New to the hobby and looking for good recommendations for where to shop/ swap and talk fish!
I just started cycling so we’re a few weeks away from any livestock but again just wanna build my community because I’m sure there’s a handful close by :)
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My son has ASD and his new special interest is fish and I have always wanted some fish and a nice aqua scape so here we are. (Btw they’ll be 100% my responsibility and never alone with the kiddo this isn’t a child pet situation just a shared interest)
I wanna start off by saying I don’t know shit about fuck in this space and I take “caring for a living being” VERY seriously so I wanna make sure I talk to the people who know more than I do.
So I got a small 5 gal tank that in my mind was bigger than one of those fish bowls we had as kids but im realizing is still… small
I LOVE those blobby looking goldfish SO much but of course a rudimentary google search (which I should’ve done earlier) is saying they need at least 50-200gal depending on size/variant so I figured I’ll work up to that.
I believe betta* are considered good starter fish, and basic search says 5gals or more… but I wanna challenge that because again I’m working off assumptions that I’m sure are based in some kind of fallacy.
I literally just don’t want any animal I put in this tiny tank to be miserable. Are there any fish who would be more than happy in a small tank or am I better off just returning this 5gal and starting over?
Thanks y’all. 🤲
ETA: Btw it’s also TALL and not wide which I am realizing is also not the best? Will attach photo in comments
Medium is cheap acrylics, background also has plaster and glue
Been watching bobs burgers and was like… I could prob paint a burger
Then realized my cheese should’ve been out on top of the meat lmao
Highlights are trash and overall it’s not impressive but I have been in a “I should make stuff…but if I make stuff I should record it… but I don’t have a proper set up to record it…. Im not gonna make anything” rut and told myself today that I just need to make things for making things sake because unused creativity is a malignant cancer that’ll destroy your soul.
So here she is. The backwards burger
Texture is plaster mixed with glue and paint, something I’ve had in my head that didn’t play out how I expected and ended up the background. lol