Recent content by WhistlingBadger

We passed the anniversary of our son's death a week ago yesterday. Always good to get that part of the year done. Hang in there, my friend.

Might be time to invest in a farm cat. Or a ferret. Or a pet kestrel.

@emeraldking Hope you find healing. I'm in Friday mode, mostly planning for next week. It's going to a huge week: Parent-teacher conferences, the beginning of my long awaited "Beginning Band for Grownups" evening class, and "Bring Your Parents To Music Day" for my upper elementary...

I think I'd be a hard-core biotopist if I could afford the luxury. As it is, I build a lot of sorta-topes: Fish from a specific area or closely related species, and as many plants as possible true to the area, rounded out with similar-looking ones from elsewhere. Ah, to have the money and...

I just double-dog-dared my district's choir director to program this:

The moss looks good!

Bomb cyclone? I know it's a serious storm and all. But I swear the weather channel just make up these titles for click bait. I guess they've started naming winter storms now, the way they name hurricanes. A couple years ago I heard that we got hit by "Winter Storm Nyla." But nobody called...

Any big change you've made can affect water color. In a younger setup or one in which I've just made a serious change (even something as minor as cleaning the sponge filters or stirring up the substrate), I'll see changes.

I'm reminded of a story. During the late 70s, at the height of the troubles, a grim looking stranger walks into a bar in Belfast, wearing a long, black trenchcoat with suspicious lumps under it, carrying a heavy satchel. As he stalks up to the bar and slams his satchel down, conversation dies...

Never criticize anyone until you've walked a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you'll be a mile away. And you'll have their shoes. --Jack Handy

A veritable betta playground

Probably my all-time favorite floater: Grows like duckweed but a whole lot easier to control, and it's big enough that you can clean up around it, and it doesn't gunk up your filter intakes. Really nice looking leaves and roots, too. Good choice.

I usually drop in a few algae pellets, staple pellets, and flakes when I first get up, when the tank is in "sunrise" phase with very dim, red-purple light. By the time I make myself a cup of tea and get settled for my morning reading/prayer time, the fish have discovered their breakfast and are...

Temperatures here in Western Wyoming are about down to normal for this time of year, but still no snow.

Nice. I bet this will work well for you.