Development process of 2 jigsaw puzzles - Update 12th October and completed (both)

On the 25th of September I started working on this amazing picture with poisonous plants

 

 

I had to interrupt the lesson on how poisonous european plants can be 

because we started an event with another 2000pc. jigsaw puzzle - on the 1st of October.

 

It is called "simultanous assembling of a jigsaw puzzle" and is explained easily:

Somebody asks if other members of the german jigsaw puzzle forum own a special motif and we organize a special day to start assembling it. Everybody is invited to jump on with its own jigsaw puzzle. From day to day we post our efforts and successes, until everybody has finished. This is our 69th event and it depicts this beauty by artist demelsa haughton

 

 and here we are

 

 

still a long way to go

... finally, with properly assorting the remaining 320 pcs. I hope to complete this wunderful jigsaw puzzle very soon. 

 Actually I can't wait to show all those amazing and fantastic details!

 

Finally, this wonderful jigsaw puzzle has been completed yesterday. 

 

 now I am busy completing this one (12.10.2025)

 

 

I visited a marine aquarium in Thuringia

 45 Pieces

Marine Aquarium, Zella-Mehlis, Thuringia (Germany)

 50° 39′ N, 10° 40′ E
Link to the official website (german)

The entrance fee is 10 € + I really paid a small amount for taking photos inside the aquarium  - without flash, of course. I really took my chance :-)  and I hope you have fun watching the photos

Der Eintritt kostet 10 € und ich musste einen kleinen Obolus bezahlen, um im Aquarium fotografieren zu können. Ohne Blitz natürlich. Ich habe meine Chance wirklich genutzt :-) Ich hoffe, ihr habt Spaß an den Aufnahmen

 Little Dog Olivia is looking for fishies.... and sipping water from the pond

Olivia schaut nach Fischen und schlabbert Wasser aus dem Bassin.

Marine life and fishes

Tiere des Meeres

 

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A bull's eyed view on a seahorse-biosphere

Blick durch ein Bullauge auf ein Seepferdchen-Habitat

 

Sharks and rays in several bassins with 250.000 litres and 1-Million-Liters

Haie und Rochen in den großen Bassins mit 250.000 l und 1.000.000 l

 

some sharks are ovipar, which means that they are growing in eggs:

Manche Haiarten sind ovipar - sie reifen in Eiern

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Morays always look unhappy- so would I if I am forced to live in the shadow of a hideaway

Muränen sehen immer ziemlich genervt aus - das würde ich auch, wenn ich ein Schattendasein führen müsste

a young lionfish - how he loves to pose!

Ein junger Rotfeuerfisch - er liebt es, sich der Kamera von allen Seiten zu zeigen

 
 

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Let's take a look at some crocodiles:

Im Krokodilhaus

A cute bird - free-flying

Ein putziger Vogel - freifliegend

La dolce vita below a heating lamp

Süßes Leben unter einer Wärmelampe

Cuddling in a group

Gruppenkuscheln

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 Turtle love

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Horseshoe Crab - with only little changes over the last 450 million years

Pfeilschwanzkrebs - lebende Fossilien seit 450 Millionen Jahren

 

Turtle-tower

 Schildkröten-Türmchen

A discus - fish

Diskusfisch

An Axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) - in 1804 Alexander von Humboldt brought the first Axolotl to Europe - it was a curiosity at the natural history museum in Paris.

Ein Axolotl  - 1804 brachte Alexander von Humboldt als Erster ein Axolotl nach Europa - es diente als Kuriosität im Pariser Naturkundemuseum