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waterskies · 6 months
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Just finished harassing Caius for photos.
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It's okay though. I'm pretty sure he likes the attention lol
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mod2amaryllis · 9 months
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betta tank updates while everybody's looking so nice after heavy maintenance this weekend. and flaring exercises!
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chipped-chimera · 1 month
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Today in fish nonsense! 🐟🐠- Tank is good to go! Cool wood piece is cleaned and time to spend way too long on a plan painting.
More below the cut.
Tank has been set up, leak tested so it's good to go (after I overhauled the layout of my office ... still dealing with the fallout of that though lol) and the piece of jarrah/mirra? wood that my Dad grabbed from the tree he cut down on a farm (noting this specifically because it's actually now illegal to commercially harvest Jarrah in my state - this was on private property so it's legal) has had the absolute crap scrubbed out of it - I mean literally, in the process I found yet another interesting hole in it so that's cool, then high-pressure blasted with water so I am finally ready to think about scaping.
Which apparently means spending longer than I should drawing a plan lol. This piece is super awkward to work with I think - while functionally interesting it has a silhouette that makes me oscillate between 'boring' and 'awkward'. After talking to some artist friends, generally it was agreed I'd need to put more stuff in there to actually make it look better, right now naked glass is super harsh. Problem is, rocks and wood? Well in the aquarium hobby that shit is expensive. We're talking 60 AUD+ for pieces of wood. I mean they are fully cleaned and treated (?) and selected for being interesting, but I have a budget and I'd like to save as much of it as I can for more than just harscape sooooo planning is just the right idea here.
Thinking seiryu stone because I looooove the white veining through it, and then for the branches to break up the shape it's probably going to be spiderwood or something (as much as I love mopani wood I don't think it usually sells branched like this - but I will watch out for it) but the good part is these pieces are all probably going to be on the smaller side since I have my huge hunk of feature wood for free.
I don't know how this piece of wood will interact with inhabitants, I've soaked it for probably a month at this point to get a large amount of the tannins out (and I know it waterlogs, which is great because I won't have to play 'how long will this take to sink') but also to help the looser material come off so all I'm left with now is the hard stuff. It's also now sitting in the sun (and I mean sun - it is going to be 40C today and the next few days so that shit is gonna bake 💀) but prior to that has been sitting in the sun either here or the farm for a total of about idk ... at least a month? Maybe more?
I've struggled to find information on whether Jarrah or Mirra wood is safe beyond one post on a forum where someone-who-knew-someone at a local fish shop had put a piece of this in his store tank and all the fish died. Beyond that? no more context. According to my freshwater ecologist friend I caught up with, she thinks it's probably going to be okay given the amount of time/work put in. I have not done a bleach soak and I don't think I really need to given the amount of time it's been soaking in regular tap water (so already contains chlorine) and sun exposure. There will still probably be tannin leakage into the water but I'm okay with having a mild blackwater tank after seeing one in my LFS, I actually like the slight tannin tint of water and how it makes everything a little 'softer'. But I do ACTUALLY want to be able to see though lmao. I've also seen Jarrah seed pods sold locally specifically for blackwater tank setups so it might be fine?
Either way the plan is going to be: Scape, plant, cycle and then introduction of some cheap shrimp as my poor guinea pigs to see if that wood actually is awful.
Right now I'll just have to painstakingly go through plant choices and placement and making sure it lines up with the planned parameters for the community. I absolutely will take suggestions btw.
More soon. Fish nonsense will contain fish ... at some point. I swear lmao.
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rotclaw · 1 year
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got a new friend, currently unnamed
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betta-butch · 8 months
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I’ve gotten to the point where unless someone comes to me & asks about them, I really don’t discuss betta sororities/give out husbandry pointers much. I remember giving ✨ uninvited advice ✨ one time and the person having a HORRIFIC response to that, that literally brought my depression back with an absolute vengeance for a solid week, genuinely you would have thought I was an evil human convicted of unimaginable crimes... I don’t know if any of you remember that (not sorority stuff, I think it was about a pleco?) but it was awful and so even if I have things to say I simply block people and 🤐. I no longer trust people online to be sensible and treat other people like human beings lol
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daredevil-vagabond · 1 year
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In the summer silence, I was getting violent
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prolibytherium · 4 months
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I only attract people who are extremely needy and high maintenance in ways I am not capable of dealing with or supporting OR people who I actively vibe with and could theoretically maintain a decent relationship but are ex/current christians in a perpetual state of crisis over their homo ways
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calwantsmeded · 1 year
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He noticed I was taking pictures of him
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gutsbutt · 11 months
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Experimental merm
Have some gender on this day :3
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buckybarnesss · 8 months
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the reason duecalion and peter can never be in the same room is because beacon hills cannot withstand that amount of slutty smug energy in the same vicinity.
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peggingprowl · 5 days
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Working in some getaceptor rn and. Holy shit I get tje appeal now WOW
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waterskies · 8 months
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I rescaped the 5gal and got a few new plants!
Also, introducing...
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Caius! He stood out to me right away with his brilliant blues!
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Right away, he got around to exploring! Welcome home, Caius!
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mod2amaryllis · 1 year
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my sister rescued a bowl betta from a family who couldn't take care of him any more, but when she tried to put him in with some other fish he turned out to be a meanie pants. he's staying with me in my qt tank until she can shuffle everything around for him lol. meet my temporary house guest, Bumi
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bachelorstaint3 · 9 months
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i'm gonna be sick
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delawaredetroit · 8 months
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Hmm...there’s some foreshadowing for his hero name early on with that focus on the word dynamite. The costume designers should have let him keep the ridiculous hairpiece and let him look like a betta fish.
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betta-butch · 1 year
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older and younger siblings. it’s really so much fun getting to watch these beauties grow up. it feels like they grow into their mature colorations overnight—they still have moments where they color down but once they hit a certain age, they really love to rock that beautiful turquoise and brown combo. absolutely obsessed with it.
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