Venus Fly Trap at The Octopus Gallery
I originally put this image up on a mousepad and a friend of mine left a comment saying “It’s a trap!” which I thought was the perfect caption. So now I have a mug (and other things) in her honor. I would also like to highly recommend her This Shit Just Got Real mug. Very nice!
In other news, The Octopus Gallery is now on Facebook. Like it if you like it!
Midas in the 3rd dimension by greenterramfk
Shop for art on zazzle.com
I was browsing Zazzle today and ran across this gorgeous poster. This artist has a number of fish pictures that he’s made into these 3-D prints and I’m a big fan of them. Most of them are large cichlids or other tank busters. Probably easier to get nice photos of them. Tiny fish are hard to photograph. Fish in general are hard to photograph, but tiny fish are worse. I fail more often than not, which is why I really enjoy finding someone who’s work is so nice. Even if I do get a bit jealous. :D
I really dig the general layout of this poster and think it would make a great addition to any fish lover’s wall.
In keeping with the catfish theme today, here’s a mug featuring a madtom catfish! I sold goodie bags with these mugs in them at the last Catfish Convention. I hope the persons buying them enjoyed them as much as I did.
Coming up next weekend is the All-Aquarium Catfish Convention sponsored by one of my local aquarium clubs, the Potomac Valley Aquarium Society. I, unfortunately, cannot attend the whole conference, but I am planning to be there for the auction on Sunday. Not going to buy a lot (hopefully!) but I’ve a couple of cichlids to rehome and I’m in need of some plants now that I’m finally starting to get some growth in my amazon tank. I do Walstad-type soil planted tanks and they usually do really well for me, except after I had to redo one of my 125s after it got broken by tile installers. My adult Geophagus steindachneri kept disturbing the soil so much that the water was too murky for the plants to get much light. Between that and the initial tank break, I lost a lot of plants and what survived just weren’t growing. Since I’ve removed the cichlids from that tank, the plants finally started to recover and I really want to put some more in there. I have a school of keyhole cichlids that would really like some more cover so I’m hoping to get some large-leafed sword plants. I also just this weekend added a really fantastic, large piece of wood that needs a number of java ferns tied to it. These auctions usually have a lot of java fern for sale so I’ll actually be thrilled for once when the 100th lot of the stuff comes up. :D
In keeping with the convention theme, my husband is looking for some catfish for his uaru tank. Some bug got in there and took out a bunch of his corydoras so he needs to replace them. I’m trying to talk him into some porthole cats, but it will depend on what people bring.
Are you going to the All-Aquarium Catfish Convention? What are you looking for? What are you bringing?
