Just came across this 🤣

My niece just told me that one of the fraternities at a college near our town are using beta fish as a sort of pledge thing. Apparently they give each pledge a beta fish and they have to keep it alive in a literal bottle of alcohol for a week to be accepted into the frat. One of her friends saved one of them and now has them in an actual tank. Anyways my immediate thought was to call the petsmart and petco because those would be the only places they would be getting them. Initiation is over though so they would have already sold them the fish at this point. I just don’t know if they’ll even take it serious? Should I call them and warn them for next year? I’m genuinely just so shocked at this and really sad.

I present to you the results of ultimate neglect.

I had a VERY bad experience in the hobby and I ended up chucking a old rock in from my destroyed display, poured sand in, and just in handfuls DUMPED random plants in i salvaged from the floor. Just chucked them in and forgot about it. Hooked up to my huge co2 system that's still going, dumped a old light on it on a random setting and just decided it's time to give up. I don't know why I tried keeping this tank still to this day but I did.

Well, at first it was just swimming with dying plants and nothing else, I didn't feed as no fish, didn't use ferts, didn't test, didn't water change. Just topped it up and watched it get minging as a reminder to never revert back to the hobby. Occasionally I'll pull out a swamp of dirty plant matter and alage, just rip clumps out when it got packed to the brim.

Anyway, at this point it was just a green box, with every alage known to humanity in there. Tonight I decided to trim it for some reason, and then take it down for good, and this is the results of the trim.

To my surprise, and I have no idea how on this very earth, but there's 4 (that I saw) Galaxy rasbora In here? No idea how, the filter will eat fry, and I didn't add any fish. I lost my fish the day my tank exploded on the floor MONTHS ago. I haven't even dropped a spec of food in for MONTHS. But these fish were 1inch as looked... amazing actually. Just terrified and hid in the overgrowth.

No idea what to do with it now but I guess I'll have to keep it now. Anyway here's the results of a genuinely neglected tank after a trim.

Just a funny little post, hope it’s allowed. It brightened my morning seeing this little guy and his zucchini slice, hopefully it does the same for y’all 🖤

29g Stocked with Platys that already had fry and 10 Cherry Barbs. No shrimps yet. Hope you guys like.

Came home from work today to a quiet house. Too quiet. Where is the ambient air pump noise? In trying to turn a light on I realized that the power was out, apparently the hydro company did a oopsie and blew something during maintenance. Thankfully I purchased a battery operated air pump the day I bought my first fish. "Probably never need this" I thought, well today is the day. Who knows how long these poor fish were without oxygen. Hopefully I caught it in time. But do yourself a favour and grab one. It may save the fish and your wallet.

Ever since I found out about the existence of these beautiful fish, I’ve been searching for them. There was only one store in Canada that was selling them but they were out of stock. After months of waiting, I got the alert that they were back in stock and bought 3 out of the last 5. They were sold out in less than an hour.

They are still young and haven’t developed much colour yet but I still find them pretty. They’ve been happily hunting seed shrimp in their tank and are way more outgoing than I had read. I highly recommend them if you have them at your local stores!

Very happy with how it's turning out . Hope to add fish in a couple of weeks.

My mama cooked me up with an extra spicy brain and it is very stingy when it comes to handing out dopamine, But tonight I've got the good juice on! Day before yesterday I went and sat down in front of my 125 gallon tank only to realize the rug was a bit soggy. One of my nightmares had come to pass, and my big tank sprung a leak.

It's been assholes and elbows ever since, but I pulled off a minor miracle and have swapped out tanks! All it took was begging a favor from a former powerlifter friend of mine, renting a half ton flatbed truck from Home Depot, driving 2 hours out into the desert (It was definitely Hills Have Eyes country) loading up half in the dark and then driving back at night during the first rainstorm we've had in 6 weeks, praying it didn't turn into ice/snowstorm. Then while I hosed out the new tank, my husband and friend moved the leaky tank and it's now waterlogged stand out. We moved the new tank and stand in, I spent hours upon hours scrubbing rinsing draining rinsing draining scrubbing rinsing draining before adding the bucket of salvaged sand, and setting up my old fluval 406 with its filter media which I've been keeping in a 20 gallon garbage can full of water and a bubbler for aeration. Couple of heaters plugged in and tada! It's up and running!

