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Kleptoplastastic
My marine tank is looking pretty dismal — the coral are chronically unhappy and there’s way too much algae. For a while I was secretly nurturing hair algae so I would have an excuse to buy some Elysia slugs. Elysia … Continue reading
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Flying Foxes at Wolli Creek
I showed up in Sydney wanting to see the flying foxes that lived in the Botanical Gardens, but it turns out that they’ve been driven out in recent years (I guess because all of those tiny feet were wearing out … Continue reading
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Bugs!
Here, without warning, are some insect photos from the Brule River and Lake Nebagamon. Most of these just showed up at random, but we spent a while stalking the last one, an Ebony Jewelwing Damselfly. They like to hang out … Continue reading
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Ghost
Some days you just want to sit on a beach and shoot video of ghost crabs. For roughly my whole life I’ve wondered why white-sand beaches only have white crabs and black-sand beaches only have black crabs. I figured that … Continue reading
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El Yunque
At the tail-end of a series of meetings in Puerto Rico, my work department took a tour of El Yunque National Forest. I was extremely excited to find the shrimp along the edge of our swimming hole and spent a … Continue reading
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Lysmata, 30 days
A month later all 7 little Lysmata shrimp are doing fine. Three of them had a netbox to themselves, and two of them were paired up. I didn’t have any trouble with cannibalism, and the shrimp grow slowly but visibly. … Continue reading
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Lysmata wurdemanni
After several failed attempts, I’ve just now succeeded in raising my first peppermint shrimp from egg to post-larva. I took a bunch of photos and videos, and they’re all terrible. This species has a reputation for being fairly easy to … Continue reading
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Saigon Aquarium, Livebearers, Discus, misc. (5/5)
How many guppies do they raise here? This many: There were nearly as many ponds devoted to other livebearers: platys, swordtails, mollys. In the case of the swordtails a single giant pond was subdivided with hanging nets. I’m not sure … Continue reading
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Saigon Aquarium, Tetras (4/5)
After a short bus trip down a very bumpy road (and past some cows, buffalo, and cornfields) we arrived at the main farm. The main farm is enormous (10 hectares, 24 acres) and runs alongside a canal that provides a … Continue reading
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Saigon Aquarium, Plecos (3/5)
This section of the farm consisted of many tarp-lined ponds full of cut lengths of pvc pipe. The pipe were, presumably, full of adult ancistrus (‘plecos’) of various kinds sitting on eggs, but no adults were visible through the glare. … Continue reading
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