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nebluus · 1 month

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Hello! I had a question about the 8gal fishbowl, is that a heater in the back or is a small filter? Is it just planted or do you have a friend in there? Whats your maintenance like on it? Its absolutely gorgeous and I'm very jealous of the vessel. I have a 5.5 gal :).

thanks for the interest!! The cord is a small heater, no filter either right now, though I am planning on adding a canister filter soon, since HOB and internal filters don't really work with a bowl XD

my usual maintenance is just a water change once a month plus the occasional top off to account for evaporation.

currently there's not any fish in there, but plants include valisneria (2 different species, one is spiralis I think?), java fern, anubias barteri, multiple different species of crypts ( wendtii, undalata, lucens, and sri lanka, I think) and of course the floaters are salvinia!

for future stocking (after getting the filter hooked up) I am planning on getting a betta, possibly some chili rasboras, and amano shrimp

here's what it's looking like these days: its grown in a lot lol

#ask #whitbied #fishblr #there is also some kind of other smaller grass in there #not like a hairgrass but def smaller than val but idk what its name is XD #i did have axelrodi rasboras in there but they were so delicate I ended up having a mass death and I am not sure what caused it #parameters were perfect: 0s for amonia nitrate and nitrite and i checked regularly :(#tosses hands up #that's fishkeeping for u i guess #it might have been the tanins #or lack of tanins #since i wasn't very good at keeping up with the tanin levels #thus chilis instead of axelrodis #way hardier #but its gonna be empty for a bit while i fix the filtration #might try a different lighting setup too since mine is a jerry-rigged mess atm

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