a while ago I posted here about how my sister in law acquired a betta fish in a bowl from a friend.
My husband and I gave her tons of information the day I found out she was keeping the betta in a bowl, and offered her a 10 gallon fish tank that we already had. She never claimed it. That was maybe a couple weeks ago?
Anyway TODAY I was asked to go over to her place to set up her new tank and transfer the fish from the fish bowl to the tank, because my SIL is in the hospital.
I go over to her place and the fish bowl is... disgusting. It smelled so bad. Here's a picture
awful. just awful. can't even see all the way through. so much fish flake crap.
the tank that she got was clearly secondhand, not from me, and not a 10 gallon. Maybe a 5 gallon, which is alright, but there was a bag full of random secondhand, dirty aquarium stuff.. like filters and heaters and stuff. I got out the sponge filter, and it would have been too big imo for the 5 gal, and I didn't have any tubing to connect it to the powersource, so I went out and bought tubing + a thermometer + betta food pellets + a gravel vac. I couldn't afford substrate or silk plants or a bigger heater so that was annoying.
Went back. Set up my 10 gallon tank after spending like 20 minutes trying to figure out where the tank would even go (SIL is almost a hoarder and has a very upsettingly dirty house with barely any free power outlets). Decided on the kitchen counter even though direct sunlight is not great for fish tanks.
Set up the tank to the best of my ability. Plastic plants aren't great, neither is the "substrate" (just a bunch of loose rocks my husband bought years ago from a pet store). But it's way better than the bowl
it was just a nightmare. I spent like a half hour just writing a bunch of info on sticky notes for her. Hope she heeds my advice. I just want the betta to be okay. But man I hate her house so much omg
