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Looking great! I love the stepped rock formation. And that is a seriously cool looking nerite (?) snail.

THAT must be why my fish insist on wearing polyester leisure suits and listening to Captain and Tenille.

Here's one Mrs. Badger sent me: A dad returned home to find that his 15-year-old son was out and his room looked suspiciously tidy. On his bed, which was neatly made up, was a folded piece of paper with 'Dad' scrawled across it. Alarms already ringing, his paranoia went into overdrive at...

The last bachelor party I went to was my brother's. This was quite a few years ago. We took the male contingent of the wedding party to a big laser tag place in downtown Nashville. It was fun; I'd guess the place was about the size of a school gym, set up like a ruined city, lots of corners...

Yep, this is my life.

You describe the problems of fish breeding and fish keeping in a rural area very well, Gary. I aspire to live in the middle of nowhere again someday, and I have pretty much decided that if I ever achieve that, I will probably retire from the hobby. It's just too hard.

I understand what you're saying, but hardness is generally considered one of the basic parameters (along with temperature, tank mates, and tank dimensions). It isn't as complicated as it seems. Some water is harder, meaning it has a lot of dissolved minerals. Other water is soft, meaning it...

That's going to look amazing when the plants all fill in!

Yeah, I kind of felt sorry for the snake, too. But they won't stay on the bow when they're still alive, so it had to be done. I love bow fishing! I have a fiberglass-backed bow I use for that. The moisture would be too hard on my primitive bows. I've whacked some mighty nice carp over the...

Got this thing all sanded. The Badgerling found me a garter snake a couple days ago, which donated its skin to cover half the back. Need to find him a buddy for the other half. Here it is just laid on to see how it will look. Really nice pattern on this one!

@JackGulley Here's a full tank shot from a couple days ago.

That's what we're here for! If we don't know the answers, we're pretty good at making stuff up.

My mom found a black widow in a bag of charcoal while lighting the grill one time. She sprayed an entire can of lighter fluid into the bag and threw a match in it, right out there on the lawn. After it burned down, she beat the ashes with a broom. Didn't much care for spiders, my mom.

A friend who moved here recently from a different area texted me a picture of a snake last night. "What kind of snake is in my driveway?" I replied, "A garter snake. Completely harmless." He responded, "It stayed calm, even when it was airborne."

Strong choices. :)

...and don't forget the blue skyhook. My soon-to-be roofing buddies got me with that one once.

What a cool snake! I have only seen one hog nose snake here, at a Nature Conservancy reserve out east of town. Its sighting was something of an occasion, as they're very rare in these parts. Around here, we have bull snakes, garter snakes, and racers. Racers are said to be common, but you...

I hate to say it, but I fear glowlight tetras are going to be awfully crowded in a 10g tall. Even most nano fish would be. If it has lots of cover, you could try a scarlet badis. But honestly the tetras alone are probably more than enough for such a small footprint.

Buddies @JackGulley I'll get one tomorrow when the lights come back on.

Making a stainless steel mesh top to replace the solid glass, so there's a bit of ventilation. Using some old vinyl soffit to give it rigidity.

My experience: I had one in a 55 gallon SE Asian community tank. The first year or so, he got along fine with everyone, and was visually one of the most beautiful fish I've ever kept. Once he got bigger, he started terrorizing everyone in the tank. Not just the bottom feeders, but even the...

Well, they nailed it, alright. The audience gave them a standing ovation and they got to sing an encore. They worked really hard this past few weeks, and that showed on stage. I'm so happy for them. 💕

Just finished mass rehearsal for our last concert of the year. 4th and 5th grade songwriting concert. The kids made some really, really great songs this year. Hope they nail it tonight.

Also, the leaves are above water; the stem pokes down through a hole in the island. Similar to what you've done in various ways, just a little different take on it.

So far! Fewer places for them to disappear into...

They seem to like just about any conditions. :) They're an attractive weed.

I always took the "faith moving mountains" thing to be a bit more on the metaphorical side. Just the lawsuits from landowners would be daunting...

I just did a little reading. It appears the leopard frogs are very susceptible to chytrid, and frogs with poison glands tend to be resistant to it. So, there might be reason to hope for the best.

Yeah, but a tectonic event of that magnitude, even if it had divine origins, would REALLY screw up the fishing and elk hunting.

I didn't think about chytrid or other pathogens; the pond where we collected the moss and scuds is indeed completely filled with leopard frogs. Too late now; we'll just hope for the best. On the optimistic side, if the pond had chytrid I doubt it would be so completely full of very healthy...

As long as the edges are touching water, they don't seem to care about air humidity; they just stay soaked from below. I'm actually going to replace part of the glass with stainless mesh for better ventilation, since too high a humidity isn't great for the frogs.

Yeah, the Bighorns do blend into the Beartooths which blend into the Absorokas which blend into the Wind River Range. I think you could pretty easily walk from the outskirts of Lander to the outskirts of Redlodge without ever going below 9,000. Wouldn't that be a great trip? But the claim of...

Built a floating island out of blue foam, painted with Drylok and concrete pigment. Rhododendron growing through a hole in the center (@Wills , you might be interested in that), and top surface covered with moss collected from the mountains. Toothpicks are to keep it away from the aquarium...

The University of Wyoming Symphony and Choir did Mozart's Requiem recently. I wasn't there but saw some of the recording. It was epic. Ever drive the Beartooth Highway? That has to rank high on the list of most wonderfully terrifying roads in the world. I was talking to a truck driver...

I tend to like fish in their natural, wild-type coloration. I enjoy fish that have enough intelligence to interact with their surroundings (including me). A little mystery in the tank is cool, but too much is boring, so I try to choose a mix of out-in-the-open-mugging-for-the-camera types, and...

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