#lavender betta

[horsesarecreatures]

Handsome Medici 

[mandsleanan]

Just finished another aquascaping project- an actual Nature Aquarium: a diverging path in a forest.

So there are a few reasons why I generally don't do this kind of aquascaping, the main one being my aquariums are animal enclosures, not dioramas.

Bare bones hardscaping.

Laid the path down. The path splits because I originally planned for it to be viewable from both the front and side.

I just fed him. He's being dramatic. This isn't even going to be his tank.

Planted, filled, hardware set.

I hate this part. The only thing worse than gluing a shit-ton of moss onto driftwood is tying it on to individual branches by hand.

Driftwood, placed! Almost there! I added floaters and let the tank cycle for a couple weeks, then ran into something unexpected.

A combination of the driftwood tannins and a bacterial bloom from the Bio-Stratum turned the scape into a cloudy blackwater tank. I unintentionally made a goth aquarium.

It'll resolve itself eventually, but in the meantime, it's very suitable for the main resident: my dumbo betta Lavender.

[horsesarecreatures]

I’m happy to report that all Medici’s ich spots have disappeared. I’m still going to keep the high temperate for another week to make sure any remaining free-swimming parasites are killed, but I think he’s going to be fine.

April has been doing great in her jungle tank.

[horsesarecreatures]

My friend Tiraza bought me a betta that’s very similar to Da Vinci; his name is Medici. He’s got less white on his tail, though, and has normal colored eyes while Da Vinci had blue.

[juniperbetta]

The very shy lavender copper my dad got my mom for Christmas! He is a very handsome delta tail. He was labeled as a dragon scale even though he clearly is not. I'm sick of our local shops labeling betta as dragon scale just to squeeze more money out of dumb people. Still, very pretty dude.