Been running for awhile now, We just added two more additional half
barrels to her exisiting one barrel setyp on the patio, and relocated
the small koi we initialy had in one barrelw ith 2 feeder GF, so that
the lowest bottom barrel with lilly plant etc in it is now home to a
herd of fancy guppies, and the middle barrel also with lilly and other
plants has been home to a male and female betta for some time as well,
both peacefully co-existing....that is until they spawned and I
removed the female to the lower barrel with the guppies. This is the
second spawning of bettas we have had in this triple half barrel setup
this year. The guppies are alway spawning. I later collect all the
fry, and trade them in to the owner of the LFS for merchandise. Yea,
he usually always comes out ahead, but its still lots of fun to watch
the fish see em grow, don't really feed em much of anything and its an
outlet for excess fish as well..Before putting the triple half barrels
together I used to raise them up in tanks or a bunch of kiddie pools
and it got old fast.......now its fun again and more or less an all
natural environment. Each half barel also has a cory catfish as well
as a weather od dojo loach in it and large snail. The weather or Dohjo
loaches over winter just fine, even in temps as low as the 30's.
Everything else in the line of tropicals get moved indoors or placed
in a heated tank outside over our winter season, which really is not
much to worry about as far as it getting cold.

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