THIS is why i love fishkeeping

[cutecotton]

hi everyone just a post to say how much i'm appreciating htis hobbit.

A month ago, i got my first betta in a tiny little bowl, the orginial purpose was as amusment for my little 3 year old sister but now, a month later, i have 5 bettas, a 10G tank for htem, and a 25G housing guppies/female betats/snails/otos/kribs!

I have learned endless amount of stuff, and i'm always curious for more my friends tell me that i am COMPLETELY obsessed with this new "hobby" of mine to the point where it's nto really healthy

But you know what i really enjoy thorugh this month and maybe month and a half? watching my fishies thrive and grow in my tank under my care it must be the best feeling in the wrold! from getting bettas that look so sick and dead in a cup to watching htem chase the shrimps around and building huge bubblenests. From having them barely taking down a betta pellet a day to taking down nearly 5 per meal

as for the female bettas..when i first got them, they were so tiny and small, they owuld sit on the bottom of my 25G and never knew when it was dinner time. but now, they have nearly doubled in size, grew so much fatter and bigger, and always comes up the surface when they see the lid opening they have grown to be so much hapier and healhtier than waht i started with

today i got 2 more femlae bettas, put them in the tank and just REALIZED hte HUGE difference between my established betats compared to teh new ones. And as a though, they looked like that too when they first got here! i'm hoping that in a month from now, i can report back and say that these two new betats have grown up to be just as healthy and nice

i got two kribs today, my first cichlids ever, i hope they wil do okay in the 25G, but they are still very small...babies i think, i can't even tell the sex yet! i'm pretty sure one is a female..the other one i'm HOPING for a male..but whatever happens happens i'm hoping to raise them into adulthood, and watch them grow like my feamle bettas

even my oto cats have gotten larger and braver they will now suck on the snail's shell. I just spent about 30 mins staring at my oto and snail share an algae wafer with each other

anyways guys, tell me something about this hobby that gives you the high 8)

 

[snowyangel]

Didn't know kribs worked with live bearers or bettas. Guess we'll find out eh?

 

[balloon molly]

watching my mollies try as hard as they can to get my attention.sometimes they will bite at the glass.then they know once that lid goes up they swim to the surface to eat.i loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooove mollies

 

[cutecotton]

the kribs are only babies they should be fine becuase i only have 5 female betats (pretty nice, never seen them chase other fishies around), even if they dont' get along i could remove them

mollies are cool i use to have them, nto anymroe though isn't it the greatest thing on earth to watch them grow under your care

 

[wuvmybetta]

Yeah, judging by cc's first post...there's no problem if she needs another tank for the Kribs I'm glad you're enjoying the hobby,cc