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Meteora is growing into a pretty handsome fella 💿

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Hi hi commfishions…..

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Two male sparking gouramis showing off. Their colors are absolutely insane, I’m obsesseddddd

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Some baby gouramis I raised up and sold to local hobbyists. Here’s an older video of them figuring out flaring with each other. They were still so small, but their colors were great .

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Wanted to draw a little tribute of sorts to the humble sparkling gourami...had them in my tank a while back and they're such charming little fish.

Also up on my INPRNT!

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Sparkle on! It's Friday! Don't forget to be yourself!

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dear fish they could never make me hate you EVER

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one of the most perfect images ive ever taken

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weird fishes

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Super model kuhli

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N’KISI BRICOLAGE STURGEON

carved and painted mahogany, mica, nails, handmade paper, found natural objects, tintypes, 1800’s text paper, Ethiopian and Coptic bindings

13x59x14 inches

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This guy is almost ready for FWA!

I gotta get some hooks and this celocanth will be finished! Excited to make some more🎣

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I live so close to this I can visit it and hang out there whenever I want any day every day for free if I felt like

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Rainbow trout!!

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DEEPLY fucking stressful experience at work today

Okay so most of our tanks in broodstock contain at least two fish, one male and one female clown (obviously, we’re a fish breeding facility) so I was Quite Alarmed when I noticed that one of the tanks only contained a single fish. The male was missing.

I start checking around on the floor, assuming he somehow jumped out. He’s not there. I look in adjacent tanks because maybe he somehow hopped into one of them. He’s not there. Finally my flashlight passed over the drain in the floor and I noticed movement.

Holy shit, he jumped out of the tank and went down the drain.

Now, this is not an ideal place for a fish to be. The drains are full of wastewater. It’s where we put the siphon hoses when we’re cleaning the tanks, and it’s only wide enough for a siphon hose. Definitely way too narrow to fit a net or a hand down there. Not to mention, it’s gross stagnant water and the fish could very easily suffocate.

I told my manager and he just looked at me and went “he’s dead.”

But, because we’re crazy fish people, we’re still not going to give up. My manager makes a net on a stick that’s small enough to fit down the drain. Spends a solid 10-15 minutes trying to catch him, but the fish eventually sinks into the murk and disappears from sight. We flushed clean water into the drain to add oxygen and hopefully revive him enough to swim back up, but there’s no sign of him. At this point we’re all thinking he’s probably dead.

But, crazy fish people that we are, we’re going to try one last thing. We get a Big Siphon. And we fucking slurp him out.

And lo and behold, the boy lives!!! And he’s still got enough zest to start flopping around on the floor!

Currently he is recovering in an isolation bucket and we’re monitoring him for any problems, but he honestly seems perfectly fine to me. He’s swimming around and even started begging for food when I checked on him.

But holy shit I’m still Stressed from this

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got another fish today ! his name is spaghetti

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he zip!!