Sophia

I like the one of them looking out from the under the log :love:

AquaVillage is either gone forever or doing complete renovation as the shop has been gutted.

I planted it in sand by poking it in with my fingers and the sand just collects back in the hole and it's done. I tried to plant it in fine gravel and that was too irritating, I didn't continue.

shame about AquaVillage being closed. I will have to have a snoop and see what they are up to...

HFF and Petstuff101 have the same sort of silica sand as far as I know - I've had both at the same time and couldn't notice any difference in colour or grain.

thanks, off to plant them now

quadritto :rotf:

I think it stinks. Hopefully you get the rest of your choices. In other news, today I put aside some more mini meringues to send to Cricketman but this time they fell into my mouth as Eton Mess with softly whipped cream, melted milk chocolate and some prunes. !drool: There are now only 2 left, I wonder what fate will befall those... :nilly:

How is it possible for them to make you take a subject you are not interested in, and potentially waste all that time when you could be doing something else? It sounds to me like you need to get your mum to open a can of whupass on those teachers. :an!gry In saying that, you were taking an art class once I remember, maybe it will be better or more useful than you expect?

Got a little handful of this but just want to check what it is before I plant it. I think it's small lilaeopsis (was growing under plant cover not directly under the light) as it's not swordy enough to be dwarf chain sword, which is what I thought it was originally. thanks

it looks to me like a teen empowerment movie.... if you are hanging out with 20 year olds and going to the pub then I think you are beyond that one :slfg:

Creepy and cool at the same time. I presume they are engineering students so soon they will be making them create formations to get beers out of the fridge.

just as long as he doesn't start snuggling in your undies too... could be disastrous :spop:

Smoking is expensive

Weeelllll, I got a sample out for you and was about to put it on the courier but it fell into my mouth with some spray cream, a bit of apricot jam and some passionfruit sauce :cofn:

I made mini pavlovas :spop:

You might think you do (I disagree) but there are different kinds of social skills. The appearance of having friends is not evidence that you know how to BE a friend, and belonging to a group does not mean that you are a good friend. The reasons can be something else - that you have a part to play in that group and you keep playing it. If you don't know you are playing a part then it's easy to carry on but if you feel like you are not being yourself then the interactions can seem hollow. Also, making or joining a wider group like a sport team requires different behaviour than being in a small group of maybe 4 people, which is again different to being a friend to just one person. Most people seem to know what it is to be a good friend to just one person and sometimes it can take a while to find people of a like mind who want to put the effort into being a good friend back again. I found the whole friends thing hard at school, I did anything I could to fit in with the girls I liked and consequently I worried more about what other people thought of me than making sure I liked and was good to myself. For Joe and others who don't find it easy either, once you are out of the forced school setting you may feel better when you are not forced to be near people who don't appreciate or understand you. I work at a uni and see ALL sorts of different people going about their work and study, so if you end up in a place like that I think you will find more people of a like mind and the chances of forming a friendship or 2 will be much greater. Doesn't mean you absolutely will find the perfect friend because lots of people still let you down, and then there's work (some idiots there that have to be tolerated), but when you can pick your surrounding people it's better.

very pretty

I have just had a really fast and good trade with thefishtank :thup:

My new light for this tank arrived this morning, it's 15w 6500K. Just waiting for the silicone to set on the holders we made and then will take a photo. I'm really happy - tank has gone from looking like a dimly lit loach boudoir to a sparkling planted aquarium. Well, to me anyway. As it's double the wattage I will reduce the lighted time by a couple of hours just to be careful as I don't want to upset the plant vs algae harmony. :happy2:

if you are concerned then a bubble wall is more discrete but soon the plants will grow and cover the airstones anyway

true, the stuff I bought was like this stuff so I guess they wouldn't necessarily make it fish safe because it's not a fishy product

that's good

I get a tiny amount of that stuff along the far bottom edge of the CPD tank behind the dwarf chain sword and mingled in with the top edge of the gravel where there is very little circulation. I scrape it off every now and again and suck it out with a dropper and somehow it doesn't get any worse or grow elsewhere. It's like a very dark blue/green. I thought it might be cyano. You must be pretty scary if a drug dealer was nice to you :gigl: me too

what I want to know is why EPDM is used for pond liners but killed my fish ...