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It's fine, it's normal

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This is, in fact, a bluefin killifish, lucania goodei

It still has no colour, so I'm assuming it's female, or less likely at this age, a sub-adult male.

So, this appeared out of nowhere:

Randomly in a little 6gal, only a third filled, no heater, sponge filter

The only thing I had in there were plants, some assorted coldwater ones for my patio pond, some for a British native tank, and then an order of crypts.

I don't know what it is or how it managed to grow to that size, it must have been eating microorganisms in the detritus?

Still trying to ID it, if anyone knows about it? I'm thinking some kind of pencilfish or neolebias?

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Bloody Mary shrimplet!!! :D

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The shermps

Just had an INTENSE conversation 🙁

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The light for my what-will-be-native-stickleback tank wasn't working out, so I just removed it.

While I was in-between lights, most of the plants died off, except the creeping jenny.

Going to be honest, none of it was doing particularly well beforehand - I don't know if that's just the native plants thing or the light thing. I might try again with more cheap natives, but it's a pain in the ass to have little to no money and plants that will probably die on me.

If they do, I'm just gonna go crypts, val and more creeping jenny.

That said, my shrimp vase with blue shrimp is up and running, though they are so hard to see! There's only 5 at the moment. I might buy just a couple more and let them breed.

The 5 gal blue tank is chugging along well, with mystery-fish (blue fin killifish), 6 chilli rasbora and some cheerful yellow shrimp. There were 4 but I've only seen 3 - I'm hoping the 4th is just good at hiding, but then I did have one DOA in the bag

I love the chillis. I want to get 4 or 6 more.

And I think my other shrimp vase is ready for shrimp, bloody mary this time!

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This is SO fucked up.

Keeping fish takes money, patience, planning and so much time.

And this guy cares enough to ask this question, it's heartbreaking.

I'd maybe transfer into a plastic tub, but how long is that going to be for?

Asks about earthquake/floor/drought/etc proofing your tanks aren't deleted.

Sucks.

(And no, aqadvisor isn't accurate, always double-check your stocking on forums with real people)

The Weekly thread there is filled with deleted posts. (X)

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That's an 85 gallon aquarium.

That's an estimated 4 ft long tank.

Goldfish get big, and this guys not even a standard, which get even bigger.

fucking goldfish tiktok made me cry bro

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So, this appeared out of nowhere:

Randomly in a little 6gal, only a third filled, no heater, sponge filter

The only thing I had in there were plants, some assorted coldwater ones for my patio pond, some for a British native tank, and then an order of crypts.

I don't know what it is or how it managed to grow to that size, it must have been eating microorganisms in the detritus?

Still trying to ID it, if anyone knows about it? I'm thinking some kind of pencilfish or neolebias?

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UHM

So I'm looking for a little plastic 5 gal tank, long and short rather than square or taller, and it's impossible, BUT while I was looking I came across this:

effervescent

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When you're chronically ill and disabled, sometimes you just have to accept that you're gonna be slow.

You have to ration your energy.

You have to get to grips with taking your time.

You have to learn how to cope with wanting to do the thing, but not being physically able to do it.

Not to mention waiting between benefit payments and saving up the little you have left after bills to go on one of the few hobbies you can do anymore.

That said, it makes your progress so much sweeter.

This is what will be my stickleback tank, once its grown in much more and cycled.

I used to be able to get a tank up and cycling in a day, finished cycling in 6 weeks maximum.

This has taken me months, and I'm still not finished

But it looks so good anyway.

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For those interested, you can have a perfectly balanced ecosystem even in a small aquarium, it doesn't have to be large.

You need to read up on the nitrogen cycle and how to cycle a tank, how to do a water change, and then the specific needs of the fish you want - as long as you use the info online, and do your research, there's no reason you can't have a little ecosystem of your own in 20, 10 or even 5 gallons.

all of these assuming you have the space, time, and resources to not only care for it properly, but give it the best life it could possibly have. in other words please forget about logistics and assume the creature would be happy. this silly little poll is about VIBES

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NOOOO, not the passive-agressive, wildly out of context, butt hurt response in their next vid, lol.

Can't really be a response to this, can it? Despite the weird similarities. And the way he still missed the point.

This guys poor wife, she's such a doll.

Just watched a fishTuber call small fish (CPD's, cories) "girly fish"

Like.

Yeah, you're right, keeping nano fish directly affects your masculinity.

Men are only allowed to keep monster fish in tanks they can barely turn around in, no decor (decor is also girly) and must only feed them live food, while recording it and going 'yeah, YEAH, eat that fish projection of my masculinity and direct relation to the size of my junk!'

Fucking ridiculous.

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Of course the guy with the munchkin cat has a shitty fish tank.

Goldfish, uncompatible, 30 gal min for the fancies.

It hurts seeing those Blackline Tetras in this stupid thing. They're amazing schoolers so should be kept in a group, but they can get to 6cm each, come on.

Glolight tetras, parambassis ranga, need a 30 gal, unless these are skirt tetras in which case a 20?- hopefully these are genetically modified and not dyed, but judging by the rest of this shitshow I'm not holding my breath.

As for the fish that stunned and/or killed itself trying to dart in that crapshack and its friends, looks like some kind of catfish which, first of all, come on. Really? And second of all, if it's the Columbian Shark Cat, they get 10" long, sometimes a fucking foot.

Tell me that's not some kind of zebra cichlid in the back too.

This isn't 'emotionally distressing' for the fish, this is flat-out physically cruel.

Nauseating.

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Just watched a fishTuber call small fish (CPD's, cories) "girly fish"

Like.

Yeah, you're right, keeping nano fish directly affects your masculinity.

Men are only allowed to keep monster fish in tanks they can barely turn around in, no decor (decor is also girly) and must only feed them live food, while recording it and going 'yeah, YEAH, eat that fish projection of my masculinity and direct relation to the size of my junk!'

Fucking ridiculous.

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Congo tetras.

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