Sophia

hello

super small fry food 'Golden Pearls' is easy to feed them. I got some from Dorl on TM, he sold me 2 little packets of the smallest stuff he had and it's microscopic. All the adult fish also go for it so it must smell tasty.

they do look like cuttlefish. You might also find more information about them at Seafriends.org. Here is a link to a 2 part movie I posted a little while ago, they might be in there but I have forgotten. http://www.youtube.com/user/seafriends11/videos where did you see them?

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I take it that you're riding the bike and Stella is lounging in the back smoking cigars in a non-chalant manner?

Yesterday my husband discovered a hedgehog in the garage. It had a distinctive smell like a rotting animal. :sick: He mentioned that he had smelled it in the garage before so we think Stinky has previously bunked in our salubrious lodgings. He was found behind some tool boxes with his head down thinking to make a run for it behind the old stove but I grabbed a tea towel, picked him up and put him outside under a bush. I have known hedgehogs before but this one was particularly large and particularly stinky, you really didn't want to breathe too close. His face was very crusty around the edges and when you see the video I think you will agree he looks like a very old hedgehog. I thought that it might be sick, given the terrible stink, apparent age/size and the fact that he came inside so I found a couple of snails and bashed them, then put them under the bush near his nose. He chowed down quite noisily, looked about for some more and then snuffled off. here he is.... http://youtu.be/v20kATukIkI (one day I will buy a tripod.... sorry for the jiggling of the camera)

that was very sensible :sage:

in public = on facebook I didn't even think of the 'using a gun to solve a dispute' side of it until much later but it doesn't bother me. Smashing it with a baseball bat may have seemed more aggressive, the quick clean action of the gun didn't enrage me at all :slfg:

do you think that shooting a girl's laptop in public is not dramatic? I don't know whether what he did is right or wrong for his particular family because as I keep saying nobody knows what happens behind closed doors there, but my opinion based on what I saw and as a once trained child trainer is that there are other ways of demonstrating tough love than the way he did it. You seem to think I am on the side of the child because I criticised the father - I think both of their behaviour would be out of order in what I would call a normal family. Maybe that's normal for them :dunno:

The girl must obviously have raised herself to be that way, the dad had nothing to do with it because he bought her a laptop. He was just an innocent victim whose sperm just happened to spawn an ungrateful kid who arrived one day in a cabbage patch :sml2: Always 2 sides to the story.... this is not even a smidgen of the lifelong drama that seems like this family has been so far

I think it was more sad than funny. It's hard to know how to take that because you can't see in real life what they are all like when together and who is upsetting who most of the time. It was amusing to see a dad saying his piece as I believe Dads are frequently under appreciated by their families, but kids don't usually go bad all by themselves so there is some blame to put on the parents somewhere. I think he was reacting to the embarrassment of the public disrespect more than the actual crime. He can't create anything but fear type respect rather than loving or fond respect after responding in such an emotional manner. If they all continue to behave like that I can't see them having anything but a terrible relationship for a long long time.

getting ready to go to the Hot Pools ironic that she was found by 'the Bodyguard'....

oh that little guy is too cute :love: :love: I need some

http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=42159

just imagine the last photo of the tank but with a blue background and no algae. :sml2:

Something interesting happened this morning - I thought I saw the shrimp in the throes of death. It was writhing on it's side looking a little pink. As I watched it turned out he was shedding his skin but with the legs scrabbling like mad and the mad look in his beady eyes, I did find it rather creepy and had to run away for a moment :gigl: . Good things seem to be happening in here, I presume as a result of the light. The algae on the anubias that I complained about earlier seems to be gone and the crypts at the front have new leaves. The tiny schrap of hydrocotyle that wouldn't die and wouldn't live has turned to face the light and the algae is gone. All the algae on the back wall is gone and most of the brown stuff along the bottom edge of the gravel almost gone but I think that is the oto's work. Also have not had any crypts melt in either tank since I've added lots more JBL balls and root tabs to the substrate. So yes I think that was the answer for those guys. If this happy progress continues without going bad I will add the other bulb to the fitting on the CPD tank as that is 8w and though it looks bright in there I suspect the plants would enjoy another 8w. :bounce:

:nfs: !drool:

for the bored anyone of any age even :sage:

I have dwarf chain loaches in my 53cm tank and have also had shrimp and pygmy corydora. You could also try a pitbull pleco as they are pretty small too.

looks cool

He's in East Anglia and I've sent him an email asking to confirm if he meant pH or hardness.

what time?

I thought it seemed high but that's what he said, unless there was a typo in the email. He used to keep convicts and angels in water he adjusted the pH down for. He's in England where they put iron filings on their porridge...