Greetings.
I am a man in a suit who has fallen into the world of Minecraft.
Today, I am setting out from beside the axolotl aquarium.
Last time, I brought a cyan and a pink axolotl home from a lush cave and built this tank.
Now I’d like to gather tropical fish and try growing their family.
Back to the Warm Ocean for Tropical Fish among the Coral
I spread my Elytra and head east toward the sea.
Before leaving, I gather buckets and paper from storage, take gunpowder from the creeper farm, and craft fireworks.
This time, I’d like those buckets to come home with fish inside.
Landing on the sandy plateau, I can see coral stretching across the shallow seabed.
This is the warm ocean I visited while searching for a Sniffer egg in Episode 85.
Instead of looking for ruins, today I am looking for fish.
Before heading into the water, I dig some sand from the plateau too.
I’d like glass for a place to watch the fish back home.
Underwater, little tropical fish swim between the corals.
If I keep chasing fish, I run out of breath…
Partway through collecting them, I also use a Water Breathing potion as I explore the reef.
Scooping them up with water buckets brings my total to nine buckets of tropical fish.
My inventory is rather full of buckets!
Let’s take these fish back to the castle town.
Two Buckets of Fish and a Little Cyan Axolotl
There is a little cyan axolotl at the bottom of the tank.
I use one bucket of tropical fish for each parent, wait a while, and… a baby is born!
Beside the adults, it looks wonderfully small.
Minecraft’s official axolotl introduction describes their breeding food as tropical fish transported in buckets.
It also says that axolotls attack many other aquatic creatures, so the fish I want to admire will have a separate home.
Two of the nine fish go toward breeding, leaving seven.
For those seven, I build a separate viewing pavilion on the grassy patch to the west.
I smelt the sand from the sea into glass and line the south side with it.
Stone-brick walls and dark oak posts frame the new home.
I fill it with water, release the fish, and add a spruce roof.
A little building for stopping to watch them.
Lanterns for the Pavilion and the Family Later On
From here, we are looking at a later day, after the pavilion is built.
I add lanterns around the pavilion to brighten it up.
Behind the glass is water, home to the seven fish I brought from the sea.
Their little building has the castle town rising behind it on the hill.
Looking through the glass, I can see different colors and patterns.
Some fish have stripes; others mix red and green.
Their bucket icons looked much the same, so it is lovely to see them swimming.
Here are a white fish with orange markings and a purple one.
I find myself following their shapes and colors through the water and glass.
While I stand admiring them, the fish keep swimming about.
Let’s look into the axolotl tank too.
The little cyan baby has grown to much the same size as its parents.
Two cyan axolotls and one pink one now swim together as a family.
One last picture beside the pavilion.
Seven fish from the sea, and an axolotl family that has grown in the tank.
This trip gives me something to enjoy watching long after coming home.
Next, I’d like to prepare more buckets of tropical fish and try breeding the axolotls a second time.
I wonder how the tank will look with a slightly larger family.
That is all for this time.
Greetings.