Tea Time ☕

✨🦄 Meet the Woman Behind the Magic 🔮✨

Velvet the curly hair tarantula has come out to say hello to you!

This species can live as long as 20-25 years! Someday she will be as big as my hand. She'll need a bigger house!

My fish are going to breed! You can tell because half of the tank is empty except for these two, and the other fish are clustered together scared on the other side. This species has bred 2x now without harming any of my other fish, so fingers crossed that this time goes just as smoothly.

These are polar blue parrot convict hybrid cichlids. I have found them to be one of the easiest fish to breed. You don't even have to try. They are fierce parents. They protect their eggs and then corral the young fry around the tank protectively.

Today a new furry friend joined our family. This is Velvet, named by the little girl that I inherited her from. She is a curly hair tarantula. The females can live 20-25 years!!!

Agatha, my pink toe tarantula, is a tree spider. They are such fast runners and jumpers that they are said to practically teleport. For her safety, I don't handle her. I'm too afraid she would get lost or smushed or something.

"We write to make sense of our lives, and when our lives refuse to make sense, we write to befriend the chaos."

Daisy and me with one of my very first fish tanks. 🙂 Daisy is a 5.5 year old great dane. She may be missing a leg, but she'll always be beautiful.

Watch me as I free my new betta fish from his pet store cup into his forever home: a 20 gallon aquarium.

This little guy is a dumbo half-moon. He has beautiful blue, red, and white coloring that looks teal or even purple and pink in the right lighting. He has a little fin damage but is overall in great shape. I named him Nebula!

He had a really feisty personality in the cup, but so far in the tank, he's been chill and relaxed. Mostly hid in his water lettuce and floating cave for the first few days, but now he's nearly always exploring and loves to come to the glass and flare his fins at me.

Relax for a while with Nebula the dumbo halfmoon betta male in his peaceful underwater home. He has this whole 20gallon aquarium to himself for now, but I'd like to add some pygmy cories.

Nebula, my new dumbo halfmoon betta fish, likes to hang out by his floating cave in the roots of his water lettuce. His coloring is so awesome because in certain lighting he looks red, white, and blue and other times teal and dark pink to purple. He'll be so gorgeous when his fins heal!

Spend some time in my underwater world with my South American cichlid community tank! The big silver guy is a bala shark, and that shining white beauty is my kissing gourami. I've had all of these guys for years, but he's one of my oldest fish.

The golden blue fish is an electric blue acara, and he's one of my most photogenic specimens, aside from maybe the golden algae eater, who is nearly always out where I can see him. He is perhaps my favorite fish in this aquarium. How can you not love such a cute face?

The two big orange fish are Blood Parrots, and the big green fish is an Turquoise Severum. There's a Gold Severum in here too, but it's still a juvenile. The blue and black striped fish are polar blue parrot convict hybrids. Most of them were born in this tank last year!

This golden beauty is a Chinese algae eater, gifted to me years ago by a fellow fish hobbyist, who said he was terrorizing her other fish, chasing them out of the caves. He's been completely docile in my tank though, even shares the caves. He's a little skittish but is almost always out where I can see him. I love his goofy little sucker face. He's one of my favorites. Don't tell the other fish!

Watch my three-legged great dane roll around on the floor. 😅 I guess she's scratching her back? This is why my rug is always dirty. It's also where all my extra money goes.

20 gallon betta tank with floating plants

I named my new fish Nebula! He seems to really like his new home, especially his floating plants. Dumbo halfmoons have long, frilly tails that train behind them like wedding dresses, so I bet he will be beautiful when his fin damage heals!