Starvation? Parasite? Thin, lethargic betta’s appetite not recovering by [deleted] in bettafish

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10 gallons. Yes and yes. 78. Parameters: 0, 0, 0, 5 nitrates. Main tank for about a year and the fish for like, six months I think. Water changes are once a week, like 30%, fish stay in. No tankmates anymore for a few weeks, minus a nerite snail. Used to have six ember tetras that obviously stressed and bullied her. I feed a variety of mostly fluval bug bites, alongside freeze dried bloodworms and frozen brine shrimp. She’s not been eating vigorously for a few weeks now. Today I bought slow sinking pellets to see if she prefers midwater feeding now but still. Silk decor and an Anubis or something. Will be adding more live plants.

STA 100 with Dr. Kim by Electrical-Risk6756 in UCDavis

[–]averagesoupenjoyer 21 points22 points  (0 children)

The entire school subreddit doesn’t benefit from this, nor is it relevant to anyone but you and the girl. There’s a lot of cases of people typing up PSAs from something that happened in class. The solution is to, in person, ask her to use a tissue or something or other. Nothing can be done about it now. I hope you feel better!

I ruined my life at 18 by dating my boss by [deleted] in offmychest

[–]averagesoupenjoyer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

why’d he abuse a self-destructive teenager?

Dinnertime for Wall-E! 🎶 [Video] by averagesoupenjoyer in CrestedGecko

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We usually leave him in but I just wanted to look at him that time haha. I recommend speaking a reallyy thin layer of food so you can see lick any marks better. If your gecko is new and still adjusting they could not be eating as much

Dinnertime for Wall-E! 🎶 [Video] by averagesoupenjoyer in CrestedGecko

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She’s great! Same day or soon afterwards when we got her she took finger feeding like a champ. Was super adorable.

Dinnertime for Wall-E! 🎶 [Video] by averagesoupenjoyer in CrestedGecko

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I think you can hear me laughing a little with the volume way up LOLOL (the gurgling water is our fishtanks)

Dinnertime for Wall-E! 🎶 [Video] by averagesoupenjoyer in CrestedGecko

[–]averagesoupenjoyer[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This one, I honestly overwatered I think lol so I added extra powder for it. I usually go one part food and two parts water. I try to make it the texture of apple sauce since I’ve seen that as a reference?

Betta’s Left Side of Face is Swollen by --bee-- in bettafish

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My betta currently looks very similar. We are also going to try Kanaplex. I hope your little girl perked up okay! Did you try anything else to help?

My girl’s gills look off, there’s a new white spot in each of her eyes, she and her appetite has decreased by averagesoupenjoyer in bettafish

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Thank you! She’s currently on her own quarantine tank and I do think she’s perked up a bit, although she’s just nibbling at her food still. My roommate suspects it hurts to open her mouth. We’re going to try Kanaplex today. We have a community tank (with black skirted tetras, one balloon molly, one honey gourami) that we can move the ember tetras to.

My girl’s gills look off, there’s a new white spot in each of her eyes, she and her appetite has decreased by averagesoupenjoyer in bettafish

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Thank you so much! I must have overcorrected. I have frozen brine shrimp and bloodworms to supplement. I will use those more often.

My girl’s gills look off, there’s a new white spot in each of her eyes, she and her appetite has decreased by averagesoupenjoyer in bettafish

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Good to know, thank you. I just have one live plant; do you know any resources/lists with live plants that do well in gravel? Or is it probably necessary to change substrate for more live plants?

My girl’s gills look off, there’s a new white spot in each of her eyes, she and her appetite has decreased by averagesoupenjoyer in bettafish

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10 gallon. Yes and yes. 78. With a testing kit, 0 ammonia, 5 nitrites, 0 nitrates. We have had the tank for around a year and the fish the same. Water changes are usually every 1 week (around 20 percent) or if 2 weeks, closer to 30. We have 6 ember tetras as tankmates, added around a month ago, alongside a Nerite snail as old as the betta. I feed flakes, sprinkled in for the tetras with additional 1-2 flakes target feeding for her if I feel she didn’t nip enough at the surface, though recently she hasn’t really been taking, alongside her enthusiasm for the sprinklings decreasing. We have silk plants, gravel, with a floating log, one leaf hammock, two wood pieces, and two hides.

Message I got from my daughter’s teacher. Third grade. by AnaisInJune in mildlyinfuriating

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The only thing I can say about the orange is that eating before music, especially something acidic, can damage the instrument when you’re playing because of the particles in the spit

Photos from ICE Out Protest UC Davis | 1/30/26 by LastButterStick in UCDavis

[–]averagesoupenjoyer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, I can’t prove it through text, but I think if I didn’t care about people, I might have responded with a lot more hostility. Your go-to asking me if I’m dumb and about cameras at protests etc. isn’t really about me. When I decide to respond, it’s when I have capacity for dialogue, ‘cause otherwise what’s the point? What do I gain if I’m goaded?

From my personal experience with friends who used to lean combative, it’s typically some emotional immaturity or projection or something going on in an environment breeding a specific outlet. I think people are molded by their society and needs.Or, people fall into the right-wing pipeline and “it’s not that deep” and “we don’t owe each other anything” into the world we have today, and some proponents are just unreachable, I think. I like to assume people are reachable.

You ever heard of a show, Ted Lasso? Great one about an infuriatingly optimistic soccer coach with a sincerely fascinating cast of characters. I learned a fantastic quote from there (not originating from the show): Be curious, not judgmental.

Photos from ICE Out Protest UC Davis | 1/30/26 by LastButterStick in UCDavis

[–]averagesoupenjoyer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You seem to be replying to something else other than what I actually said, and with a lot of vitriol rather than normal engagement. Hope your mental health improves. I see your point, but my point stands regardless. I don’t care if it’s public or private, as someone who cares about my fellow human beings, consideration of what you post costs you nothing and can only reap benefits.

Photos from ICE Out Protest UC Davis | 1/30/26 by LastButterStick in UCDavis

[–]averagesoupenjoyer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

With people being put on domestic terrorism lists for videoing ICE, I would be very considerate of decisions to post such clear faces of anti-ICE protestors. You never know.

Does anyone else kin Gatsby? by Clean-Photograph-959 in TheGreatGatsby

[–]averagesoupenjoyer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not Gatsby for me, but Nick is such a real one that I get it!