Fish caresheets

blog about fish and their care. also pictures of good tanks

[careforfish]

Feel free to send an ask for a specific species

You may submit a video or photo of your fish, I will only post media where, at the very least, the fish's minimum requirements are met. If I am concerned about the care, I will send you a private message with my concern and will delete the submission if the fish's minimum requirements aren't being met - I will not shame anyone, I only seek to help people give the care their fish require to thrive

Caresheets done

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The following is used only for caresheets

#aggressive - aggressive species

#brackish - brackish fish as an adult

#caresheet - for caresheets

#cold water - fish requires water below 23C (73.4F)

#common fish name - common names for the fish

#fast moving water - fish requires fast current

#fresh - freshwater fish as an adult

#hard water - fish requires hard water

#hot water - fish requires water over 28C (<82.4F)

#marine - marine fish as an adult

#sand - fish requires sand or similarly soft substrate for digging

#schooling - fish requires group of 10+

#slow moving water - fish requires low current

#social - fish requires a group of 5+

#soft water - fish requires soft water

#species scientific name - species name

#warm water - fish requires water 23C-28C (73.4-82.4F)

#xxl - minimum tank requirement >1000l.

#xl - minimum tank size 600l-999l

#l - minimum tank size 300l-599l

#m - minimum tank size 150l-299l

#s - minimum tank size 60l-149l

#n - minimum tank size <60l

[horsesarecreatures]

These guys love their Stendker discus pellets.

[anabantoid]

my starving horse who is forced to eat the crumbs I've strewn across the floor, she has never had a meal in her life

[parasiteentertainment]

@misidentifying-animals-in-posts

[misidentifying-animals-in-posts]

Shop-Vac® 6 Gallon 5.0 Peak HP Wet/Dry Vacuum

$116.99

[anabantoid]

my leaf hungers.....

[endivinity]

it's pupy

[stoneronthemoon]

not enough people know how puppy-coded eels are and thats an absolute travesty imo

[finneasbug]

my pea puffers inspecting a spider 🕷️ crawling on their tank

[fourteen--steps]

@likesplatterpaint

[likesplatterpaint]

I would trust them to protect me.

[gif87a-com]

[antifa-hulk]

[mokopirirakaugalaxias]

Dinner? Dinner? Dinner time for eel? Is time for worms?

[herpsandbirds]

Fire Eel (Mastacembelus erythrotaenia), family Mastacembelidae, order Synbranchiformes, found in freshwater habitats in SE Asia

This species is not a “true eel”, but is in a group called the spiny eels.

photographs by Stan Sung

[typhlonectes]

Sinobdella longitubulus, a new species of spiny eel (Pisces, Mastacembelidae) from the Zhu-Jiang Basin, with a note on the type locality of S. sinensis 

Peng Shan, Guangyu Li, E Zhang

Abstract

Background

The spiny eel genus Sinobdella belongs to the family Mastacembelidae of the order Synbranchiformes. Kottelat and Lim (1994) utilised Rhynchobdella sinensis as the type species to propose the genus. Currently, it contains a single species widespread in eastern and southern China and northern Vietnam.

New information

Sinobdella longitubulus, a new species of spiny eel, is here described from the Xi-Jiang of the Zhu-Jiang Basin in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, southern China. It differs from the single congeneric species S. sinensis in having a more or less white-brown reticulated pattern on the flank, two tubular anterior nostrils longer than or equal to the rostral appendage, an anal fin heavily mottled with dark brown markings and white spots and bearing a narrow white distal margin; shorter pre-anal length; and fewer abdominal vertebrae. The validity of this new species is corroborated by its monophyly recovered in a COI gene-based phylogenetic analysis and its significant sequence divergence with S. sinensis. A note on the type locality of S. sinensis is also given; its type specimen is possibly from mountain streams of Jiangxi Province, in the lower Chang-Jiang Basin.

Read the paper here: Sinobdella longitubulus, a new species of spiny eel (Pisces, Mastacembelidae) from the Zhu-Jiang Basin, with a note on the type locality of S. sinensis (Bleeker, 1870) (pensoft.net)

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Daily fish fact #833

Fire eel!

It inhabits slow-moving waters with thick vegetation, like lowland rivers and floodplains — it tends to hide out in the sand with its head peeking out. Despite the name, it is not really an eel, but a spiny eel (different from eel)!

[herpsandbirds]

Could we get some (wild) bettas?

Wild Bettas

I had to do a little research on this for you. I didn't realize that there were so many species of Betta!

I may have some truly wild specimens for you. It is hard to find good photos of wild Bettas, so I can also offer you good photos of Betta in captivity that have not been bred far from wild form (or may be wild caught and are part of a zoological breeding program)... as well as wild specimens.

Betta burdigala, family Osphornemidae, order Anabantiformes, endemic to Borneo

CRITICALLY ENDANGERED.

photograph by Yie Babel

Brown's Betta (Betta brownorum), family Osphornemidae, order Anabantiformes, endemic to Borneo

Vulnerable.

photograph by Haji Badaruddin

Betta falx, family Osphornemidae, order Anabantiformes, endemic to Sumatra, Indonesia

photograph by K. Sasaki

Betta kuehnei, family Osphornemidae, order Anabantiformes, found in Malaysia and Thailand

photograph by Wentien Shi

Betta iaspis & B. mulyadii • Phylogenetic Analysis of Betta coccina Complex (Teleostei: Osphronemidae) from Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra Island with Descriptions of Two New Species

(2025)

READ HERE.

Catching Wild Bettas in THAILAND for breeding conservation! Betta smaragdina natural habitat!

There are 5-6 different species in the splenden complex which is what makes up domestic bettas of today in which I'll make a video about in the next week or two when i get the chance.

(These live fish are not sold, nor used for the pet industry. They are bred for conservation purposes only!)

[wheremyscalesslither]

You don’t need to buy an algae eater to solve the algae problem in your aquarium. You can usually just put the lights on a timer and have them turn off sooner, and that usually solves the algae problem. If it still doesn’t clear up, consider testing your water for nitrates and phosphates. Excessive algae can also be caused by nutrient imbalances. Do more frequent water changes.

Just a helpful note to everyone who thinks they need a pleco. You probably don’t.

[mokopirirakaugalaxias]

Gaze upon the Ctenopoma

[careforfish]

You do not need a 'bottom feeder' to clean the gravel of your tank. You can just use a siphon if you absolutely have to remove something. It's perfectly fine to just have middle or surface dwelling fish in a tank.

[careforfish]

Similarly, it's perfectly fine to just have bottom dwelling fish in your tank

[careforfish]

You do not need a 'bottom feeder' to clean the gravel of your tank. You can just use a siphon if you absolutely have to remove something. It's perfectly fine to just have middle or surface dwelling fish in a tank.

[careforfish]

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