What are you doing today?

[GaryE]

Those are nice display aquariums . Look and you will see how nice an aquarium can look without unsightly substrate . Really , I’m serious . I kid around about my bare bottom aquariums but look at these with the plants in containers . They’re very nice and so easy to maintain and keep clean .

Bare bottomed tanks look about as good as bare bottomed 100 year olds. The closest we get to a bare bottomed river is a reflecting pool, and rumour is those things can have issues.

My wife is out kayaking, my friends are hiking and I'm off to the fishroom to do water changes. I have to fill the bird feeder, continue my squabble with some rock pigeons and clean up from a raccoon break in on my homemade greenhouse. Raccoons are funny - they didn't poop, or find anything to eat, but they threw everything everywhere. They got in via an opening they expanded under the eaves, but then couldn't get back out. The floor has everything that was on the shelves, shattered. I caught them red handed and they waddled out the open door looking very ashamed of themselves.

It was an act. They had no regrets.

 

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Bare bottomed tanks look about as good as bare bottomed 100 year olds. The closest we get to a bare bottomed river is a reflecting pool, and rumour is those things can have issues.

My wife is out kayaking, my friends are hiking and I'm off to the fishroom to do water changes. I have to fill the bird feeder, continue my squabble with some rock pigeons and clean up from a raccoon break in on my homemade greenhouse. Raccoons are funny - they didn't poop, or find anything to eat, but they threw everything everywhere. They got in via an opening they expanded under the eaves, but then couldn't get back out. The floor has everything that was on the shelves, shattered. I caught them red handed and they waddled out the open door looking very ashamed of themselves.

It was an act. They had no regrets.

Raccoons are interesting animals . We have lots of them around here . They’re very curious creatures and like to explore human surroundings . I like them but some people around here act like they’re afraid of them which I just don’t get at all .