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She needs to see an emergency vet. This could be stress induced GI stasis.

what are your tank’s dimensions? Check out leopard geckos, Chinese cave geckos, African fat tail geckos, or knob tailed geckos! They prefer longer enclosures and could likely live comfortably in a tank that size for most of their life.

As long as they’re eating and happy, I’d say they could live a totally normal life. They may have internal problems if their outside is that deformed, but you’ll probably never know unless you perform a necropsy. Obviously don’t breed them, don’t want those genes passing down :p

I know there’s natural variation but can WCMMs really be that red? I’ve never seen that before except in a couple line-bred strains.

they remind me of White Cloud Mountain minnows, but their fins are too short. Might be another minnow? Or a red strain??

That definitely looks like pretty severe genetic deformity to me. In all honesty, that betta really should’ve been a cull.

Decibels. a lower number is technically quieter, but everything’s dependent on if it’s in our hearing range or not. Big Brown Bats produce a call that’s 110 decibels, about as loud as a fire alarm, but it’s not in our hearing range.

I’m not going to say you didn’t do anything wrong, that would be a lie, but you aren’t at fault here. whatever adult gave your those bettas and whoever saw you treat them like that and allowed it is at fault here. No responsibility of a life should be put on a child that young. Ever. Give your...

sounds like a plan. The most issue mine had was getting flipped upside-down or sunk by the current.

That would probably be your best bet. My salvania was the only floater to survive my high flow tanks, so your plant choice was good :D

That would be salvania minima.

This actually reminds me of a similar question: do fish have teeth? Obviously sharks and piranha and the like, but what about cichlids or tetras or rasboras? Are these hypothetical teeth visible or are they sort of inside the gums like some reptiles?

Also make sure the pond is heated.

Well, that’s because it’s not algae. It’s Cyanobacteria, or blue-green (not) algae. I’m not entirely sure how to get rid of it, but I do know it’s one of those things that just exists in the water and takes hold where it can.

Of course! Bettas are built to breathe air so jumping for food shouldn’t be a problem, that’s what most fish do the wild. It also sounds like it’s good enrichment for them :)

There’s an API test kit for copper, but you could probably ask on local fishkeeping page. I know there’s one or two test kits that have been passed around our neighborhood for about two years now.

1 gallon is 128 U.S ounces, so that would be 8 drops per gallon. What oils does it have? Certain oils aren’t good for their labyrinth organ (the organ that lets them breathe air). Think of it as sticking your nose right above a diffuser and just walking around all day like that.

Not a monster fish, but a group American flagfish might be cool? They’re a killifish species endemic to Florida, and they kinda look like little pumpkinseed sunfish or bass.

Probably not the same species, but definitely looks like a slime mold to me. Some people keep them as pets. They eat oats :)

Ooo I think I know what this is. I have one in my (very very moist) mourning gecko enclosure; it’s a slime mold sort of thing. It disappears and reappears randomly, in the same place, when it’s particularly wet or dry, respectively.