The bolt-together aquarium hood I'm slowly 3D printing.

The filter is coincidentally the size of one of the segments, making it easy to accommodate by simply omitting one of them when assembling. Eventually the top will incorporate the peanut butter jars with light bulbs in them.

While the platforms are kind of dumb, they do get used now and then.

I'm down to 4 shrimp. I was going to say I still had 5 but decided I should count first, and it took me an hour but I found the dead one. Judging by how it looked, it might have died last week.

The clear one is still clear and still more active than the rest, and so I really think the rest have some kind of disease that the internet just doesn't know about and which apparently isn't too contagious, perhaps not contagious at all, since it isn't affecting the clear one. So I won't be surprised if the other three white ones die. The clear one is just way more active and it appears to be growing whereas the others don't move much anymore and the small white one doesn't seem to be growing.

I added like 40 isopods last week. They seemed to disappear for a few days but today I see quite a few of them swimming around. I also bought 4 new species of plants but I can't get a good photo at the moment due to sunlight.

I also got a "water softening pillow" which contains the same kind of resin that water softeners for houses contain. It works quite well, and like water softeners for houses, can be refreshed by soaking it in salt water.

So with that my water should be about perfect now. So whenever I get around to buying more ghost shrimp (no local stores have them so I have to drive 30 miles to get them) they hopefully won't all turn white again.

I was so amused by these bubbles neatly arranged in a grid pattern that I had to take a photo.

...and so I also took the best one I could of the whole aquarium given the extreme back-lighting.