Showing posts with label zeta. Show all posts
Showing posts with label zeta. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Double overhaul

So I redid Coda's tetra cube yesterday as planned, but since I had some plants leftover I did Zeta's as well!

Plants are anacharis, dwarf hairgrass, wisteria, java fern and dwarf lily. The lily looks to be melting a bit, but otherwise everything is doing well. Just worried about the anacharis since I dose Excel and I've heard they don't do well with it. We'll see how it goes!


I put the extra wisteria and a crypt in Zeta's. He's loving it in there :) I think I want an anubias to go behind the helmet, or anchored to one of the horns. And I'm still waiting on some cholla wood in the mail to put in both tanks.

Bonus of the (snail?) eggs I found on the wisteria in Zeta's tank. I could end up with snails in three tanks (floating the leftover wisteria in Lola's critter keeper). e_e



Monday, November 18, 2013

Splendens


Just a little introduction to my splendens. I currently have four, all pet store rescues. I've gotten all four of them within the last couple of months and they've been great so far.


My veiltail Zeta was the first betta I bought, and he seems to have the most spunk and personality of my four. He flares way more than the others and split his fins up a bit because of it, but I've taken care of the reflections in his tank and they're healing up now.


Nova is my elephant ear halfmoon plakat, bought him on Halloween! After a couple days of weird behavior and no appetite I discovered that he had velvet, so I treated him with Cupramine for about five days and there hasn't been any sign of it since. He's doing great, and becoming more and more active to the point where I think I should get him a bigger tank soon.


Coda, the double tail. He's still fairly new but doing really well so far. His ventricle fins are super curled, but they're looking a bit better since I got him so I'm thinking they'll fix themselves eventually. I keep his water tanned with indian almond leaves, hopefully that will help with the curling.

Lola is my newest and only female. She was labeled as crowntail but I'm thinking she's just a regular plakat? Not sure if there is a difference. She was super shy at first, but she's becoming a little more active each day and eating well.