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[sistersavelorn]

Fish List

I love fish so much. I have only been thinking about fish. Here is a list of my favorite fish in no particular order, with facts and random commentary sprinkled in between.

Copper Rockfish

If someone asks me what my favorite fish is, I'll say Copper Rockfish. It was the first fish I ever caught (and had to put back, since Rockfish are endangered), but genuinely I just think they look really neat. They're my favorite out of all of the Rockfish species.

2. Quillback Rockfish

Though Copper Rockfish are my favorite Rockfish, I'll also shoutout Quillback. I really like how their spines are blue, and standout really well against the yellow and black. All Rockfish are venomous (to my understanding), but I've always found these ones to be the most intimidating if only because the spines are so much bigger than the other subspecies.

3. Sockeye Salmon (spawning)

For those who don't know, salmon spawning is when salmon return to their birthplace (freshwater) to lay eggs and die, and they also change appearance. Pre-spawning, while they are in saltwater, all the different subspecies pretty much look the same: silver and lumpy, with only minor differences between them. When spawning, they all turn more green and red and become more distinct from one another. I've always liked Sockeye the most, with their green heads and bright red bodies, and the shape of their heads/mouths. I think it's really an iconic look.

4. Flounder

I love flounder just because they look stupid. Fun fact: they don't actually start flat. They're born looking like "normal" fish, with one eye on each side of the head, but as they grow the face shifts onto the top and they flatten to better blend in with the sea floor. Imagine hitting puberty and you turn into Flat Stanley lmao.

5. Cabezon

Cabezon, like Rockfish, have venomous spines. Also their meat is blue until you cook it, where it turns white, which I think is neat. Usually, they reside really deep in the ocean, but in fall and winter they come more into the shallows to make nests and lay eggs. The males are left behind to guard them, so this is the best time to catch one if you don't want to go out on a boat, and also don't want to worry about catching a female. I've never eaten one, but my dad says that they have a texture more similar to chicken.

6. Betta

Pretty basic species of domestic fish, but I still really like them. I had a red and blue male as a kid named Spike. Bettas are usually surface/top fish, but Spike liked to go to the bottom to feed with the Emerald Corydoras I had, and sleep on the moss ball (like it was a little bed). He had a surprising amount of personality for a fish.

7. Emerald Corydora

Corydoras are basically just little freshwater catfish. They like to be in groups, so you have to have at least five if you want to have them at all. I had Emerald Corydoras growing up, and I loved watching them spend all day picking at the sand with their little whiskers for food. They remind me of cows.

8. Panda Corydora

Panda Corydoras are also really neat. I like how shiny they can be, I think it makes them look like little Pokémon.

9. Albino Corydora

Albino Corydoras are cool, especially in comparison to the other species. I think they all look like little old men.

10. Koi

Another kind of basic fish, but they're still cool and I want to point them out. They can get really big if they're not kept in a small enclosure (Domestic Koi can get between 12 and 15 inches, Japanese Koi between 22 and 26, and Jumbo Koi between 34 and 36).

11. Pufferfish

Like flounders, they also look stupid and it amuses me endlessly. They have these two front teeth for breaking into snail shells and slurping them out. I remember there was this really big one at the fish store I used to go to (nearly identical to the one pictured on the left) that would follow your finger if you dragged it across the glass, all the while with that big-ass stupid smile on it's face. They're just so full of whimsy.

12. Telescope Goldfish

Never owned them but I think they're really neat. "Awooga!!" ahh fish. What are they goggling at smh.

[photozoi]

"Thank you for your most sage advice, oh Great and All Knowing Julii!"

"I have come to seek the wisdom of the Great and Powerful Julii!"

"Oh Great Julii, I, too, have come to seek your Guidance!"

"I have come to seek the wisdom of the Great Julii!"

(Not bad, so far today I have received 5 bloodworm payments.)

"Have you come to seek my Great Wisdom as well?"

"No, FALSE Julii, I have NOT. I am here to tell you to stop scamming the Little Ones or I will return with some Real Wisdom for you!"

