What are you doing today?

[GaryE]

A great day. I bought my ticket to a J.S. Bach marathon being put on by the Bach in Baltimore Society. The concert will be held this Sunday from 1 pm to 6 pm. This is Baroque heaven.

I hope you aren't broke after going for baroque like that. I guess there's no looking Bach now.

I am being pleased with the fishroom today. Spring cleaning is done, and if you lot showed up on a cruise ship this summer, I wouldn't worry about showing you around. It's nice and neat and uncluttered out there. I tend to run well managed tanks, but I'm not always as good with the shelves around the tanks, and my tendency to put things down when I'm done with them and not put them away. I spend too much time on the old "now where did I see that?" hunts.

I should have some free time after supper to go looking for killie eggs. Plants are trimmed, glass is cleaned, racks are rebuilt, things are in their proper bins, tools are together, tetras, killies and Cichlids are in breeding tanks, house plants are ferted and watered... plus the sun's shining.

Right now, I have some Fela Kuti playing on the cheap sound system, but when it's done, maybe some Bach, the Brandenburgs, in honour of @gwand .

 

[gwand]

I hope you aren't broke after going for baroque like that. I guess there's no looking Bach now.

I am being pleased with the fishroom today. Spring cleaning is done, and if you lot showed up on a cruise ship this summer, I wouldn't worry about showing you around. It's nice and neat and uncluttered out there. I tend to run well managed tanks, but I'm not always as good with the shelves around the tanks, and my tendency to put things down when I'm done with them and not put them away. I spend too much time on the old "now where did I see that?" hunts.

I should have some free time after supper to go looking for killie eggs. Plants are trimmed, glass is cleaned, racks are rebuilt, things are in their proper bins, tools are together, tetras, killies and Cichlids are in breeding tanks, house plants are ferted and watered... plus the sun's shining.

Right now, I have some Fela Kuti playing on the cheap sound system, but when it's done, maybe some Bach, the Brandenburgs, in honour of @gwand .

When I get Bach from the marathon I will be in a fugue state.

 

[Alice B]

I have very old copper in much of the house. I usually purchase a compression fitting and use it as a coupling from old to new or old to old. To often when playing with old piping something breaks someplace unexpectedly. The compression fitting alleviates the hard to solder issue and the breaking elsewhere issue.

Likely not code but I only care about what works.

we got a different torch, with MAPP gas, and better flux, did cut out the old retried and retried fitting and replaced it. I have hot water. Fish will have to wait til tomorrow. 10 hour pond cleanup today. That compression fitting is a really good idea, but this was a T coming off the old pipe and I'm not sure if we could have used one.

 

[GaryE]

I just got off the phone with one of my daughters, who has 13 newly hatched Hoplisoma (ex-Corydoras) panda, just a few hours old. Her great great grandfather bred and sold goldfish out of a tenement backyard, her great grandfather bred Betta splendens right after WW2, her grandmother bred guppies and tried to breed angelfish, and her Dad spends a lot of time on forums nattering about breeding fish. It's fun. Some families get rich, and others get knee deep in fish.

 

[Oldspartan]

Today --- A Day of rest after water changes. Yesterday we went to a BIG egg farm. Many years ago, I designed their egg wash system and an infrared heating system for their chic factory. Anyway, I thought I would see if they sold eggs to regular people and low and behold, they did, right from the packing. While waiting our turn an old fella, (older than me by at least a decade), sauntered over clapped me on the back and said he was glad to see me. Seemed he had a really good memory. we talked a bit, and he said the egg wash was still in operation, but the heating had been upgraded a few years back. He then proceeded to give Linda her 4 dozen Jumbo eggs. He took no money and gave me a card on which he wrote free eggs forever and signed his name. It was pretty cool to be remembered for a job done long ago.

 

[Lanpenn]

Today I recorded a short video of me feeding my Betta:


I found out about Daft Punk. Very interesting music, indeed. Also, I discovered I have a cousin who lives in the United States as well as photos from my ancestors. How interesting. I am doing a catalogue with several photos and oral traditions about my deceased relatives.

