[Hello from central Oregon]

Here is another tank I have setup this is a shrimp tank and they have been breeding like bonkers. All of the plants in this tank are clippings from plants in my other tanks.

[Hello from central Oregon]

Thank you! That is exactly what I was going for. I did the very manicured look back in the early 2000s however this time I wanted to learn how to work with live plants plus I feel like the fish enjoy it more. I know the snails do lol.

[Hello from central Oregon]

Haha o man ain't that the truth. Some of the plants in that tank are from aquariumcoop. 

[Hello from central Oregon]

The tank is wonderful I have a very active community of balloon mollies and different varieties of snails, all of which have been thriving. So much so that I am having to take mollies to the local fish store on a regular basis.

[Snails]

2 hours ago, RovingGinger said:

I have ramshorn, MTS, one mystery snail, and bladder snails. The bladder snails are puffer food due to their reckless procreation habits and the others are just cute helpers. 
 

I had two mystery snails, but one was just laying half out of its shell and the next day I found an empty snail and a partially eaten naked snail body. Really gross at that size. Old age? I didn’t see fish picking on it while alive and nothing else has died in the aquarium....

Thank you so much for listing your snails. I have been trying to figure out for the longest time what the little snails were that came on my plants from the fish store. Now I know they are bladder snails! Seems silly to be so excited over but I really like knowing what everything in my tanks are.

[Therapeutic fish keeping.]

I have PTSD and I just got the hobbies taken away from me due to repetitive motition injury which I now have to have surgery for that I used to cope with my anxiety so now I sit with 3 tanks one of which is my Betta that sits next to me and interacts with me all day. It's very therapeutic.

[Hello from central Oregon]

I got this 36 gallon bow front with all the equipment and stand included for only 75 bucks on Craigslist the other day and I now have it all setup the way I want and it's currently cycling. I have well water with a PH of 8.2 and I think I'm going to do a live bearer tank.