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Girls! Girls! Girls! Meet my sorority girls: PurpleHaze, Cinderella, DragonMama, Princess & SnowWhite 😍 I had to remove my guppies, PurpleHaze was a biatch face 😅 See you soon, /ʤu:n/ (June)

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My new favorite aquarium flower, ‘bucephalandra’, because it’s a REAL flower 🍃

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Betta Splendens DIY Log

Okay, Iiiii’m back, haha.. Well - I started this tumblr, because I got quite a lot of likes for this funny photo of my dumbo Princess in my DIY log. It is NOT floating, and it’s not made out of plastic, that looks like wood. It’s a mosspit, haha,  did you see, what I did there? So I needed a place to make this guide, I think, I saw the pattern in a youtube video, but I can’t remember which, sorry! So, here my guide is and enjoy:

All you need is:

- Moss - Fabric - A needle and some polyester thread - A small suction cup (I love that word!)

Step 1 - Get some moss, I used ‘taxiphyllum barbieri’ - another time I might use regular java fern or christmas moss.

Step 2 - Pick a none rotting fabric as polyester, I used the fabric used for mosquito-stay-out-screens, and cut it out in pieces approx 15 cm long x 5 cm (6″ x 2″). Remember the “tabs”.

Step 3 - I rolled it, around my fingers, and started to stich it up. Remember to cut as much of the sticky parts of, so your fish can’t get hurt. I used polyester thread, as I hope it won’t rot. I’ve made 6 pieces yesterday, and when I’ve bought more moss, I will attached it, and put it in my aquarium with CO2 attached, as I hope the moss will grow like CRAZY.

Step 4 - I cut the smallest hole in the world to press through the suction cup, as you can see it from the inside of the log.

Step 5 - Stich the moss to the log, OMG! I made a video, haha:

Step 6 - Remember to stich a little bit of moss on the insides, so your betta got a soft comfy ‘bed” in there.

Step 7 - The log is now done. Now to the hard part, convince your betta, that’s it’s a great idea to use a log. My Foxy, she hates it. 

I hope this helped and you liked my guide!

See you soon /ʤu:n/ (june)

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Hello,

This is my first tumblr post, but I’ll bet, there will be more ‘tumblring’, is that even a word? I’m kind of an old blogger, but I ‘blogged’ in danish, but never ‘tumblred’. So I’m sorry, if there will be some made up words here, as my english isn’t my native language. 

Well, I’m 30 (oh dear!) & happily married to my firefighter <3 I’ve to cats & approximately 200 aquarium fishies, I might be lying, as 150 of them are shrimps, are shrimps fishes? Hm..

My husbond (omg, I sound so old) started our aquarium hobby by buying a 240L, as I’ve seen my parents buy fish, many fishies, as my dad is a fish nerd, haha. We started a South American community tank. We made A LOT of DIY; the backgrounds, bought special soil for the plants, lot of driftwood, got the stones from a nearby limestone quarry etc.. Then we removed the stones, because those South Americans DOES NOT like hard water. Well, we were newbies and are still learning. So yes, that project got kind of geeky, as I like to read EVERYTHING about stuff and play with water values, fish breeding, although no babies has come out if yet, except shrimp babie ;) Now we got 6 aquariums running and 2 more to go! So stay tuned, as I believe our new passion: Betta Splendens - will start a lot of reading, learning and geeking as we go! And I keep ‘tumblring’..

See you soon /ʤu:n/ (june)