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I used to have 5 or 6 fish tanks going at all times, I had African cichlids in a couple tanks and the South American cichlids in some others. And usually had a tank with live plants and community tropicals. Nowadays I just have a 20 gallon planted tank (I do C02 injection, high lighting, and ferts) that I raise fancy guppies in and a keep a bare 10 gallon in to put the females that are getting ready to drop babies and to actually raise the babies big enough so that they dont get ate. When a baby gets so big its endanger of eating the newborns I put it in the big tank. I started off with 3 males and 7 females of different types of fancy guppies and now have around 20 adults and probably 150 babies or more. I also cull (flush down the tiolet) the baby uglies, since I am selectively breeding them and hoping to someday create my own "strain" of fancy guppies.
To get back on topic, I once found a big crawdad crawling around a parking lot after a rain storm one summer night, took him home and put him my community take. He was quite a woot always waving his claws at the fish trying to catch them, but never succeeding. Then one day he was gone, later that night found him dried up and dead on the other side of the house.
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