#female betta fish

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the only somewhat decent pics Ive gotten of this 100% USDA Grade A Prime Beef

[nice-betta-thailand]

High quality Betta fish Female Queen of Black Star Avatar for sale aquatic life readily available for your freshwater exotic fish aquarium.

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Shrimp Inspector 🦐👀

[should-be-sleeping]

I've got two female betta and they're nothing alike. And I don't mean because one lady is red and the other is white, or that one's a crowntail and the other's a delta.

I mean that one sleeps gracefully in a hollow floating log, like a wet angel, while the other just crams herself into areas in positions that make her look absolutely 100% dead.

[mod2amaryllis]

i was gonna wait to post because too much betta death was making me pessimistic but this dude is already so silly

i got him yesterday, this time from lfs instead of petsmart thank you very much. he's the perfect blend of active happy healthy and yet! ugly ❤️

[cosmic-seer]

Gonna hop on the Mermay train for Day 2

[battfishe]

SOMEHOW I forgot to post this but!!! I finally got a betta!!! her name is chappell for hopefully obvious reasons but my grandpa calls her gertrude or ���gertie” and comes into my room daily to talk to her lmfao

here are some pics from when I first brought her home several weeks ago

I picked her out because she was so little and cute in the store but she ended up being SO much bigger than I thought. I’ve only kept male bettas in the past so having a female is a new experience for me but I’m glad I brought her home

[petrichora-art]

see you guys on artfight! 👊🏻

[draconic-ichor]

A MerTabby!

[killerchickadee]

Female peacock gudgeon vs female betta.

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Ms Beefs emergency 10 gallon vs the 20 high she moved into like three days later

[nice-betta-thailand]

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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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[marclef]

Hope you feel better soon!

thank you, i'm feeling a lot better today already with how kind everyone's been to me 🤗

i just needed a day to cope for my little betta, it's been almost two years since i adopted her and it just feels far too soon.

i don't think i ever showed her off, i don't have many good pictures of her (bettas never stay still i swear!) but here's the best pic i have of my good girl. she was the most chill fish, not even caring when guppies bounced off of her hehe

her favorite spot... the little printed betta cave at the top of the tank 😊

[mod2amaryllis]

betta tank updates while everybody's looking so nice after heavy maintenance this weekend. and flaring exercises!