#Black Neon Tetras

[i-give-you-a-fish]

May i get your angriest tetra?

Certified Frowner

You get a Black Neon Tetra

Hyphessobrycon herbertaxelrodi

[arytha]

[ID from ALT: A digital fullbody drawing of my new mer OC, Llyr. He is contorted weightlessly in deep water, as if sitting. Llyr looks at the camera morosely, his ice blue eyes have white pupils. His tail and scales on his arms are inspired by Longfin morph Neon Tetras, with a tail that starts blue a little above his waist with a white stripe that continues on his arm scales, with a bright flash of red coloring the lower half of his tail. His transparent pectoral fins drape from the sides of his upper body, covering his clawed hand. His hair is white, flowing softly down his back, and he is wearing a simple light blue crop top with short sleeves. Four flowy transparent fins float in their places down his tail, ending in a wide transparent caudal fin stained red in the middle like his fish body. A blue ring frames his upper body, and he's glowing faintly. End ID]

A name he chose for himself, Llyr.

[deepfriedseagullfeet]

seriously considering getting a blacklight for my room and making it blacklight themed with neon paintings/posters everywhere and getting a glowy bong with neon stickers all over it and smoking cringe weed in my lame ass blacklight themed room like a generic teenager who genericly likes weed

[subbyp]

when u Mom com home and be hte spagheti

[Video: A female pearl gourami repeatedly darts up to a woman’s arm and tries to eat her body hair as she repositions a sponge filter in the gourami’s tank.]

[spideraquarium]

29 gallon, 8 months ago...

Good lord do plants grow if you give 'em a bit of light and aquasoil!

(also the loaches do like to burrow so much they more the entire half a ship along)

[souptomatobasil]

My mom has a fish hyperfixation check this OUT

[dinagothsdress]

i'm in my fish enjoyer era

[spidermilkshake]

Finally got the full stocking of water-puppers in the 29 gallon. Slightly more than I planned due to a few extra fishes being in the bag.

Joining the five flame tetras and four kuhli loaches are a happy, healthy school of ten Black Neon Tetras and nine Pygmy Corydoras! They're all juveniles just big enough to be safe around adult fish.

They are also the cutest damn critters. Watching them demolish a pinch of small pellets now. :D

[jamisonwieser]

My currently unoccupied betta tank (rest in peace, little Alphie) serves as a quarantine for new additions to my community tank.

Along with these two I'm isolating a pair of snails for two weeks. I don't want the rest of my fish infected if their carrying anything like ich or neon tetra disease.

[thevegetablewhichnoonedaresname]

maybe my first blorbo was swimmy the fish, from the children's book Swimmy, who I named one of my first fish after

[roserus-wizard]

My aquascaping hyper fixation is back y’all I wish a lot of the videos on YouTube weren’t click bait-y

[pond-ripple]

My community tank is full of tiny mysteries not pictured here lol

[kitsu-smiec]

They are lucky I love em.

I really do tho :3

[shirecorn]

Many fish species make excellent pets, given proper enrichment and attention to water parameters. Acquire a sounding vessel from your local alchemist to see if there are any demons or angels haunting your water. You can add demons to angelic water to balance it back out and vise versa. Each species has an ideal water alignment, and after letting the entities fight it out and settle, you can safely add inhabitants to your pond or tank. I recommend a small school of neon tetras, with plenty of plants in which they can hide. You will enjoy watching this species school around, as they do quite well in captivity with the proper care.

There is no proper care for mermaids.

There is no proper tank size, or water parameters, or enrichment or plants or anything.

Mermaids cannot be kept as pets. But some people do keep them confined, and traded like livestock. This, of course, is slavery. Just as we are descended from apes and mermaids are descended from fish; we are both still people.

Of course there are those who disagree with this categorization; and there are those who do believe, but do not care.

The black market is a lucrative and deadly operation, crawling in the underbelly of most major human cities. They trade in mundane humans on occasion, but usually it is creatures and artifacts with some magical component: mermaids, fairies, even magic-touched humans such as werewolves, selkies, and ogres. The latter being very difficult to contain as a live specimen, so often their pelts are sold instead. These are marketed alongside unicorn horns, kelpie manes, basilisk fangs, and all else forbidden from trade by anyone with a heart.

Apologies.

These topics often distract me from the professionalism of my calling. Suffice it to say, if this series has inspired you to fantasize about pet mermaids, do not. Consider a mundane fish, and seek friendship with mermaids at your local outreach dock.

Mermaids rescued from market and the homes of decadent aristocrats have a long journey of healing ahead of them. Many cannot speak their own species' language, but pick up the language of their captors instead. For this reason, rehabilitation is a joint effort between humans and mermaids, before returning them fully to seas and waterways.

Success is difficult, but rewarding. Much moreso than any value they could possibly hold as "pets." Please be careful, and respectful of your fellow sentient creature.

Remember, you don't have to be human to be a person. And no person wants to be be a pet.

[feather-bone]

[ID: a digital illustration of a fish facing to the right on a dark teal background, surrounded by leaves. It is black, blue, red, and grey striped and shiny, with a large blue eye. End.]

Neon tetra! They live in dark murky water in the wild and the iridescent scales shine and help them keep track of each other! They live in large schools in Blackwater streams in the Amazon river basin.

Timelapse below!

[spideraquarium]

This just in: Kuhli Loaches of all kinds are Hard to Photograph even if you Feed Them Well!

Someday soon I hope to share some great candid photos of my Kuhli loaches but even the photos I currently have the blessings of having are not so wonderful as these goofy shy eel friends so I much hold back until I have a few *perfect* showings of one of my favorite fishies.

I mean, I also love the other fish in the tank don't get it wrong... but I adore my teeny stripey shy eel bebs.