Spending money on hobbies is fine, change my mind.
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Piracy saves money if you’re already paying for subscriptions. Self hosting adds another way to save money.
But I can’t pirate salt water aquarium fish and corals.
yet
No fishing pole?
Landlocked state. Best I can do is pond, lake, and river fish, definitrly not corals. I would like to try bryozoans in my freshwater tank.
Plant and micro life terrariums do seem cool.
You’ll need a bigger tank, but Bull Sharks make it up to MO.
Fr tho blue gill and the like are fun. Cats you get too big too fast unless you have >50gal.
I have a 75 gallon with loaches and and angelfish as the bigger tankmates. There is one large synodontis and some of the plecos are getting rather hefty.
Papa Loach, the smaller of the two finally got in a good photo spot to measure him recently:
