• spinnetrouble@sh.itjust.works
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      40 minutes ago

      It’s a thing that can happen when you keep a fish tank. You start with one and set it up almost the way you like: maybe you originally wanted two kinds of fish in there, but they don’t share a tank well with each other, or something about the plants or corals isn’t quite right.

      That feeling gnaws at you until you’re like, “I really want those other fish/coral/plants,” and then you find yourself planning for another tank.

      It happens to enough people that we call it Multiple Tank Syndrome (MTS).

      I used to have a 55 gallon with scissortail rasboras, two yoyo loaches, and two red plecostomus, a 20 gallon of guppies and mollies, and a 5 gallon with a Betta, snails, and dwarf shrimp.

    • Ephera@lemmy.ml
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      5 hours ago

      I genuinely thought that was just like a franchise name or something. Had to read half the fucking post to understand that we’re talking about aquariums.

      I do now also expect to be lynched, because “aquarium” isn’t the right term or something.