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  1. WhistlingBadger

    Hunting with the Badger 2024

    @Seisage There isn't a thing wrong with finding joy in butchering. If you think about it reasonably, there's no reason the inside of an animal shouldn't be just as fascinating and beautiful as the outside, and perfecting the skills involved can be quite satisfying. (My new, stainless steel...
  2. WhistlingBadger

    Hunting with the Badger 2024

    Well, just returned from my final big game hunt of the year, with no antelope. The season doesn't close until Thursday, but we're supposed to get around 8" of snow tonight, and I don't want an antelope THAT bad. :lol: Despite the sad result (sorry, @JuiceBox52 , no jerky this year) I had...
  3. WhistlingBadger

    What are you doing today?

    @connorlindeman I love catching bass! Nearest lake that has them is about 45 minutes away, and has an annoying slot limit, so I don't get over there very often. Stalking bass with a fly rod is a hoot, though. As for my day, I headed out to the desert after church this morning to hunt. The...
  4. WhistlingBadger

    What are you doing today?

    I've never had any luck fishing from a kayak. Might be because I use a fly rod, or a bow, and my kayak is inflatable so I'm always worried about poking a hole in it.
  5. WhistlingBadger

    Why do I stay in this hobby????

    I think people are seeing the pictures of bala sharks and other fish on your backdrop, and thinking they are real fish. (Those are just pictures, right?) Thus the confusion about tank size. A 36g should be plenty of space for the fish you have listed, until your cichlid grows up. I've never...
  6. WhistlingBadger

    What are you doing today?

    Ended up staying around the house today, finishing up a knife handle, I've been working on, doing tank maintenance, taking a good long nap. Might get out and try to find a speed goat tomorrow after church. The season ends Thursday, so not much time for dilly-dally. With a freezer full of elk...
  7. WhistlingBadger

    What are you cooking?

    Cooked an elk shank yesterday. The shank is so completely riddled with gristle that it is pretty much inedible...unless you pot-roast it, low and slow, all day. Then it turns into a magical substance that tastes like love, contentment, and unicorns.
  8. WhistlingBadger

    What are you doing today?

    Got a water change done on the 55g, and put a new pump in the waterfall. Not really happy with how the waterfall is looking. Finished cleaning up Romeo, my elk skull, which is now all nice and white and doesn't smell like death. Going to have to hang it in the garage until we can get a...
  9. WhistlingBadger

    Random Discussion

    I had to Google that. Yep, it's a real kids' book. So, now I can't unknow that...
  10. WhistlingBadger

    My Cool water "barb" tank begins...

    Tinfoils are veggiesaurs. The little guys will figure it out. Funny note: When the Badgerling was about three, I had a school of tinfoil barbs in my planted 55 (I know, I know, wrong on several levels). She got it in her head that they were smoked salmon, and that we were raising them to...
  11. WhistlingBadger

    Acrossocheilus fasciatus... ( Red Fin Torpedo Barb ) I guess I'm setting up a "Barb" tank...

    Cool looking fish! I have no info on the species in question, but I'm guessing they like the standard barb stuff: Coolish water, lots of current, lots and lots of room. I agree that you're going to need a big tank for all of those...but wow, what a most excellently cool looking tank it would be!
  12. WhistlingBadger

    My Cool water "barb" tank begins...

    If I may advise, go with panda garra instead of ancistrus. Truer to the barb region, and they won't creep out @CaptainBarnicles as badly.
  13. WhistlingBadger

    flat worms

    They're stronger than they look!
  14. WhistlingBadger

    Random Discussion

    One of my first graders called another student a fart monkey on the playground today. We told him to knock it off, but gave him full points for creativity. :lol:
  15. WhistlingBadger

    My 60L Cube

    Take that approach and you'll end up with a bunch of little guppies who have extra fins and grow up to be banjo players...
  16. WhistlingBadger

    I just discovered I've never kept a Corydoras

    Yeah, changing names to intentionally deceive customers isn't cool. But for my own amusement? It's fine. Loaches are wonderful. You should seek professional help.
  17. WhistlingBadger

    I just discovered I've never kept a Corydoras

    Dwarf chain loaches, Ambastaia sidthimunki, have one of the funniest species names. Sure, the ever-changing genus names are annoying, but I'm glad their species remains "Syd the monkey." When I kept them, they were all named Syd. And they acted like little monkeys. Common names are just...
  18. WhistlingBadger

