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Went to bed late last night after watching “ The Best Years of Our Lives “ (1946). Got up early at 4:00 AM and set the clocks to standard time . Went out and did my five mile run and put a whole chicken in the oven to roast when I got back . Now the rest of the day is free to do whatever I want...

Are you going to dry him and make a Christmas tree ornament out of him ?

I’m wondering if “he who will not be named “ is going to send me to a gulag or what , being one of those enemies from within that he wants to sic the National Guard on . I totally agree with @gwand , the guy is a clown .

@WhistlingBadger Did you buy the blade all ready to go or was there some “ Forged In Fire “ stuff you had to do ? The elk jaw handle is kind of serial killer-esque . Definitely something you don’t see every day .

Now that is some wind !

You captured them yourself from the wilds of Colombia ? That’s cool Man !

I like that .

An added bonus is that you can find them very inexpensive .

The weather might get a bit on the wintry side next week and my daily run might get chilly so I accidentally happened across a website that sells long underwear, base layers they call them now , and it was dirt cheap ! $ 7.99 a pop ! www.32degrees.com I love finding deals ! My inner tightwad...

Oh wow Man ! You just dredged up an old memory from my childhood . My Grandma was the Postmistress in Ovando Montana in the 1960’s and once we were visiting in the spring during one of those spring snowstorms . Somebody got a delivery of chicks and she let them out to warm up and me and my...

Happens to me all the time .

I think this might be he first time pupfish have ever been discussed on The Great TFF Forum . Cyprinodon is a pretty big tent . Lots of fish in there .

The pupfish is an actual fish . They’re mostly desert southwest fish that live in small ponds . Most are endangered or on the threatened list . Not sure it’s even legal to keep them .

Okay . . . . I never thought about any of that . I get it now . I still like only one kind of fish and lately I’m even gravitating towards only ONE fish per aquarium . A single specimen . I have three such aquariums . Two ten gallons with a single Betta each and one twenty with a single...

It’s finally cooling off to seasonal temperatures here in Crow Country . The nights are almost cold and we got our first frost a couple days ago . Snowed in the Beartooth Mountains yesterday but not here . It’s a great fall this year and not like the one Humpty Dumpty took .

I’ve never liked that term or the idea behind it . What are dither fish anyway ? Cannon fodder ? Allow me to introduce you to an idea that always works . Species only aquariums .

The worst thing with vinyl air line these days is it isn’t the right inside diameter . It doesn’t fit the filter and pump outlets . I heat it and expand it with something and then it’s fine . That silicone airline is for the birds . I’ll never buy that stuff again .

Yes ! ! !

The politicians and businessmen in this country do not care about people . Money is their only concern . If anything to benefit the people could cause some money bloated fat cat to lose a nickel they will jump to make absolutely sure that it won’t happen . Money , money , money ! Always more...

I wasn’t a fan of John Wayne for a long time and then I learned something that made me change my mind . The story I heard was that he met the real life Wyatt Earp way back in the 1920’s before he was an actor and only a helper and gopher on the location shootings of the very early westerns ...

Watching John Wayne’s last movie from 1976 . “ The Shootist “. Every time it’s on I watch it . Lauren Bacall , Richard Boone , Hugh O’Brian , Harry Morgan , Jimmy Stewart and Ron Howard among many other greats . It’s a John Wayne marathon on Grit this weekend . Go turn your TV on pilgrim .

I age my change water in a 40 gallon food safe plastic container under aeration . I also keep a 150 watt heater set to 82 degrees in it . When water change day rolls around everything I need is right handy where I need it all ready to go . 40 gallons gives me more than enough to do half in each...

Don’t worry at all about an undergravel filter with plants . I suppose somebody somewhere had a bad experience but there used to be an aquarium shop in my town that grew beautiful aquatic plants with undergravel filters . That shop ran all undergravel filters in all their aquarium’s . Personally...

Fall weather has been perfect so far . I’m still running garbed in shorts and a short sleeved t-shirt but the TV weatherman is predicting more seasonal temperatures next week . Finally had our first very light frost Wednesday morning .

I love Latin names but I like to deliberately butcher the pronunciation . I mostly refer to fish in generalities . Catfish , cichlids , tetras and whatever . Now , killifish is a whole other thing . There are few to no common names and if you don’t know and understand genus , species and...

Just when you think you’ve figured out how to tell boys from girls in Angelfish you’ll find out you are wrong . Like Gary said , get a half dozen , grow them out and let a pair form up .

I love little tiny baby fish . Fry are the most amazing part of this great hobby . Looking at them and seeing that they have little gills and eyes and so on and were born right in your own house still fascinates me ever since I saw my first guppy fry nearly sixty years ago.

Yeah , I was thinking sort of the same thing .

Those are nice looking aquariums . I like your plants and the rock work in your ten gallon . Welcome to The Great TFF Forum . Stick around !

Wow . . . . people get excited about cake don’t they ?

Welcome to The Great TFF Forum . This is the greatest hobby in the world and you are standing on the great frontier of knowledge and discovery . Fish are cool !

Here’s the information from the book on the fish Gary guessed .

This is a book everybody should have . If I’m going out to where there’s water this goes with me .

There’s an idea , make your own frosting . I try to eat healthy as best I can and reading the label on that store bought frosting about gave me a stroke . High fructose corn syrup and palm oil and stuff they probably make meth out of . The blueberries in the cake mix sounds GREAT ! Where would...

Good luck with that but what @GaryE said about directing the digging makes sense to me . That’s good advice .

Kribensis are so pretty and should be kept at least once by every aquarist if possible . I’ve always thought of them as the perfect dwarf cichlid . Great pictures !