#tankbusters

[aquariuminfobureau]

Sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus) are still sold for ponds, where they tend to be misfed, as though they shared the diet of koi and goldfish. As carnivores, they certainly do not, requiring foods that supply large amounts of protein, and fish oil. The sterlet and it's surgeon kin, cannot digest plant material, so they require foods based on aquatic animal proteins, as sold for predatory aquarium fishes. As predators with a high metabolism, they require 2-3% of their own body weight each day, though less when they are more dormant in the cold season. Sterlets are benthic feeders on insect larvae, amphipods, and the like, equipped with underslung mouths adding to their shark-like appearance. Thus food provided to these sturgeon will be eaten from the bottom, and should be of a sinking nature.

Adult sterlet can grow to around 90 to 125 centimeters, or 36 to 50 inches long, but a more typical length would be 40 centimeters or 16 inches. This species are active bottom rovers, requiring an aquarium or pond that is at least six times by four times their own total length. Although they are thus too huge for most aquariums, they are considered a small sturgeon species, as the largest sturgeon weigh in excess of a metric ton. Sturgeons have no close living relatives excepting the paddlefishes, which share their superficial similarity to sharks, not least because of the structure of their tails. In fact this asymmetrical tail morphology - upkinked and sporting the caudal fin underneath - was seen in the most recent, Palaeozoic common ancestor of the sharks and true finfishes.

Sturgeon and paddlefishes are an ancient sister branch to the mainline of finfish evolution, lacking many of the traits that are common to typical fishes known as teleosts, and retaining anatomical curiosities as are seen in ancient fossils. One peculiarity of sturgeons is their impressive bony plates. These can be sharp to touch, especially in younger sturgeon, and have obviously evolved as armor to protect them from predators. As a group, the sturgeons are famous for migrating between their freshwater spawning grounds and the sea, but not all species make such journeys, and even among the those that do so, may exist landlocked breeding populations, which inhabit freshwater year round.

Riverine A. ruthenus is among those species that is never found in the sea, although it is known to migrate downriver to overwinter, before returning upstream in spring to spawn on gravel beds. They do not seem to spawn on softer substrates. Wild A. ruthenus are inhabitants of temperate, alkaline freshwaters, more specifically large rivers and their tributaries, from the drainages of the Danube to the Yenesei. Data on their water temperature tolerances is inconsistent in the scientific literature. One source says that their optimal ambient temperature, is 13 to 16 centigrade, and the seasonal rise of temperature to 13 degrees triggers their spawning. But another says their growth is optimal, at 18 to 22 degrees.

The latter is, in my experience, quite correct for their welfare. All the same, sterlets are a coldwater, and certainly not a tropical species, and in winter the water temperature may be slowed to drop down to 4 degrees. Sterlets like open swimming space without excessive planting, or other obstructions to their path whilst they are roving over the substrate. As carnivores they might well consume small fish, but they are clearly harmless to mature sized koi and the like, and they are usually bought at a small size, to share outdoor ponds with ornamental strains of carp and goldfish. Unfortunately they happen to be intolerant of common pond medications that are safe for cyprinids, such as those containing formalin/formaldehyde, potassium permanganate, or copper sulfate.

[galacticsabc]

c'mooonnn, he's just a lil' guy! you wouldn't tankbuster a lil' guy like him!

[lucien-aventine]

Tankbuster Incoming, make sure to mitigate!

[nuclearanomaly]

[toucanpecan]

nophica

[sae-mian]

summary of what mount farming with my FC looks like

[lavampira]

actual footage of me running away from @hythlodaes after the first tick of the p10 shared tankbuster 🫡

[most-fuck-able-ff14]

Ok you gotta understand. As the guy who voted vauthry the very first time I did crown of the immaculate I was 1) MT (forced by my other tank friend) and 2) I did not look at a guide so I did NOT expect the phase two to be so targeted towards my, ahem, likes.

To the point I was so distracted I took a tankbuster unmitigated. I'm so sorry to the healers in that run.

Voidcast-dais is stronger than any marine. -Mod Fisher

[airehoney]

I'm still gobsmacked that people will pick up the second healer that is on their fourth death over the RDM on their first (that died to a tankbuster because the new tank was dead again making the mage next in threat) when over half the party is on the floor. Let red mages do the singular thing they excel at: being a spatula when shit goes sideways. I am begging. Anyway, getting The Cloud Deck in trial roulettes is fun.

