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Saw this expensive but awesome hat in a shop that I won't name as it was was 90% ghoulishly overpriced dropshipped products. And I'm like obsessed with the metal flames but unfortunately I think this is like the one item they didn't buy off alibaba and flip for four times as much, lol. not even just the flames. and i am NOT paying 60 canadian smackeroons to a shop that is rampantly dropshipping basically all their other products when i dont even like the base of the hat that much...

Anyone have any idea how something similar could be achieved at home??? if the answer is "you need to get into metalworking" that is literally fine, especially if you have a good idea for a starting point there. I thought about cutting up old pop cans to bolt onto a hat but i think it would end up too flimsy and sharp. i think i've also seen something similar done with old cymbals but no idea where you would source those and also i'm not as into brass.

thanks in advance legends if you have literally any input here. ily cool people

they invented a fruit with a nasty texture and a mid at best taste that overpowers and gets its banana stank all over literally any other thing you mix it with. and we're just ok with this????? they even release a gas that makes other fruits rot. that's fucked. cooked banana is on thin ice (it's ok if you use it tastefully like in banana bread)

Hi all! I've been working on this 10 gal for about a month and a half and just added 8x beckford's pencilfish and a juvenile mystery snail last week. Still planning on adding a couple more plants and filling it up with cuttings of the fast growers until light can barely penetrate it lol.

Unfortunately I had a wrench thrown in my plans as I visited my LFS today and fell head over heels for the prettiest little yellow koi girlie today. She's currently living in a community tank with some other female bettas which at least shows she's not ultra-aggro...

Anyways, anyone have insight on whether it would be egregiously cruel/unwise to add a betta into this tank? It's difficult finding any info on stocking with beckford's pencils in the first place, and aqadvisor can't reasonably calculate the stocking level of this tank where it's angled haha. (The base is about 23x12 inches btw!)

If it doesn't work out, I have a 29 gal that's gonna be set up soon (probably stockign with neon platys and swordtails), and also would be fine to separate her out into the 5 gal quarantine bucket with an extra filter and heater on a temporary basis and fish-in cycle that until I could get a solo setup ready.

Thanks for hearing out my ramble haha. Would appreciate any advice here.

Trying to decide what I want to stock in my 10 gallon angled (tank tax in img, she's still cycling) and sparkling gourami are high on the list, except I haven't been able to get a great handle on their temperament. Do sparkling gourami have a similar intelligent and curious temperament to some of the other labyrinth fish (honeys, bettas, etc...)? Not sure I want my main tank inhabitant to be prohibitively shy, haha. Also considering a croaking gourami as they are pretty in a similar way and my main lfs has some in stock rn, from what I gather they seem quite similar...?

Can't say whether I'm going for tank mates either because I'm undecided lol, I might try cherry shrimp but I am currently also setting up a 2 gallon walstad plant growout jar I would be able to move them to if the fish go aggro on them lol. Only thing for sure is my small horde of bladder snails.

Also planning on starting up another jar with feeders (probably brine shrimp) so I MIGHT be able to consider a licorice gourami? but those seem pretty advanced and this is my first proper foray into fish keeping...

If anyone has any other suggestions (gourami or otherwise) I'm all ears haha. This was gonna be a betta tank but I went and fell for pearl gouramis and well, I definitely can't have those in the tanks I got unless I want to start cycling the bathtub lmao

Hi! After several years of being too nervous I finally started putting together my first tank since I was like 12 and begging my parents to get me something better for my betta </3 no fish yet but I just had bladder snails show up yesterday so I'm about to start a fish-in cycling regimen to keep them around (love a free clean up crew)

Picked up this sweet little 10 gallon angled on Saturday and she's been filled up with dirt capped with play sand (and one sacrificial dead bug LOL) since Sunday, been picking up plants over the past couple days and the most recent ones (the lilaeopsis brasiliensis) just added a couple hours ago. Realized shortly after buying that the amazon sword is going to get WAY too big but I kind of have a notion to let her grow out the top now >:)

Other than that, I think I might have accidentally added too much substrate and ended up sacrificing tank space but don't think there's really anything that can be done about that now...

pleaseee ignore the cat hair in there, the stupidly thin glass lid already broke and all these pics were taken right before a water change

Does it look like I'm on the right track here? ty <3