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A very large Yukkurarium
This Yukkurarium is a very large reinforced glass tank, currently housing 46 yukkuris. Long-lasting Yukkuri pellets are dropped on the sand hill on the side, resulting in them falling towards the main underwater easy place for a majority of the aquatic yukkuri (You can see some doing munch-munches and hunt-hunts). Above water, pellets are placed on the shore, for the land yukkuris as well as the Aquatic Chens, Aquatic Marisas, and Shell Marisas to feast upon.
The YoumuAlice family, being 14 yukkuri strong, has a large stockpile everyone can munch-munch on from time to time while the owner is away. Rather than having a water drip like most pet yukkuri, they can simply lick up the water within the Yukkurarium (An offscreen filter filters the water for circulation, while any pee-pee ends up in the soil, moving back to the water). The YoumuAlice family has two easy places, one plastic and pillowed one for the newborns, and a traditional leaf one for the father Youmu and koyukkuri. When it becomes colder, the poopoo rag is taken inside while the plastic home is placed on top of the underground entrance (It's light enough for even just the father Youmu to move).
For the water surface yukkuri, the Chens and Marisas often go to shore and huddle up together under their large hats on cold nights. Under the surface, there's four families, a Wakasagihime family, an Iku family, a Nitori family, and a Murasa family. They each have an alcove in the rocks as their easy place/nest, but since all of the Ikus and Murasas are out and about their alcoves are not shown. For those curious, the Ikus live right next to the Nitoris while the Murasa live in an alcove that's conveniently hidden by the large Iku with its back turned. They're not the fanciest homes ever but they can comfortably take it easy together. Sometimes the underwater yukkuris come up to the surface, like with the Wakasagihime shown. With this closer company, the Shell Marisas are not as lonely as they'd otherwise be (They cannot move around very much due to how heavy their shells are, even if they can fully retract into them). Despite Murasas being known to sink yukkuri and Nitoris being known to predate on other yukkuri, the ones here are trained pets that will not do such things.
While there are more babies being prepared, there is much more than enough food for everyone, so as long as refreshing doesn't go crazy, I won't have to install new parts to this tank...
Yukkuri Counts
Youmus: 7
Alice: 7
Aquatic Marisas: 4
Aquatic Chens: 2
Shell Marisas: 2
Murasas: 4
Wakasagihimes: 7
Ikus: 6
Nitoris: 7
Total Land Yukkuris: 14
Total Surface Yukkuris: 6
Total Underwater Yukkuris: 26
Total Yukkuris: 46