What are you doing today?

[MattW]

I stumbled across an interesting account on Instagram today. It posts about newer/updated species and all the sciency stuff I don't understand . It leaves credit and articles in the descriptions of each post.

Fish in the News (@fish.in.the.news) • Instagram photos and videos

13K followers, 1,276 following, 807 posts – see Instagram photos and videos from Fish in the News (@fish.in.the.news)

www.instagram.com

A few screenshots in case people can't see the posts.

 

[Innesfan]

I just realized that i can't locate 2 of my red line rasboras. They were purchased in july of 2024 - 15 of them but i can only find 13. If you see the other two please tell them to hurry home.

I've had red-lines with suicidal tendencies. Is the tank tightly covered?

 

[gwand]

I just finished packing. Tomorrow we fly out to LA to join my son for Thanksgiving. For the last few days I have been providing extra rations to my fishes. To slow their metabolism I have dimmed tank lighting and reduced tank temperatures a few degrees. This should decrease their caloric requirements while I’m away.

 

[anewbie]

I've had red-lines with suicidal tendencies. Is the tank tightly covered?

Yea i'm sure - they were in an aquarium i couldn't track very well though vaguely I think one died 8 months ago ('infant' death); i redid that 65 last week and move the rasbora to a 180 with the b. cupido. It is a little warm for them but otherwise an easier aquarium to deal with.

 

[GaryE]

@MattW the postings you shared are great stuff. I get the same ones via a series of Facebook groups, one of the only things that forum is useful for. I've managed to find my way into a series of good feeds, with fish, birds, bugs and the other living things that matter in life.

With that, and the links @gwand shares with us, there's good reading out there. I no longer waste my time reading everything on the back of breakfast cereal boxes like I did when I was a kid.

Today, what I'm doing with my couple of free hours in the morning is looking at aquascaping. I wanted to post a thread about two tanks that look alike but function very differently here, but all my photos make them look awful. If I look at them they look beautiful, but that is because I am not bad at using light as a tool. My tanks are decently planted, but I use a few non aquarium lights. Two low wattage LEDS suspended over a tank in fixtures that an be angled can create a lot of depth and richness in the look of a tank, but light is a thing that's very hard to photograph. My marginatum pencil fish tank, and my H. margitae, H loretoesnsis tank have dappled lighting by the filtration outflow, as if the sun is hitting them, with most of the tank quieter and differently lit. I use a lot of clip on shop fixtures I picked up in a surplus store years ago for a song, and that take various screw in LED bulbs. It's an advantage to having the tanks in a set space where the hardware only matters to me, rather than in a living room where my partner may not like the dangling lights.

My camera can't catch the fine points, the shadows and the real look of the tanks.

A perfect fishroom would have natural light for a short period in the day, and then the lighting effects taking over and creating a rich set of aquascapes that included the use of light. I'd also want a great sound system that could play music mixed with a lot of separation between the instruments, depth, and the use of silences to accent the sound. I like my lightly stocked, deeper front to back, planted tanks because their beauty is anticipation. You need to take a few seconds to anticipate as you look for what's about to appear. But man, that's hard to get a decent photo of.

So today, I look at that and move a bunch of juveniles to larger growouts.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

That’s one of the reasons I enjoy sharing videos of my tanks instead of photos. Stills never do them justice. But videos take a lot of time.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Hey @Innesfan look what I just discovered on my bookshelf. Not even sure where it came from; I think my girls might have picked it up for me at a thrift store sometime in the past. Guess I know what my bedtime reading will be for the next few days.

It’s the 19th edition,1964.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Had a nice archery hike with the Badgerling yesterday.

 

[anewbie]

Had a nice archery hike with the Badgerling yesterday.
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Why is she pointing that thing at me ?

 

[GaryE]

I just got confirmation I'm going aquarium fish fishing in West Africa next March. That has me pumped. I've been to Central Africa, so West Africa is another region to see.

For most of my life, I traveled from home to work, and didn't go much farther. I'm trying to make up for those lost (to travel adventures) years now.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Why is she pointing that thing at me ?

Gotta keep you rabble under control somehow.

 

[anewbie]

Gotta keep you rabble under control somehow.

I've been called a bag of wind often enough but never a rabbit so at least that is new.

 

[jaylach]

Just got another freebee today. Didn't really need but I got a Panasonic KX-TGD532 W cordless landline phone with a satellite handset. I already have 2 landline phones with one in my living room and one in my bedroom. I don't do cell phones. The reason that I grabbed this is that the handsets actually take 2 AAA batteries, not a combined pack. Packs are normally 300 mAh but with actual separate AAA batteries I can throw in batteries that are 900 mAh which will give extreme battery life. Already have enough rechargeable AAA to power both handsets but ordered 8 more anyway as that only left me with 1 AAA. Since I have 2 small but very bright LED flashlights and needed to replace some AAA anyway. With getting 8 I can do both handsets and still have enough to use in the flashlights with spares. LOL! The small bright flashlights actually started out as bicycle headlights. They make great flashlights.

Being able to go from 300 mAh batteries to 900 mAh ones is a really extreme difference. Before my current phones I had one that used individual batteries like this set. Came with 300 mAh but I replaced with 900 mAh and could talk all day or, at least close. In one case I had the thing on speaker talking to a friend as we watched 2 NFL football bames which was about six and a half hours. At the end I couldn't quite tell if the battery level was still at 100% or just slightly under.

I WILL have to test out the range though. My current Vtech phone will reach outside and I'm on the third floor. The thing even stays connected in the elevator.

What I find funny is that the set was put out for free as the main handset quit working. Dang, put in new batteries and it was fine. Sigh, you can fix ignorance but you just can't fix stupid...

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