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Nah, the ones in the store are like 8 inches. Idk how big they get eventually. I haven’t seen their teeth cause I don’t do the saltwater feeding

No, but we do have moray eels.

This guy—Red Sea Sailfin Tang—is my favorite, but it seems like tangs are one of the larger varieties of saltwater fish when they’re fully grown, so idk if I’d be keeping one even if I got a marine tank. It’s so weird to get used to not just different fish, but entirely different categories of...

No, I’m not suddenly getting an African tank 😂. I need to tell them apart to help customers but I can’t or the life of me figure out the difference between the two. Can someone enlighten me?

Tiretracks

OH MY GOSH that’s a blast from the past! 😅 I saw that movie in theaters when I was about three.

Electoral

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_pie?wprov=sfti1#

https://www.google.com/search?q=chocolate+chess+pie&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari&safe=active Very yummy 😋

Pie

Game

Hush

Tiger lotus I believe. Nice plants. In a smaller tank, they’ll send some of their leaves all the way to the surface like a lily pad.

Went with the store this morning to make some house calls to break down people’s tanks. It’s interesting getting hands-on experience with different tank sizes beyond just seeing the number. For instance, I now know that 55s are tall and wide but very skinny.

So gorgeous!

I'm trying to hunt it down, but someone in a YouTube comment described a freshwater jellyfish that feeds by rising to the surface for light, then sinking to the bottom for fresh nitrogen, in order to maintain a symbiotic algae that produces its food. 🤩🤔

The jellyfish species I linked is apparently -Native to the Yangtze -Occasionally found as an introduced/invasive species in temperate lakes all over the world, usually in a sudden bloom -About an inch in diameter -Eats zooplankton like cyclops and daphnia

TIL that there are, in fact, both freshwater jellyfish and sponges

Remnants of my very first science experiment.

When I was little I thought I had made a scientific discovery when I thought to do it that way. "Infinite Power!"

Two distinct color morphs?

Historical

My water lettuce is dying even though it’s right next to the light. Perhaps I will need to splurge for that fluval light, after all.

I've always wondered this. What I'm talking about is fish where, the parents claim a territory and will guard the fry within their territory for a while, but then eventually try to drive the fry out of their territory because, in the wild, they would be expected to go live on their own. But what...

I no longer have much java moss, but I've had a problem for a while with green hair algae completely permeating the substrate. It'll completely cover the bottom if I let it. I initially kept it, because I thought the fish would enjoy the way it caught potentially-yummy debris. Not so. My fish...

Those are gorgeous, I've never seen them before!

Sorry, I was pulling the numbers out of my head and misremembered. My water is 8 dGH, not twenty. I'll edit the other post

Invaders

I have kept pygmy cories and platies together in my 20 gallon! They will get along great so long as the water quality is right. You should test your water's hardness; the livebearers can take any level of hardness, while the cories will not do well if it's *extremely* hard. I kept my tank only...

Goodeids were an internet rabbit hole I went down when first getting into the hobby, and I'd love to keep some if I ever found them. Tequilas are some of my favorites.

The one thing I’ve always heard about gerbils/hamsters, from relatives that have them, is that one will always eventually murder the others. Bloodthirsty little demons.

🎺🐀🚬

Lol I’m actually not. We only sell the high-end fluval lights, which would be $120 for this tank size. I don’t really need bells and whistles like an app, so I’m gonna just get another Aqueon light from petsmart (same as the one I already have), which is $50 with dad’s employee discount.

If I can’t find beckfordi’s I might do Von Rio (aka flame) tetras. But full-timers get to order from the wholesaler for personal use, so hopefully I’ll be able to source the beckfordi’s.

You betcha! It’s like a kid at a candy store, I wanna take them all home right away!

You ninja’d me! Not yet. The original plan was an Apisto Agassizii (single male) and some beckfordi pencils. But after a) having a hard time finding apistogramma for sale locally, b) being around the rams at the store for 3 days straight, and c) also falling in love with the store’s panda...

Plan to get the same light as on my other tank in a week or so when I’ve had my first paycheck. Then I can start really adding plants! I want Java ferns and a Tiger Lotus, and probably some duckweed to fill in the surface between the water lettuce, since I want the tank to be nice and shaded.

After being around them at the fish store, I’m strongly considering getting some Bolivians instead of apistogramma agassizii for my new tank. So we’d be in kinda the same boat!