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Aw, I’m sorry for your loss- hopefully you’ll find a nice fish to replace him with. Lol, there’s actually a video on the actual listing of him, and he’s definitely got a personality on him. I’m not gonna decide on a name yet, but I’m betting he’s likely gonna end up Malibu the betta. After all, what else can his colors bring to mind?

(Just to clarify- this betta will NOT go in my 75 gallon- that’s going to be a small, shortfinned female- not Sprinkles, my absolute sociopath of a female, but some other female.) So, with that out of the way, here’s the boy! I’m deciding on names. Either Malibu, Sunset, or…S (my favorite character’s name). I’m arranging with the seller, and he will be shipped on the Monday of next week. I’ve got a nice 20 gallon set up for him- it’s supposed to be a walstad, but there’s filtration and heating anyways. Will make sure to send many fish pics when he arrives.

Gah. Of COURSE my gmail doesn’t update me when y’all post. Well, I’ll be looking over the suggestions. Thanks, everybody!

I did…it turns out I’m a idiot and forgot to adjust the temp on it. They are now heated. As for the wood bridge…whenever my pet store finally stops telling me the cholla wood isn’t here yet. So far, I’m expecting that to be in about a eternity or so. Thanks!

True, but Bluey is also the laziest betta I’ve ever had. He’s very sweet, as far as bettas go, but…I think I may just have a penchant for acquiring bettas with very strange personalities, as Sprinkles demonstrates. He mostly lays somewhere when I’m not feeding him. Working on getting a mirror for him, but…honestly, Reddi is the only normal betta I own. The other two are extremely strange and very cute little fish.

I think I’m likely going to set them up in the old betta tank once it’s time to add the betta. Honestly, the old tank may just become my shrimp tank if they don’t breed. Thankfully, I think I have shrimplets, so they’ll probably start soon. I like dwarf cories, my first pick, but…I’m worried they’re going to suddenly hide one day and I’ll never find them until I break the tank down. Plus, temp. I figured I’d either do green neons or dwarf Cories. Will probably get nerites and a mystery snail as far as inverts.

Just planted this today- few shrimp in here, shortly getting shafted to a breeder net to test my betta/grow out without getting lost. The shell is a feeding dish. (btw- the heater isn’t working. Idk why. I’m fiddling with it, but I get the feeling it’s busted and I need to buy a new one)

Yeah, this may just end up being a betta tank anyways for that reason. I was hoping to have something that didn’t require lots of movement. Aka, small solitary fish like bettas that still don’t move a lot. I might end up with annual killifish or something.

So, I’m shifting my bettas to new tanks. Sprinkles, my female, is much too aggressive to live in a community, but my other betta, Reddi, is fine with most types of fish as long as they don’t go to the top frequently or bite his fins. What would be a good stocking choice with them? I’m really hoping to keep Cherry shrimp with them as well, so if the fish/inverts are shrimp-safe that would be good. It’s fine if they aren’t shrimplet safe.

So, I brought two three-gallon longs a few months ago. These tanks functionally have the same size as a 5 gallon, but are only 7 inches long and 5 wide. They make up for it by being 18 long. In one, my old betta Bluey lives. The other one I brought for bettas also, but now I’ve decided to shift the betta currently living in it (Sprinkles) to a ten or a five gallon. What can I do now in terms of inhabitants?

I’m thinking then that I can keep the guppies out until it hits around 50 degrees, then I’ll take them inside to live in a 20 long.

Wow, those discus are incredible! Nice aquascape, too! Well…I do have a 75 gallon I thought would be a good choice for discus. I’m still looking at other options, of course- I wouldn’t call myself a novice, but I also wouldn’t call myself a total expert. Still, this is a piece of hope- I was planning a more rigorous maintenance routine on it for just tetras. The only other big thing that’s giving me pause now is feeding. Worried I’ll get 40$ discus and they’ll starve. I kind of want tankmates, but with discus, that doesn’t seem like a good idea.

Can I ask how you heat them in the winter if they’re outdoors? I’m thinking I could just take one of those old, big ceramic planters (easily 50+ gallons) and use it as a pond for the guppies. Outdoors would admittedly be much better, but I’m worried about my fishies freezing- it normally doesn’t get too low here, but it does get cold enough for water to freeze every so often in the winter. Surprisingly, it wasn’t a very well-lit guppy pond- the only plants I could see were varieties of lotus, and the guppies were the brightest things there. Couldn’t exactly verify the substrate, but I’m betting it was just potting soil. Was probably about a foot or two deep, so…about 3-4 inches of soil?

That’s impressive. I’m honestly unsure if the goldies were for sale or were like…store pets? Maybe hand-ins? I can’t see them being kept in bowls at this size, so I bet the store either raised them as a example or someone had to move and couldn’t take these two chunks with them. Either way, one of the most impressive things I’ve seen in a store for a while now.

So, to people with discus- what does maintenance on the discus tank look like for you? I’m seeing tons of discus lately, and I mean…how hard can it be to keep them? If my LFS can do it I can definitely do it, right?