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Lovely colour and shape, worth the BBA 🙂

They are great little fish and pretty shrimp friendly, they may snatch a tiny one if it swims. I had equal amounts of males and females, the males are so busy with each other that they didn’t seem to bother the females, the females choose so the males have to impress but extra females would be...

They look like they have been heavily photoshopped if not completely an artists creation. This close up is a tell

Hi and welcome.

That is a lot, they seem to boom and bust from what I have seen, I think they must compete with the baby shrimp for food but I don’t think they do any real harm. They seem to like cucumber so a slice will soon get covered in them, the shrimp jump off when its removed from the water but the...

Limpid snails is the common name, harmless clean up crew.

Regular aphids and then whitefly I expect, I would brush off the aphids, some fish happily eat them. The fish has a great little grumpy face, maybe the stuck sand helps them to camouflage in nature, or maybe the slime coat thicker if the fish is irritated by something and the sand is then...

They can get pregnant at one month old, so Zozo may be right. As she has no colour on her tail she might be an endler Guppy.

The little loaches are just great. :)

I have come across reports that assassin snails will kill leeches, you have snails so maybe thats not an option for you. Are more shrimplets surviving now that you are catching the leeches?

The non filter feeding ones do eat spinach algae wafers and nettles, just about anything shrimp will eat. You can spot one on the nettle here with a baby shrimp.

Great journal and a lovely looking tank. I would agree about the rosy loaches, they are fearless,active and social little guys, they use all levels of the tank. On the threadfins they fly about at all levels especially when they are breeding.

Pretty certain it’s blue green algae, Cyanobacteri. You can brush it off or siphon it off the plants with a small hose I have used airline tubing at water changes, if you keep doing it it will diminish and disappear eventually. It often grows where there is less water circulation. A 3-4 day...

One smart cool cat.

Eheim mini UP says it does 300l/hr and you can adjust the flow. I use it on a 15 litre and it is very quiet.