Sophia

Essenden

peaches

he was a cool dude. Cold water too. 8)

my critters get names if they do something different or are recognisable from the others. Big Daddy was the name that transferred from the biggest male killifish to the next biggest but the female was always The Female (probably some psychological reason but I'm not going there ). My shrimps are The Bigger one and The Smaller one. One of my fry who has a hump back (or did) is called Runty. I had a bristlenose called Fonz. The otos I had were collectively called The Sharkies, Sharky 1 and 2.

alimony

engage

good critter tank!

Erlingstone

FAIL

I did not have the words to describe what you just did so eloquently

I would like to interview my solitary ostracod and see where he's been all this time. My bugs buckets outside are doing alright. Early last week all the daphnia in one bucket appeared to have died and floated to the top - I presumed that they got too hot. All I had left was mozzies. So I went to the park and got a truckload of daphnia to put in the greenest bucket but lo and behold by the end of the week there were daphnia back in the other bucket. Maybe they had been eggs :dunno:

painting

Skylla Fan Club

Online Pyjama party!! :bounce: :happy1: :happy2:

the one in the middle with the long brown stems and green leaves looks like a crypt

wine

either way it's good I can't come over as I'm already in my pyjamas :oops: :lol:

I think a black background would look great - would make the fish and the rocks really stand out as features 8)

me too

the corydora on the bottom left of the picture looks like it's outside the tank or in front of the substrate!! :lol:

well, oddity of oddities... I cleaned out the bugs tank - it had 2 doses of snail rid, and multiple fresh water changes with the filter sponge and the driftwood over a few days. I figured everything would be dead, probably including the filter bacteria as it sat in a bucket of tap water for a few days. So after being put back together as a cory tank the water is now clear with no peat, sand on the bottom so the pH is quite different to before. Earlier in the week I saw what must be a copepod zapping around, and the little white worms/planaria are back on the glass. All these critters had disappeared when the killiefish were in there, I presumed they had been eaten. So today out of nowhere I found an ostracod! It could only have 'hatched' from the filter (if they do such a thing) after not being killed by snail rid and untreated tap water, or have been embedded in the wood somewhere and now emerged. It's unbelievable. And the shrimps are still going strong too.

Betty

slowly brought to the boil and then timed at a bubbling boil for 3 mins, then left a few moments in the shell before mmmmmmmm yummy eggy creamy butter. If too cooked then a dob of butter makes it even cholestrolly yummier. to me scrambled egg is ooky, especially when wet and uncooked :sick:

Joe you are such an emotional blackmailer!! :nilly:

that's crazy talk