I created a fedigroup for general #aquarium stuff - @aquarium

Mention it in a post to get it boosted so that all followers of @aquarium can see it.

#nanotank #shrimptank #saltwater_aquariums are all welcome to use the group too. If there's enough traffic that that becomes a problem I'll create more fedigroups.

If you're in or near Denver, the Colorado Aquarium Society is having their Fall Auction on October 18th.

Details at https://www.coloradoaquarium.org/event-details/cas-2025-fall-auction

#nanotank #aquarium #neocaridina #shrimptank

I'm looking at setting up an auto-feeder for my #aquarium. I would like to find one that either has a native #HomeAssistant integration, or is at least easy to override it's native controller with an #esp32 brainworm I can run #esphome on.

@esp32 @esphome @homeassistant @aquarium @nanotank @shrimptank #shrimptank #nanotank

Last year when I was setting up my 5G tank I got this plant. I thought it had died, but it had propagated a baby behind one of the big rocks in the tank. I moved it to my new 16G so it'd be more visible.

I think it's some sort of crypt because it doesn't have a rhizome and propagated via a long runner root, but I'd love to know _which_ crypt.

#aquarium #plantedtank #nanotank #shrimptank @nanotank @aquarium @shrimptank

I know that anything with aquarium on it costs more, but the aquarium tax for snowflake food is ridiculous. I've been keeping shrimp for less than a year, so maybe other shrimp keepers already know about this cheap alternative to snowflake food, but in case you didn't -

After watching some YT shrimp keeper channels, I've been feeding my neocaridina colony snowflake food a couple of times a week. They like it and I was almost out, so I was looking at the bag and realized it only has one ingredient - soy hulls. I paid $12 for 3 1/2 ounces of snowflake food.

I thought there must be a cheaper source, so I looked online and found soy hull pellets for mushroom cultivation were 10 pounds for $20. The pellets are exactly the same size as the ones in the snowflake food bag, and my colony eats them just as eagerly.

Snowflake food: $3.70 an ounce.
Bulk organic soybean husks: $0.13 an ounce. 28x cheaper.

@nanotank @shrimptank @neocaridina #aquarium #nanotank #shrimptank #neocaridina