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I know quite a bit about tropical fish, cats, rabbits, and dogs. I also train dogs in my spare time. Biology > Hobby.
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So I am thinking of getting a fish!! A betta fish to be exact. I'm looking to get one that isn't being cared for properly. Whose a little worse for ware. Who needs love. I just need some help is all. I am getting a 10+ gallon tank, for the fish, and I want live plants too. I just dont know how to set up the tank and everything in it. Can I have tips and advice?
Sure! Here’s some guides that’ll help you (I tried writing it all down in my own words but it ended up ridiculously long, haha):
Plants
Comprehensive Planted Aquarium Guide
Plant Journal
List of low light plants
Plant care guides
A little ask I answered with some beginner plants
Planty Post Collection
How to set up a low-tech planted aquarium
A basic guide to aquascaping
8 easy aquarium plants
9 low light aquarium plants
Floating aquarium plants
Betta stuff
Betta Care Sheet
7 Tips for Building a Simple Betta Tank
Pet Supplies You Need to Care for Betta Fish
Healthy Vs. Unhealthy Betta Fish
Betta Tail Type and Colour/Pattern Cons
Caresheet: Betta
The Relationship Between Water Quality and your Betta’s Health
Betta food & feeding
Betta than a Bowl: betta fish aquariums & betta tank inspiration
General
Fish Nutrition and Types of Food
How to clean an aquarium filter
Aquarium Maintenance 101
Aquarium filter 101
Aquarium nitrogen cycle & cycling a fish tank
Choosing an aquarium substrate
Aquarium thermometer 101
Quarantine tank 101
How aquarium filters work
Indian Almond Leaves
Aquarium driftwood
Cheap & DIY aquarium filter media alternatives!
I hope these guides help, but if you need me to walk you through anything don’t hesitate to message me.
The best piece of advice I can give you is don’t be shy. Ask for help as much as you need. When I seriously started in the hobby I was always asking people questions. Even if it sounds like a dumb question, ask it. You’ll be in charge of a little life and it’s better to ask and be sure than to sit on it and then something happens. Use the bettablr tag too. Usually, someone will answer your question within a day. Don’t trust random forums, don’t trust shitty facebook groups. Find a good local fish store too. Chain pet stores are eh, a good LFS is where it’s at.
Most of all though, enjoy yourself. It’s a great hobby, both fishkeeping and aquascaping. I’m sure you’ll love it, anon, and I’m sure whatever fish you adopt will love it too.
#betta fish#animal rights#bettas#pets#pet care#petblr#fishblr#animals#aquariums#fish tank#nature#biology
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Why does he have wirey hair if he’s a Pit/Rott mix? He’s a funky little guy for sure, I’d have thought he was some wire haired terrier/Chinese crested mix.
This is Chupey
Hello! This my 6 month old pup named Chupey, short for Chupacabra. His DNA test puts him as mostly Pitt/rott mix….but you wouldn’t know it! Most of his deformaties seem to be external rather than internal. We have done blood tests and had several physical exams and things seem to be mostly in order. He had deformed genitals and was cryptorchid, so we neutered him last week. Now he is drinking and peeing more since the surgery. A blood test a few days ago showed elevated liver enzymes but nothing else of concern, kidneys are fine. So we are trying to get the enzymes under control and hopefully he won’t have to go under the knife again!
But he is happy and loving life so that’s all that matters. He is such a sweet pup and I hope I get lots of time with him!
I just wanted to see what you thought of his funky appearance(especially his ears. His embark DNA test revealed nothing in his genes that would explain why he looks the way he does). If you want to see more pics of him, he has an Instagram @cheers.for.chupey :)
Just superb, you funky little cryptid.
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How not to own a pet.
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“if it’s bad for him, why does he eat it? he would know if it’s bad for him!”
buddy, pal, my dude…how do I explain this
cows will drink motor oil and eat all the laundry on your clothes line because they can. they literally don’t give a fuck
cats and dogs like antifreeze. it’s definitely not good for them but they like the taste well enough to destroy their own kidneys
parrots get addicted to sunflower seeds, which have little to no nutritional value for them and get really pissed when you try break the habit
animals don’t have nutritional wisdom. and neither do children for that matter. that’s why we teach kids these things and why you should know what not to feed your dog. they rely on you. im willing to bet you also eat stuff that isn’t good for you
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instead of declawing your cat heres some things you can do instead:
• fuck off
• stop caring more about your furniture than your cat’s wellbeing
• give me your cat instead
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@thegoddessobsidian There are a few different ways! The most common way is to look a their color, if the tail is thin and translucent, and the body is pale/dull in color, they are stressed. Long term stress will cause them to clamp their fins (squeeze their fins together). Their fins should be full and open without flaring. Also, if they are sitting on the bottom and not moving much it’s also another sign of stress or boredom. They need lots of enrichment and space to explore. The blue Delta one there is angled upward because his tail is too heavy, and his dorsal fin is clamped.
EXACTLY HOW NOT TO HOUSE A BETTA! A woman called the store and said she didn’t want her 4 bettas anymore and if we didn’t take them she was going to flush them down the toilet. She’s had them for TWO YEARS in these vases and bowls. No heater, no filter. I put them in spare cups and floated them in an empty tank to warm them up and they all changed color soon after. I texted all of my usual betta regulars and a few people are going to come take a look. These poor babies…I’m going to make sure they’re going to a proper home.
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Common/Comet goldfish cannot live in tanks!
Fancy goldfish are the deformed variety, and only get to be about 8″, so they can be housed indoors, 50+ gallons for each adult pair, as long as they’re provided enormous amounts of filtration. They produce crazy amounts of ammonia.
