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I decided the terrarium in my office looked lonely, and decided to liven things up with an aquarium. While grabbing some mopani wood at my favorite fish shop, I spotted a 10 gallon rimless cube aquarium that would fit nicely on the table next to my desk. While there was a very nice-looking stand and light setup featured with it, I’m too cheap and impatient to buy that and wait for delivery on those, so I just picked up the tank itself. ...

I’ve been keeping fish for about 3 years now, and have slowly expanded from a single 10-gallon tank in the downstairs living room to a dedicated fish room, with a 75-gallon, a 55-gallon, and a 36-gallon tank. The largest is a tropical community tank, comprised of the following: An albino bristlenose plecostomus 6x glass catfish 4x harlequin rasboras 12x kuhl loaches 2x otocinclus catfish 12x albino corydoras catfish 6x zebra danios 3x zebra nerite snails An unknown number of red cherry shrimp ...

I picked up a few potential terrarium enclosures from the local Goodwill while shopping for more storage containers. Recently I’ve mostly just been using aquariums, because I already have so many lying around, but I want something that fits my sun room’s aesthetic a bit better. ...

While I try to spend a majority of my freetime outdoors, or at least interacting with nature in the form of working on my terrariums and aquariums, occasionally I have to indulge in some infrastructure bikeshedding and reimplementation of existing tools, like any other IT worker. To that end, I run an increasingly-convoluted homelab setup, though I use the term loosely as it spans both my home and various baremetal server providers (thanks, Hetzner and OVH). ...

One of my various hobbies is designing and building terrariums. It lets me bring a bit of nature inside my home, while minimizing the number of mosquito and tick bites. While I have plans to expand into vivariums (anoles, perhaps?) in the future, right now I’m focusing primarily on recreating aspects of Minnesota’s woodlands. In my office, I have a 55-gallon enclosure containing a portion of a tree trunk which fell in my yard last summer. ...