[essence-of-armbarring]

doing orbonne for the fending top really isn't doing any favors for how I feel about the 6.0 24 mans oouughh

[aquariuminfobureau]

The singular but magnificent Gymnarchus

Gymnarchus niloticus, the aba, is a magnificent, tankbusting bonytongue fish with an African distribution. It is recorded from the basins of the Nile, Senegal, Gambia, Volta, Niger and Chad, for which reason peer reviewed literature has claimed it's pH tolerances, are 6.5 to 8.0. However the species is also collected from the shallows of the alkaline Lake Turkana, suggesting a still wider ability to flourish, where the pH is at least 8.6. There the surface temperature of the shallows, gets as high as 27 to 29 degrees centigrade. Gymnarchus grows to almost 170 centimeters, or 68 inches long, and the weight record is 18.5 kilos. Such a large and spectacular fish is suited only to the largest home aquaria, or to heated, indoor ponds. Phonetically speaking, it's closest relatives are the African radiation of fishes, called mormyrids. With these the and shares remarkable electrosensory abilities, but the kinship is by now distant. There is only one species in the genus Gymnarchus. The aba is such an unusual looking animal, that it is difficult to mistake it for any other species within its wide geographical range.

The aba is an air breathing fish dwelling in marginal vegetation and swamps. There the pair bonding fish constructs its nests, which may be about 100 centimetres in diameter, during the season of the innundation. It's diet is mobile prey and primarily other, smaller fishes, but also arthropods and annelids. Juveniles begin as insectivorous, as you might expect, before maturing with size and age, into the adult, carnivorous niche. These prey it locates just as it navigates, relying on a good 'sixth sense' of electroception, an ability shared with its mormyrid relatives. Gymnarchus generates electrical fields using a large organ that runs along most of its length, and this ability is so useful, that the fish can swim backwards as easily as it swims ahead, sending objects as disturbances to its own self-generated electrical field. The unusual mode of swimming employed by this fish is like the Old and New World kbifefishes, but involves the graceful undulation of its dorsal fin, rather than an anal fin. It has completely lost the paired fins of its hypothetical ancestors.

In the aquarium, Gymnarchus eats defrosted and fresh foods with gusto. It is vigorous in defence of its nest, and intolerant of its species excepting their pair bonding tendency. The aggressive nature is frequently turned on fish of even dissimilar appearance and habits. All in all, this fish is not only a tankbuster, but highly problematic to house with its own and other species.The aquarium should be well planted, to reflect its lurking habits in shallow, richly vegetated freshwaters. The pH and hardness of the water, should be about neutral to somewhat hard and alkaline. Because shallow water fishes inhabit the warmest strata of the water column, the water temperature should be at the warm end of the tropical tank temperature spectrum, but not as high as 30 degrees centigrade. Finally, an air space should exist between the water surface, and any solid lid that is overhead. This is because Gymnarchus, like many other swamp fishes, is an obligate air breather.

[thatcritterthatskitter]

critterposting

[tcfactory]

I have no idea if they are going to change anything about the Big Tank CDs or not (probably not, they are in a good position right now) but I hope they are never touching Superbolide. It's the funniest fucking tank CD, real 10/10 meme that one. Nothing quite like throwing your biggest heal on the tank because they were getting low just for them to immediately nuke their own health back to 1.

I kinda get it why they changed DRK's living dead - unlike GNB, the requirement that you had to get them back to full health or they would die anyway took a lot of resources from any healer that's not WHM - but at the same time I miss the old DRK shenanigans. Right now we only have Superbolide (the tank springing a sudden jumpscare on the healers is always funny) and maybe PLD's tendency to sometimes die before the invuln Hallowed Ground can actually activate because it has a relatively long animation, but that's more awkward-embarrassing than funny.

[onehitngocout]

tired of crying, tired of tears

[unbreakable-oaths]

Night one of prog and I have flunked out of the tank space flight program.

[enthusiasmforpretty]

I laughed my butt off at this. I've watched it over and over. You know that look the DPS gives you when the tankbuster hits them?