Day: January 10, 2018

savedforslaughter:

Folks, deserts are not “empty” or “lifeless” they are often teeming with beautiful and incredible life adapted to conditions of extreme dryness. The widespread idea that deserts are lifeless or that the wildlife there isn’t important is something that businesses of all types (mining companies, housing developers— especially true here in AZ— and even commercial farmers) take advantage of this in order to continue exploiting desert habitats.

coryeggs:

Terrible video, because of course it was lurking in the darkest part of the tank. Plus phone camera.

But, here’s a surprise fry at large in the main tank! I’m guessing from that last batch of eggs, though it could be from one I missed when collecting the ones I did manage to save. Or from some I didn’t see in there. But, definitely close in age/size to the babies I’ve been raising.

Hoping to get photos/video of that soon too, but I actually spotted this one when I was looking for another quite a bit larger surprise baby that came out to eat with the others tonight. So of course the larger one made itself scarce when I went to get my phone. Still hanging back some from the bigger fish, but hopefully it will spend more time out in the open soon.

There may well be more in there, but I was pleasantly surprised to see those two today. They’re (over)due another water change in there, so at least I know to be extra careful with the bottom siphoning now 😨

ETA: I spotted at least two of the very little guys at the same time while this was uploading. Also, one of the Endler Boys chasing one of the babies around like a butthead. 😬 They’re big enough now that I doubt they could fit in even an adult Endler’s mouth–not sure about the bigger corys yet, though at least they’re not predatory. And they seem to be pretty good about avoiding the bigger fish, or they probably wouldn’t have made it this far. Still wishing it were at all feasible to catch any little ones I see out of there, to put in with the other fry.