Here's Little Blue's three FAR larger siblings in the 75 gallon tank across the room. Same brood.

You'd th8nk I was starving them based on their begging but they literally just got fed live brine shrimpnot more than 10 MINITES AGO!
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I just got a brief a cameo of "Little Blue" near the bottom right. I have afar smaller one just added to my 29 gallon. Both are growing lots slower than their siblings, except for the 3 in the 75 gallon.
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The answer is more sophisticated than “the tail propels fish forward.” #Cichlids use coordinated pectoral-fin and tail movements to make refined adjustments while tracking visual motion. They smoothly follow optomotor stimuli via constant corrections, and even use pectoral fins to swim backwards.

Hot off the preprint: visual adaptations in crater-lake #cichlids revealed by single-cell RNA-seq of the retina. Deep-water species have mainly green cones that however differ from both green and red cones of the shallow-water species. Quite unexpected in such young adaptive radiation!😍

Very cool opportunity to work with #cichlids on an exciting project! #ZebrafishJobs

Anyone like my aquarium? Years of saving up pre-inflation. 180 gallons of fish ecosystem! #freshwater #cichlids #amazonriverbasin #fishkeeping #thesearemychildren #proudmommy