What are you doing today?

I have a bucket of water ready, breather bags counted out and a few tanks of fish unfed. This evening, I'll grab my nets and get to work. What's up?

I'm sending 2 pairs and some unsexed Parananochromis brevirostris to Europe, with a breeder of the species, for maintenance. It's to add a little genetic diversity to his line, since we both work with wild caught starting points. It's been hard to get a lot of females with them. I have 5 different bunches of ex-fry in 5 different tanks, and I've been sorting the hard to get females as I go. They are heavily skewed to males.

So those dwarf Cichlids, and some Aphyosemion killies will head east.

I like breeding uncommon and difficult fish, but it is frustrating that they can be so hard to share out. I'm not exactly sitting in the centre of the aquarium universe.
 
I got them low-down, no-good, "I'm Ready to Order Fish and No Suppliers Have All The Species I Want" blues.
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I’m at the beach with the grandkids. Our house is next door to Henlopen State Park, a great park on the ocean. Today we visited their nature center. There was a hands on display for children of fishes, welks, hermit and horseshoe crabs. The center also had several 500 gallon tanks with local fish. When we left the center we walked across a wild turkey. The grandkids loved it.
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I got them low-down, no-good, "I'm Ready to Order Fish and No Suppliers Have All The Species I Want" blues.
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In the summertime, when the weather is fine,
No one ships in fish, and it leaves us cryin', in the summertime, all the fishers are out swimming in the sea....
 
Today, I searched for the blending stumps and I did not find them. However, I have found something like this one, which is called "lápis borracha" or... maybe "eraser pencil"? It is different from the stick erasers I have found across the internet. I have tried today, but I did not exactly understand how this thing works. It seems that this is more for shading and mixing the different textures. I would like to do something like the "loose hairs", I mean, the loose hair strands, since even the most elaborate hair cuts are not perfect.

Yesterday, while I was doing my bicep curl, a girl who previously attracted my attention appeared close to me (I confess I was a bit surprised) and told me (I suppose because I was listening to a pleasant and loud Daft Punk song on my earplugs, and I only saw her gestures) if I was using the machine at my left, then I answered with gestures something like "No". It can be only a girl trying to be educated, or it may be anything more than that, as occurs in so many gyms across the globe, probably. She would not be the girl I would think while I listened to Daft Punk's "Digital Love." My success with dating is so small that I always joke that it is easier for me living outside Brazil than to have a girlfriend (note: it is not easy to live in a foreign country, as my great-great-grandfather Johann Lange knew when he came to Brazil in 1820s to Imperial Army). Okay, I am sorry for my irrelevant stories (thank you, Grammarly, but I do not have money to pay for better text suggestions).

The image below was a drawing for the military uniform used in several military divisions in Brazil's history (from Gustavo Barroso's book "Uniformes do Exercito Brasileiro"). My great-great-grandfather was musician from 27th Jäger Batallion, so it would be the second soldier (first row, from left to right), "Caçadores de estrangeiros". I do not know if musicians also participated in any battle as it occurred in Cisplatine War (1825-1828). France's military influenced greatly Brazil's military dress. I will have to find out if Johann participated in the conflict. It is known that two "Lange" came to the 27th JB.
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That's so cool @gwand. The last picture seems to be a mangrove. Is that right? What cool @GaryE, I never imagined how it would be exporting a fish to another country. This sector in Brazil is still so small.

My simple aquarium after moving it to another room.
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I'm trying to decide if i should or should not fart. If no one hears you fart in public did you fart in public ? These are the things i have to decide for today and if i fail to decide today there is always tomorrow.
You have make some tough decisions. Wouldnt want to be you.
 
My life is complete as I actually won an argument with a woman today... ;) ;)

The question was if Dick Van Dyke was actually considered a clown. Yes, he was, especially in the earlier days of his career. :) He has always been a favorite of mine and I still watch re-runs of Diagnostic Murder. I'd probably watch re-runs of the Dick Van Dyke show with Mary Tyler Moore but haven't seen it around. Well, it is around at least on YouTube.
 

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