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cleaning Domino's enclosure and removing the substrate from her current dig pit means she is currently displaced and complaining to management abt it.

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beloved stink bean is turning 10 years old this month...

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she's so cute 🥺

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adding just a touch more red to my lighting makes the plants look so red...without turning the whole tank magenta like red light is prone to do. Grow into a nice, lush crimson forest for my eventual green betta 🤞

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two days later, and things are straightening out a little nicer..! I really want the hygrophila in the back left corner to grow good and tall like I know the bushy green lads will on the right haha

eventually, I will be trimming down and replanting more of the red guys, and with c02 added, they should hopefully grow back a little more densely leaved. I think too, I wanna dither some red between the bushy green for a bit more of a color gradient, too...I think I know how to do that and with a slightly different texture. For later times, tho.

I really love the hygrophila...a lot more than I thought I would. the photo does them no favors, but if they mature well, the camera will love them too, eventually haha

So much hard work pruning and planting...for it to look so sad and ugly 😂

it's ok tho, it'll look much better in like...a week. Just you wait and see.

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So much hard work pruning and planting...for it to look so sad and ugly 😂

it's ok tho, it'll look much better in like...a week. Just you wait and see.

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Sean: "Do you have any hydras in your tabk yet?"

Me: "oh! I haven't even checked! Lemme see if I can find one!"

My tank:

"Hail Hydra."

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She's mad that we replaced her shitty dying pothos clippings with a properly potted/established pothos...

Next I wanna replace her tiny digpit hode with a much bigger digpit hide!! I want a removable dig pit for cleaning purposes, but I'd like it to take up a lot nore of the tanks realestate. and witb slopped sides so that she can easily wander up into. I may have to...make it myself.

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went out and got some temporary staff now that the tank is cycled..! 10 shrimp and 5 endlers

The shrimp will probably stay, but the endlers will be rehomed once the tank's permanent residents arrive :] (either in a different 15 gallon if it's ready by then, or to our neighbours who have a few large, planted, waterfilled clay pots that each house a thriving population of these lil' guys.)

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my tank is so ugly rn, I promise it will be beautiful when it is fully put together lmaooo I swear

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...it begins.

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Current condition:

darksouls swamp

Despite the water looking clean and clear, this tank is incompatiable with vertebrate life. Ammonia and nitrites are through the roof. This is why we don't purchase fish until after the nitrate cycle has been established.

Somehow, though, the pest snails have begun to make their presence known in my tank--

hold on a second.

a fucking gecko turd in my tank??

ooooh that little bastard!!!

...it begins.

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I drew Domino as a little character♡

Her markings made me think of an argyle sweater so...I had to draw it.

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Domino pawpaws🐾

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her ass is too fat to squeeze through 😭

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Milly has started on a big moult...