Blue Axelrodi and Chili Rasboras Eating Microworms

Dang them little buggers swim too fast for my camera to keep up! Guess I should've changed up the exposure too, kinda bright in places...

They are in my low tech 10g, and in this video they are actually eating microworms. Originally this tank was meant to be a shrimp-only tank, but it didn't work out so I bought some nano fish instead.

I bought the fish at Aqua Imports in Boulder, Colorado. I feed them New Life Spectrum: Small Fish formula (but I still have to lightly crush the pellets with a mortar and pestle), live Microworms, and frozen Hikari Bio-Pure Bloodworms (which I'm allergic to, but for the sake of my fish.....)

The currently inhabitants are Blue Axelrodi (Sundadanio axelrodi 'Blue'), and Chili Rasboras (Boraras brigittae). One day, I hope to source some nice Yellow Shrimp to help clean up extra foods on the bottom. Plants include: Weeping Moss, Mini Pellia, Fissidens fontanus, Subwassertang, Flame Moss, Luwigia repens, Hygrophila corymbosa 'Siamensis', and other mixed mosses.

The tufts of plant in front are Utricularia graminifolia, which was experimental to see if they could grow in a low light low tech setup. It seems that they can survive but will not carpet, rather grow up and out of the substrate.


Song: Kiss the Rain by Yiruma.

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• blue axelrodi
• chili rasbora
• Sundadanio axelrodi 'blue'
• Boraras brigittae
• flame moss
• weeping moss
• Subwassertang
• round pellia
• fissidens
• mopani