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HI everyone. I decided that I've been gone for too long. I enjoyed the time I used to spend on this forum, and the friendships I made while I was here. But I got so caught up in everything else that I just kinda fell off. Anyway, I'm back. I probably won't be as active as I was in 2018 (if anyone here even remembers me from back then) but I will drop by from time to time to say hi. So hi.
As for my current tanks:
I still have my 29 gallon planted tank, going strong, but it's been restocked. I have a female betta, Tia, as my centerpiece fish, along with 11 pristella tetras (x-ray tetras) and a dozen kuhlI loaches. I have 5(?) assassin snails in there too, and probably hundreds of pest snails (a mix of malaysian trumpet snails and ramshorn snails). I used to have neon tetras and albino corydoras in this tank, but I rehomed them when I got the pristella tetras. I've always had the kuhlI loaches, but I got more when I rehomed the corydoras.
I still have my 20 gallon long axolotl tank... It's in need of a re-scape. My axolotl, Amy, has grown quite a bit over the last 2 years, but when I set up my aquarium shelves, I didn't leave enough room to pull out the clay pots I used as hides. Redoing that is a project for this year.
I still have my 20 gallon long shell dweller tank (neolamprologus multifasciatus). This tank is overrun with algae, because it's so hard to clean. I'm so afraid I'm going to bury some shells and bury some fish alive along with it. So I've just been scraping the glass and changing the water.
My 20 gallon tall planted tank is not as stocked as it used to be. I used to have mystery snails, six rasbora hets, and a female betta in it. Well... this tank is cursed, and over the last year and a half, everything in it has died except for the betta and ONE rasbora. I've been hesitant to add more rasboras because I feel like there's some sort of disease in the tank. I know they need to be in schoals, but I'd rather not potentially expose more fish to a disease. I consider this tank contaminated and it doesn't share equipment with any other tank. The betta is almost 3 years old and going strong, but one by one everything else has slowly died in the tank, so I'm not risking it. I also used to keep a betta sorority in this tank about 2 years ago, but some mystery disease or parasite crashed my sorority, and I decided sorority tanks aren't for me.
I also have some other scattered bettas living their best life in solitary tanks, but I'm currently in the process of setting up a 20 gallon long tank, divided into four 5 gallon sections with tank dividers from life with pets (I got the dividers without holes). This is a project that's been a long time coming and I'm finally getting around to it, and I'm looking forward to downsizing my number of aquariums.
Regarding my non-aquatics:
My dog Buffy is still precious as ever.
I have a leopard gecko, Ghost, in a 40 gallon exo terra living his best life.
I have a bearded dragon, Garrus, in a 75 gallon exo terra, that I rescued.
I have four snakes. 3 ball pythons, and a kenyan sand boa. The ball pythons are in a triple snake enclosure, that is set up to be bioactive. And the sand boa is still a baby and is currently in a 10 gallon until he grows.
I also have some florida ivory millipedes.
As for my current tanks:
I still have my 29 gallon planted tank, going strong, but it's been restocked. I have a female betta, Tia, as my centerpiece fish, along with 11 pristella tetras (x-ray tetras) and a dozen kuhlI loaches. I have 5(?) assassin snails in there too, and probably hundreds of pest snails (a mix of malaysian trumpet snails and ramshorn snails). I used to have neon tetras and albino corydoras in this tank, but I rehomed them when I got the pristella tetras. I've always had the kuhlI loaches, but I got more when I rehomed the corydoras.
I still have my 20 gallon long axolotl tank... It's in need of a re-scape. My axolotl, Amy, has grown quite a bit over the last 2 years, but when I set up my aquarium shelves, I didn't leave enough room to pull out the clay pots I used as hides. Redoing that is a project for this year.
I still have my 20 gallon long shell dweller tank (neolamprologus multifasciatus). This tank is overrun with algae, because it's so hard to clean. I'm so afraid I'm going to bury some shells and bury some fish alive along with it. So I've just been scraping the glass and changing the water.
My 20 gallon tall planted tank is not as stocked as it used to be. I used to have mystery snails, six rasbora hets, and a female betta in it. Well... this tank is cursed, and over the last year and a half, everything in it has died except for the betta and ONE rasbora. I've been hesitant to add more rasboras because I feel like there's some sort of disease in the tank. I know they need to be in schoals, but I'd rather not potentially expose more fish to a disease. I consider this tank contaminated and it doesn't share equipment with any other tank. The betta is almost 3 years old and going strong, but one by one everything else has slowly died in the tank, so I'm not risking it. I also used to keep a betta sorority in this tank about 2 years ago, but some mystery disease or parasite crashed my sorority, and I decided sorority tanks aren't for me.
I also have some other scattered bettas living their best life in solitary tanks, but I'm currently in the process of setting up a 20 gallon long tank, divided into four 5 gallon sections with tank dividers from life with pets (I got the dividers without holes). This is a project that's been a long time coming and I'm finally getting around to it, and I'm looking forward to downsizing my number of aquariums.
Regarding my non-aquatics:
My dog Buffy is still precious as ever.
I have a leopard gecko, Ghost, in a 40 gallon exo terra living his best life.
I have a bearded dragon, Garrus, in a 75 gallon exo terra, that I rescued.
I have four snakes. 3 ball pythons, and a kenyan sand boa. The ball pythons are in a triple snake enclosure, that is set up to be bioactive. And the sand boa is still a baby and is currently in a 10 gallon until he grows.
I also have some florida ivory millipedes.
