#baby betta

[amusingghost]

just some feral (mer)kids

unapologetically inspired from @swordsmans's fic the sea makes bones of bodies because i read it (again) and my GOD man it makes me feel so many things

[waterskies]

Baby brine night~~!!

Mikhail was excited that he got to have baby brine again! He raced around the tank, flaring his fins!

He picked off some here and there

Then he figured out that they gathered under the light! He nommed them down!

BURRRP!

Then, of course, it wouldn't be Mikhail if he didn't flare at me!!

[mercurysketches]

discord doods vol. 3 moist timeline edition ✨ tags below

Deacon Virgil and Cici @plaquerat

Guppy and Terzo/Teofila @tricksyfishyyyyy

Antifreeze @aweisz

Archbishop Armand @orioncorium

Betta, Sibling Rizz, Sausage, and Freder @sacred-coffin

[chipped-chimera]

Shrimp Inspector 🦐👀

[mod2amaryllis]

How are your fishies doing?

AWW thank you for asking!!!

my life has been such a fatigued whirlwind the last few months that I'll fully admit the tanks have gotten less attention. fortunately that's not a huge deal when you have planted tanks, they just chug along.

the community tanks are great, i had issues with guppies dying but i think that was just unfortunate genetic bottlenecking. :/ the deaths have stopped and there's a big new population of fresh blood fry to add to the gene pool. the little rasbora 5g is overrun with algae but the fish don't care, they're great. 40g community is as stable as ever, with the last batch of kribensis growing up peacefully.

but the sad news is Plinko. i euthanized him a few months ago when his quality of life just continued to drop. i never posted about it because i was sad. :/

i buried him in my favorite rattlesnake plant which, at the time, was dropping leaves til there were like 3 left, then after burying him it came back strong. I'm choosing to believe these things are related haha 💙

everyone else on the rack is good tho! hubble, bug, and peel. thread algae is winning the war rn but whatever

plus Plinko's successor....so.. i was at petco for something unrelated, of course, and all the bettas were in horrible shape. the clerk told me something had gone wrong with the last water change and they were dying left and right. so i go through them, not really in the headspace for a fixer upper, and there's one single boy who looks back at me with that regular betta brightness as if to say "hey. psst. get me outta here." this was Chicken the day i brought him home:

and this is him today

another pleasant big finned boy ❤️❤️❤️ awesome personality, love him. i got an adorable video the day i got him of seeing duckweed for the first time, I'll post that too

and the last update was an ill advised impulse buy who's been living in my qt tank. another, separate, petco situation. I'd seen him and left him, couldn't stop thinking about him for a week, then came back to a morbidly EMPTY betta display except for a few cups shoved on the bottom shelf, thankfully including my dude.

this is Tatters:

he's a veiltail but his tail was in, yknow, tatters, when i got him. it was another one of those betta-looks-at-me-brightly things, like his tail's gone but he's in good shape. he's a cool spunky dude and this is him today, fins have made a big ol recovery:

he's still just in the ugly little qt tank and I'm debating whether it would be a good idea to give him a scaped tank in the nursery...👀

but yes! thank you for checking on my fishventures!

[thatskindarough]

Phish update, things are going swimmingly! I got Aziraphale another live plant he absolutely loves ( I also replaced the purple spikey plant. It didn’t seem to cause issue but better safe than sorry) and the ph is now around a more safe level

As for Crowley, he’s more stunning than ever! He seems very happy, and his fins look a lot healthier! I still can’t snap a good photo of him tho 😂

Both of their sponge filters are starting to develop, and Crowleys tank as cycled itself. I’m not too sure about azirapahle’s though, I thought it had, but there was some ammonia in the water when I tested it (not a lot by any means but not 0 like Crowleys). Hopefully it’ll sort itself out this week. As far as I can tell, azirpahale is unbothered and happy as the day I got him, so I’m not too worried.

[see-anemone]

THIS JUST IN!!

my betta gave birth after three (3!!) days of meeting her new tankmate 😭?

anyways meet the fry xx

[ouiyoung]

From baby jail (cup) to quarantine (1 gal) to the big kid tank (10 gal)

Mr. Moon 🌙

[thebiotope]

(the gourami will be rehomed, jerk was attacking fish in the 30 gallon)

[existancexisxstillxpain]

Here’s some fishhh

[mutantenfisch]

A family pic of my green Neocaridina davidi shrimps and my newest family members - 5 Corydoras.

And while I was typing, Meathead was inching closer to also nibble on the ground feeder tabs.

(The arrow points to her eye)

[daughterofsarenrae]

Absolutely horrible timing for me to acquire a fish but look at him. I couldnt just leave him for some dumbass customer to chuck him in a tiny shitty unheated tank. Meet Kal (better pics to come later hopefully)

[waterskies]

Mikhail decided to try the baby brine, and he likes them~!

[savageboar]

oh my god im fucking heartbroken. i didn't see comet yesterday and i couldn't find him in the tank so i looked behind it and my worst fear is true. he somehow managed to jump out of one of the small gaps that my filter and heater go through in the lid. oh my fucking god.

[marbleboa]

Mosquito larva in my shrimp tank. You can’t be doing that shit insect baby

[moisterthanmost]

tagged by the gods biggest test to my long suffering @estinienvarlinaeu

my answers would be boring so I’ll be having my baby boy Dredge answer

^ the Dredge boy himself for those uninformed, back when he was proudly pinky sized

favorite color- the color of his emotional support cherry shrimp, whose wisdom he apparently must study every waking moment

currently reading- when he’s not studying the sacred geometry in his shrimp muse’s exoskeleton, he appears to be reading fates in the foam of his bubble nests

currently watching- shrimp

last song- the ever present divine hum of his filter and also probably the gilmore girls theme song from the TV

currently craving- shrimp (brine)

coffee or tea- tea I’d imagine, he seems to enjoy the complex notes of brown and leaf that dried almond leaves seep in his water

hobby I want to try- he’s really been wanting to get into drying out on the carpet lately, which ofc has led to a lot of resentment towards me when I cover his holding cup during water change days

other than that he’s been looking at getting his certification in All Around Bastardry, and it’s looking promising

I will tag anyone who knows how to get your wife back after she finds her seal skin in the attic, answers needed ASAP please