What are you doing today?

[Rocky998]

Lol, I was just kidding. Never met Rocky. LOL

Wow... She forgets about me just like that.... I cant believe it

 

[Alice B]

some days I'm glad to be old

 

[Deleted member 149562]

Monday morning once again....laundry day

During the laundry session I shall be taking my cordless hoover somewhere that it has never been before......into the 53 gallon to suck up a very small amount of sand/micro gravel that I couldn't get out yesterday. Once that is done I shall be sterilising the aquarium, heater and GKM with a Miltons mix (same mix used for babies bottles) and letting the aquarium air dry ready for rescaping next weekend. The new interior for the aquarium will be ordered on Wednesday for delivery on Friday......might even start work on it on Friday depending how early in the day the delivery gets here.

The delivery expected yesterday failed to show cos the courier had an issue with the box(es) and they were damaged in transit, so now awaiting a new batch of items to be sent. Thankfully they are nothing to do with the aquariums, just general household cleaning stuff.

My aquaintance emailed last night to let me know all fish arrived with her safely and were settling into their new home.

The new inhabitants for the 53 will be ordered next week for delivery late November.

 

[Deleted member 149562]

In relation to wild animal reintroductions.....

Here in the UK and Europe a massive exercise to reintroduce animals has been underway for decades and is largely successful

The UK now has beavers in abundance (there is a colony of them in the city rivers where I live and they are thriving), across Europe wolves, bison and bears have been successfully reintroduced in parts of France, Italy, Romania and Germany.

 

[Rocky998]

In relation to wild animal reintroductions.....

Here in the UK and Europe a massive exercise to reintroduce animals has been underway for decades and is largely successful

The UK now has beavers in abundance (there is a colony of them in the city rivers where I live and they are thriving), across Europe wolves, bison and bears have been successfully reintroduced in parts of France, Italy, Romania and Germany.

That's awesome! Its really good to see that around the world we are starting to see a problem and address it by trying to save animal species from extinction.

 

[Deleted member 149562]

That's awesome! Its really good to see that around the world we are starting to see a problem and address it by trying to save animal species from extinction.

Before and during WW2 Herman Goring headed a team of scientific minds to reintroduce actual extinct wild breeds of animals. Mainly for hunting purposes.

One type of horse was brought back from the dead, so to speak, or at least one that has certain amounts of DNA from a long extinct breed known as the Tarpan. The DNA has been discovered in Polish wild Konik ponies

Polish pony that survived the Nazis uniting Europe's nature reserves | CNN

A small Polish wild horse that was used in Nazi experiments during the 1930s has become the center of wetland regeneration efforts across parts of Europe.

edition.cnn.com

The extinct wild Ox was also subject to Goring's attempts to bring them back from the dead too. Direct linked breeds such as Heck, that share some DNA with the extinct beasts have lived and are living, but many are culled due to being too aggressive

Devon farmer forced to offload aggressive Nazi-bred ‘super cows’

Derek Gow had to thin herd of Heck cattle – linked to extinct European wild ox – because they were too aggressive

www.theguardian.com

 

[Rocky998]

Before and during WW2 Herman Goring headed a team of scientific minds to reintroduce actual extinct wild breeds of animals. Mainly for hunting purposes.

One type of horse was brought back from the dead, so to speak, or at least one that has certain amounts of DNA from a long extinct breed known as the Tarpan. The DNA has been discovered in Polish wild Konik ponies

Polish pony that survived the Nazis uniting Europe's nature reserves | CNN

A small Polish wild horse that was used in Nazi experiments during the 1930s has become the center of wetland regeneration efforts across parts of Europe.

edition.cnn.com

The extinct wild Ox was also subject to Goring's attempts to bring them back from the dead too. Direct linked breeds such as Heck, that share some DNA with the extinct beasts have lived and are living, but many are culled due to being too aggressive

Devon farmer forced to offload aggressive Nazi-bred ‘super cows’

Derek Gow had to thin herd of Heck cattle – linked to extinct European wild ox – because they were too aggressive

www.theguardian.com

I've heard about that horse before! Very cool how they brought it back.
Thank you for sharing!

There is a company right now actually working on bringing wooly mammoths back by using all the DNA they can from frozen samples of the mammoths and then by filling in the gaps in the DNA with African and Asian elephant DNA. They plan to use the Asian elephant as the mom to carry the baby. It would be cool if it was brought back but also I don't know... That's a species that been extinct for a very long time. I am also skeptical on how well this human made clone would turn out IF they are actually able to pull it off. Sense they'd be using the DNA from African and Asian elephants to fill in the missing "gaps", there are bound to be some significant differences from the original wooly species.
I believe on their site they even said that they would purposely make it more suited to warmer climates because of global warming happening. So there would not be as much hair as the original wooly mammoths most likely.
The company also wants to attempt bringing back other animals like the Tasmanian tiger. That is a worthwhile goal. Fairly recent extinction that was caused by us. It would be really cool to reintroduce that species to Australia.

I will see if I can find the site...

 

[PheonixKingZ]

Better than what most teenage boys are looking up.

Hey hey now

 

[Rocky998]

I guess there nis another company dojng the same thing? I don't know... This isn't the site I remember. I couldn't find the other site. So that's weird

Woolly Mammoth Project Update

The Harvard team is using CRISPR genome engineering to copy-and-paste DNA from the mammoth genome into living elephant cell cultures.

reviverestore.org

 

[Rocky998]

Hey hey now

Well wait a minute, what are you getting so nervous about? Huh?

 

[PheonixKingZ]

Well wait a minute, what are you getting so nervous about? Huh?

Not nervous, I speak for the entire teenage male species

 

[Rocky998]

Hey hey now

If someone grabbed my devices and threatened to expose my search history I would just be like: "Oh yes please do. Expose all the fishy things I look up."

Not nervous, I speak for the entire teenage male species

@JuiceBox52 said what MOST look up not us. Were good children.

 

[Rocky998]

I mean you gotta be honest.... A lot of teens, male AND female (mostly guys though) probably do it .
Its sad and wrong but yup, there are only a little of us left who try to stay clean from all that.

 

[Rocky998]

And the loud music. I keep the music to myself.
I have ear buds and listen that way. I don't want to blare my music.
But I do like what this says still: "Roses are red violets are blue, when I listen to NF my neighbors do to"

But nah, I don't blare my music over speakers. I'm too self conscious about it.

 

[connorlindeman]

Ordered a aquaclear 50 for my 20g. The quiet flow 10 didn't seem to be cutting it.