#aquarist

These are large African Catfish. Reason there is large plastic sheet over them? Because they learnt to bump the tank and knock food into the water. Now, if they hear/smell food, they will pop their heads up like so.

Edit ✨️ For all those concerned, yes, she does have a lid! I'd just cleaned and was hanging out right there where I filmed from at my office desk. If you are new to fish keeping, please invest in a good lid or when picking setups, favor tank kits that include one!

made this based on real events

After too much drama with this tank it seems it’s stable again. Planted new background plants and we’ll see how it goes :)

Now, Imagine a person doing ALL that!

I'm planning on tossing cherry shrimps and *maybe* snails in there. Once I can start the nitrogen cycle proper. Dumbfuck overdosed his tank's ammonia so now I have to sit with a puckered asshole deciding if I should do a water change to lower the ammonia level or just thug it out testing the water every so often and praying the ammonia test doesn't turn out fucking meconium green *this* time. I am already paranoia-ing myself into Oh god what if I kill all the bacteria with a minute amount of chlorine coming through the. activated carbon filtered water. And THEN I get to worry Oh god what if I accidentally overdose the water conditioner trying to compensate and—