OK, nano tank... totally not me, but maybe my journey into betas, maybe Killi's, white cloud minnows???

[Beastije]

If you had more time, you could have had started a walstad jar. They take like 6 months to stabilize though I started one in June, put dirt in, some sand, plants, put my hand in, spilled half the water out, deeply regretted not having tweezers, plopped some ramshorns in and left it be.
Added water, didnt really replace it much. Until end of november the water was pea soup green and full of a cyclops colony that just developed. it had too many snails, in went my assasin snail, as I ran out of places where to put it.

Now it has some hair algae, but otherwise the water is ok and the plants are doing fine and I still didnt really do many water changes.
Adding pictures

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and right now

 

[Magnum Man]

While I can appreciate the jar, this is going 5 feet from my dining table, where most company gather, so, while I want it natural looking, I don't want it literally looking like a bucket scoop out of the swamp... so fewer, but big enough colorful critters, that they get witnessed... I'm hoping the bright red cherry shrimp stand out, and a couple of colorful snails... while I have smaller pond snails in a few tanks... I'm hoping for only one or two colorful snails, and eventually a flowery male Betta...

 

[Beastije]

I get you My eyesore is hidden from most people, though last time I had people gathered in the hallway they did keep pondering why I am keeping a jar of something green and maybe rotting ) Noone understood when I cooed over the cyclops colony in there (and they could not see them despite me pointing them out!!) ))

 

[Magnum Man]

If I were buying a Betta today, it would look like this...

 

[MaloK]

You need much longer fins... To the point it's forced to be lazy.

The tail should be 3/4 the length of the fish and the anal fin spread like a wedding dress under him

Or you will see a fish swimming around a jar like NASCAR.

He might grow a larger right pectoral fin with time.

 

[Innesfan]

If I were buying a Betta today, it would look like this...
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I currently have the doppelganger of this guy, only the irid on him is a lighter shade of blue. He's in a 29g with 7 Hoplisoma atropersonatum (I'm learning! And it's not only a change of genus but also a change of gender). They mutually ignore each other. The butterfly pattern has always been a favorite of mine.

 

[Magnum Man]

well, that's the closest to what I would buy, that I can find available right now but it's too early to consider buying a Betta yet...

 

[TwoTankAmin]

What about one like this?

 

[Magnum Man]

I've seen those... assumed they would be more athletic, than a splendens ... and I've always wanted a red, white, and blue one...

 

[Magnum Man]

so, I raise giant duck weed in most of my small tanks, as food for my Tilapia... skimming duck weed out of the shrimp tank, to make it easier to see the shrimp... these cherrys were pulled out of the duck weed skim... trying not to put the pest snails in either the Tilapia, or the nano tank, so I separate in a dedicated dish pan

 

[Magnum Man]

well a couple of minutes looking, a half hour after these two added... I thought the little one would disappear... but I found it, swimming around... I would think 5-10 would be a good start, without being too many... frozen Christmas moss in the background

 

[Magnum Man]

a few large Marimo algae balls arriving today... will see if they are ice cubes??? they may be more cold tolerant, than Christmas Moss or Frog Bit???

 

[TwoTankAmin]

The problem with shipping plants in winter where it gets cold is the cost. A styro, a heat pack and the need to ship using a faster method all make the cost to ship plants go up a bunch. If one ships $500-$1,000 worth of fish and the shipping cost is $100 for overnight, this not out of the question, especially if one has gotten a good deal on the fish. I am not sure I have a box big enough to hold $1,000 worth of decent size plants if I wanted to ship them.

The Betta I posted is an imbellis. I had a trio of them that had the male looking like that. They bred to a 3rd generation before I lost them.

 

[Magnum Man]

still too early, but this Splendens just came into stock, at one site I've been watching...I like it

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[Magnum Man]

the Marimo balls were cold, but at least not frosty, and still

green, and seem OK???

test shrimp survived a couple days, a few more should find their way in today...