My very overgrown Fluval flex showcasing why Hygrophila polysperma is considered a noxious weed. The Sparkling Gourami absolutely love the dense growth of the stems.
My apologies for the relative lack of share-worthy art lately. Hopefully you will appreciate some living art?
This fabulous large man has been with me for all of 4 days and I love him to death. Please don’t break my heart big guy!
He’s a giant plakat betta with koi/marble/multicolored genetics of some sort. I know these are a huge risk for many reasons, but I found him in my neighborhood, and it turns out I’m a fool after all. I’m looking forward to all the color changing shenanigans. In the meantime, he watches me cook and do dishes.
Please excuse the state of this tank. It’s been through some hard times.
I go to my LFS on Fridays so that I can see their shipments before the weekend crowd gets in, and the downside of this is that all the fish are on the pale side from stress because of their recent travel and unpacking. However, when I found her in the tank, she had a very clear horizontal brown stripe, which makes me certain that this honey gourami is female! She lost it in the bag here (again, due to the stress of traveling in my car), but she colored up in the tank within minutes.
feat. Jin Ling lurking in the back like a serial killer
All of the neon tetras were very interested in greeting her. Please just imagine that seagull scene from Finding Nemo where they're all going, "Mine?!" except it's my obese tetras chanting, "Food?!"
No. Fish are friends, not food. How are you this fat, I barely feed you any more!! I'm convinced they've figured out how to bite off the bottom feeder pellets I give the loaches once they soften up a bit.
I'M NOT TOUCHING YOU
Here she is trying to give Jin Ling a handshake with her feeler fins. He's not very receptive to friendship right now because he's got his breeding stripes on and is building a comically oversized bubble nest in that corner of the tank, but I'm hoping they get along once he calms down and feels less territorial. She definitely isn't as skittish as he is, and he stops chasing her once she leaves his bubble nest corner alone.
If I looked like that I'd admire my own reflection, too.
Overall, she is a very pretty and sweet fish! Even if it is difficult to take non-blurry photos of her due to how quick she is. I have high hopes that she will adapt well to the tank. Everyone in it is healthy, so if she survives the overall stress of transport and makes it the next few days, things should hopefully turn out great!
My 20 gallon planted aquarium. There's 6 sparkling gouramis and 6 habrosus corydora catfish along with mystery snails. Watch the doofuses carry around bottom feeder pellets they stole from the cories :3
This guy is my favorite three striped gourami morph, a platinum. Unfortunately he's also the biggest jerk you've met, even for a three spot he's very dominant and aggressive.
Hi tumblr’s current ceo is a transmysogynist from what i hear! Here’s pictures of my pet fish
His name is Iapetus (Pete for short) and he bites me constantly. He also supports trans rights, and he will be taking a plane to New York to bite Matt Mullenweg on the nuts, which he can probably fit in his (Pete’s) 4mm wide mouth.
For fishblr:
Iapetus is a very mean red morph Paradise Gourami who mercilessly bullies anything I put in the tank with him. Please don’t buy these unless you want to keep it BY ITSELF, or if you accept the consequences. These things can and will bite tankmates to death.