Nano Realms

08/16/2025

SALE!! Today and tomorrow (Sunday)! Half price on all the plants that are still in bags that didn’t sell at Fish Fair!!! So $$2.50 each!

I have:
Vallisneria nana
Vallisneria spiralis
Vallisneria corkscrew
Bacopa Australis
Rotala Indica
Crypt wentii bronze
Ludwigia repens narrow leaf

Porch pickup in Neenah (Fox Crossing). I take cash, venmo, or paypal. Just message me.
After tomorrow, I’ll take them out of the bags and they’ll be $5 each again.

08/16/2025

Come see us at Fish Fair today!

08/16/2025

Stop by Fish Fair today in Neenah! (See post below for info) I have more plants than I thought I would (as usual). I have yellow tiger endlers and red tiger endlers (which are a new line I just started, so they will still produce yellow too). The reds are actually purple-ish pink. They are really cool. When they’re young, they are almost purple, and then some get more hot pink. Then I have some male least killifish, which are the smallest livebearer (technically not really a killifish). They are native to the US (Florida), very easy, i don’t even use a filter. I unfortunately only have males because there were so many more of them, and I needed to keep some females. But the males stay very small! They are chili rasbora size, so they’d be great in a 5 gallon, 2.5 gallon, even a planted bowl. (I do have a ton of fry from these, if anyone is interested, I’m not bringing them, but you can always come get some or have them shipped). Then I also have emerald dwarf danios, which, IMO, are prettier than celestial pearl danios. They are pretty much the same as a CPD, but have blue stripes instead. In fact they are so similar, the two species can cross breed.

08/12/2025

I will be at Fox Valley Fish Fair Saturday! Along with my fishy friend, Julie, from Still Waters Aquatics! I will have plants, of course, yellow tiger endlers, red tiger endlers (not pure yet, will also produce yellow), least killifish (the smallest livebearer!), and emerald dwarf rasboras. Julie will have a few other plants,white cloud minnows, and platinum ricefish! I’m not going to bring a lot….I am in the process of MOVING!! (I’m going to have a basement for a fish room!! *happy dance*) So if you’d like any of the fish, you can pre-order to make sure you get some.

04/19/2025

These are Daisy’s rice fish, which is a little bit different species than the medaka rice fish you see that are bred in all different colors. These males are blue with orange edging and the females are gold/tan with the orange edges, but the females have very bright blue eyes that you can see from across the room. I have a couple batches of these growing up, not a whole lot yet, but some day hopefully I’ll get these guys figured out and have enough to sell. They are very active and hardy. The other fish in this video is neon green rasboras. Haven’t had them breed yet, but haven’t really gotten around to trying. Also a very active fish.

04/13/2025

I’ve come to accept that, when I set up a tank and do all kinds of aquascaping with rocks and wood and all that…..that it will eventually disappear and just be covered by the plants. So the aquascaping is to make it look good in the beginning, and later it’s a whole new tank with mostly plants. I just recently moved my curviceps cichlid pair and 7 green neons to this tank from another that I decided to tear down (and possibly redo). The plants are crypt wentii bronze and Taiwan lily. The rocks are from the Baraboo area. And yes, the big driftwood branch IS still in there LOL. The tank, set up like this, is a year and a half old, but it was also set up with the same substrate, totally different look, for 3 and a half years before that.

03/22/2025

I know many hate duck w**d…but it has its purpose. This tank had major green water (a type of algae) (actually got worse than the picture). I threw a big handful of duckw**d in there, enough to completely block out the surface, and this is the results in a week! Crystal clear! There was also WAY more duckw**d, over and inch thick layer. Duckw**d is the fastest growing plant you can employ to use up excess nutrients in situations like this, a bacteria bloom, or while cycling a new planted tank when the substrate is leaching too much nutrients.

03/05/2025

Check out my friend, Julie’s, new page for her fish business 🥰

Freshwater fish and plants. Menasha, WI. Connecting with nature. Tours available!

03/01/2025

These are male Staeck Endlers. These were originally discovered in the wild, but now there is debate as to whether they are truly a wild strain or if something domesticated had been released into the water body. Either way, I think they’re beautiful! Very unique pattern, and each individual is very different from the next.

03/01/2025

This is a new line I’m starting. It’s the result of just crossing other endlers I used to have. (Yellow tiger, scarlet, and japan blue were living together). This isn’t a new color, I’ve seen red tigers before, but the ones I’m getting are really cool, so I started separating them. They are definitely still producing yellow tigers, when bred, but hopefully I can reduce that.

03/01/2025

Since there was a snow storm on the day of Fox Valley Fish Fair, I actually still have plants (and fish) left! I still have lots of pearl w**d, corkscrew val, crypt. lucens, and some rotala indica, bacopa Australis, and crypt wentii.
As for fish, I have Staeck Endlers, yellow tiger endlers, red tiger endlers (these are a very new line, they will produce yellow tigers also), emerald dwarf danios (aka rasboras), and young least killifish.

02/16/2025

Thanks Julie Zepnick for helping me at Fox Valley Fish Fair yesterday! Julie made the stuffed axolotls I had at my table, and she has also started her own fish business and has things a for sale in Menasha ☺️ Thanks to everyone who braved the snow storm and came out yesterday too! (Photo credit: J&R Aquatic Animal Rescue )