Corydoras would be very good for my tank (they explore the substrate and then suspend particles to be taken by the filter), except for the fact my tank is too small for any Corydoras... even the dwarf ones. In 2012, I had a Betta splendens with five corydoras (I do not remember the exact species), some of them bought as Corydora punctatus and others... (maybe Corydoras agassizi?) in a 43-liter tank. Anytime I passed the tank, the corydoras got scared and hid... later I donated them. In order for this not going to be a problem anymore, the school would probably have more than eight corydoras, which would be impossible in a small tank like the one I had.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Springtime in the Rockies.

 

[Rocky998]

@WhistlingBadger

Finished rebuilding it as best I could.
Red circles indicate where I glued or reattached pieces. Honestly impressed I got some of the really small ones

Most all of the scales on the shell had to be glued down to prevent falling off.
The one missing was always missing

 

[MaloK]

@WhistlingBadger

Finished rebuilding it as best I could.
Red circles indicate where I glued or reattached pieces. Honestly impressed I got some of the really small ones

Most all of the scales on the shell had to be glued down to prevent falling off.
The one missing was always missing
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If you didn't show where you glued, it would be very hard to tell where, Beautiful job. I did a field mice that was perfect when I found it, naturally cleaned and dried. Just blowing air on, made it appear and even as perfect as it was.

It was more difficult than fixing a Swiss watch.

I was barely able to find wire thin enough to do the spine and crushed and splintered some stuff.

But as a first attempt, I was good enough to recognize what it was. loll.

 

[Rocky998]

If you didn't show where you glued, it would be very hard to tell where, Beautiful job.

Thanks!! I'm so glad!

I did a field mice that was perfect when I found it, naturally cleaned and dried. Just blowing air on, made it appear and even as perfect as it was.

It was more difficult than fixing a Swiss watch.

I was barely able to find wire thin enough to do the spine and crushed and splintered some stuff.

But as a first attempt, I was good enough to recognize what it was. loll.

That's awesome!!

 

[WhistlingBadger]

That's nice work, @Rocky998 . Did you use cyanoacrylate / superglue?

Turtles have adorably cute skulls.

If it were mine, I'd take some acrylic paint (or mix up some natural pigments and hide glue, if I really wanted to get fancy) and paint the space where that scale is missing some random color, just so it looks like it's there on purpose. Maybe turquoise. Or yellow-gold.

 

[MaloK]

I thought only staining the missing scale part a darker colour would be great.

But after looking back. Leave it as it is. It gives a glimpse of what is under.

Pretty neat.

 

[Rocky998]

That's nice work, @Rocky998 . Did you use cyanoacrylate / superglue?

Yes, I did! The glue came with a built in brush so I was able to spread it and apply it very accurately!

Turtles have adorably cute skulls.

They do!! Loll.

If it were mine, I'd take some acrylic paint (or mix up some natural pigments and hide glue, if I really wanted to get fancy) and paint the space where that scale is missing some random color, just so it looks like it's there on purpose. Maybe turquoise. Or yellow-gold.

Maybe! Not really my thing I don't think though

 

[Rocky998]

I thought only staining the missing scale part a darker colour would be great.

But after looking back. Leave it as it is. It gives a glimpse of what is under.

Pretty neat.

Yeah! I think I'm going to leave it as-is

 

[Oldspartan]

Spent half the day yesterday in the waiting room of an MRI place. Linda's Doctor wanted a more complete picture of what was thought to be the soft tissue injury because Linda was not improving very much. On the way home I got a text from the not so LFS. Linda had ordered some female Tangerine (?) lyre tail Molly and they were in. She raised a similar male from fry and wants to breed it, (what else!).

Anyway, from where we were the fish store was nearly local, so I turned around and off we went. Wandered the store for a bit and talked fish with the manager then bagged the fish and headed home. That was the good.

The bad --- A message on our landline from Linda's doctor. Seems they found a compression fracture on her lower spine. She will spend the weekend quietly and see the Doc on Monday morning. She is actually happy they found something to treat or fix. Her pain is making the world an unpleasant place. She is a very active oldster who has been straining at the bit for too long.