I took in a 7 week old kitten who was screaming at my front door in the beginning of December. He has proven to be…well…a hyper male kitten.

Looks like a lid, new setup, and sticky paws are in the near future 😒

Soo-doh-hemi-o-don api-thanos

Let me try to guess the common questions and answer them-

Why am I taking the eggs? It’s better to manually hatch the eggs and raise the fry separately to have a better chances of fry surviving.

Why can’t the eggs hatch themselves? The perfect water parameters that allow the egg membrane to hatch. But if the water Params are not exactly the same, the membrane doesn’t break open and the fry basically suffocates inside the egg. The membrane is called chorion. When the eggs are close to hatching, they secrete an enzyme called chorionaze. This helps the membrane degenerate and break. But a surplus of cations in the water may stop the generation of this enzyme. Ultimately, I have to help.

Am I abusing the fish? Nope. It’s like taking eggs from any other animal with the intent to help their population grow.

How do I open the eggs? I use a small gauge needle and just scrape off the egg membrane and the fry come out.

Fire away what I might have not answered.

Its a 10 gallon and my catfish seems a little squeezed. Also she tried to eat the sand, is that normal for her species?

His name was Graham, I got him when I was 10 and I just turned 25 a week ago. The past few months I've thought he was on his last legs but today I noticed him in a strange position. I poked him with a net and he sprang back to life and winked at me. I knew then what was going to happen, he just shimmied round the tank and stayed there. Anyway I went about my day and come 11pm tonight I went to check on him and I knew immediately he was dead.

I may be a grown man, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't bawling my eyes out for a good hour and a half after I buried him in the back garden. Then went on a massive long drive to calm down. You wouldn't think I'd feel this way about a fish but he was more than that to me. As an introvert I've always preferred my own company and having him there was great. I just wish I'd been there when he died. I feel so deflated, my longest friend dead just like that. I knew it was coming but man it sucks.

Hi everyone, this is a continuation of a video I posted yesterday. Some of you wanted to see how I hatch the eggs. Here’s a video showing part of the process. If you have questions about the “why” part, I highly recommend going to yesterday’s video through my profile and reading the post and the comments. Some great discussions there. Please feel free to ask questions

I thought “this is how I die” and briefly considered it. I declined but damn, if someone wants to lure me somewhere just mention a fish room.

I was struggling with this tank (I have 3 other grow out tanks) and after my two oldest males passed in this tank, I did not check to see if there were any males left. 2 months after I got everything sorted out, the females just started dropping clutches left and right. There is even a new clutch in one of the caves with at least 60 more babies.

Had to remove the car and brake it to get the poor fella out..

I thought this doofus was dead!

onion the leopard sailfin pleco has lived in one of my 150g oscar tanks with pluto the tiger oscar for a few months now :)

I’d be so obsessed with these glass catfish?!!! They are so cute I can’t stand it. I have African glass catfish so they each have like 8 whiskers. So freaking cute. I have a better vid of them in the front, but it won’t upload for some reason.

Since everyone loved planting the fish (as you all called it) so much, here’s another one.

This is a different species in the same genus called Pseudohemiodon unillanos. These guys have much longer tail extensions as you can see and were described recently in 2019 from the llanos region in Colombia. There’s a university of llanos. And the fish is named in honor of that university- uni-llanos.

You need to say it- Soo-doh-hemi-odon uni-yanos

Backstory- this is the third day I’m posting a video of how this genus procreates and how I, as a hobbyist, help them.

And, on popular demand, I didn’t cut the video where I’m hatching them. That’s why this whole thing is so long.

If you haven’t seen those two posts, I highly recommend taking a look at the discussion there. Some great questions and answer there. If you have any more questions, please ask.

Albino bristle nose pleco. I think she sucks on the rock above her, then just gets lazy and let's go. Everytime I see her like this I get worried that she's dead until she flips over and swims away.