Here's a picture of my fishtank. It's a 36 gallon brackish setup. Right now it doesn't really have that many fishes. Living in upstate New York has its disadvantages. I have to drive about an hour to get to any fish store, and there's only one decent one in the area (Tropical Fish Emporium in Auburn, NY). Unfortunately, they don't have all the fish I want.

The current inhabitants:

I also added this bright green mossy-looking plant I found growing on a rock in a nearby lake. I didn't figure it would last very long, since it was used to cold water, but it actually started spreading all over my tank. Unfortunately, once I added the fiddler crabs, it disappeared pretty fast. It must be some tasty moss. However, it is still spreading all over the logs and the glass.

The remaining plants seem to be doing well in the brackish environment. I had a java fern and some ribbon wupato that didn't fare too well... the java fern died within a week of getting it. The Amazon sword plant was doing beautifully until lately... I've been raising the salinity, and I think it reached its limit around 1.01, so I've been adding fresh water lately.

My bumblebee gobies have tried to reproduce a couple of times sine I got them. The male turns bright orange (losing all his black stripes) and dances around the females like crazy. They lay eggs on the black plastic thing that holds the heater, and the male guards them for about 5 days until they hatch. The first time, I didn't get the eggs out in time, and they got eaten as soon as they hatched. The second time, I got them in a second tank soon enough, but they were all dead within a week. There is very little documentation on how to take care of them, and the babies are tiny and need microscopic food which is hard to obtain locally. All I could get was this egg-based liquid, and whatever wasn't eaten polluted the water. I don't know if they died from starvation or ammonia or what. I did water changes daily, but half the babies get sucked up in the siphon and I end up spending hours picking them out. One of these days I'll get it right, if they ever mate again. There hasn't been any activity since I added the halfbeaks. I think they're intimidated.

My crabs also like to mate. I've had three pregnant crabs in the past couple months, but from what I've read, it isn't possible to raise the babies in captivity. I accidentally erased the pictures of my pregnant crab, so there aren't any here right now. It's too bad, it was pretty cool-looking.

Here are a few more pictures of my fish tank. They're not that great, but oh well. Look at them anyway.