My head is spinning....

[Andie]

We are thinking of a salt tank after we get more room and we find out if I inherited my mother's fishie death hands.

The SIL donated her 10g tank to us with all her equipment that we are going to portion of for 2 Betta with plexiglass.

[zippy-kat]

We are thinking of a salt tank after we get more room and we find out if I inherited my mother's fishie death hands.

The SIL donated her 10g tank to us with all her equipment that we are going to portion of for 2 Betta with plexiglass.

Good luck on your adventure! Can't wait to see pictures!

[Andie]

*holds hands out for punishment*

I completely forgot about this post.

Well the day after Valentine's day is where my first day of aquatic mothering began. I bought a male betta. My beautiful Neptune (yep, we stuck with the god names) has a red head that fades into blue at his fins which of course looks purple in all pictures.




His very own hotel room while the tank is being cleaned and attended to.


He loves his new bamboo stalk.

On March 30th I went into the local pet supply store to grab the dogs some pig ear chews and to check to see if they carried the filter cartridge I need because the closest Petco is 56 miles north of us so everything is either ordered online or gotten at this small local store. As I was in the fish section the word corydoras caught my eye on one of the tanks. I had read that they were good companions for bettas and had actually thought about getting a few the next time we made it up to Petco so I walk over to the tank just to look. (Regardless of what Dustin thinks that is what I went over to do.) There in the tank was a single cory looking so lonely that I had to take him home right there. That is the story of how we got Loki, our reticulated cory. (That's the one I'm sticking with too )

We did finally make it to Petco yesterday for some new plants for the tank as the original ones were growing black specks I worried was mold. We came home with new plants, a stalk of bamboo, 2 ghost shrimp, and an emerald cory. The cory (Ares) unfortunately didn't make it through the night but our shrimp (Jacques and Osiris) are thriving in their new home.

[Andie]

Loki



Oh, were you trying to take a picture of me?



Jacques


Osiris hides so imagine another Jacques

[chocolatepuppy]

Neptune is a gorgeous betta! I just love bettas! I like corys and the shrimp are cool!

[IRescue452]

Old thread but I do like a nice 5-10 gallon filtered tank with warm water and some acidity for healthy bettas. They'll live for years in terrible conditions though just like outside dogs living off their own poo and rocks and twigs. Just thought I'd warn you that bamboo is not fully aquatic so when it starts to die off you need to get it out of the tank before it rots in the water and makes the water toxic.

[Andie]

Old thread but I do like a nice 5-10 gallon filtered tank with warm water and some acidity for healthy bettas. They'll live for years in terrible conditions though just like outside dogs living off their own poo and rocks and twigs. Just thought I'd warn you that bamboo is not fully aquatic so when it starts to die off you need to get it out of the tank before it rots in the water and makes the water toxic.

Thank you for the info.