2024 September Monthly Color Challenge Block

 Brown is a tough color, people tend to either love it or hate it. I love it in the fall, because to me it means crunchy leaves, sweatshirts and football.

Our challenge this month is inspired by tropical fish. Such beauty lays under the water, it's hard not to be inspired.

Photo Credit: The Spruce Pets

This month our color is brown and inspired by the Kuhli Loach. I chose this fish because of it's awesome patterning.

From The Spruce Pets: They may look like a more advanced fish, but the Kuhli Loach (Pangio kuhlii) is a great tropical fish species for beginning aquarists. This eel-like fish has an elongated body with small fins. Their bodies are dark brown and yellow striped, and they do well as single fish or in a group. The Kuhli Loach is a bottom feeder and is most active at dawn and dusk, so do not expect them to be very active during the day, and provide good hiding spots for them during this time.

The Kuhli Loach is a peaceful, community fish that will do well on many commercial tropical fish diets. They prefer slightly more acidic water, but this will not significantly limit their potential tank mates. If you have other bottom-dwelling fish, such as cory catfish, be sure there is plenty of space for everyone to forage freely.

I'm using Benartex's "Burlap" fabric line. I love the texture of the fabric, sooo much, and their browns are no exception.

Our featured blogger this month is:

Malgorzata of Pola Quilting

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Ready for the  block? This should be an easier block to put together so the rest of the month is yours to play.

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I hope my feed is swimming in brown this month!

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