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• Keeping betta rubra: tank specs, product recommendations, what has worked for me

  By ray brantley on July 30, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  I’ve been keeping betta rubra for *checks watch* exactly 7 months as of this July 31st. Here’s one of the first videos I took of my bonded pair, Morticia and Gomez Addams, at the end of January. I’m going to… Read More ›

• Blue-eyed boy: b. uberis settling in, with some issues

  By ray brantley on July 29, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  I’m not sure a camera better than my iPhone would help in snapping better pictures of this little fellow. He’s just so darn small, and as his 10 gallon is situated underneath the workbench that supports most of my tanks,… Read More ›

• Bidding a fond farewell to my sparkling gourami. Sort of.

  By ray brantley on July 21, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  I made the decision to part with my sparkling gourami after taking a long, hard look at how their presence in my 20 gallon blackwater-ish aquarium was impacting the behaviour of my three parosphromenus phoenicurus–namely, that I almost never saw… Read More ›

• “B” is for beginnings–and betta rubra

  By ray brantley on July 19, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  It seems appropriate to start my aquarist blogging journey with the bittersweet conclusion of my first big project: this week I will deliver the last of my first spawn of b. rubra–my first fish spawn ever, really–to a local fish… Read More ›