#fish owner

[splendenscommabetta]

fishkeeper feels

forgetting there is Always a little guy just in your room and then. remembering

y'all ever uhhh... baby talk to your fish a little bit? maybe quietly explain what you're doing as you clean the tank and move stuff around them like they actually care? yeah.

getting your first few pieces of equipment without knowing dick about shit and getting slowly more horrified at the amount of maintenance and money this is going to take

betta cups in Petco are shaped for hold...

telling dramatized aquarium stories to your non-fishkeeper friends to make what you did last night (clean the tank) sound exciting

why won't these fucking rocks stay in their fucking spot god fucking damnit i will eat you like cereal you stupid chunks of shit just stay where you're fuckin- YES. YES PERFECT.

are my

are my fish judging me?

is that a thing?

oh god

when you gotta siphon tank water with your mouth because you're too cheap for a gravel vacuum and at this point it doesn't even register how lowkey nasty that is anymore

looking at the thermometer real quick and then looking at the thermometer again just to check and then looking at the thermometer one more time just to make sure and looking at the-

[bluntbabyyy]

Has anyone ever ordered live fish before??

Any good websites or tips?

I really wanna buy a beta offline and have been looking.

Where my fish owners at?? 🐠

[fins-and-fur]

So I ended up with a new boy today. Poor guy's been through a lot. He was a class pet at my job & the teacher let the tank sit for so long it got moldy. So I brought in my old 2.5 gallon as an upgrade from the 1 gallon he was in, which the kids in the classroom promptly cracked less than 48 hours later. My boss asked me to please take him home & so ($115 dollars later 😬) here we are.

[mybubblenest]

This was Liberty, a betta I had 9 years ago! (Omg where does the time go?) I had gotten him from Walmart, and although I didn't like supporting Walmart selling fish, I absolutely couldn't pass him up! He was such a beautiful and unique veiltail 😍

[bestbettaboy]

fish owner asmr

falling asleep to the sound of your fishtank filter 🐠

[kongjian-nanhai-blog]

Having fish for pets is so weird like, you feed and love them and watch them all the time and make them feel beautiful and half the time they just swim away from you and schooling fish probably gossip about you but it’s ok because you love them, even if you are just a big sky god who provides food for the finned friends you live with.

[columbiasmagicmenagerie]

Hey Tumblr fish owners, I kinda sorta failed hardcore with the 3 goldfish I got last week who have ALL went to the big pond in the sky by now and I’m not sure what went wrong b/c I’ve kept fish (alternated between goldfish and guppies) for about 4 years and thought I knew everything :/ My tank has a heater, light, and filter, and I used part of an old filter (just the tubing really) as a bubbler so it would be more oxygenated. I also use AquaSafe to de-chlorinate and condition the water. So all things considered, the water quality should have been fine. The poor fish in question were a calico, black moor and regular orange goldfish who were all living in the same tank at the pet store when I bought them. Now, the pet store tank seemed a little overcrowded/dirty, dark and had a few dead fish floating, so I’d really hoped I was doing them a favor by getting them out of there. My own tank had been thoroughly cleaned when I brought them home, and I floated the bag for 15 minutes so they could adjust to the temperature. Behavior-wise, the orange goldfish seemed sluggish and wimpy from the start and was the first to go (pet store guy captured them at random and there were definitely some less active ones in that tank, him being one of them as I found out). However, the black moor and calico fish were very active and very eager to eat in the first 3 or 4 days that I had them. It was only in the last couple of days that I started to notice them clinging to the heater/side of the tank and hovering in the hollowed out barrel ornament I had on one side, and being less active in general. Then tonight I came home to find them both dead. :((((( If anyone has any idea as to what might have gone wrong, I would appreciate the input. My only theory other than disease is that they just couldn’t handle the shock of the move, being such a stressed out breed, but that wouldn’t explain why the first few days went smoothly. I’d like to try again with some new goldfish from another store in the next week or so.

[splendenscommabetta]

my fish's hobbies include

swimmin around real fast! :)

flashing his cute lil fins all over the place! :)

eating his food real quick! :)

pretending to be fucking dead by lying down on his pebbles and not fucking moving for an hour