current vibe in the low tech rasbora/shrimp tank: chill.

I finally spotted one of the littler blue jelly babies perfectly posing right next to my biggest crystal red for scale, but this video demonstrates one of the many reasons that it’s hard to capture just how baby these baby shrimp are.

i.e. the extremely nosy emerald eye rasbora squad, who have arrived at the conclusion that my presence near the tank = food, and if for some reason I am not immediately giving them food, it is simply because I couldn’t see them before and they had best get my attention. (I literally fed them less than fifteen minutes before I tried to take this video.)

as promised, please witness:

two incredibly tiny baby shrimp

Wonder if it’s possible to have a problem with color perception rather than being color blind? If tis one n the same, apologies for another derpes flare-up of the brain.

Didn’t realize until later in life that I don’t see colors the same as others, and likely explains the ribbing for some of me fashion choices back in the day, and finding in hindsight I might actually not have ‘matched’. Oopsy doopsy!

Yet, it’s not true blindness cuz I can see other shades of greens n blues n sometimes purple gets me too.

Sometimes a things just not green 'enough’(?) n just looks grey. Or, sometimes it just looks blue n the green is gone, n sometimes purple turns a kinda dark blue when against light blue…

When held n compared against the true version of the color, it doesn’t change color per se, but it’s like I can see the 'vibrations’? (Words n explanations are hard) are off, but still can’t always see the real color, or the missing color show up…

Not sure I ever noticed certain colors when next to one another looking 'wrong’ before it was pointed out that even wenches can be colorblind-ish too. So, that part could be just cuz I’ve identified those items I just now ask others to double-check me.

Oh my, a cute legion of itsy babies! N another momma’s juggling her berries off in the distance!

babies

the shrimp lost their minds when I put botanicals in their tank today.

they’re enjoying their breakfast

Wild Colouring Shrimp

BRB Your girl have suddenly figured out her phone have a macro lens and now is lost to macro obsession

Maybe if you looked at 100 pictures of my fish tank then you’d calm down

Spimp

[ID: four pictures of blue ink wash paintings of neocaridina shrimp from my shrimp tank. The first page has gestural and minimalistic studies of swimming shrimp inspired by Qi Baishi’s shrimp art. The other three are more detailed studies of single shrimp standing still. The last one is of a shrimp carrying eggs, rendered in scratchy blue biro with a splashy ink wash overlaid. End ID]

Zucchini euphoria

Guardian of the Orb