Fish Entertainment System: Engaged

This is actually really awesome enrichment for intelligent fish like bettas. Even just putting a novel object outside the tank can give them some entertainment, and when it moves? Get the lil fishy neurons going.

Is that a fish? Really?

Yellow-crested weedfish – Cristiceps aurantiacus

The yellow crested weedfish lives in Australia’s southern
waters. It does its best to look like a piece of kelp – including moving
like one. This individual was drifting back and forth in the surge at
North Bondi, in about 18 m of water.

(photo/text: John Turnbull)

Grunt Sculpin – Most ridiculous fish ever?

bettsplendens:

Look at this strange beb and its strange fins.

hereticalfish:

smol beans

This is a really good idea because it gives the goldfish an area of sand to play in, without the sand being all over the place to interfere with potential cleaning efforts.