My aeglids have arrived!

[fatboy]

My aeglids arrived this morning. I had ordered 5 and 5 arrived alive. Sadly one was damaged and it's tail shell was detached from the body shell. It died a few hours after arriving.

The other 4 are eating and have explored the tank. They seem to have a favourite hiding place each and enjoy sitting on top of each other. At one point they were stacked 3 high, all eating peacefully.

Here's a few rough pictures. Apologies for the blur and poor colour.

The tank they are in. It's my dwarf puffers tank and also has 2 african filter feeding shrimp, 1 bamboo shrimp and some oto catfish. I might needto remove some plants and add some more cave structures. The stones are siliconed together so they can't fall and crush the tiny aeglids.

http://www.fishystuff.co.uk/wholetank.jpg

The one with biggest claws. The others follow this one and will try to climb into whatever cave it is in.
http://www.fishystuff.co.uk/blur1.jpg

A little one climbing on a stone. this one is most adventourous and has inspected the whole tank.
http://www.fishystuff.co.uk/back1.jpg

The big claw again. He's sitting next to heater because I moved his cave and scared him. They swim backwards and can move fast.
http://www.fishystuff.co.uk/bigclaw.jpg

[amber2461]

Congratulations on your latest beauties and thanks for sharing and posting pictures of them ! :cool:

Cheers

[NanoDave]

My aeglids arrived this morning. I had ordered 5 and 5 arrived alive. Sadly one was damaged and it's tail shell was detached from the body shell. It died a few hours after arriving.

The other 4 are eating and have explored the tank. They seem to have a favourite hiding place each and enjoy sitting on top of each other. At one point they were stacked 3 high, all eating peacefully.

Here's a few rough pictures. Apologies for the blur and poor colour.

The tank they are in. It's my dwarf puffers tank and also has 2 african filter feeding shrimp, 1 bamboo shrimp and some oto catfish. I might needto remove some plants and add some more cave structures. The stones are siliconed together so they can't fall and crush the tiny aeglids.

http://www.fishystuff.co.uk/wholetank.jpg

The one with biggest claws. The others follow this one and will try to climb into whatever cave it is in.
http://www.fishystuff.co.uk/blur1.jpg

A little one climbing on a stone. this one is most adventourous and has inspected the whole tank.
http://www.fishystuff.co.uk/back1.jpg

The big claw again. He's sitting next to heater because I moved his cave and scared him. They swim backwards and can move fast.
http://www.fishystuff.co.uk/bigclaw.jpg

They look really mean with those massive claws :p Any fullbody pics of them? :)

[fatboy]

They look really mean with those massive claws :p Any fullbody pics of them? :)

Sorry, Dave,I forgot to reply. I do that a lot. :embarasse

So far I have no good pictures of them. They are very secretive and hide most of the day. I will keep trying and post them when I have them. Eventually I'll put the photos and English-language information online as there's not much available.