Whimsical Loveseat the betta @whimsical-loveseat - Tumblr Blog

heist movie but one character has a freshwater aquarium at home and is stressing about his tank and his fish and how much they need a water change the entire film. he keeps trying to show everyone pictures of his 100 gallon bichir tank, no one gives a fuck.

byjove

he comes back home and his bichir is happy to see him and completely fine but it has eaten all its tank mates

seabeck

I see a lot of posts on the Washington and Seattle subreddits from people who would greatly benefit from admiring more from nature than just scenic views

seabeck

"what am I supposed to do outside during fall and winter?"

there's teeny little critters and fungus of all shaped and colors and sized outside to look at

"all of the popular places are so crowded and such a long drive"

there are colorful and uniquely shaped mushrooms at any city park with a handful of trees in it

electricgaslight

pikaole

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dogpuppy

So sorry for all the posts I keep accidentally reblogging to this mostly inactive fish blog!! Tumblr keeps temporarily rearranging my blogs in the lil quick rb menu & putting this where my main would go 😔

#whimsy whines

why-animals-do-the-thing

hi! can i ask what's ur opinion on giving pets away? not necessarily because u can't afford to care for em anymore but maybe incompatibility of personalities or maybe lifestyles. is it wrong to give ur pet for adoption if u know someone who's better suited for keeping a pet, like emotionally?

This is going to be controversial, but I support making that choice.

There’s a lot of rhetoric lately around how it’s evil and unethical to rehome your pet if you don’t “need to.” And what that does is prioritize human ideology over the actual animal’s well-being.

Pets that aren’t a good match for your home or pets that aren’t really wanted anymore frequently have lower welfare! When caring for an animal becomes a burden or is forced, people end up resenting them, and that means the animal often doesn’t get all of its needs fulfilled. Even if you’re still feeding it and providing appropriate vet care, how likely are you to provide affection or enrichment to an animal you’re tired of being stuck with?

Lifestyle and personality really matter to making sure a pet is a good fit for a home. A dog that alert-barks at every leaf that moves is probably a bad fit for someone who has a chronic migraine syndrome, and they might not know that until the dog has been in the home for weeks and started to open up. A really feisty kitten that requires a ton of play might not do best in the home of someone older who wanted a quiet lap cat. And while you can you do your best to plan to find a compatible animal, you won’t always know ahead of time what issues might arise.

“Forever home” rhetoric is really, really popular and I think it’s very unfair to the animals it is supposed to support. It started with the backlash of seeing animals abandoned inappropriately, and has been heavily reinforced in the public mind because it’s so frequently used to drive fundraising and support for legislation. The whole “forever home” concept communicates to people that getting an animal is an immutable commitment and that if you can’t keep an animal, it is a personal moral failing. It frames human priorities (we think people who get rid of animals are Evil and Bad and should be shunned) as more important than actual welfare needs for individual animals (are they getting the care they need where they are).

Obviously, I don’t support people dumping animals or just getting fad pets they’ll discard immediately, but there’s so many alternate situations that can arise. Even if it’s just “they got a pet and didn’t know what caring for it would take and didn’t want to care for it so they brought it back, how awful” like… okay, I’d like the person to have done more research before they got a pet, but isn’t it better that the animal now has a second chance to go to better home? Knowing what a commitment requires theoretically can be very different than having to actually follow through regularly, and I’d rather see someone maturely acknowledge that having an animal isn’t a good fit than keep it anyway!!

If animals being happy and with all their biological, veterinary, and social needs fulfilled is actually the goal, we need to prioritize their welfare over human opinion. I’d much rather see an animal rehomed responsibly to somewhere it will thrive and be welcomed than see people keep animals they can’t/don’t want to care for out of guilt or shame.

zooophagous

Heads up pet keepers: zebra mussels have been spotted in Petco Betta Buddy brand moss balls.

If you don't know what zebra mussels are, they're an invasive aquatic species that reproduces incredibly quickly, to the point where it can damage power plant equipment and pipes, and also is a major threat to native mussels as it rapidly outcompetes them. They are a scourge on lakes across the midwest and spread easily on boats or other watercraft thats been exposed to them.

Finding one in a chain pet store item is BAD NEWS. These items are sold across the entire country and this has the potential to be a major spreader event. If you spot a zebra mussel on marimo or on any other aquarium plant please make a report to the relevant wildlife officials so they can be controlled. Do not dispose of any aquarium animal or plant in a waterway.

If we are vigilant, we can help keep our native mussels safe.

#psa yall

internetpotpourri

#oh these are incredibly adorable #reblogging so i can maybe make one later #i feel bad taking sales from this person but theyre so cute amd im poor #crochet #axolotl #oh wait wrong blog

operativesurprise

DJ'Lotl's 50 gal has finally finished cycling so he was able to go into his (affectionately dubbed) midlife-crisis mansion.

YodaCat also felt I had spent enough time watching DJ and it was time to go upstairs

#oh i love this #i want an axolotl so baaaaaaad #but again going back to school in fall maybe hopefullh #and lotls are too sensitive to have my parents do halfhearted maintenance like they did w thistle when i was away

love-and-bugs

Wait for it. And... boom

pet-of-subs

What a pose! Those colors!

#ugh hi guys havent posted in forever again #but real talk i kinda miss having fish #but between me maybe hopefully getting ti go back to school soon #and everything else going on #its just not a good idea for me rn

bettaesthetic

I decided to make a thing

renthony

this post made by aquarium gang

thebettacult

It's national clean your aquarium day!! Give those fishies some extra love❤️

I'm getting some new followers & activity all of a sudden!! Hi to anyone new!! Unfortunately I'm not really active here anymore because I went pff to college last fall & didn't bring my fish with me, and even though I'm home now due to covid, Thistle passed away about a month ago, so I'm left with no fish currently. I may get another fish eventually, but I'm probably going to keep a low profile until then.