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my nightstand book right now is Chicken Soup for the Soul. I've been away, lots of difficult things going on topped off by a surprise health issue. No longer reads, I'm still playing catchup

My male albino bristlenose is probably close to 10 years old and the other day he started to look brown. I put the missus in and a cave but he's not doing his normal hangout by the cave behavior. What is their nomal lifespan?

In 24.5 years in business I have threatened to go apply for a job a few times, but yesterday I did it. Today, hoping they don't call for an interview, I have a painting project to finish and the front porch needs cleaned. Everything Fishy has gone from aquariums fresh and salt plus ponds, to all...

Wulfwarro the wookie, was named for a wookie because he howled like a wookie the first time I crated him so I could go to work when he was 3 months old. I adopted him just before he was headed for the pound on August 14, 2018, his mama was a rottie and daddy is questionable, never had DNA run...

I have one or 2 nets for each tank

Now you know why I gave up tilapia and went to catfish

that electric bill would be fierce here. Good luck

what size heater are you using? Mine sank when they got too cold and died, they didn't float, you'll have to drain the tank to get them

a larger tank off by half an inch at an end can eventually pop a seam and when it does it's not pretty. But you know do what you like.

It finally rained here, only a couple of inches. I am checking my french drains and pond levels today, before we get more tonight

I use them to build fountains and they don't break down there. With concrete basins on them and water running over them, but it's your call. I removed my styrofoam piece and threw it in the greenhouse before setting up on shims, I was terrified dogs were going to knock that tank over with the...

go to home depot and get some composite shims, in the building / construction department, usually near lumber and cinderblocks, less than $5 for a pack. I have a 29 stand like that and setting on styrofoam made it unstable. The composite shims can be slipped under the low side during a water...

and that is why I had success breeding tetras in a tank without a light (which wasn't actually intentional, lol)

I vote for pygmy cories

quarantine tank for healing and melafix worked pretty well for mine, but this is why I gave up african cichlids.

You must not have chlorine in your water. If I'd done that I'd have had all dead fish, mostly dead fish

Mozambique tilapia are the only ones legal for outdoor uncovered ponds in North Texas, because they die at 55 degrees they can't become invasive if a bird carries one to a lake and drops it. Unfortunately there isn't enough to filet on an a mature Mozambique. I kept them summer 2013, moved to...

Congratulations and best wishes. May your marriage be happy

I put dirty ornaments outside in the Texas sun and in a couple of weeks they are clean

They are head halters, but you do lead the dog from the front. My female does best in one, 10 years of training leave immediately if she sees a squirrel, with the halti, she doesn't leave me standing. German training collar she will pull leash from my hand anyway

Guarding from squirrels definitely happens with labs.

How cute. You are officially fully stocked.

Provide kong chew bones, the big rawhides are much loved until the dog swallows the whole thing and has to have surgery or a long vet stay until it passes.

Ideally overfishing would be handled at a local level and not at customs. It is not an ideal world. I do not have the answer except I shop carefully, preferably for tank bred locally raised fish.

I also loved my mandarinfish, and those you can get tank-bred in Florida I think

My favorite fish from my reef tank were my yellow tang and my marine betta. Especially my marine betta, with his false eye spot tricking the guppies into swimming past his mouth. He also had a lovely skinny fish dance when he wanted a guppy. He only did it for me.

Real cone of shame, she didn't have one and then licked the glue off her incision and I could see in her tummy so she got the emergency vet run, all $300 of it, and staples that come out on the 30th. Her sister got a cone when I was at the vet with her but hadn't licked hers open

Foster kittens and mama arrived July 2nd. July 5th I found out mama was already pregnant again, when I asked for her age to set up her spay. An early spay can be done but no clinics had any openings so yesterday she delivered 6 beautiful babies. Of her original 3 babies (the 4th was lost in...

I had an external UV light, water ran thru it, fish did not. It was an 8 watt Pond UV. so the fish didn't see th e light, was not exposed to it. Only the water was treated with UV. 24/7 for several months.,

I hunt mosquito larva if I want to offer live food. Dog's water bowl is an excellent place to raise a few quickly without stream contaminants. Saltwater fish LOVE mosquito larva, and since I really worried about disease and contamination on their tank, they got a lot of mosquito larva the year...

I agree with the ban. I've been in saltwater wholesale dealers and etc and the losses in marine fish from catch to hobbyist are horrendous. I won't shop at Petco because they sell marine fish. I haven't purchased a marine fish since 2012 and then I got tank bred clownfish

Positive for UV: I had a Regal Tang who got exposed to ich, and when Regal Tangs get ich it comes back and comes back and comes back. Treating anything saltwater is tricky (and because someone has had their fish for months or a year in their tank doesn't mean they are not carrying anything...