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Don't listen to Colin. Huge driftwood pieces are wonderful. :) But he's right about fewer species but bigger schools. In a tank this size, you could have some stunningly big schools.

Personally, in a large tank, I like a mix of big and small fish. If I were doing a 125 gallon, planted tank with a Southeast Asia theme, I'd do: 10 Pearl gourami 40-50 harlequin or espei rasbora 20 dwarf chain loaches 20+ amano shrimp 20 kuhli loaches. Or maybe skip all the loaches and get a...

Nice looking tank! You'd see that otto more if you got him some buddies. How many kuhlis do you have? I miss those.

I really need to get down south and bow hunt for feral hogs/wild boars some day. Besides the excitement of hunting a potentially dangerous animal, I have a culinary interest in wild pork.

He was a genius. And of course you have to hear all of these lines delivered completely dead-pan, followed by a blank stare, as if he vaguely wonders why people are laughing.

Unlike Aaron Burr, I do know how the sausage gets made...

If your girlfriend isn't attracted to your Mad Aquarium Scientist routine...perhaps you're with the wrong person. :lol:

Very pretty! I've heard these are almost impossible to breed. True?

I mean, surely it's at least a little bit tougue-in-cheek. "Blood and Honey"? They can't be entirely serious. Either way, I'll probably miss out on that one. 🤮

Just make the berms nice and wide, so they'll be more durable and look more natural. When we put berms around our pond (to keep it from flooding the yard during irrigation season) we planted the berms with rhyzome-spreading grass to further stabilize them. If you have some clay in your soil...

I'm also making bone broth. Never tried that before; my dog would disapprove since it means less bones for him to chaw on. But I hear it's really healthy and makes tasty soup base, and it's a way to use more of the animal. I hope to get, oh, a couple gallons or so? Sadly, the hide is...

Made about 16 pounds of elk Italian sausage tonight, after around 40 pounds of burger yesterday. Another 20 pounds of bratwurst are planned for tomorrow, then I'm done processing this beast. Then I'll go antelope hunting Saturday. :)

My first impulse was to laugh...surely that's a parody, not a real movie? But no, it's real. Wow.

Words to live by:

@Essjay If I talked about mincing my elk, people would think I was weird. :lol: But ground meat is indeed called minced meat outside North America. In the USA, at least, mincemeat is a sweet treat made out of heavily sweetened, heavily spiced meat (among other ingredients). We try not to...

I think you'd have to grind it. Yetiburger. Tastes kind of like chicken.

13 hours carving meat. I killed the elk, and the elk darn near killed me...

Great news, @Back in the fold . I agree with you about health workers, especially nurses. Generally just amazing people. I put in about 13 hours carving meat today. Got my whole elk cut up and in the freezer/fridge, except for the back straps, which should only take a few minutes. Big...

You do have some diatoms, but that isn't what the little white flecks are. They look to me like something alive, maybe copepods or some kind of worms. If you turn off your filter, do the little white flecks move around on their own power?

It's weirdly hot here, too, highs in the mid-high 80s. We're about to choke from the forest fire smoke. Really need a good snow storm to cool things down and put out the fires.

Welcome! Sorry your mud puppy didn't make it--they are really cool. Cormorant damage is hard to recover from. I once rescued a huge goldfish from a blue heron, with similar results. Do you know how hard your water is? You can get a test kit or check with your water supplier. You have a lot...

I got my animal's Chronic Wasting Disease test results in last night, and he was negative. So, I'm going to be butchering elk today! Soon as I finish my tea, have some breakfast, and get the knives sharpened up, I'll be heading over to the cooler to bring home the quarters and get to work. I...

Finally got my cwd test results in last night, and we're good to go. I was 99% sure already, as this was a huge, robust, healthy body-builder of an animal. But good to know for sure. So, I'll be butchering elk today! Woo hoo! Hard work but very enjoyable.

I was going to share the Napoleon Dynamite quote, but I think I already did. That's good eating size! But you must be turning into quite a fisherman if you can catch fish on somebody's lawn! Also, I love your shirt. :lol:

I should get around 250 pounds of meat from this beast. One thing about venison that a lot of people don't realize is you can't treat it like beef, because it has almost no fat marbled in the meat. So if you overcook it even a little bit, it turns into boot leather. Also, like beef, you...

My wife has no interest in hunting, but she does enjoy eating the meat. Nutritionally, venison doesn't really count as "red meat," since it has next to no cholesterol or fat in it. I think I could live on elk meat as the main course in just about every meal. Looks like I'll be putting that to...

Those are nerite eggs. Nothing to worry about. Another nerite came along and laid eggs on this one's shell. This is one of the reasons I quit keeping nerites: They leave those little, bright white eggs everywhere. The don't amount to anything, as the young need brackish water to survive...

Nah, that 1 cm per liter or 1 inch per gallon rule is complete nonsense. The trouble is that fish need to be measured by the amount of space they take up, their activity level, and the amount of food they consume/waste they produce. You could easily keep ten 1" microrasboras in a well-set-up...

The Tesla "truck" looks like something a middle school kid built in their craft room, but got bored and wandered off before it was finished. I never quite trust somebody with a shiny pickup truck. :lol: I used mine all the time when we lived out of town. Always hauling fencing, rocks...

I found myself humming this song while digging around in the ribs trying to find it.

My favorite hunting partner is a professional brewer. (And yes, we tend to have better-than-average refreshments in elk camp) So once we moved a few kegs aside, there was room for my elk meat in his cooler. Butchering an animal isn't really any worse than eating one, if you think about it...

Welcome! Search up "silent cycle" on the forum. I agree that with that many plants, you could probably add your school of tetras now. What kind of tetras are you looking at? 15g is a little small for some kinds, but a nice school of embers would look lovely in there. Don't get just six. 10...

Hm, sounds like a pattern in your family.

That was a really funny story, right up to the end. Hope your sister was OK. I had a friend in high school, back in the late 80s, with a Dart. Really cool little car, but kind of felt like a tank under the skin. I'm guessing it isn't the worst car to be in in a crash. I drive an 01 Dakota...

Nope, should be good for meat for the next year or so. The meat will age in a walk-in cooler for a week or two until the CWD test results come in, and the aging will tender it up a bit and make it taste even better. Tonight I'll get to work on the head, which I plan on making into a...

I've always valued practicality over looks in my trucks. As long as it gets me where I need to go and does what I need it to do, I don't worry too much about how it looks. That said, I sure wouldn't turn it down if somebody gave me one of these beauties. Or even one of these. But nobody...

You can get it at a lot of libraries, if you can't find it to buy. If I was able to find it (through interlibrary loan) here in back-water Wyoming, I'm sure it won't be a problem in Georgia. I did end up buying it, though. It's a valuable reference.

Great for camping out wherever the elk are, though! :lol: 🏹

Yep, some kind of trumpet snail. I hope you like them because you're probably going to end up with a whooooooooole bunch of them! Not necessarily a bad thing, though, as they'll keep your substrate aerated. They just really like to breed.