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Did I do my water change at the wrong time? I've never seen them even get close to each other before. I don't know their sexes & there isn't enough space above the water line to lay eggs anyway.
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2 mystery snails, one riding on the other 2 mystery snails, one riding on the other
October 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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🌎 ♻️ (Older review) "Turn the Tide" by Elaine Dimopoulos a great youth advocate / eco-lover's read for 4th grade +and up. Be The Change That You Want To See is the theme of this book, hunny
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September 27, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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September 8, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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I am waiting for this one to pop. I haven't seen some of my berried shrimp lately. I hope they were just busy hatching eggs.

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Berried glass shrimp on a young lily leaf
August 30, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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I was trying to get the ramshorn snails out with a cucumber slice, but the shrimp loved it too. It took a day to get some snails on it. I thought for sure, the mystery snails would finish off the cucumber before I trapped any ramshorns.
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one blue and one red neocaridina shrimp feasting on a slice of cucumber held in place with a skewer in a fish tank
August 16, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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This isn't the best photo but she wasn't making it easy. Can you spot the glass shrimp? The reflections off the air pump makes it harder to see. I wanted to get a photo now that the eggs are just about clear...getting closer to more shrimplets.
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lousy photo of a glass shrimp with pretty clear eggs, reflections make it hard to see the shrimp
August 9, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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I was looking into my shrimp tank and found this one apparently enjoying the air bubbles coming out of the sponge filter. I thought it was cute & it made me wonder if this is common shrimp behavior.

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That's the spot!
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August 2, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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I ordered 100 lithops in January, got 127 w/ 2 "twins" (129). Yesterday, I counted maybe 96 w/ 9 twins (107) & 2 that confuse me--on 1 side a normal leaf, & on the other, a "twin" (lower right area). How is that even going to work later on?

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Lithops repotted in lava rocks in 4 rectangular pots
July 26, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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July 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Newer mystery snails are growing (visually obvious), Elvis looks like he got hurt (foot a bit folded & shell scraped), monstera is growing in lava rock & water in an upcycled soda bottle), some shrimp are "eggnant" (maybe 2 ghost, 3 cherry, 2 blue dream). #scienceclassroom #stem #keepingthingsalive
3 mystery snails whose shells show when they came and got different water parameters and diets...shells looks better now mystery snail showing possible injuries, foot is slightly folded and the shell shows scrapes on one side young monstera plants in lava rock, planted in 16.9oz Coke bottle cut in half, with the top part inverted and inserted in the bottom half for watering I don't actually have this many "eggnant" shrimp, collage of neocaridina and ghost shrimp with eggs
July 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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July 4, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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I had a thriving shrimp tank last summer; it crashed. I am trying again with a tank of ghost shrimp, neocaridina, some snails, & 3 neon blue rasboras. I just moved them from a 5- to a 10-gallon; that was nerve-wracking. Ghost shrimp were especially tricky. #scienceclassroom #stem #keepingthingsalive
7 shrimp...6 neocaridinas & 1 ghost, very hard to see Berried ghost shrimp, 2 more blurred in the foreground Red cherry shrimp upside down, hanging on to the underside of Amazon frogbit leaves, reflection making it look like there's a shrimp above the surface of the water
June 28, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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I watched to see if the assassin snail will do the job it was bought for...it didn't. Another ramshorn snail lived to see the weekend.
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Assassin snail not assassinating a ramshorn snail like it should
June 21, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Life goes on in the Science classroom in the summer. Tiny little bean pods emerge from leftover bean plants, and Elvis has a new friend.
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Small bush bean plant left over from student experiments, with a tiny bean pod Big mystery snail, old resident of the tank, meets a smaller newer mystery snail
June 14, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Peperomia flower spike...longest I've gotten so far

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Peperomia plant with a very long flower spike on top
June 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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I put my female guppies in this jar while I prepared the quarantine box to put in the main tank. Many have already gone home with students; 5 are left, claimed, and should be picked up next week. Sadly, the yellow one died.
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Female Guppies Are Finding New Homes
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May 31, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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This is Elvis who escaped the snail jar (or "left the building", thus the name) last summer for 3 whole weeks, after which I found it in the first place I looked. Somehow it managed to survive out of the water for that long.
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Elvis in the Guppy Tank
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May 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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I asked the hubby to pick me up some nightcrawlers from the gas station for a lesson. I've never seen bright green nightcrawlers before. What on earth have they been ingesting? #science #scienceclassroom
Bright green nightcrawlers
April 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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I started out w/ 13 crayfish in my classroom (ordered them a tad early)--3 deaths of unknown causes, 1 from a failed molt, & 1 from post-molt attack. There've been 6 or so successful molts. It was fascinating to watch this one eat. #scienceclassroom #stem #keepingthingsalive youtu.be/gWQj1gG7EZo?...
Watching Crayfish Eat
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April 19, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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A 5gal tank replaced with 10gal, all guppies in 10 gal; snails in right jar will be redistributed, jar to be retired; left 5gal tank has ghost & red cherry shrimp, & a few boraras; middle jar was to be retired, but I saw a tiny little CPD fry today, so no. #scienceclassroom #stem #keepingthingsalive
various fish tanks and jars in a science classroom, with aquaponics
April 15, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Science classroom in spring = more life. Crayfish molting, caterpillars growing fast from 1/4" a week ago, ghost shrimp berried (hopefully OK with recent adds of cherry shrimp & boraras), guppies in 1 bigger tank. After some issues, 8 goldfish doing well. #scienceclassroom #stem #keepingthingsalive
crayfish molt crayfish molt (underside) painted lady caterpillars in jar, ruler for scale, around 1 inch long after a week in the classroom ghost shrimp, berried, in the moss
April 12, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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I took a photo of my hydroponic plants before many of them get cut down soon when 1st graders learn about growing plants from nodes. #scienceclassroom #stem #keepingthingsalive #hydroponics #plants
Tall/long pothos and philodendron plants rooted in fish tanks, climbing up a classroom wall
March 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM