# My unorthodox fish tank (long and probably really boring)

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**Created:** [November 21, 2019, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-unorthodox-fish-tank-long-and-probably-really-boring/843800 "2019-11-21T23:52:38Z")
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### Author: ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2019, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-unorthodox-fish-tank-long-and-probably-really-boring/843800/21 "2019-11-24T01:47:04Z")

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I signed up for the facebook group. Also I’m a grandma as Shelly…

> [@I made an ecosphere.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-an-ecosphere/837378/43):
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> OOhhh I got a snail!
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> I went deep into the forest and plucked a moss-covered rock out of a creek bed and put it in the tank and now I have a snail. I don’t actually think he was on the rock though. It isn’t that big and I did rinse it off and pick off small twigs and such. I think I would have seen him. I’m guessing that he’s been in there all along and I’m just now seeing him.
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> His name is Shelly.
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> The plants got too unruly so I had to trim them down a bit and now the Hydra is gone. I didn’t trim the leaf he was on but I guess I disturbed him enough to dislodge him.

…has had babies.

I’ve kept her in the 2 gallon because I didn’t have the heart to do anything bad to her but I didn’t want her in my 10 gallon and there have been many egg sacks. I admit to wrecking quite a few but, just now, I see a tiny baby crawling up the side of the tank. It’s about the size Shelly was when I first spotted her.

Those Tetras are stinking cute! They so tiny and have such bright eyes and lovely coppery bodies.

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