Last week, I stopped at PetCo on my lunch break to pick up some algae pellets for Cthulhu, and made an impulse buy - a brilliantly colored blue betta fish ( Read more... )

I turned on the light in the big aquarium, to feed Cthulhu (the giant pleco) and Porthos and D'Artagnan (the two yellow African cichlids).

I saw something floating around in one of the rock formations, and I thought, "What is that...?"

I looked more closely... and it was a baby cichlid!!!!!!!!!!I've no idea how long it's been in there - as it's ( Read more... )

According to a recent article, a man has taught his goldfish how to play soccer.


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Last weekend, I cleaned the fishtanks. The small one was fine with a 50% water change, a good gravel vaccum, and a filter pad change. The large one needed a bit more, however, as I had had several fish die in it, due to a combination of factors - including a fungal infection of some sort. For that one, I vaccumed the gravel, scrubbed the ick off ( Read more... )

Busby Berkeley, eat your heart out!

I love the little kissy sounds my goldfish make when they eat their food.

Bushie has given up the ghost.

Poor little guy.

He has been given a proper burial beneath the shrubs.

I sure hope the gophers don't eat him. /:

Alas, Herman the Wonderfish, aged almost-ten-years, has gone to the big fishbowl in the sky.

He lived a good life.

I will miss him.

I will not flush him, though.

He's too big.

He shall have a proper burial... in the potted plant.

Good day so far ( Read more... )

I noticed that if I listen carefully when I feed my bettas... I can hear them chewing their teeny tiny food pellets! At first, I thought that I was imagining it, but I found that, indeed, I must be feeding them the fishie equivalent of Grape Nuts ( Read more... )