"It's ok, you can come out now, the False Julii has been shut down and we all get our bloodworms back!"

Wyatt, Peacekeeper of the 30 Gallon tank. He ensures everyone gets their fair share.

[ametat-arts]

panda corydoras

[doxiedreg]

Photo I took a while ago of 3 of my panda cories hanging out in a lil group again and a friend said they looked like they were about to drop a music album

People of tumblr, what would their band name be and what kind of music would they make?

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Love your account! Have you ever done a fact for corydora catfish? They're my absolute favorite

Yes I have! Fish facts #262 and #335. However, since it’s been over 100 days, I’ll make a new one!

Daily fish fact #483

Panda corydoras!

The rivers they live are largely made up of the meltwater of the snowy Andean mountains! As such the water tends to run cooler, which these fish are in fact adapted to.

[littleprincesnek]

'I say, this new 'green' channel is quite riveting!'

[doctorwormcore]

Bloodworm time!

[darksouls2yuri]

do you have pets and if you don’t what would you want them to be

woodchip, krod, henry, lil jimmy

[erythristicbones]

THE BREADSTICK BOY IS HOME (+ our new tank setup and the panda corys i got to go with my other 3 corys :3)

[pluckedanarchist]

So SMALL.....

[aquariumfacile]

Tout savoir sur les Corydoras Panda, le guide complet

Découvrez tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur le magnifique corydoras panda ! :)

Si vous cherchez des compagnons adorables et bénéfiques pour votre aquarium d’eau douce, les Corydoras Panda sont peut-être exactement ce que vous recherchez. Avec leurs motifs distinctifs et leur comportement actif, ces petits poissons de fond sont des joyaux pour tout aquarium. Dans cet article, nous vous emmènerons dans le monde des Corydoras Panda en vous présentant leur morphologie unique,…

[chipped-chimera]

Aquarium update - I have a Betta again! Got kind of burned last time so I travelled wayyyyy north from where I am to get her, along with some cories. It's been about two weeks since, judging my water changes (do about 25% a week, not because the water needs it but more because any longer and my filter gets gummed up) and she's been doing really well. She's changing rapidly, but she was very juvenile when I got her (like literally only a bit bigger than some of my green neons which max out at 3cm) which I expected, since marble gene. The contrast of a few weeks though is kinda nuts.

Not quite named yet, since honestly I was so burned from last time (RIP fish Karlach 😔) that I've been hesitant to name her or even share anything about her online. Also because I literally have no idea how she's gonna look in a few weeks as she matures.

I was thinking maybe Arita or Imari since her patterning reminds me of Asagi Koi and Imari-Arita Ware ceramics? Leaning towards Arita since it sounds a bit 'sassier' I guess (idk, vibes) and she definitely is that. I'll take suggestions though!

Anyway more fish rambling below -

Honestly I was so hesitant to get her, but I was already putting in replacement Cories after a mystery disease decimated my Corydora population, leaving my admittedly kind-of-fat female Three Lined solo. Whatever contagion was in the tank is either gone or dormant (since a lot of fish disease I know is entirely reliant on how stressed a fish is - they can still be a carrier but completely fine) after basically doing every treatment I had at my disposal. I think it was a mix of parasitic and bacterial, maybe fungal? Hard to target given all my tank tests consistently returned a big fat 0ppm for all the bad shit. My tank is about as clean as it gets - I only change about 25% weekly and that's more to clean sludge out of the filter, it never really needs it. Admittedly some of the deaths I contributed to because I wasn't aware how much my tank PH had changed over the months (test your PH regularly guys), apparently the huge chunks of wood have exhausted all their tannins cause I've gone from acidic to more basic. It seems to be holding about 7.8, apparently related to the Seiryu stone in there. Basically water changes caused the PH to flux to much, contributing to stress for the Cories. Yeah I feel bad but I'm also not blaming myself since a. Literally first tank b. I am learning the fish hobby is really annoying for consistent information. Like literally information that doesn't contradict itself half the time. A lot of that is the reason why I've been slowed down in figuring out what is going wrong and that ultimately has resulted in a lot of loss.

