Serial Plant Killer

29 Gallon Community / 20 Gallon Walstad / 5 Gallon Betta (#apollothebetta) Personal Blog

[copperbettas]

Last one, a breathtaking OHM rosetail, in my favorite betta color - copper!

Hope you enjoyed these beautiful fish photos from aquastar :)

[easybirdie]

thought i’d post a picture of my boy Samson! 

[kai-ni]

He is so pretty!

[betta-adventures]

I’m in love

[copperbettas]

Skyhawk

Skyhawk is a name used by breeders to identify a betta with a large dorsal fin, often angling forward slightly.

[copperbettas]

I love the variety between these 3 beautiful bettas

[my-nano-cube]

The equipment I use in my 8 gal tank. I recently switched the filter into an “Aquael Mini Pat” filter. The plant glass pot is no equipment but decoration but I often got asked what it is so I thought it would be better to list it here too. :) If you have any other questions, feel free to ask!

[betta-adventures]

Awesome!

[copperbettas]

[interstellardragon]

If you see a dog in a closed box with hardly any air holes, what are you gonna do?

You’re gonna try and get the dog out and call the owner out on their animal mistreatment, right?

If you see a cat locked in a crate with feces all over the floor and all over the cat,...

[my-nano-cube]

Basic Aquascaping Shapes (Click images to full view)

The Triangle This shape shows a simple and well structured shape which gives enough space for placing plants and hardscape. Important is the increase in substrate to get the depth effect. The substrate should increase towards the back. Smaller plants should be placed in the foreground, larger ones in the background. The increasing shape is not only to realize from front to back but also from left to right or right to left.

The U-Shape With the U-Shape you can simply realize an effective layout. Plants and hardscape will be positioned at the sides of the tank so there will be free space in the middle of the layout. It’s better not to place the free space in the exact middle but in 1/3 & 2/3 of the tank. Symmetries are to be avoided. 

The Hill Shape In this challenging variation plants and hardscape will be placed in the middle of the tank and set with high growing plants and decorative stones and roots. The focus is clearly set so the Hill must have an appealing look. Foreground and sides will be planted with small plants. On free space on the substrate small stones or roots are suitable.

Shape with perspective This shape is supposed to increase the perspective of the tank. In the foreground at the sides high growing stem plants are used. In the middle of the foreground ground covering plants are the best choice to keep a clear view at the middle- and background. In the background a highly increasing ground will be planted with small plants. Therefore the illusion of a distant hill framed by woods is formed. 

[aquarium-mania]

Fishblr: Look at this trove, treasures untold. How many fish tanks can one fish room hold? Lookin around here you think," sure, they've got everything." I've got tetras and plecos a-plenty. I've got discus and goldfish galore. You want betta fish? I've got twenty! But who cares? No big deal, I want mooOOOORE

[kaosghost]

20 gallon betta sorority update, 7/7/14

[truedragons]

http://www.aquabid.com/cgi-bin/auction/auction.cgi?fwbettashm&1406310695

[aquashrimp]

1 month after rescape

[lokiroki]

wanted to draw a little mudkip on a marimo ball after seeing this post

just a quick doodle

EDIT: made him transparent if u want a lil mudkip on a marimo for your blog

[bitternotbetter]

Excellent:)

[kai-ni]

o lord Zion inspired dis!

[aquascapedepot]

Tom Barr’s 120 Gallon Dutch Style Aquascape - Check out the full aquascape here

[pooperscoopin]

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[pettyartist]

So I had a customer the other day tell me about creating underwater waterfalls using sand and an air pump.

I think I have found my new favorite aquascape technique.

Apparently all you need to do is pump air up through a pvc pipe with a piece at the end and sand at the bottom— the air/water forces the sand up through the pump and out.  You then stack rocks to catch the sand and have it trickle down like water.

(like so vvv)

(source for the photo)

IT’S SO GODDAMN COOL.

[housebatbetta]

Sam’s all freckles and shine.