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I am technically ambidextrous, but I never spend much time training my left hand. My right is injured atm, so I decided to give it a try. As I really love Bettas, I tried my hand at that. I am very happy with the result. Hope you like it :)
Suii came to me out of a rescue situation. She was as pale as a chicken cutlet. From her general shape and the hint of red she had a thought she might be a tricolor, maybe even a Koi. That made me very hopeful, as ladies with those genetics have a much easier time finding a new home.
She did tickle my heart strings, but I didn't have a tank in which she could stay long term, so I was dead set on giving her up. She and the other ladies from the harem I rescued were doing much better, and her color started to come in! She started to develop some darker patches and she was ready to go on sale / search for a forever home.
As I was writing the texts I noticed that she was being chased around, so I put her in my shrimp tank. Now on my table at eye height, I fully fell in love. I just couldn't let go. She has those stunning blue eyes. She is curious and loves to explore the tank, she watches the shrimp, but doesn't try to eat them. She is tiny, so I don't think she could eat any except super tiny Shrimplets even if she tried.
And today I noticed the blue shimmer! She is such a beauty, I can't wait to watch er transform.
Suii is Japanese and means Transition/ Transformation/ Change. I like to give my fosters names with meaning, like a wish for them to develop in a certain direction. In her case I suspected she is a Koi, so I went with a Japanese name. I chose the meaning of Transition, as I want for her to experience a change for the better, and encourage her to change her scales and show her true colors.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahh I am so haaaaapppy for heeeeeerrrrrr aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahh :D
What is this AI Shrimp/Betta Fish mermaid monstrosity 😂
Got a Pea Puffer who had his tail bitten off in the LSF in exchange for Yoda snails. He was not doing well in the community tank, was passing and hiding, so I decided to make a makeshift tank for him and get a couple of buddies. The buddies in question were the runts of the bunch in the LSF, so hopefully no fighting will break out for a while. They are currently in this 30L set up. I am cooking/ soaking driftwood atm so I can create a maze in there with lots of line of sight breakage and places to hide.
Plan is to upgrade them to the 54L which my community tank is currently in, when the community tank will move to a 100L plus set up. I have another 54L tank in case all hell breaks loose and the puffers will need a bigger tank. But I don't have a stand for that, so the 30L is the safer alternative atm.
Hope he and his buddies will have a good time in their soon to be labyrinth:3
I got a solo pea puffer last Friday (4 days).
I sometimes bring in animals I breed to my LFS for credit and while there I exchanged animals for a single pea puffer. As I rehabilitate animals, I gladly took the tiny guy whose tail had been bitten off, to hopefully give him a calmer environment to rest and recover.
He spent the first 24h in the Caridina shrimp tank (30L Cube, Temp 24, KH5 GH8 ph 7.2). I noticed him pacing and breathing hard, so I moved him to my big community tank where the water hardness is a bit higher (54L, 60cm wide, Temp 26,KH7 GH10 ph7.4). The heavy breathing has stopped and he has been hiding in the jungle and pacing ever since. He is eating, as I can see the discarded snail shells and I saw him eat in the first 24h.
He paces exclusively on the parts of the tank which are reflective - so he paces where he can see himself. I assume this could be distress as he is alone & the community tank might be too busy for him.
Initially the plan was to keep him with my shrimp - knowing he would snack on some shrimplets, which would be a good part of his diet. But the heavy breathing made me very worried. So I am unsure of what to do atm. Both my hospital tanks are full with rescues, all of which will need time to recover.
I would prefer to keep him, but I want what is best for him & my other tank inhabitants, so my options are:
A) Bring him back to LFS.
Con: He was in a 30L tank with about 20 other puffers with high current. It looked like a pea puffer carousel. He got his tail bitten off there. I am unsure if the current set up is worse or better for him than the one in the LFS.
B) Leave him in the community tank for 2 weeks and see if he chills out, recovers his tail. If He chills out, stops pacing and starts exploring the tank, He stays as solo in the community tank.
C) if he continues to pace: As soon as his tail recovers, I return him to LFS.
D) He continues to pace, but is eating and healing. I get two more pea puffers to keep him company in the community tank.
Con: they need a specific gender ratio & the rascals will most likely start harassing all the other tank members.
E) I do as D, but try out the shrimp tank again.
Con: They could eat all my shrimp? Parameters are off for the Peas in that Pot.
F) As soon as the inhabitants of the 30L Hospital tank (Rescued Betta sorority of 3) leave, I use it to make a little pea puffer paradise.
Con: it's only 30L, I won't be able to get more than 3 peas in there and keeping 3 can lead to ingroup aggression and bullying.
I would love to do option B or F, but God knows then the girls will be healthy enough to head to their new homes, which I too have to find first.
What would you do in my situation?
She comes from a Harem set up and each fish has their own issues. Her is that she is mighty Chungus.
She is \*tiny\* almost half the body size of the other Bettas. She has something wrong with her left fin and doesn't use it much.The other two ladies are currently getting uses to their new tank and I ran a saltbath ASAP for her. None of the others where \*this\* rotund. So I am unsure if it could be parasites and it's just her?
She has a bit of floating going on, but definitely not as bad as the boy. They were fed Omnivore feed, so had a bad diet. No frozen or live feed ever.
The rank they have has old filter media going and sand from the main tank. I adjusted the ph and hardness to be similar to what they had, as I run much softer and lower pH set ups.
Old: TDS 1000 PH 08
New: TDS 800 PH 7.8
My set ups: TDS 450 ph 7.2
And I added Indian Almond leave extract from Sera.
Should I fast her for a couple of days? How many salt baths should I be giving her? The boy gets one a day, should she get more?
I was planning to start with immune support granules and adding Betta granules (both from Sera) to adjust for higher protein slowly as to not overstimulate their system. The main & shrimp tank get Daphne once a week. Should I give the boy and the ladies more?
Ladies and Boy are seperate of course.