Important part though is everyone seems to be doing fine, and I've learned enough now to maybe recognise stuff a lot faster. One of the Pandas, after my first water change developed a big fungal streak down it's body (I'm guessing it scuffed itself in a panic somewhere) but had that treated easily within about 3 days with just Pimafix. No seriously, they're doing well. Well enough they apparently spawned? Saw the betta striking some mystery thing on the glass. I thought it was a freshwater limpet (they've been in there, just haven't seen them in a while) and realised no, actually an egg. Not opposed to this since I'm pretty close to stocking limit (at least in a regular, unplanted tank) so I'm down for the population control.

Betta really is a little predator though. She's honestly weird for a Betta in that she doesn't show interest in food. At all. She might nibble at a fallen bit but couldn't care less about anything I put on the surface or during feeding time. Been monitoring her weight, and she's definitely not underweight. Guess I have enough random critters in my tank (Planaria, about a million scuds since my last-ditch effort treatment to save a Cory decimated my shrimp population. I lost my favourite orange/red shrimp too 😭) to sustain her? Worry is of course I need to re-establish more shrimp. There are some left but nowhere NEAR what I had before. I've seen her chase a few who appear, she definitely has them on alert but they tend to be too big for her anyway. And too fast. Juveniles though ....

I do have a HUGE amount of hiding places for new, young shrimp (just moss. So much moss) but I think I'll maybe raise them in a netted isolation box until they're big enough that she's no longer a threat maybe? Idk. That or I get technically-not-allowed Cherry Shrimp from someone local, since they tend to be adults. Juveniles are kind of my only option at my local store.

Anyway that's the ramble!

[photozoi]

"I dunno, I think we should have turned back there. That's the same piece of wood we saw the last 6 times."

Panda corydoras

[bestanimal]

I voted neutral on Ichthyostraca but let me tell you it was NOT easy 😅 I have a personal grievance with Ich, I lost all 10 of corydora to it. It was my first indoor aquarium and first run in with ich as well: I had 3 albino bronze Corys, 2 regular bronze and a glo bronze, and 2 melanistic pandas and 2 regular from the same batch. Cutely my male Melanistic panda corydora Romeo was infatuated with my biggest corydora Ghost a female bronze albino. After they died I ended up bleaching the entire 40 gallon tub and throughly rinsing and soaking it before I got it started back up again. Thankfully I haven’t had a run in with ich since and I switched to guppies, which ended up being a good thing even though I have an all female tank one ended up being pregnant and I ended up with my five baby guppies who I love even more? Than all of my other fish not that I pick favorites but I was with them from day one and they are the only ones who never run from me for anything a net or otherwise 😂

That type of Ich (Ichthyophthirius multifiliis) is actually a parasite called a ciliate, and is not an animal at all! It’s easy to confuse them with fish lice though: they both start with Icthyo (coming from the Greek “ichthys” as they’re both parasites of fish). Ichthyostracans can usually be seen with the naked eye running around on the scales of fish and don’t have to stay latched on.

I feel your pain though. I had an outbreak of Ich in my large tank once, and lost some cherry barbs and a tetra. I managed to kill off the parasites without any chemicals by gradually increasing the temperature of the tank, up to 80-85 Fahrenheit. Somehow most of my fish survived the ordeal, even though a lot of them were absolutely coated in spots. 😬

Including my immortal South American Bumblebee Catfish. Maybe I’ll make a seperate post about my immortal South American Bumblebee Catfish when we get to Actinopterygii…

[doxiedreg]

When i was checking on my fish yesterday I spotted one of my little panda cories just sitting there with their mouth slightly agape and their derpy lil eyes which just looked so funny to me so I snapped some photos and shared these with my friends

I then cropped the second photo to this, intending to make it an emote:

And then one of my friends turned my fish into this glorious meme:

Which i just had to show you guys on Tumblr as well. I just didn't get to it yesterday

Also this might be the same fish from this picture from months ago:

Guess they just like staring out of the tank

God I love my panda corycats they are such silly lil beasts