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I am recovering from a week of Wyoming Bible Camp, where I lived in a tent for a week, got terrible sleep, taught classes, stayed up late, caught up with new and old friends, went on hikes, and generally got good and sunburned. The campers and most of the staff stay in rustic cabins, but I...

The ladies at the dentist's office used to say I was "playing mad scientist" when I'd get out all the test tubes and start mixing chemicals. :lol:

Is Bacter AE a bacterial supplement? I just found some on Amazon, but I'm not really clear on what it is or what it does.

This is interesting. I used to seek out comets with black backs, just because I thought they looked interesting. Invariably they lost that coloration as they grew up and ended up solid yellow/orange. I even kept several black moors, and all of them lost their black coloring as they got older...

Just realized (thanks @Beastije ) that I haven't updated this thread since the end of May! The plants have really filled in, frogs and badis (as far as I can tell) doing fine. Scuds gradually died out, but the badis seem to be living on baby snails and other assorted critters. New video (or...

Badis are strange fish. They are among the most colorful and beautiful fish I've ever kept. At the same time, they are very tiny (about an inch long, even after three months) very secretive, and even in a half-full 10g, I rarely see them. I'm not even completely sure they are both alive; I...

Well, if anybody has to whoop us, I'd rather it be a country I like, and I've always felt pretty good about Australia.

To me, it isn't so much about closing my eyes to reality; it is good to be aware. But I have a finite amount of time and energy in this world, and I prefer to focus it on tangible things that I can actually change, or at least influence. I can't realistically do anything about the earth's...

Stock up on high-SPF, people! Seriously, I could see this causing havoc among migratory animals, many of which seem to use the magnetic field to navigate. Personally, I'm not gonna worry about it too much, though. There's enough iron in the hills around here that magnetic compasses can get a...

Gonna have to sit out the TOTM contest this month. Too many irons in the fire to get a decent picture or video. Also, I'm pondering some pretty major modifications to the tank: --Run a pipe from the waterfall to the opposite side of the tank to get some water on some of the mosses that are...

I have a stock Chromebook that allows me to check email, view the fish forum, access online study tools, and watch YouTube vids of people in fighter planes blowing each other up. Good enough. :lol:

The culture will crash eventually, in my experience usually after a few weeks. That's why I try to keep two or three going at a time. I think mine crash simply because so many pupae shells accumulate that the remaining flies can't reach the food, so they starve. But by that time, things are...

How many smidgens are modicum, and how many modicums are in a plethora? Take a moment to watch the SNL skit I posted above, please. I think it explains everything.

Non munchy sharks. Where's the adventure? :lol:

That's because @Crispii , the OP, has abandoned it. I wonder whatever happened to him. Haven't seen him around for a while.

The ones we saw were all running around with mouths full of vegetation to store for the winter. :) I read somewhere that Pikas will store certain toxic plants in their hay piles. The toxins inhibit mold, making the plants last longer. The pikas live off the tastier plants in early winter...

Let's call the whole thing off.

Welcome aboard. When you say sharks, do you mean shark-shaped carpy fish (red-tails, rainbows, balas, etc.) or actual, chew-your-face-off sharks? We don't get too many of those around here. 😨 🦈

By the way, if you like Westerns, there's a Louis L'Amour book that takes place in this area. I believe it's called "Under the Sweetwater Rim." He actually gets the geography, plant species, and so on mostly right, so it's really fun to read if you're familiar with the area.

There was a cowboy camped at the lake just below us with three horses. We'd see them grazing every morning, but they were too far away to get a good picture. Very picturesque indeed.

MEEEEEEEP! Their call is the cutest. We call it "The Roar of the Pika."

It's about a two-hour drive to the trailhead, but probably only about 20 miles away as the eagle flies.

We found ourselves humming Howard Shore's "Lord of the Rings" soundtrack on numerous occasions. I'm no super model, but I don't seem to frighten children away either.

More? Well, OK. Pingora peak in the distance. We turned back at this point because bodies were getting rather worn out, a piece of rain gear had proved worthless the previous day, and clouds were beginning to mass on the horizon. So we didn't actually get into the Cirque of the Towers; this...

This pinacle has a name, but I can't remember it. What do you think? Places like this have a way of reminding one of one's small place in the grand scheme of things. Schindler's Peak and Temple in the distance. Room with a view. Contemplating War Bonnet Peak. If you use your...

Me and a Badgerling. The Tip of Warbonnet Peak, part of the Cirque of the Towers That's Temple Peak in the distance. We're hoping to get up that way next trip Some fairly high-quality fish-watching. This is the closest thing I got to a good picture of a brook trout. Can you see it? We...