My hobbies are many and varied

May 18, 2022 7:10 AM

quagma

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Much like my frogs, I hop from interest to interest, whatever shiny I find my eyes on next.

One of my hourglass/clown tree frogs! I love these little guys.

Their enclosure is one I made all myself, woth a waterfall even, and I'm pretty proud of it if I do say so myself! The plants and mosses are slowly coming in, the frogs getting chubby, and it's just so cute! One of my favorite things to do is build terrariums, and my second faves are filling the terrariums with plants and critters, especially plants. I enjoy growing a ton of different plants, and propagating bits of plants into new plants, and using those new bits for other builds. I'm excited that I git a usually aquatic moss to grow on the wall of the waterfall, even some on the floor for an eventual moss carpet, half in and half out of water, and the waterfall turns off every night too.

Adding in some more honey gourami and ember tetras into the community tank, with cory cats, oto cats, kuhli loaches, and assassin snails. This tank is where I stick the oddball, loose fish, and where I grow and cultivate various plants and mosses, from floater to rooted.

Kuhli loach sifting through sand for food, so fun to watch!

One of my five dwarf pea puffers and a otocinculus catfish in the bg. These puffer fish are incredibly tiny, and are fully freshwater too!

Fermi, my axolotl! They have exactly two brain cells at any one time, shared concurrently with every other axolotl in existence.

Pascal, my crested gecko, eating dinner!

Igor, my gargoyle gecko! He's a cutiepi3.

Celsius, my fire skink! They're adorbs.

Was super stoked when my most expensive colony of isopods (rolypolies, woodlice, potatobugs, they come in all kinds of names) started producing babies, because I wasn't sure I had enough for that, but they're making sweet babies, and from that, sweet moolah. And also adorable babies lol.

Cubaris sp. Close up!

I love to see them sprout. A carnivorous sundew. I really love carnivorous plants!

My outdoor temperate carnivorous plants, growing well in the greenhouse, after a mostly successful winter dormancy period. I'm just happy I was able to get them to survive longer than a year, tbh. Never had much luck with them till I figured them out.
I also use my carnivorous plants to grow all kinds of different mosses with, since they grow so well together. I've got samples from spaghnum moss, Xmas moss, sußwassertang, pillow mosses, stuff I found at the park, lichen samples, I love seeing if I can get them to grow.

My latest and coolest fossil, a fossilized shrimp! I love the preserved details, it's so fascinating!

My Curiosity Cabinets! I keep all my interesting finds and wonders in here, from octopus in a bottle, to mammoth tusk, to real amber with preserved insects, from polished corpolites to various gem and minerals, from fossil fish and uranium glass, to volcanic ash from the Mt St Helen's eruption.

I've been trying to make a custom gamecube shell for ages. It's a challenge, nobody sells what I want, so I have had to make it myself. This is a failed prototype. Eventually I want a glow in the dark, atomic purple translucent gamecube shell. I also have ideas in mind for possible variations, such as honeycomb and real bee, or cherry blossom with actual blossoms. Ah, such is the power of the epoxy resin!

This is my latest attempt to make my shell. Every time I get a failed prototype, I learn something new about how to make the next one better. And it should go smoother now that I've ironed put a lot of wrinkles, from equipment failures to leaks and swelling in the molds, and others. Hopefully this one comes out okay! They're always a huge pain to demold smh.

I have a fondness for tamagotchis. Here's my collection!

I sure do enjoy my old computer games, especially old Sim3games like these. Ah, the memories! Trying to get it to run on my modern hardware can be challenging, bit worth it! Maybe I'll stream em, idk.

I love doodling and drawing. This is my character Antessa, my little 1 foot tall buggy gremlin fairy girl. In some pose and drawing practice sketches (maybe I'll render it more when I have the spoons for it)

Descendant upon the ancestor tax (gull upon hesperornis model. Fun fact: In the second between me aiming the camera and clicking the shutter button, the gull pooped and I almost had a glorious worst picture ever

Lulu affronted that I'd like the seat back from which I left for 20 seconds tax

Lulu in a bow barely tolerating me tax.

I hope you enjoyed your romp through my hobbies! Who know what I'll latch onto next!

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Everything is beautiful @OP

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Whoa lotta great stuff @quagma !

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