Who is in the tank? (3)

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This is Mr Bristlenose, you can see he has lots of tentacles on his nose, Mrs Bristlenose also lives in our tank, she has only a few small tentacles. The Bristlenose's like to hide, they hide in the piece of driftwood under the plants, they hide behind the statue, they even move ornaments and dig under the gravel to create new hiding places!

They have big sucker mouths and use them to stick to the glass or the statue and the underside of the leaves.


I think the Bristlenose's are very cool.

In other fish news - we have babies!!!! I noticed them hiding amongst the leaves of the plants a couple of days ago...

First Casualty

Warning: this post contains images that may disturb some viewers

Last week I noticed one of the fish was swimming strangely, it seemed to be struggling to stay upright. On closer inspection I discovered it was quite bloated and had a large bruise on it's belly.

A while later when I looked in the tank the sick fish had disappeared. I thought it may have gotten stuck on one of the plants or rocks and knew I should look for it but it was late and I was tired...

The next day I found this




I'm pretty sure the dead or dying fish was discovered by one of the catfish who was excited to have such a yummy snack!

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