#and some corydoras
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I want a something like a fish in a fishbowl experience without the cruelty that is a fish in a fishbowl is.
#ghost posts#fish in a fishbowl is relaxing to look at until you learn ™#I feel so bad for the betta fish we had when I was 9 we know better now#we had a 20gal aquarium later for neon tetras#and some corydoras#but the betta fish was first w my cousins old fishbowl#it makes me feel kinda sick now remembering it#like bettas are smart and need room to swim and play#not with other fish tho like they need fish sudoku or smth#super cruel to do to a fish like imagine being stuck in your room#with no entertainment and also they’ve turned off the air circulation#and they give you a bucket to go in that starts to stink to keep in it#this is an anti fish cruelty and anti fishbowl blog
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I don't get to see my pygmy corydoras too often, as they are my nocturnal crew in my interspecies neon tetra tank, but every so often they do cute shit like hang out together on the anubias 🌿
#i lost one recently to an issue i couldnt identify that seemed almost neurological#so especially happy to see some others doing well!#also#the white dots are nerite snail eggs so please dont ask lol#aquaria#pygmy cory#corydoras#planted tank#freshwater aquarium#marine biology#marine bio#marine biology studyblr#marine bio studyblr#biology#aquarist#fish keeping#aquarium#animals#cute animals
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i dont understand why ppl dont like researching their pets before they get them im having so much fun rn
#gonna start an aquarium in hopefully a couple months!!#reading abt fishes watching videos abt fishes absorbing information abt what to do for my fishes#<- the most fun stuff possible :) <3#im gonna get some corydoras catfish some neon tetras & some african dwarf frogs#becoming so fond of them as species just by learning abt them. ily beasts & creatures
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Now we wait :)
#mutantenfisch tank#<- my new tag for my aquarium endeavour#i got this 60 l cube for cheap on ebay and it's going to house some shrimps and about a dozen small fish in the future#thinking about a school of 5 to 7 of either Otocinclus or Corydoras pygmaeus about 9 to 13 celestial darios and about a dozen red shrimps#can't remember their exact name just now#but before the critters move in there i want this baby to boot itself up and the plants to grow in#so there won't be any fish there before next year :)#still waiting for the literal dust to settle that i stirred while planting the background plants#let's hope they take root!!!#also yeeeee moss ball algae my beloveds!!!#still thinking about getting some nylon strings from grandpa to turn them into floating balls though :)#or pull the big one you can see apart to attach it to the root
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Agonising over when to get another Betta for this tank ... I know in my head I should do it sooner than later because the longer I leave it the less choice I have when it comes to the current stock my store has but ...
I'm still ripped up over Fish Karlach's death. I had her for such a short time and I still miss her, and I'm not sure my tank is in the clear. Another Corydora, a more mature one too, passed away but I noticed this one developing a problem around the same time the issue with the Betta started, and after a chat with my shop bought stronger medicine since what I was using probably wasn't cutting it - but I think in the end that was just too much for her. She was on the way out and I probably could have saved her if I went for help sooner but couldn't really do much while waiting to be clear of COVID (absolutely shit timing btw).
I was looking at the females at the shop on that day and just ... I didn't want them. I wanted her back. I know it's just my extremely bad luck, I did just about everything right with the knowledge I had available at the time and literally dealing with COVID, but it just hurts when like, I know there are betta fish out there living in unheated, unfiltered shitty, tiny tanks with plastic plants still live whereas mine, in a carefully managed heavily planted tank had to die. It's not fair.
What also sucks is with this shipment at the store, all the females are just marbles- maybe even from the same spawn and I'm straight up allergic to that gene because I know of its high risk for tumors. I generally don't want a marble. At all. But unfortunately all the other non-marble, specific-type fish are all Males, which I think would be more likely to have a behavioural issue in a community tank considering all the females are still stocked together so they're used to other fish already. I don't really have much in the way of other options unless I take a near 2hr drive way north of my city but even then fish stocking in Western Australia just plain sucks.
Maybe I'll wait a week. Idk. But pretty sure the methalyne blue that went in the tank will have killed off any remaining bacteria (what was theorised to be the cause) kicking around in there. I definitely know there are no parasites, since that treatment ran for like 2 weeks. Not really wanting to do a full course of methalyne blue though since I could tell some of my plants weren't liking it, and the one fish I was treating for died quickly anyway. Still a decent amount in there, just less. Probably need two more water changes to clear it.
I need to move on but goddamn I don't think I could deal with another sick fish.
