Hey guys, new to TFF, but in the last couple of months I have found myself coming to this forum multiple times while setting up my tanks.
This is a full family hobby in our house. It first started as my son wanting a Beta, as my siblings have one each, and ended in now having 3 tanks and a total of 23 critters.
Tank #1 is my son’s with his Beta, my oto, 3 neon tetras, 3 ghost shrimps and my brown mystery snail.
Tank #2 is my husbands with his Beta and his gold mystery snail. Funny enough this tank is in our living room and Joe, the Beta, loves instigating our cat. They’re best friends, it has been quite entertaining.
Tank #3 has been an interesting project. We are currently setting up a 40 gallon tank to move these guys into. What started out as a fun peaceful community tank has turned into a divided 20 gallon tank. On one side we have 3 glow tetras (nope, this tank is not natural looking at all lol), 2 Cory’s, 2 ghost shrimps, and an ivory snail. On the other side we have my husband’s blue electric crayfish who for the last month has peacefully cohabited with 3 glow danios. We want to upgrade them for more room, but my husband also really wants a red tail shark to put with his crayfish. I took a picture from the back of the tank on this one as Charlie the crayfish came out to play as I was taking the picture.
This is a full family hobby in our house. It first started as my son wanting a Beta, as my siblings have one each, and ended in now having 3 tanks and a total of 23 critters.
Tank #1 is my son’s with his Beta, my oto, 3 neon tetras, 3 ghost shrimps and my brown mystery snail.
Tank #2 is my husbands with his Beta and his gold mystery snail. Funny enough this tank is in our living room and Joe, the Beta, loves instigating our cat. They’re best friends, it has been quite entertaining.
Tank #3 has been an interesting project. We are currently setting up a 40 gallon tank to move these guys into. What started out as a fun peaceful community tank has turned into a divided 20 gallon tank. On one side we have 3 glow tetras (nope, this tank is not natural looking at all lol), 2 Cory’s, 2 ghost shrimps, and an ivory snail. On the other side we have my husband’s blue electric crayfish who for the last month has peacefully cohabited with 3 glow danios. We want to upgrade them for more room, but my husband also really wants a red tail shark to put with his crayfish. I took a picture from the back of the tank on this one as Charlie the crayfish came out to play as I was taking the picture.
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I've to be careful as he'd also try add things to the tank - so for now the tanks will stay out of the family room. Plus I get water everywhere during water change so the tiles in kitchen are best.
and 7 is a brilliant age to take on some tank maintenance responsibility. Even just feeding fish & helping with water change. My boy would LOVE that pumpkin! Quite excited for Hallowe'en this year as it's his first to really take notice
