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oh gosh. gonna start counting at when i restarted, not including fish from childhood
4 bettas
10 WCMM
roughly 22 ember tetras in pursuit of my school of 15
1 BN pleco
5 peppered cories
5 panda cories
and immeasurable number of low grade RCS. started with 13, have a consistent colony of about 30 at any given time
5 yellow neos
4 zebra danios
12 rasboras, mixed purple and lambchop
1 reticulated hillstream loach
3 fundulopanchax gardneri killies
6 amano shrimp
1 p. clarkii crayfish
3 nerite snails
and i'm growing ten tadpoles rn but i don't know if that counts. so somewhere around 130 -150 individual creatures since the time i first got the koi betta in my icon (i think almost 4 years now) to now.
prior to that, i'd have a couple of tanks throughout my life that were the usual ill informed fish killing machines. mostly when i was a little kid with a community tank that my dad set up in my room, but i did try guppies for a bit in college and didn't have the time or information to see any success or maintain an interest.
4 bettas
10 WCMM
roughly 22 ember tetras in pursuit of my school of 15
1 BN pleco
5 peppered cories
5 panda cories
and immeasurable number of low grade RCS. started with 13, have a consistent colony of about 30 at any given time
5 yellow neos
4 zebra danios
12 rasboras, mixed purple and lambchop
1 reticulated hillstream loach
3 fundulopanchax gardneri killies
6 amano shrimp
1 p. clarkii crayfish
3 nerite snails
and i'm growing ten tadpoles rn but i don't know if that counts. so somewhere around 130 -150 individual creatures since the time i first got the koi betta in my icon (i think almost 4 years now) to now.
prior to that, i'd have a couple of tanks throughout my life that were the usual ill informed fish killing machines. mostly when i was a little kid with a community tank that my dad set up in my room, but i did try guppies for a bit in college and didn't have the time or information to see any success or maintain an interest.
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3 bettas
8 wcmm
3 cories
7 amano shrimp
5-7 nerites
4 mystery snails
like 45-50 guppies & endlers
5 ghost shrimp
(hundreds of pest snails, but that doesn't really count)
And I am thinking about setting up a low tech shrimp tank so that'll add to the number as well.
8 wcmm
3 cories
7 amano shrimp
5-7 nerites
4 mystery snails
like 45-50 guppies & endlers
5 ghost shrimp
(hundreds of pest snails, but that doesn't really count)
And I am thinking about setting up a low tech shrimp tank so that'll add to the number as well.
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Oh gosh. Let's see...I'll leave out anything that I had for less than a week.
Totals up to 57 fish, 33 shrimp, 4 snails, & 85 axolotls. 179 inhabitants!
| The Blunder Years 2 neon tetras 2 Glofish 2 platies | The "Betta" Years 1 betta 1 apple snail 3 ghost shrimp | Recent Years ~40 platies (over a time!) 1 pearl gourami 8 cherry barbs 3 nerite snails ~30 cherry shrimp 85 axolotls |
Totals up to 57 fish, 33 shrimp, 4 snails, & 85 axolotls. 179 inhabitants!
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Haha, Chewbacca is correct! I raised a few batches of them in the past two years, just sold the last one a few weeks back. The first time I had four (I made a dumb mistake and lost a horribly high amount ), but the second and third batches went much better - 55 and 26 respectively! I ended up selling all but 4 - one of them spontaneously morphed into a salamander so I'm stuck with him, and the other three live in a 40 gallon together
Here's a picture of batch #2 - the little guys were a few days old and filled with orange BBS!
Here's a picture of batch #2 - the little guys were a few days old and filled with orange BBS!
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In the past 2 years at least 200 including the 50+ angel frys i raised. Heck I get at least 10 visible new guppies every couple of months and right now i see 10 swordtail frys over an inch (who knows how many small ones are hiding down there). I had 7 guppy frys spontenously form in my pail (which i will be updating with a picture later today now that it is clear). Ok I said over 200 above but now that i do a bit more counting it has to be at least 350 but might be closer to 500+ if i think really hard on the matter. Why ?
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I'm guessing over the last couple decades I may have had around 500? 1000? different varieties of fish. Once you count all the spawns the number of fish gets silly.
My personal record for bronzes in a 15 gal was over 300. It wasn't my idea, it was theirs. Selling 3 groups of 75 made it better.
No idea how many Emps I have in a tank right now, sold ~50 of them over the weekend and can't tell that any are missing.
My personal record for bronzes in a 15 gal was over 300. It wasn't my idea, it was theirs. Selling 3 groups of 75 made it better.
No idea how many Emps I have in a tank right now, sold ~50 of them over the weekend and can't tell that any are missing.
Were we suppose to count snails? If so my mystery snails managed to sneak several 100 eggs past me and then there are all these pest trumpet snails - sigh. Don't make me count them. It could easily top 1000.
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I mostly have species that are prolific breeders, and I'm not afraid to let them do their thing:
100+ guppies
100+ red cherry shrimp
300+ ramshorns
200+ pond snails
50+ Malaysian trumpet snails, though these are impossible to count, even moreso than the others!
So I'd estimate somewhere in the range of 800 critters altogether. By the time I'm finished writing this message, I'm sure some guppy has dropped another fry or another ramshorn has hatched.
...and that's just in the last ~15 months or so, most of that time running just a single tank! I've pulled MANY a snail or guppy fry out to sell, and have recently had enough success with RCS to start selling those as well. It's been a fun year and a bit!
100+ guppies
100+ red cherry shrimp
300+ ramshorns
200+ pond snails
50+ Malaysian trumpet snails, though these are impossible to count, even moreso than the others!
So I'd estimate somewhere in the range of 800 critters altogether. By the time I'm finished writing this message, I'm sure some guppy has dropped another fry or another ramshorn has hatched.
...and that's just in the last ~15 months or so, most of that time running just a single tank! I've pulled MANY a snail or guppy fry out to sell, and have recently had enough success with RCS to start selling those as well. It's been a fun year and a bit!
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6 guppies
4 endlers
6 clown killis
1 DG
5 bleeding heart tetras
7 angelfish
4 bettas
7 kuhli loaches
1 BN
1 clown pleco
13 corys
12 mystery snails
7 nerite snails
2 rabbit snails
2 assassin snails
1 horned pagoda snail
10 ghost shrimp
unknown amount of neo shrimp
That brings us to a total of..... 89+? i think
4 endlers
6 clown killis
1 DG
5 bleeding heart tetras
7 angelfish
4 bettas
7 kuhli loaches
1 BN
1 clown pleco
13 corys
12 mystery snails
7 nerite snails
2 rabbit snails
2 assassin snails
1 horned pagoda snail
10 ghost shrimp
unknown amount of neo shrimp
That brings us to a total of..... 89+? i think
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