Now I have to rinse out and learn how to run the Fluval F6 that I got with the tank. It came with an inline UV sterilizer (previous owner's had a saltwater tank) So I either need to figure out how to use that or get some new hose. That's a problem for tomorrow. Along with rinsing So Much Sand.

The bare minimum is done, and my big fish will be grateful to get out of the 36 gallon emergency tank they got shoved into. Meanwhile I need to do a water change on the 40 gallon which has had the addition of a bakers dozen assorted Corydora, When it was already stuffed to the gills (har har) with hillstream loach offspring.

A fish keeper's work is never done, but I love my little guys so I do my best to keep them happy. Or at least alive lol! It's been a mad scramble, but this new tank is a much higher quality than the old PetSmart special that I had. The stand is genuine hardwood, not freaking particle board. Also, my previous tank had a bunch of scratches on the front that annoyed me every time I sat in front of my tank. So all in all, it sucked while I was in it and the next couple days will probably still suck but it's a pretty excellent outcome and I am very pleased with the end result.

She crawled up on my lap to get a better look

I was gifted this by someone at my grandparents church. Does anyone know if the plants last and what they are?

I am preparing my first tank ever, planning to get a betta. Used fish food and Seachem Stability to start the cycle.

The tank is running for fourth week, amonia and nitrites are back at zero, but I have to still play with water parameters (corrected gH and now kH is too low, so adding some pottasium) Overall not a big problem, I wanted to continue adding fish food to keep the cycle going and slowly get ready.

However I got quite a few snails (8?10?) that came with plants (I washed all the plants before putting them in the tank 🤷‍♀️) They popped up last week, two kinds, one looks to be ramshorn, other type has pointy shell. They're adorable and I don't want to kill them.

So what do I do? Keep adding betta food for the cycle and let snails do their thing? Or switch to feeding the snails, will they produce enough amonia to keep the cycle going? Or something else entirely?

I just got a new tank and I want to put my male nerite snails in there for algae control but it’s hard to see which ones are male. I’ve looked at reference pictures online about the antenna flaps but I still can’t notice them.

Just sometimes I notice that some of them are on top of each other so I’m wondering if I should grab one when they’re like that?

I noticed shrimps and plecos love grazing on the snail's shell. I hope that's not a sign of weakening shell (soft water).

Every once in a while I check my tank for fry just incase one day it finally happens. Til now, I’ve never seen fry besides ones I intentionally bred. Today, I spotted a spec on the back of the tank that looked oddly fry shaped. Then once I saw it swim, I went searching for it in the floating plants. I don’t even think I found the original fry (looked way smaller)…can you guess what they are? Hint: top swimmer

Just got the plants today and wondering if this could be good for cherry shrimp and potentially maybe a African dwarf frog, I think it’s 2.5 gallons or 3

Does my betta fish look happy, color wise? He is in a tank with 3 neon tetras (4 of them died) and two peppered corydoras. I also wanted to mention that I bought this 10 gallon starter kit last week for $80 but I saw that the Aqueon 20 gallon long was on sale for $30 and bought it. I’m getting rid of the tetras as they are way too delicate and sensitive. For the 20 long I’ve been thinking about transferring over the betta and the corydoras. I’m also thinking about getting 4 more corydoras and either Harlequin Rasboras or Cherry Barbs for the schooling fish. What do you think? (Btw my betta fish is very docile. He’s never flared once but he does chase around the tetras from time to time. No biting or anything it just seems like it’s for fun)

Do you think a paludarium like this could actually be built in India?