lindabee53

I'm so sorry for both of you. It certainly is making the rounds. One of my sons tested positive last Wednesday. We were all (6 kids, spouses, grandchildren, me) gathered to test (again) before heading to the funeral home for my ex-husband's visitation. Poor Tim, missed the service for his dad. No one else tested positive, and we all tested every day for the next three days. I left my tank unattended while I traveled to NC, but I did borrow an automatic feeder. The fish all seemed happy when I got home, so I feel better about leaving them again when I go back to help with clearing the house - mostly babysitting the little ones while others do the heavy lifting. I worked today, but was able to do a small water change. My fishkin and snails are real pigs when it comes to zucchini.

Whatever it is, it's gorgeous and I want some!

I have snails that look like that. I decided to pull the pothos and other plants out of the tank and rearrange them, so I dropped them into a pail and filled it about halfway with water from the aquarium. I cleaned everything up, put the plants back, and got ready to dump the water, but then noticed a few of the tiny snails still in the pail. I rescued every last one of them, and seriously, I enjoy watching the snails as much as I do the fish - maybe almost.

Gordon Lightfoot - Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald Merrilee Rush - Angel of the Morning One suits the weather and the other brings me back a few years to when I played in a coffee house close to campus.

How long will it take to clear, or am I missing the point?

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@Guppysnail is so clever! And @Torrey is so kind for pointing this solution out to me. I do have some suction cups, but no zip ties. On the shopping list, they go. I did see some pothos holders on Etsy - I think they're called Poth-O-Carry - but not in the budget. I'd rather make do with what I already have, or add bits and pieces, as necessary. Thank you!

Parkening Plays Bach. I saw Christopher Parkening in concert at Carolina, somewhere around 74-75. I'll probably never hear that album again - when I pulled the cassette out of the player, it snapped. Anyway, that put me in the mood for: Sweet Baby James. I saw James Taylor twice at Carolina, roughly the same time period.

Is there a thread on this topic already? I haven't been here long enough to find everything. I can't even keep up on a day-to-day basis.

Congratulations to @Beardedbillygoat1975, @Its Hutch, and @PineSong!

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@Seattle_Aquarist This is all information I didn't know - thank you!

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When I was in 5th grade, my parents gave me a 10-gallon tank kit for Christmas. According to my mother, they couldn't figure out what to do for me, so that's what I got. I kept a tank all the way through high school, even through several moves. What I didn't know then, is that my mother would flush the fish whenever we got ready to go to my dad's next duty station. At the time, she said she gave the fish to someone she knew who had an aquarium. Hard to believe, but that was in the 60's.

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