    My 60L Cube

    Those babies are cuties! Hope you can sort out the male/female situation. I'm no guppy expert, but with most species I've kept, the more females you have to spread out the males' attentions, the easier everybody has it.
  19. WhistlingBadger

    I just discovered I've never kept a Corydoras

    Latin name: Chickus dramaticus. Seems to me like the common names are just a marketing tool, nothing more. The ones that bug me are the ones that are patently false. I currently keep Penthia padamya, often known as "Odessa barb," a species that hails from Myanmar, nowhere near anywhere...
  20. WhistlingBadger

    My 60L Cube

    I'm definitely going with the bright pink one. :p
  21. WhistlingBadger

    Get a fish they said . . .

    Welcome! So many things I love about your opening post: Your inspiration from a dentist's tank (I run a tank for a local dentist office--there's a 150g link in my sig if you want to see it); your willingness to learn, and your concern about what is best for your fish. Also, going for a...
  22. WhistlingBadger

    Flying critter eaters

    Interesting. They must have come in as larvae. I suppose it's also possible they came into your home some other way, then found a good habitat in the fish tank. I use these to keep fruit flies under control. Just put a few of them where the bugs are hanging out. In your situation, I'd stick...
  23. WhistlingBadger

    Well, where did you come from???

    Illegal immigration comes to the fish tank! :lol:
  24. WhistlingBadger

    Why do I stay in this hobby????

    Some good advice here--you've come to the right place. Plants can remove your ammonia for you, but only if you have a lot of plants and not a lot of fish. Looks to me like you have a lot of bioload for the amount of plants. There are some floating plants that will stand up to the current...
  25. WhistlingBadger

    My 60L Cube

    Wow. I guess these fall outside of the "most snails" category!
  26. WhistlingBadger

    High-Quality Snail Photos Needed!

    Something about this reminds me of a cartoon I saw one time, with a turtle passing a snail on the highway. The turtle is yelling, "Moron!" and the snail is yelling "Maniac!"
  27. WhistlingBadger

    Poetry

    Agreed. Discussions of poetry tend to devolve into silliness. And silly poetry, like silly songs, can be wonderful. Sometimes those silly poems are actually quite profound, as with some of Carl Sandburg's (I especially enjoy "Little Word, Little White Bird" and "Papa Loved Mama," which was...
  28. WhistlingBadger

    My 60L Cube

    Might be time for them to go away...
  29. WhistlingBadger

    55g Himalayan Foothills Paludarium

    If I already had the pump, yeah, I'd just tear it apart and put in a longer cord. I was just shopping and kept seeing otherwise serviceable pumps with 3 or 4 foot cords. For a submersible pump. Dumb. It annoyed me. Once I found one with a six foot cord, I was good to go. The old pump is...
  30. WhistlingBadger

    What's this floaty stuff that looks like dust or fibers?

    ...or borrow a plakat betta from a friend and throw it in there for a few days. :cool:
  31. WhistlingBadger

    What are you doing today?

    When bees go high-tech.
  32. WhistlingBadger

    55g Himalayan Foothills Paludarium

    Oh, SO much redneck engineering in this tank already. 🤠 I tend not to mess with electrical stuff unless I have to. Time for some additional shopping to find a pump with a decent power chord.
  33. WhistlingBadger

    My 60L Cube

    Most snails only eat dead/dying parts of plants, especially robust plants like swords or crypts. You're probably OK.
  34. WhistlingBadger

    Poetry

    A long time ago, Mrs. Badger used to give me a limerick challenge: She'd give me a topic and I'd write a limerick about it. I think my best one was "sniffing glue." (She was teaching at a special-needs middle school at the time; it was a thing) Sometimes I don't know what to do and life can...
  35. WhistlingBadger

    Weather

    Rain! Rain! Rain! I bet the firefighters on the mountain are dancing in the streets. Well, there aren't streets up there. Dancing in the two-trackers and elk trails. 💃🕺
  36. WhistlingBadger

    Poetry

    Not an original, this one, by Lord Byron, but one I strongly feel: There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more, From these...
  37. WhistlingBadger

    Poetry

    Well, Juice, when do we get to see some of yours? Or did you post some and I missed it in all the AI silliness? I used to write a fair bit of poetry. I got out of the habit in recent decades, as my creativity has been channeled into other areas, especially songwriting and building things...
  38. WhistlingBadger

    High-Quality Snail Photos Needed!

    Oooooo, I like this thread.
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