What are you doing today?

[Lanpenn]

Today I recorded (or at least I tried) a video about how I do maintenance on my aquarium. However, it is in Portuguese.


My Betta splendens is two years old.

 

[CaptainBarnicles]

Nice job, but can I ask why you took out the plants? I don't speak Portuguese so apologies if you'd already explained. That stem plant would grow fast and fill in quickly if you just left it in the substrate to root properly, when it reaches near the surface you can trim and replant the cuttings! Your betta will thank you for it as they love hiding and exploring in and around plants, you might notice him not being so 'quiet' as you put it in your other thread. And with enough plants competing for light and available nutrients you wouldn't have as much algae so it's a win-win! Something to think about anyway, you have a lovely betta, thanks for sharing

 

[Lanpenn]

Nice job, but can I ask why you took out the plants? I don't speak Portuguese so apologies if you'd already explained. That stem plant would grow fast and fill in quickly if you just left it in the substrate to root properly, when it reaches near the surface you can trim and replant the cuttings! Your betta will thank you for it as they love hiding and exploring in and around plants, you might notice him not being so 'quiet' as you put it in your other thread. And with enough plants competing for light and available nutrients you wouldn't have as much algae so it's a win-win! Something to think about anyway, you have a lovely betta, thanks for sharing

I took it out in order to scrub the damn green hair algae and later I put it again on the tank. I could scrub on the aquarium, but the removed algae would be harder to capture during the siphoning than doing this on the water I would dispose of. I said in this video that I had floating plants and this would help to control the algae. The wonderful is that I had Lemna sp. and, for some reason, they started to die. A plant so known as an invasive species not going well in my aquarium is impressive. I also had Taxyphillum barbieri and Ceratophyllum demersum. In 13 years of fishkeeping, I never had so many failures with aquarium plants. Elodea is the only plant that is still going so-so on the tank.

The photo below is when I still had Lemna sp. At the time, the main issue was cyanobacteria (and the aquarium was in another room). For some reason, they disappeared.

When I had more Ceratophyllum demersum:

2017 picture of when I had so much duckweed...

I appreciate your suggestions. I am still unemployed (pure patrimonalism in Brazil), so maybe producing this content may monetize my channel? I do not know. I am also doing an online course in environmental analyst.

Maybe my poetry book may help, but I need more inspiration (that is, passion) to write better texts. It has 22 pages, currently.

 

[GaryE]

I need to learn Portuguese. It is going to be a project this summer, to be able to have basic conversations in the language. I may go to Portugal next autumn, if all goes as hoped. It would just be for a week (with a killie convention there just happening to be that week). Brazil? Maybe someday.

I had a great time at our fish club yesterday evening. We had some technical difficulties, and the speaker had to work on the software and hardware set for for a few minutes. I got to carry an infant she's caring for, a tiny little girl, around for the the first half of the event. I have a deep voice, and I can put people to sleep. It's a skill. People of all ages fall asleep in my company. Some of us just have it.

I tell you though, watching a young premature baby in the early stages of life - they sure have a hard time. It's like caring for someone with a terrible cold, or the mother of all hangovers. The baby slept, although she did throw up on me and fire off some painful looking gas. Carrying that child though - we really are creatures of instinct.

We had a good presentation, 22 people (it's a new club, so that was good), a decent plant and fish auction (I got some red root floaters) and good conversation.

 

[BigDog]

I’m glad to hear you’re new fish club / aquarium club got off to a great start

I’m still working on my 10 and 40 gallon water changes today

 

[lottabubbles]

still trying to get more than 2 sides of the Rubik's cube all one color. been 45 year now trying and I'm running out of time.

 

[MaloK]

If you are able to read french or have a translator in your browser.

This is the easiest solution to learn... Ok it's impossible to break world record with it. But it's easy to memorize. and it works with all 3x3.

Francocube.com

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One of my favorite fidget. I have a couple of original that are so used they are just decorations now.

This is the last one I got myself. with carbon fiber faces.

 

[Lanpenn]

I need to learn Portuguese. It is going to be a project this summer, to be able to have basic conversations in the language. I may go to Portugal next autumn, if all goes as hoped. It would just be for a week (with a killie convention there just happening to be that week). Brazil? Maybe someday.

This is interesting. Do they not speak English? The Portuguese language spoken in Brazil has its own accent, there is nothing as the way it is spoken in the country. Besides this, there are also regional variations regarding accents. My accent is probably from people from the São Paulo state countryside ("caipira"), mixed with Mineiro dialect. Despite this, there is a Brazilian accent. In Portugal, the accent is more formal than in Brazil, as well as in countries such as Angola and Moçambique. I have never been to Portugal, although my great-great-grandmother's ancestry is Portuguese.

Just to correct: the plants from the first photo from my last post are probably Salvinia and not Lemna.

 

[anewbie]

I thought about what i should do tomorrow.

 

[BigDog]

Very cool pictures

 

[BigDog]

I’m hoping for one more warm and dry day for Tuesday

So I can get a few things done around the home

 

[fishorama]

I remember hearing Portuguese spoken by a family when I worked in a grocery store. I had to ask what language it was, it seemed so musical & pretty. Before that I thought it would sound similar to Spanish. I was very wrong. Reading them, both look similar. Our neighbor is a native Spanish speaker but when he went to Portugal he had a lot of difficulties. I bet it's at least as difficult in Brazil. Of course, there are American accents that are difficult for me unless I focus very hard & know the subject matter, lol.

Today I did a couple batches of laundry & only thought briefly about taxes & tank work. I'm surprisingly sore from vacuuming yesterday My new little canister "wand" is shorter than my old 1 & the "dirt cup" is harder to empty. A new learning curve

 

[GaryE]

It's a little bit of work to learn some basics in a language, but it's just as much work for the person you're speaking with to learn your language. People should meet halfway. And I have some work to do.

I love accents. I'm sure all of us typing away in the same language would talk very differently. I lived in an area with many immigrants from the Azores, and their Portuguese was very different in sound that what I've heard from Brazil. But if you put people from Scotland, Newfoundland, the southern US, Australia and India in a room to discuss in English, things would be very entertaining.

So today, I start butchering Portuguese. That, and picking killie eggs. We have a sudden warm spell, going to 6 degrees c, so there is melting going on.

 

[CaptainBarnicles]

There's nothing like diversity for accents than here in the UK, travel an hour in any direction and you'll find a different dialect. Personally I love the northern accents and find them much warmer and more appealing than the southern accents

 

[anewbie]

After spending all day yesterday thinking about what i am going to do today - i've decided what to do today.