geniph
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Hi all. My name's Geni, I live in Washington state, and I have multiple tank syndrome. It all started (again) about five years ago. I'd had a tank, a 29 long, for a couple of decades. I started out with frogs and salamanders in a terrarium, and gradually transitioned it to half-and-half with feeder fish, and eventually to a full-blown aquarium with about six different varieties of tetras, a plecostomus, several dwarf clawed frogs, and harlequin rasboras. The pleco was a common, and after about 10 years, he was about 14 inches long, lol (he'd been about an inch and a half when I got him - I didn't know!). There was a prolonged power outage during a bad cold snap one winter - I think this was 1988 - and after a week of trying to keep the tank warm with floating water bottles, etc., I lost almost half my aquarium. That really took the heart out of it for me, and I sold my tank and quit.
Fast forward to about 2017 or so. I asked for a betta setup for my birthday. I'd never had a betta, so I didn't know betta (ha) and it was only a 3 gallon. As most betta newbs do, I eventually thought "he must be lonely" after a couple of years, and added chili rasboras. Then that tank was obviously too small, so I upgraded to a 10 gallon. That was fine until I made the mistake of deciding I wanted dwarf corys - then I didn't have enough dwarf corys for them to be happy, so ... yep, you guessed it. I upgraded to a 36 gallon bowfront, which is now my community tank. I added ember tetras, green neons, neon blue rasboras, and kuhli loaches, and a bristlenose pleco (I learned my lesson about common plecos). I had the betta in that tank too, but he was a jerk to the corys once he discovered they had pellets, and after finding one of the tiny ones dead, I evicted him back to the 10 gallon, where he lives now with a nerite snail. About four months ago, I decided I wanted to breed neocaridinas, and set up the old 3 gallon tank as a shrimp tank with 10 red rilis. Two days ago, that started leaking and I want more shrimp, so I now have a 5.5 gallon as my shrimp tank and the original tank has been retired. So, I don't REALLY have 4 tanks, since that one doesn't count!
Fast forward to about 2017 or so. I asked for a betta setup for my birthday. I'd never had a betta, so I didn't know betta (ha) and it was only a 3 gallon. As most betta newbs do, I eventually thought "he must be lonely" after a couple of years, and added chili rasboras. Then that tank was obviously too small, so I upgraded to a 10 gallon. That was fine until I made the mistake of deciding I wanted dwarf corys - then I didn't have enough dwarf corys for them to be happy, so ... yep, you guessed it. I upgraded to a 36 gallon bowfront, which is now my community tank. I added ember tetras, green neons, neon blue rasboras, and kuhli loaches, and a bristlenose pleco (I learned my lesson about common plecos). I had the betta in that tank too, but he was a jerk to the corys once he discovered they had pellets, and after finding one of the tiny ones dead, I evicted him back to the 10 gallon, where he lives now with a nerite snail. About four months ago, I decided I wanted to breed neocaridinas, and set up the old 3 gallon tank as a shrimp tank with 10 red rilis. Two days ago, that started leaking and I want more shrimp, so I now have a 5.5 gallon as my shrimp tank and the original tank has been retired. So, I don't REALLY have 4 tanks, since that one doesn't count!