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Bowfin. Not a common aquarium species, I suppose. That would be awesome, though.

It's like TFF... only recyclable... :banana: I'm setting up a NA native tank. Sunfish, minnows and maybe logperch. We'll see.

If it makes you feel better, I had to commandeer our betta's 5 gallon tank to make a hospital tank for a young female convict whose old man worked her over. I made a plastic mesh pen for him with a 3.3 gallon volume and put it in the 40 gallon guppy tank. He's doing just fine and is actually...

5 gallon sounds just fine to me, but if it's troublesome for you, a 2 gallon as you suggested would be ok for a betta hospital tank.

Might be hard. Props to anyone who gets this. Prehistoric Mouth full of teeth Breeding males turn green

1.) Where did you take it? Google images 2.) What is it? (Explain) Klaus Heissler, a talking fish from the TV show American Dad. 3.) Why is it special to you? It's not. I just thought it was fitting.

Took the kids swimming the other day at Tappan Reservoir and my wife and I went kayaking yesterday, also at Tappan. Overall had a good time, but there are some sick people out there. They have a few small sandy beaches where families frequently play and besides countless broken bottles (there...

I definitely understand that the growls aren't for everyone, but you gave credit where credit was due. When I first discovered more extreme metal, I admit I was a bit wary of the vocal style and had a bit of difficulty digesting it. I ended up making friends with a phenomenal local band called...

I enjoy the aggressive vocals where appropriate, which old Opeth was good at. I look at it like you would use distortion/overdrive on a guitar. Ever since Martin and Peter left, Opeth has become a prog rock band in vain of 60s and 70s prog rock like Camel, but it sounds forced and B side-ish...

My musical tastes can picky. I love progressive music. I love metal and rock, but I appreciate any music that has legitimate heart, feeling and thought into it, be it metal, bluegrass, classical, whathaveyou. My two favorite bands are Opeth (pre Martin/Peter split) and Coheed and Cambria.

Have you ever eaten a beef, pork, chicken, turkey, etc? Those are raised purely for consumption in an unnatural environment. I can guarantee that lion in the zoo is being fed meat that was raised specifically for slaughter as well. Just saying.

This is truth. All of mine were wild collected locally. I tried my first batch dipped in bleach. Instant Christmas tree needles in the carpet. Second time I did a QT. They did meh until my cichlids shredded all of them one night. The most recent batch was QT and is doing great and kept away from...

Update: This stuff has grown from around 6" on the 5th to easily 20"+ as of today. I'm just using the stock hood light and no CO2 and I still haven't added ferts. Now I kind of want to put some in a tank with ferts, CO2 and a good light.

I should send you some of my hornwort. Not only have I not killed it, it's on track to take over one of my tanks! It's grown over a foot in 2 weeks!

Flushable Pets 1 - Spirit Airlines 0 They flat out refused to refund my involuntarily canceled flight and were only willing to offer me a future credit to be used within the next 12 months, which I wouldn't be able to use. Oh really? You can only offer me credit? It's amazing how fast their...

Nope, but I do dig a lot of Irish and Scandinavian folk music which use them. An update on the convict: She's doing ok. Her injuries are stable and haven't gotten any worse, so hopefully they'll start showing improvement soon. I'm also done adulting for the day. Our daughter usually feeds the...

I've always wanted to learn piano. It amazes me how pianists can manage to play multiple, often complex, parts at once. Nothing but the utmost respect anyone who can do that. Also, being a metalhead, I have a lot of admiration for classical composers such as Chopin, Beethoven, Paganini, Brahms...

The female convict is looking pretty rough today. Where her fins were injured have now fallen off. I'm about to do a massive water change and add a bit of aquarium salt. If she pulls through and heals, I don't know if I will want to risk putting her back in with the male.

Ok, so I converted the betta tank into a temporary hospital tank for the beat up female convict. It's on a nice quiet bookshelf out of sight of other fish with walls on three sides and several hiding spots. I added some tannin extract as well. The betta is in the guppy tank in a mesh box I...

I love Rush! 2112 is one of my all time favorite albums. Did you hear about Neil Peart passing away from glioblastoma recently? Props on the hearing protection. Smart man. I wish I had used protection when I was active in bands. My hearing is shot, especially higher frequencies. If like...

@AdoraBelle Dearheart I simply cannot wrap my head around that. Wrong on so many levels. I just turned the lights on and our male convict has beat the stuffing out of the female. I knew my cichlids have been having a lover's quarrel, but it's never been anything serious other than your...

I said video. We can't hear a picture, now can we? :p What style do you play? I was always in metal bands (and one punk band that poked fun at punk music) and the things those guys could do on the drums were unreal. The coordination, agility and stamina were amazing. They really forced me to up...

I thought the American Dad skit on lefties was just a bizarre joke. I didn't realize that people actually treated lefties this way. My father was also left handed, but I never heard of anything like what y'all are describing happening. Insanity! And you're a drummer? I think we need some videos...

My plants are lazy. Under stocked and over filtered tank that just had a water change two days ago. Nitrates are between 20-30ppm. They've NEVER been that high in this tank. Refilled water barely registers on the API nitrate test. Slackers...

Men on my side of the generally don't last. I feel I'll be lucky if I'm at the top of the hill now. If so, I'll beat out my father by 11 years and my grandfather by 25 years. My maternal grandfather is still kicking in his mid 80s, but his cheese has just about slid off it's cracker.

Nope. Probably shouldn't have from the get go.

I can understand that. I was raised among a bunch of cattle ranches and we hunted our own food. I also bred snakes for many years and bred our own rats for feeders. I never took any joy in killing anything and I would never be ok with keeping any animal in a stressful or unhealthy environment...

We've got a surplus of 5 week old convict cichlids to get rid of. They are roughly 1/2" and are being fed Hikari First Bites and crumbled Hikari cichlid pellets. There are probably at least 40-50. Take one or take them all. They are FREE, but local pickup only as I have never shipped and the...

I'll probably get flamed for this, but here are my $0.02: I personally have no moral objection to feeding live food to carnivorous creatures if it's what they are biologically meant to eat. It's nature and nature isn't always kind. Most people in the fish hobby use fish like guppies or rosy red...

Just peppers this year. Probably around 40 plants total. All hot varieties. Carolina Reaper 7 Pot Douglah Naga Morich Bhut Jolokia red (aka ghost chilies) Aji Limon Jalapeno

The FlushableFamily:

So now I'm old, is that it? Don't let the white hairs fool ya... :banana:

I had no idea there was a competition going. I was completely lost as to what was going on. So I buggered off to do some chores.

I'm lost. But whatever. Apparently I was out of bounds, so I'll go elsewhere.

Huh?

Excuse me... :sad:

To add to AdoraBelle's post regarding heater placement. I placed my heaters next to the intake of my filters so they warm water gets circulated by them. And it helps hide them.

I was agreeing with your observation... :lol:

This.

Told y'all I was ugly on the inside...