Dimensions 41 × 41 × 30 cm

Title Dry Season Hubris

Volume 40L

Background None

Lighting IKEA Arod floor lamp with 1260-lumen 5000K PAR38 LED bulb

Filtration None, just a 90 GPH JP-032 powerhead pointing inwards from rear

Plants Cryptocoryne sp., Anubias Hastifolia, Glossostigma elatinoides, Vesicularia montagnei, unknown wild melon sword (Blue Springs Park, High Springs, Florida)

Animals Tanichthys albonubes, Lucania parva, Caridina multidentata

Materials Driftwood (hardwood core laden with labyrinthine insect boreholes), pool filter sand substrate

Additional Information Schools of juvenile fish can often be seen thriving in muddy gullies, just shortly after the dry season has ended with a thunderstorm or two. But this is a precarious climatic transition, which can occasionally revert to drought, so it takes a certain foolish hubris for a fish to thrive in such an environment, with the plants barely beginning to repopulate the barren river mud, newly flooded with spring rains. (Videos of this and other aquaria will be available at https://www.youtube.com/user/dangerousfishbowl/videos )