think they look quite nice :)
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March 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Managed to get this nice shot of my golden white cloud and thought I‘d share. Active fish like that are really hard to take good pictures of.
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March 1, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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It‘s not always easy to find your favorite fish in your tank, so today I have a kuhli loach in hiding and my rarely-visible ‚wabenmuster‘ ancistrus for you!
Do your fish have any favorite hiding spaces?
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January 29, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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I don‘t really impulse buy fish but I saw these gold white cloud mountain minnows on Saturday and couldn‘t resist them longer than until today. They instantly got along with my resident white clouds, which was nice to see. :)
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January 22, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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It‘s Monday, so I feel like posting one of my favorite fish of all time: my kuhli loaches. I just love watching these little wiggly fish.
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January 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM