I hate to do this, but these guys in the original post are actually P. gertrudae, the Spotted Blue-Eye Rainbowfish (lovely friends). P. furcatus (Forktail Blue-Eye Rainbows) are these critters:
BUT ALSO, this is the PERFECT opportunity to talk about one of my favourite genuses (plural?), SO HAVE SOME MORE SPARKLY FEEEEEESH!!!
P. gertrudae:
P. pelucidus:
P. luminatus:
P. paskai: (some confusion surrounds the identification of these guys, as they are exceptionally similar to P. luminatus. It is now understood that fish circulated as P. paskai in the hobby are actually P. luminatus, as paskais have not become established commercially, and both genetic and physical differences exist between the two. Source)
P. cyanodorsalis: (these guys are euryhaline, meaning that they are capable of occupying pure freshwater, but also a vast range of salinities – including fully marine conditions and even waters reaching a specific gravity of 1.030(!!!!); considerably higher than sea water. However, mild to moderate brackish conditions are preferred)
P. reticulatus:
P. signifer: (also euryhaline – found in freshwater to marine conditions. Mildly brackish conditions probably best)
P. ivantsoffi:
Pseudomugil novaeguineae:
P. mellis:
P. connieae:
P. tenellus:
Also, have another rainbow – Rhadinocentrus ornatus:
These three pictures are all of the same species! The only species within its genus, their extreme colour differences are a matter of geographical range.
ANYWAY
As far as I’m concerned, Blue Eye Rainbows and Rhads are dramatically underrated.
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I LIVE FOR THEM ALL
Obviously I’d do more research before buying them, but what kind of tank set up do these guys prefer? Theyre so pretty, and I’d like to know whether I’d be able to afford a setup for them 🙂
These guys are generally pretty easy keep, and setup doesn’t need to be pricey at all! The smallest suggested tank is a 10g, but while they are very small and not the most active fish, more space is obviously better. Water chemistry varies according to species, but largely leans towards the neutral/moderately hard bracket and the majority are tropical (though P. luminatus is an exception to this: they edge more towards temperate climates). Flow, again, varies, but many species seem to enjoy a moderate amount of it. They are generally very peaceful (again, there are exceptions, such as P. ivantsoffi, which would do better in a harem) and very sociable (min group of 8), but they are shy, so shouldn’t be considered for the ‘general’ community unless the tank mates are similarly peaceful, not too boisterous and uncompetitive when feeding. They’ll do best in a well planted/decorated aquarium with lots of cover and floating plants – and they do jump. Definitely need a lid.
Unfortunately, many Pseudomugil species are difficult to get hold of – and some are endangered and entirely unavailable to the hobby – but there are a few species that pop up more regularly. Ideal choices would be P. gertrudae (easier to find than most of the others, adaptable and beautiful), P. luminatus, and P. furcatus. P. signifer can also be found fairly regularly, if wanting a brackish setup. (However, with signifers I’d suggest caution when sourcing them: you’ll normally see the Southern form, which is a good thing, but it’s best to double-check their origin because the Northern strain is larger and considerably more aggressive.).
The pro with any pseudomugil, though, are the MEGA beautiful displays the males perform. The colours and the fins…just…wow.
I feel torn about tumblr’s love of southern gothic. There’s a lot of cool stuff in that genre to be admired, but I feel like sometimes those posts (especially when made by people who don’t live in the south- and hey, neither do I) come across as “aren’t poor people spooooky?”
As a born-and-raised southerner, I was surprised to discover this literary convention because a lot of modern southern gothic fantasy written by southerners focuses on old-money families who turn out to be [witches/werewolves/vampires/etc]. I didn’t encounter the “scary redneck mountain people” variant in non-fantastical media until later, and it baffles me because the modern southern elite are TERRIFYING.
Endlessly smiling hypocritical senators in tacky palatial houses with wives who espouse “traditional values” while being poisonously sweet and cutthroat? Those make much more frightening antagonists for gothic heroes/heroines to fight. If you live in the south you will probably never meet backwoods demon sibling-spouses but you’ve definitely seen the void staring out of a “Live, Laugh, Love” picture frame.
ACCURATE
“bless yer little heart” can have a special twist in scare tactics if you use it wisely in southern gothic
I PROMISE you the old rich white “respectable” people in any given Southern town are the most terrifying things in it. I guarantee you. I don’t care who you are. I am white and originally from the South and I tell you the world of the genteel Southern white is the realm of nightmares. On that topic, real and semi-universal things to incorporate into your Southern Gothic re: rich old white “respectable” people:
– a large china cabinet. Made of nice wood, large glass windows, full of porcelain or crystal with gilding and has a lot of flower or fruit motifs. May have a mirrored back, to make it look twice as big and show off the contents from multiple angles
-mirrors in general, I don’t know why
-everything is varying shades of pastel or brown, with sudden transitions between brown rooms and pastel rooms. The brown rooms are full of leather furniture and smell faintly of leather and pipe smoke. The pastel ones smell like powder and potpourri. The smells also abruptly transition between each other
-alternatively everything is cream and color is prohibited
-old white Southerners rival the Fair Folk for gatherings where not knowing all the rules and obeying every one will have seemingly unrelated but dire consequences
-gilt and flowers on everything
-including weaponry
-painting of a landscape, hunting dogs, or ducks, relatively skilfully executed but something’s not right about it. You can’t put your finger on what. When you ask about the painting, someone says their cousin/aunt/mother painted it and aren’t they such a talented artist?
-painting of a battle from the Civil War in which someone is heroically raising a Confederate flag. It is not even remotely historically accurate but it’s painted like it was meant for a history book.
-perfectly arranged quilts on perfect beds you’re pretty sure nobody has ever slept in. The sterility of the arrangement somehow deprives the quilt of its essential quilt-ness, rendering it a kind of uneasy anti-quilt.
-family photos posed around a large dead animal
-family photos where everyone looks like they came off a fashion shoot but they’re all holding guns, even the small girl whose gun is pink
-walls of family photos in which these two are the only ones taken with a modern camera, and everything else is in blobby old-school color, sepia tone, or black and white
-framed obituaries
-THOSE SMILES. SOUTHERNERS KNOW WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT. THOSE LITTLE SMILES AND THE LITTLE LAUGHS LIKE THEY’RE GRANDMOTHERLY/GRANDFATHERLY IF YOUR GRANDPARENTS WERE PERPETUALLY DEBATING THE PROPRIETY OF TEARING YOUR THROAT OUT WITH SUDDENLY TOO-LONG TEETH
-framed illustrated bible verses
-framed cutesy inspirational quotes
-personalized stationery
-Too Many Rooms For One House
-Too Many Rooms combine with the mirrors everywhere to make the house’s layout uncertain and confusing
when guys are like “girls over [relatively low weight] shouldn’t wear [revealing article of clothing]” a lot of the time they are trying to get women above that weight to say “OH REALLY?” and post a picture of themselves looking good in that article of clothing. It’s a creepy power play designed to prey on both women’s confidence and their insecurities and trick them into posting revealing pictures of themselves for the sexual gratification of men who they otherwise wouldn’t have given the time of day. It’s a sleazy pick-up artist tactic. It’s negging. When you see an all-too-common post that’s like “bigger girls shouldn’t wear bikinis” and the response is him getting “owned” because a woman replied with pictures of herself looking beautiful, he’s not getting owned at all, he’s getting exactly the result he was hoping for. They’re basically saying “You sure showed me by sending me, a huge sexist creep, a picture of yourself in a bikini! PLEASE don’t send me nudes, I don’t know if I could take the humiliation!”
The scary thing is that I’ve had a guy admit this to me. He said something about “fat girls always have ugly tits”. I am fat and a girl. I said “no, they don’t.” He said “prove it”. When I made it clear that a) I had nothing to prove, b) why the fuck am I gonna care about some beanpole-in-a-meme-shirt’s opinion?, and c) I wasn’t EVER gonna send him shit, he went crazy. Straight up admitted that the technique always worked blah blah, I must have been a dude pretending to be a girl blah blah, and basically had a temper tantrum till I blocked him.
So 100% guys that do this are garbage and even if they’re not, remember that you don’t have to prove anything to anyone.
“YOU DON’T HAVE TO PROVE ANYTHING TO ANYONE” ^^^^^^^
We need to get around to realizing that genetic modification isnt contamination, or carcinogenic chemicals, or sludge, or evil godless mutations. They aren’t horrifying and they’re grown natural just like everything else.
“i don’t buy anything with gmos,” said the woman walking her purebred pug
look don’t be against GMOs be against PATENTING GENES and PURPOSELY DESIGNING CROPS TO BE STERILE SO FARMERS HAVE TO KEEP BUYING SEEDS.
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Be against the whole concept of making crops more pesticide-resistant so that you can dump massive amounts of poison in your fields and kill all the weeds (and native plants and everything touched by the runoff) without killing your crops.
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