she learned real quick | Fish Tank Review 241

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[devsie]

I recently saw someone on Facebook correct a commenter on their husbandry. The commenter said “oh, I didn’t know that! I’m going to change that today”. A few hours later they posted a photo of the change. I’ve never been more impressed by a keeper in my life. It’s all about growth 💣
QOTW: I love to feed them blood worms and brine shrimp 🦐

[billie-b]

I think maybe when ppl first learn about fish tanks, they are worried that live plants/planted tank will be a lot more work and we are all so busy with work, so we are trying to make it easier by using fake plants.

It wasn't until I tried a planted tank, that I realized it was easier to keep the fish tank healthy as a whole.

[garrettpete]

She said she only had 8 hours to study, not that she did study for 8 hours—this is likely due to the quick receiving of the fish in the old tank, and only having 8 hours to both study and* come up with a better solution for that fish. Overall, a pretty nice upgrade for what that fish once had!

[froggy]

8 hours might be a bit steep, but I can believe it taking multiple hours for a first time fish owner to settle on that setup. First 30-60 minutes actually realizing how bad the current setup is (comparing multiple resources because you don't know where to find reliable info). Probably another few hours chasing down information vital to fish keeping like water parameters, cycling (which I hope she had a solution for), and appropriate tank conditions for bettas themselves. Then another chunk of time figuring out how you are gonna make your set-up: where the tank can go, which kit to get because not using a kit can be more expensive and confusing, and finally how much money can you afford to put into it at the moment.

[catlady]

55 gallons on the floor for me once. My oldest son threw a metal Tonka truck at the tank when he was a toddler and the Tonka won. Glass shattered, fish flopping everywhere, water gushing onto the floor and walls. Thankfully we were hosting dinner that night and had a bunch of friends over that helped with the cleanup and getting my poor fish crammed in an empty 10 gallon until I could find another tank on a local buy/sell group. Somehow I didn't lose a single one.

[laurabustos]

Happy FTR day everyone!! I'm having a bad pain day so I'm going to send out oodles of positive, healing hippy vibes to everyone who sees this. I wish you, whoever you are a wonderful day and if today isn't wonderful, tomorrow might be so keep on keeping on. Someday we'll get to that wonderful day where we walk around with goofy smiles on our faces all day. 🙏💙✌️

QotW; anything live that's not an earthworm is my fav fish food. There's just something about dropping in some mosquito larva or daphnia into your tank and watching fish do the thing they'd do in the wild. Scooting through the plants and hunting. I could watch fish being fish for hours.

[MrDanAng]

I love how the Betta owner really made a positive upgrade.
I'd prefer live plants, but it's not nescessary for the fish, it just add to my own appreciation.

[LexFerraro]

up until I was 16 I had 3 bettas. Starting at my 10th birthday. I unfortunately kept them in one of the containers you’d get at the fair. I moved out on my own at 17, and kept two betta in small small containers. I didn’t have another until I was 24. I knew more at this point. I have a 10 gallon planted now with a single betta. Temperature controlled, a custom low flow filter. A good quality light that is never on longer than 7 hours. Blackout days. I only ever have to add water to it. Over the last 3 years I’ve had two betta. The first lasted almost 3 years. I recently got my second. I dream of having my single betta in a 20 gallon soon though. I’d like to experiment with plant carpet in a 20. 😋

[erenthewitch]

i cant say for sure, but its possible the first betta fish owner *did* read all about planted tanks and the like, but was too intimidated to do it on a time crunch (which she would have been under if she was distressed by her mistake and wanted to upgrade the tank ASAP). the request for more info in the comments sounded to me like asking for elaboration on whatever she already read

[watafumx]

Do you remember that meme on "how to draw an owl"? That's like me for planted tanks after years into the hobby. The first three months all the aquatic nations lived in harmony... then everything changed when the hair algae nation attacked.

[monanarts]

Someone else likely already said something like this: I interpreted the lady's 8-hours as "She had 8 hours to prep before the betta arrived"... but also I'm not bothering to rewatch because in the end she did the right thing (but also with the way chatgpt and other machine-learning algorithms have messed up a lot of search engine results, so the extra effort might be necessary to make sure you're not being parroted the same garbled/bad advice).

[MakaKamala]

I've had a rough past week so I really needed the smiles that this episode gave me, especially the short notice adopted betta upgrade lady. QOTW - For my community tank I love watching the cory cat crew rush to the front of the tank to enjoy the feast of bloodworms I drop in every few days for them. They're like little puppies scurrying and jumping around trying to get them all. SOOOO freaking cute! I love my cory crew. My best friend just passed away last week and I adopted her 3 fancy goldfish and 3 more of her fish tanks. I now have 7 fish tanks. They're all over the house! I need to clear out my extra room and make that a dedicated fish room at this point. :S I especially love the fancy goldfish though because they LOVE my excess duckweed from my other tanks. I believe my duckweed over abundance problem has just been remedied. RIP Angelina, you sweeties are being taken good care of. <3

edit: fixed typo and added needed context

[mweatherby]

Love your comments, especially the sarcasm, the many do's and dont's, all the information is just astounding. And one last thing, I have been watching past son calls it, "falling done the rabbit hole". My very favorite, is your many hair styles, they are absolutely priceless. 👍

[BenignBryophyta]

Millie and Repashy are both exquisite co-hosts. One could not possibly choose between two pieces of perfection. 🤌

[Self_Cancelled]

I literally had a dream last night where I had a giant four section paludarium that broke and someone in my dream was scolding me for not just making it a terrarium because then it wouldn't have mattered if it broke, then a giant monitor like lizard escaped from it and became alligator size and I had to fight it off with a snake catcher hook thingy. I don't even own reptiles or have paludariums, but it made me scared that my fish tanks were going to break.

[shardonayM]

I don think the first girl did 8 hours of Research, I think she got the Beta 8 hours ago, my guess it was dumped on her.

[wierdsnake]

Those Trumpet Snails are working hard keeping his substrate aerated and cleaning up his over feeding but he still wont give them a break. Poor guys

[NightmareEclipse]

Qotw: I think my algae wafers that I give to my clown pleco is one of my favourite foods. It also helps feed the bladder snails that the kuhli loaches eat. But my kuhlis also go crazy for the algae wafers. Everyone in the tank loves it when I put one in!

[abhiwankenobi]

CO-HOST IS BACK!

Also I had an Axolotl a few years back. One day I woke up to the sight of almost all the water on the floor with 2 inches still left in the tank with the little guy frantically swimming around. Was not a fun day of clean up

[FrancesWeyr]

Depending on where she did her eight hours of study, she could have got a lot of conflicting information and some of it takes a while to “click”. I recall when I started out I would read multiple articles on the same subject before some of the science would make sense. This is a really good start. Better to experience keeping a fish alive and then upgrade.