Whale sharks are the peak of fishitude, my friend
Whale sharks are the peak of fishitude, my friend
The look of mischievous nihilism entering public art spaces.
Cultivating live food for your fish friends is a great idea! Research, trial, and error are going to be really important in the process, so it’s better to do it in a separate tank to keep your fish safe. We don’t have the ability to bring an entire complex ecosystem into our homes and put it in a glass box; the best we can do is mimic one as best as possible. This means that an experimental tank won’t have as many of the same “redundancies” nature does when nutrient, light, or oxygen/dissolved gases get out of balance, and population crashes can happen a lot more easily. (Even if it’s just the food creatures that die off, the decaying matter can cause problems like ammonia burns for your fish.) Rather than trying to establish a sustainable colony of food animals in your fish tank, starting a tank with food animals and slowly adding fish to it will give you a much clearer picture of how large a population they can sustain.
Some tips to help you build as robust a system as you can:
This sounds like a really cool project. If you decide to do it, I hope you’ll post updates!
“It’s important to have a job that makes a difference, boys. That’s why I manually masturbate caged animals for artificial insemination.” – rando convenience store customer in Clerks, 1994
Fast food joints already offer lower prices in their apps than at the drive through. You pay the difference through all the data they harvest.
If someone has an invite to share, I’d love to get in and try it out!
Thank you so much for the invite, Cancer Mouse <3
I can’t tell if I love this or hate it
Can someone catch me up here, please? The last I read, fracking was typically seen as an environmentally unfriendly process because you break up a bunch of underlying rock, pump out the crude, and replace it with water. It destabilizes the area and leads to shit like small earthquakes. So like, drilling down, releasing a bunch of heat/pressure, and flooding the system with a bunch of water without caring about the oil is supposed to be a safer thing to do? What gives?
Now we know where reddit took their profit strategy from
Shit, some of them charge the authors to publish.
Can y’all have a weird off? I swear, you’re my two favorite posters in this community
Touched by His Noodly Appendage! 😇
I’ve been playing No Man’s Sky since they released the 5.0 content update. It’s made a huge difference in the look and feel of the game with things like modeled weather and oceans, and I’ve recently learned that sentinel attacks stop after you blow up the freighter they warp in.
You can add a little fish food if you’re worried about starving the bacteria, but really, microorganisms can live pretty well off their dead brethren.
No, large water changes will not typically crash an established cycle. The vast majority of the bacteria that break down nitrogenous wastes live attached to surfaces: filter media, hardscape, substrate, and plants. Filter media are designed with surface area in mind: the hang-on-back (HOB) filters using the plastic cartridge covered with fiber floss has lots of slots to allow water to pass through and over the fibers, which are frizzy and are easily colonized. Canister filters hold stacked baskets of media like porous, ceramic rings that are designed to maximize surface area and house a ton more helpful organisms than even the fiber-covered plastic cartridge.
When starting a new tank, it’s a good idea to throw some of your existing, healthy tank’s filter media (or plants or hardscape) in to jump start the community of microorganisms that keep your aquatic buds safe. You can use a friend’s, but only if you’d trust them to care for your fish at least as well as you do, as harmful organisms can also attach to surfaces and be carried along.
Canada: truly a pioneer in a fun night out. 👍🏼
And I thought the Commodore having shock absorbing mats under the dance floor so people could dance all night without their feet hurting was revolutionary!
It’s true; we love the dwarf shrimp for their looks, not their abundance of caution.
Squirt it right on top of the algae, not in the area. Peroxide’s not a dangerous toxin that lingers, but it’s reactive oxygen that disrupts bonds. (That’s its sanitizing super power.) It can chemically burn if left in contact with skin for too long, so I wouldn’t risk using it on hardscape inverts are sitting on or too near your fish. (The burns aren’t serious for humans but I don’t know how a fish or snail would do before the peroxide dissociated.)
If you need to, put some tank water into another container and treat your hardscape in that so you don’t risk anyone’s safety.
And we just threw them that pizza party with mandatory attendance last week!