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Post by Sarah on Nov 9, 2013 6:18:20 GMT
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Post by Sarah on Nov 9, 2013 6:20:17 GMT
Oh! And there is my huge and extremely elderly albino cory. She is the biggest cory I have ever seen, but she is like five years old or something, and seems to be a bit worse for wear because of her age. She is still working hard keeping the tank clean every day though!
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Post by Budgiebonkers on Nov 9, 2013 13:39:15 GMT
I have a feeder the size of my pinky. Its really tiny. Lol. Theres a walmart that sells fish when I went there were dead ones at the bottom! And the store that over crowds budgies sells feeders in 20 gallon tanks at most with at least 200 feeders in each I should take a vid next time im there. But none are ever dead if they are im assuming the others eat them.
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Post by Emily on Nov 9, 2013 14:34:14 GMT
Wow! Your set up is super pretty!
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Post by luvsanimals2 on Nov 9, 2013 15:19:06 GMT
very nice
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Post by dianapalmer on Nov 9, 2013 16:05:55 GMT
Pretty! What is a "feeder fish?"
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Post by Sarah on Nov 9, 2013 19:26:20 GMT
Aww thanks guys Feeder fish are fish that are kept and sold only to feed to large and aggressive species of fish who would eat live fish in the wild. I find it a deplorable and disgusting practice. There are other ways to simulate a predators diet without torturing young fish for weeks in hellish holding tanks until they get thrown into some giant fish's mouth. When I brought my gold fish home, they were mostly brown and black with chemical burns from their own waste collecting in the water they were living in. A worm deserves more respect than that, let alone a fish.
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Post by Budgiebonkers on Nov 9, 2013 20:15:20 GMT
Aww thanks guys Feeder fish are fish that are kept and sold only to feed to large and aggressive species of fish who would eat live fish in the wild. I find it a deplorable and disgusting practice. There are other ways to simulate a predators diet without torturing young fish for weeks in hellish holding tanks until they get thrown into some giant fish's mouth. When I brought my gold fish home, they were mostly brown and black with chemical burns from their own waste collecting in the water they were living in. A worm deserves more respect than that, let alone a fish. Considering they are foced to die in the wild they can escape.
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Post by Pammy on Nov 10, 2013 6:02:10 GMT
Beautiful fishies, Sarah! You said this is your main tank. Can we see your other tank(s) too? I am very interested in your albino cory. My 7 albino corys are at best an inch long each. I have 3 emerald corys that are more like two inches long, if fully that.
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Post by Sarah on Nov 10, 2013 7:41:32 GMT
You can see her pictured above. She is about two... two and a half inches or so, and thicker than my thumb. I think it has a lot to do with the diet I feed them. I feed my fish a high protein pellet, as is needed by most moderate temperature fish of any size. As if that were not enough, I also feed aquatic tube worms to my fish. I encourage them to live in the substrate of the tank, reproducing and giving my fish the stimulus of foraging for food as well as the healthier live food. This may be why my cory is so large for her breed: but she is a little bit of a miracle. She is quite blind, and her tail fins are short and rough because of her age, but she's still going! She has also laid several large clutches of eggs over the years, but she is an only cory and so they came to nothing.
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Post by Sarah on Nov 10, 2013 8:00:08 GMT
This is probably my favorite tank stylistically. I love the way the look came out. It is a divided ten gallon for two adult male betta fish. Hero is a Cambodian: A white bodied betta with brilliant red fins. He would be considered a 'poor quality' for his mutation, because he has a starburst of teal reflective coloration on his fins, but I find it beautiful and think it makes him unique. My second betta is called Nebula, because he is a fairly rare variety of betta called a marble. Because of some genetic weirdness, his DNA is forever being changed, and his color changes all the time subsequently. When I bought him, he had a silver body with peach colored fins and some flecks of teal. He is now midnight blue fringed in white with one black eye circle, one silver eye circle, and some random blood red on his dorsal fin. In as little as a few weeks he will be noticeably different from this picture, and in a few months, you wouldn't believe me that he is the same fish. Hero: Nebula Head on: Nebula:
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Post by lisamarie on Nov 10, 2013 15:27:03 GMT
Wow such pretty betas! I have 2 that I considered "rescued". One I found dying in a small plastic thing at Walmart, the other my boyfriends roommate had in the dorm and I brought it home because he was treating it so bad, the poor thing had barely any fins! I love betas
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Post by luvsanimals2 on Nov 10, 2013 15:51:24 GMT
wow nebula is pretty. do they try to fight sarah? i heard they are very territorial
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Post by rdkntriker on Nov 10, 2013 16:34:24 GMT
Very pretty fish. I love Beta's
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Post by Sarah on Nov 10, 2013 17:46:32 GMT
They would fight, but there is actually a screen barrier between the two. They can't even see each other clearly.
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