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I am a 21 year old from New Jersey, currently studying biology, but have formerly studied fine arts.
Painting, writing poetry, working out, aquarium keeping (duh), hiking, listening to John Denver.
Painting, writing poetry, working out, aquarium keeping (duh), hiking, listening to John Denver.
- Location
- Montclair, New Jersey
- Occupation
- I sell my own custom artworks.
- My Tanks
- For about six months I've had a 20g long tank with two common goldfish, one female Betta, and one bristlenose pleco. It's actually my first tank, but I'm a bio major and pretty obsessed with observing aquatic ecosystems, so I got these seemingly incompatible fish anyways. I realize I shouldn't have done that in the first place, but here's my situation:
To combat the waste produced by goldfish, I have three filters running. To combat the current that bothers the betta (who actually seems to enjoy hanging out by the filters) I put tall plants throughout the tank to stifle the current. I also use probiotic additives to dissolve sludge in the gravel bed, and plants of course act as a filter, too. Since my goldfish are greedy, I feed them first to distract them, then give the betta several of her pellets in a small corner of the tank before the goldfish can get them. To keep the goldfish from eating the pleco's algae wafers, I hide them in a little crevice in one of the hideaways. So far:
Signature
There's a lot of additional information written into tree rings, but it is coded within a language that scientists don't speak fluently --yet. ...If you know how to listen, each ring describes how the rain fell and the wind blew and the sun appeared ever day at dawn.
-Hope Jahren, "Lab Girl"
-Hope Jahren, "Lab Girl"