#chevko's pets

[chevko]

I don't know if I covered the mic or something but oh my god I pissed him off so bad. I didn't realize he'd get that angry! I gave him some freeze dried blood worms prior to this so maybe that's it??? He's definitely had enough exercise lol. He was about this fiesty when I got him from the pet store. He's still hanging around the feeding circle, hoping for noms or that's where there's a buffer on water flow. (I killed the betta hammock leaf, oops. I kind of want to get him a tunnel though. Unless I could rig up one of the hamster tubes I've got.) Someone tag lilkittay and peaceypanic for me? I'm on mobile.

[chevko]

Dude, I had no idea that java and banded loaches are so DIFFERENT in terms of personality. Like. My java loaches are crazy hyper, like. almost batshit crazy. And shy, too. The banded loaches are just. chill? Like. I can commonly find at least one banded hanging out on top of the sponge filter scrounging for nibbles and they just explore kind of randomly without any shits to give.

Also, the java loaches do that weird racing thing in the corner of the tank??? And the bandeds just. don’t? I mean. They might race up the side of the tank, but it’s to perch in the floating moss. (They taught the javas how to do this because it never occurred to them to chill tf out for a minute.)

[chevko]

We lost Alex. Something was wrong with either the oxygen content in the water, I couldn't get chemicals from air freshener out of the water, or something else was wrong. He would just sit at the surface and breathe oxygen that way. He was super weak and just wouldn't eat. I just. Don't know. I took the water in for a test and the pH was a bit high as was... not ammonia, but one of the other two. Not dangerously so, but it was just a little high. I'm gonna strip the tank down, clean it out, and just try cultivating daphnia or something.

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Alex is acting oddly.. A bit lethargic and such. Plan on getting the water checked in the next day or so. I’ve had him 10 months now. He’s probably over a year? I don’t see signs of fungus, but I have a suspicion as to the cause...

[chevko]

I wish the “This is my original work, or I have permission to post this.” also showed on the non-mobile desktop site. Or does it and I just have never seen it?

But yeah, he was busy hunting copepods here. Might still be, right now, lol.

[chevko]

One of two I have saved. Will be getting the others later. (Surprisingly, the website wasn't all that hard on my phone to upload this.)

[chevko]

i think the person with the blind bettas was kai-ni, but she's not taking advice questions anymore

Oh, boo. Really? That sucks…

Does anyone have any advice on feeding blind fish then?? >_<

[chevko]

Who was the person that had Radar? Sonar? the blind betta? Can someone tag them for me?

Deja’s lost most of her vision and she seems to be trucking along pretty well, the only thing is that she seems to be super upset about the lack of vision and I have a very hard time getting her to eat more than one pellet. The last few days it’s been no more than like two.