Capitalism has destroyed them, the least we can do is take care of them.
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Two years my ass! These are no more than a few months, as bettas deteriorate after a year. She didn’t want them once they lost their color and didn’t flare anymore from stress.
EXACTLY HOW NOT TO HOUSE A BETTA! A woman called the store and said she didn’t want her 4 bettas anymore and if we didn’t take them she was going to flush them down the toilet. She’s had them for TWO YEARS in these vases and bowls. No heater, no filter. I put them in spare cups and floated them in an empty tank to warm them up and they all changed color soon after. I texted all of my usual betta regulars and a few people are going to come take a look. These poor babies…I’m going to make sure they’re going to a proper home.
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Yess! Emzotic is a very nasty person and encourages beginners to seek out and house exotic animals poorly. She also loves drama and attacks you if you question her. Another very bad pettuber is Taylor Nicole Dean. The last time I watched a TND video, she had a Leopard Gourami housed with some Angelfish, and if I’m not mistaken she also had a puffer fish housed in a saltwater community tank? Yet people love her because she’s rich and looks cool with her hoard of animals. Yes, she is an animal hoarder.
The only good pettuber I’ve seen so far (and I’ve seen A LOT) is AntsCanada. He never sets up any sort of habitat unless it’s biologically appropriate or a biotope. Anytime he makes a mistake, right away he addresses the problem and teaches people what to do.
Just because your favorite pettuber has big tanks and exotic pets doesn’t mean they are good people or house their animals correctly.
Go support. That is all.
#aquariums#fish tank#animals#animal cruelty#pettubers#emzotic#taylor nicole dean#pets#pet care#petblr
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That rabbit/hare post is messing me up. I’d thought they were synonyms. Their development and social behavior are all different. They can’t even interbreed. They don’t have the same number of chromosomes. Dogs, wolves, jackals, and coyotes can mate with each other and have fertile offspring but rabbits and hares cant even make infertile ones bc they just die in the womb. Wack.
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Twitter animal care: Look at my exotic squirrel his name is Sparky I just got him and he is adorable
Facebook animal care: Look at my empty 30 gallon tank with 2 tetras, a dwarf gourami, guppies and a betta fish. *gets mad and says they’re fine when people say they shouldn’t be housed together*
Reddit animal care: This is Koda, he is a rare jrgbuvjve snake from Africa just look at those scales, you can visit him here at the ___ sanctuary!
Tumblr animal care: Nowlistenherebud fuck anyone else who says you can do that, that’s neglect and you should only house him like this *shows beautiful set up* with these conditions and feed him biologically appropriate food
#tumblr pet care is the best care but it's harsh lmao#animals#pets#pet care#animal rights#fishblr#petblr#reptiles#aquariums#betta fish#bettas
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So I decided to make a puzzle toy…
And now Damascus is trying to figure out the fruit fly dispenser.
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Ya’ll act like black people don’t care about animals and would rather a dog starve or be beaten then have to care about it.
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I said it’s a good start, don’t be an ignorant ass. Most of these fish will never make it out of the stores, because after they start to stress their tails clamp and their colors fade. Only a 1/4 of the fish sold will actually be given adequate care. So the least we can do is give them some plants and a place to hide before they’re sold. My local pet store houses each of the bettas in their own 3-5 gallons with a ton of real plants and fully cycled water, and they sell the set ups with the fish.
2.5 gals isn’t even the minimum for a Betta, they should be in 5 gallons minimum if it’s a pet store or non-bio app hobbyist. Keepers who give them biologically appropriate care wouldn’t even keep them in anything less than a 20 gal long for the best results and longest life even if they’re bred to deteriorate after 6 months.
Those tanks are not a lot of space what are you talking about. This gives neglectful people the idea that they can be kept in small tanks without any heater or filter, and then when people who care try to correct them on it, they’ll look back to where they got the fish and be like “see! My local pet store had them in small empty tanks, why can’t I?”. Without any enrichment, you may as well be keeping them in the cups because all they’ll be doing is nothing, and bettas are a fish that needs a ton of stimulation. Bettas are stressed by too much open space, (not large tanks).
my lfs puts their bettas in their own 2.5 gals :’)
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An expert twat :)
He totally just pulled expert fetch skills right out the bag
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you guys are literally defending a bag of SD wheat gluten over whole balanced dog foods without by products...? I discussed why Science Diet is garbage here
Wheat gluten is an absolute no in dog foods. It causes the stomach lining to become porous over time, their skin becomes dry and they shed much more. It’s also linked to behavioral issues. You may as well be feeding them dirt.
Corn has no food value at all, and they don’t eat it in the wild, even if they are scavenging. It’s not part of the diet and shouldn’t be there. IT HAS NO FOOD VALUE, so it’s used to bulk the food. The bulk of the food should be something nutritious, like whole meat and veggies. This post is a trainwreck because yes, an $80 bag of whole balanced dog food is that price because the ingredients are fresh and sourced either locally or humanely. Other cheaper food brands get their meat in bulk overseas. Not all whole balanced food is expensive, you just have to look. Look beyond the vet. I found a very good locally sourced food with 40% whole duck/turkey and 60% veggies, no grains or fillers, “certified humane” a 25 lbs bag all for $50. I love my dog, and I will pay that for it if I know she will have better results.
Please feed your pet balanced grain free diets that are balanced I can’t stress this enough. You’ll end up getting better results and a better looking/behaving dog if your dog is fed something whole and balanced with no grains or fillers, rather than something cheap, full of by products and fillers. If you love your pets you would be willing to do what is best for them.
More Tired Veterinarian Cat with a nutrition theme, because I am exceedingly tired of the ‘vets know no nutrition’ trope
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