Amazon drought

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Looks like may fish species we keep won't be breeding this year. Most Characiform fishes spawn during the flooded season of December to May, can't see it happening somehow with the current state of the Amazon river and it's tributaries.

Link: BBC News: Amazon drought: 'We've never seen anything like this'

Link: BBC News: Amazon drought: Stranded boats and dead fish
WARNING - DO NOT BREED, FEED OR PET THE PUDDLE! :dodgy2:
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Wow, you don’t expect something as vast as that could dry up.
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Bloody humans...... :mad:
If at first you don't succeed....
...get someone else to do it! :D

Enjoy your fish, shrimps and snails!
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plankton wrote: Wed Dec 27, 2023 9:13 am Bloody humans...... :mad:
You hit the nail on the head there plankton
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