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School started back up. I'm taking a printmaking class and so far, I've made a print of the dwarf seahorses from the Tennessee Aquarium and I'm working on one of my white angelfish.

I bought three Firemouth Cichlids from Atlantis Aquarium. Two days later, Laylah, the female Bolivian ram of the first pair I bought, died.

Two weeks later, I named my angels. The orange is Aki, which is Japanese for summer. The white is Haru, which means autumn. The next day, Aki died.

I got another gecko too :) I'm hoping this one is a male; I'm very sure that Kiwi and Papaya are females, and I can't see any pores on Mango so I think that one's a female too. The newest one, Guava, was only 6 days old when I got her a week ago, so it's too small to tell the sex yet.

You don't want

to find one of these in your aquarium.....
It's really disgusting.

Not going as planned

I decided to make the 110 into a paludarium with around 45 gallons of water and house some crested geckos in the top. I've got my little geckos (which are sooo cute) and I've been working on a 3D background to give the tank a more natural look and help the geckos feel more comfortable. I'm making it out of pink insulation styrofoam as a base, Great Stuff sprayable foam, concrete, and silicon. It has lots of ledges for the geckos, a waterfall, and a tree thing. I'm going to use more silicon to glue some eco-earth dirt to the top part for the geckos, since their skin is soft and easily ripped. I also got my riparium planters and made room to glue them onto my 3D background.

My mom wanted to move the 55 into the wall, so we cut a hole into the wall (a storage area was on the other side) and moved it behind the wall. It turned out great and looks fantastic.

I've decided

to convert a tank into a riparium. I ordered some hanging planters and floating trellis rafts from ripariumsupply.com and they should be here soon.

I sold my golden dojo loaches for $5 each to a very nice lady who told me that she got a nice full 90 gallon set-up from an estate sale for only $35.

So I found an estate sale near-by that was selling aquariums. They had hundreds of glass aquariums, mostly 110 gallons and up. I got a 110 gallon with a blonde maple stand and canopy and supplies for $160, which is a steal since I found the same stuff for $1500 online.

So I'm keeping the 55 as a full aquarium and putting the 110 together as the riparian system and moving all the 55 fish into it.

I'd like to sell two of my spotted bushfish and keep only one, but keep it in the 55 with maybe a Turquoise Severum or Electric Blue Jack Dempsey and something else that's slightly large. My dad has been wanting an electric catfish, so maybe even one of those!

dang itt

Tiger the scarlet badis disappeared. He was swimming around all happy and stuff, then I didn't see him for about a week. So I took everything out of his tank, emptied it and everything, but I never found him.

A couple days ago, I bought a plakat betta from PetCo and named him Taze. With Tiger gone, Taze can have his own little tank instead of the jar I had him in.

Liberty is in a small jar out of the molly tank since she was struggling with the current. I also feed the mollies a lot more than my bettas, so she was getting really fat.

I found two more baby mollies, which are both orange and black like the first one. So now I have four molly fry and two catfish fry :D

I've been thinking lately that just plain fish tanks is starting to get boring. About a month ago, I wanted to convert the 20 into a paludarium with a salamander or fire-belly toads or something, but then I got the mollies and I'm glad I didn't do it. But now I really want to convert the 55 into a riparium and its going to be super cool.