#kerytalk#fish nonsense#ventposting#I don't want to think its the store but I'm developing trust issues#but its the considered the best in our state so idfk man#all my water parameters were constantly pristine#if there was an ammonia spike setting it off it cleared so fast I couldn't see it#I use the master kit too#even the guy at the store was stumped#figured out i was probably using the wrong med the whole time and the others i had on hand weren't strong enough but#literally no idea what went wrong here#at this point the tank has had literally EVERY kind of medicine in it for a week at some point#ammonia spike from shifting substrate a bit during a water change? no idea#also test my water temp every time before putting new water in#everyone else is fine btw im just down to 4 corydoras now#the fact its the disabled and runty one still kicking is really something#if any were to go I'd have expected them but NOPE#they do have male samurai's though#is this my sign to grab one and call it johnny silverfish?
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many pleco + some bonus corydora
#some of them were at least a foot long#pleco#plecostomus#pleco catfish#corydora#corydoras#cory catfish#corydora catfish#fish#fishkeeping#fish tank#fishblr#aquatic#aquatic life#marine animals#marine biology#marine life#sea critters#sea animals#sea life#sea creatures#ocean animals#ocean creatures
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I think it's safe to say I've very much become a fish person 😅 Say hello to Breadstick's new friend Baguette!! They're both dojo loaches C:
#my pets#breadstick my miserable fish#aw shit baggy needs a special tag too now hmmm#baguette the weatherman#(bc theyre also called weather loaches since they can sense barometric pressure and let you know its about to storm!)#baguette is very active and currently going ballistic over an algae tablet i put in there for them to eat#nobody else in the tank has had any interest in the tablets so we thought we'd wasted money#but HOO BOY does baguette love the one i just gave him#i might post some pics of the corys tomorrow too bc i adore them#i mean Stephs frogs and chad the guppy are cool too#but ive become completely enamored with my dojo loaches and corydoras catfish 🥺#theyre just so shaped#there's something about those two species.....ive spent months getting emotional every time i see my corys#and now its happening with breadstick and baguette too#im not exaggerating when i say i actually cried a lil when i brought them home bc i think theyre so cute
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it's new years eve and my fish are so fucking serene. the 11 o clock loghts are on
#fish#forgive my slightly raggedy little corydoras.... the store i usually buy them from have been selling them to me with#some kind of genetic disease (i think) that seems to cause them seizures#and this one is the last survivor#and thr poor thing got a little sick#but im working on improving things#luckily it seems to be going strong#anyway. happy new year it's fish! my family are watching new year streams as i watch my fish
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SO RUDE...
#yeah but no my platies eat more algae than my corydoras do lmao#my corydoras will eat some off the driftwood but are more excited about finding shrimp pellets and worms#hades.txt
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lil jimmy and carl
#txt#fishblr#corydoras#their new roomates (more pandas) will be coming this week yippeee#i also ordered a new driftwood piece and some java fern bc a lot of the plants i had died off bc of the current diatom bloom#that im working thru (why the glass is icky. im scared to scrape it bc no matter what it disperses. im hoping regular water changes#and more plants+higher light will choke it out#like its not bothering me except it keeps coming back to the front glass and i like to watch my fish......
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Some pictures of the pygmy corydora fry I had last year…second has the tip of my finger for scale.
Plus, a slightly older baby whose grown up stripes were starting to come in!
#the little whiskers KILLED me they were so so cute#i ended up going from 6 cories to 12…had to give some to my lps but I hope they’re doing well#fishblr#pygmy corydoras#corydoras pygmaeus#my tanks#10g#photo
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Last Night:
This morning:
they just love to look so fucked up and rotting. I guess. for fun?
