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Hello!

I've been lurking for a bit, and thought I would finally introduce myself! My name is Bobbi, and I restarted the hobby in January when I fell in love with a betta at a big box store. I have kept bettas on and off for most of my life, but never up to the standards that I now know they require. I unfortunately just lost my second betta due to a jumping incident (he unfortunately found the 2inx2in square that was uncovered for my HOB) and will be hopefully be finding a new guy soon now that I removed the offending HOB and fixed the lid. I was already in process of switching to only sponge filters. I currently have 2 tanks, both planted betta community-ish setups. 

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Above is my 20 gallon that I set up in January. I am fighting a little bit of hair algae but luckily we are making progress on that front. Stocked with 1 Halfmoon Betta (Galadaeros aka Gal), 6 otocinclus, 2 nerite snails, and 8 amano shrimp. 

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This is an old pic of Gal, from a few days after I got him. He is much more magnificent now, I just don't have any flattering pics of him. He loves the camera, but hasn't figured out posing yet. 

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Above is my 14 gallon cube with it's former resident, Otto (rip). My plants have almost doubled in size since this was taken, about 2 or 3 weeks ago. Stocked with: 2 nerite snails, 7 amano shrimp, 4 otocinclus, and 4 habrosus corydoras. Depending on how they do, I may increase the corys and/or otos to 6 each for the school, but I dont want to overstock my tank too bad. I do hope to get another Betta for this tank too, as long as they get along. 

Outside of the fishkeeping hobby, I am a Veterinary Technician at a vet clinic. I have 2 dogs, a cat, a parrot, and a wonderful partner who puts up with all of our crazy pets. One of our dogs and I also compete in Nadac agility, which is another amazing hobby.

Thank you for reading, I am looking forward to learning and participating in all the forum has to offer!

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