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There's a chemistry lab on my dresser...
I had no idea what I was getting into when I brought home a betta one day. That one betta in a little Ikea bowl so long ago has turned into what seems like a multi-million dollar operation.
Here's how it went...
Stage One: 1 little betta in a little bowl
Stage Two: 1 swordtail and 1 platy in a ridiculously expensive, designer 2 gallon tank
Stage Three: 1 betta in that same 2 gallon tank (RIP Archie and Nosey)
Stage Four: 8 neon tetras, 2 black phantom tetras and 3 cories in (again) an over-priced 10 gallon tank
Stage Five: that same betta in a 5.5 gallon tank; the 2 gallon morphs into a hospital tank
Keep in mind that all of this requires a basic support system of:
Food - flakes for the tetras, algae wafers for the cories, and pellets for the betta
Water dechlorinator for weekly water changes
Two buckets for the water changes
Gravel vacuum to keep everything clean
Fish nets (several)
Water Test Kit - many, many little bottles, droppers and test tubes with extensive instructions
"Aquascaping" - gravel, decorations and fake plants for all of the tanks
Fishie Medicine, including Kanacyn and Melafix (although we're still missing a lot of basics)
And to think this all started with a $4 betta and a $10 bowl. I don't even want to think about how much we've spent...
Liberated at
9:59 p.m.
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