#toy pic post#undescribed#90gal#corycats#corydoras#corydora catfish#the duality of corydora?#i promise perspective is making that size difference look even worse than it actually is. the big cory IS a bit closer to the camera.#also when i fucking woke up that one on the outside looking so so so bad was in the exact same spot and if it was still there after therapy#i was gonna maybe poke it. probably feed first since i want to feed them today but. yea#it stayed there all night and then now its. acting normal. swimming about. being social with its friend#THAT SAID i do notice that chunk of tail missing. luckily i only think its that one. the other has a healthy tail....but fucked up dorsal#BUT the fucked up dorsal might be my nemo attempter. cos whichever one did that did fuck up the dorsal a bit?#anyway. theres 5 large bronze/green ones in there and 2 of these guys so im hoping the aggression balances?#and that one in the pic is the Largest of all of them. i think thats the only green one?#but idk. hopefully i can get my shit in order and get a qt tank and then maybe i can add like ? 4 more lil white guys and then maybe theyll#be less bullyable. harder to single out?#i still think this tank is the better option rn considering that i started with 6 in the 40gal and now i have only 2#and never found any corpses. only. very very fat kuhli loaches and an extremely fat clown pleco#i want to add loaches to that tank eventually but i fear ill be growing them out in a qt tank cos otherwise they might get eaten#my loaches are so so fat rn and im worried i wont find any big enough to homd their own for sale#but i should also maybe be able to get some in at work now easier? so theres that#and realistically by the time i have my shit together enough to think about a qt tank ill prolly be trained in the fish room by then
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”Support your local fish store! Small businesses deserve your support more than big box stores!” means absolutely nothing when the only one near you keeps selling sickly fish that die in your cycled tank less than 24 hours after buying them, just for the record.
#i feel sick#saturday afternoon I bought 6 guppies and two gouramis#when I woke up Sunday the two prettiest guppies were dead and when I got home from church two more had died#then today when I got home from work one of the gouramis had died too#two years ago I bought a bunch of corydora catfish from them and the whole shoal was dead within a couple weeks#but the betta I got from them was the healthiest fish I ever had (Aurora) so I decided to give them one more chance#I’m just really upset right now#all I wanted was a community tank and it’s never worked out for me#I’ve got some other crap going on right now and this isn’t helping#pet death tw#I’m only going back to the lfs for supplies from now on since they keep medication in stock and our closest chain store doesn’t
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I finally made some long out of stock, but often requested Gold Laser Corydoras, as well as some not so requested Golden pencilfish!! These and some other fish are available over here: https://www.palaeoplushies.com/
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FISH ≠ HUMAN
genre. fluff. sickfic. warnings. reader is sick (only headache/nausea is mentioned). donghyun is trying his best </3 pairing. leehan x fem!reader. wc. 423. request. no. a/n. written just quickly for @blue-jisungs bcuz whenever my friends are sick i feel compelled to write them sickfics bcuz like well... they deserve it :( so i hope this makes you feel a bit better and get well soon my baby <33
“You don’t think that… fish antibiotics would work, would they?” You heard your boyfriend call out from the bathroom, shuffling through the cabinets for the medication that he swore he had. You wanted to laugh, but that would lead to another coughing fit and you really couldn’t handle that right now.
“I’m not a fish, Donghyun.” You mumbled quietly, closing your eyes again.
“What was it that you said you needed? Ibuprofen? I only have fish ciprofloxacin, though…” He muttered the last part quietly, taking one last onceover of the shelf before giving up. “I think I’ll have to go pick something up at the store. Do you need anything else? Anything I can do before I go?” He asked a little awkwardly, scratching the back of his neck.
It was clear that your boyfriend had no idea how to treat human sickness once it proved to be different than treating his fishes. He knew what to do if one of his corydoras had fallen ill— isolate the fish, clean the water regularly with antibiotics and methylene blue when needed, even apply some topical disinfectants when needed. But when it came to his girlfriend, he was almost clueless.
He knew the basics; making sure you got lots of sleep and drank water or tea. But he didn’t have any medication to give you or any other expertise in the area. You were lucky that Donghyun didn’t have a busy schedule for the next couple of days.
“Just get the ibuprofen… my head is killing me. Maybe some ginger tea? My nausea still hasn’t gone away.” You asked softly, and Donghyun nodded.
He crouched down, feeling your forehead again. He placed his other hand on his own forehead, trying to differentiate the two, but from his furrowed confused eyebrows, you were guessing he couldn’t tell. You pushed his hand away, urging him silently to go out to the store.
“Right, sorry.” He frowned. He kissed your forehead quickly before leaving, promising to be back with medication, tea, and anything else he could find at the store.
You sighed once you heard the front door close, your eyes drifting over to the fish tank in the room, watching the little creatures swim around in their seaweedy home. You smiled. You knew your boyfriend was trying his best, and you appreciated his willingness to get you what you needed. He cared about you just as much as he cared about his fish— but he still had a lot to learn about taking care of another human.
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Sometimes you just need to draw some fish <3
Pygmy Corydora and Otocinclus catfish my beloveds
#artists on tumblr#digital art#fish art#fishblr#just wanted to doodle some lil guys cause I wanna set up some tanks soon akfhjsfh
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