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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. How long will it take to clear, or am I missing the point?
  5. @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!
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. Congratulations to @Beardedbillygoat1975, @Its Hutch, and @PineSong!
  9. @Seattle_Aquarist This is all information I didn't know - thank you!
  10. 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.
  11. This is not getting better! As of this morning, one of the cories is following Fin into the basket. I'm going to have to come up with some other way of hanging the pothos and wandering jew. Three times today - I know they think this is a big joke, but if they don't start behaving, I'm going to crochet little leashes and stake them to a sponge filter. 🙄
  12. A lot of people have "odd" taste in fabric, so you never know. And I won't make a quilt I don't like, at least a little bit. I've been known to box up a project and donate it to Project Linus or someone else / some other group.
  13. That sounds like what I do, except that I don't think I'm ever caught up. And now I'm going to put the kettle on, make a cuppa, and sit down to put a couple of rows on my son's scarf while the dryer runs.
  14. Are we training them or are they training us? After all, Fin swims to the front when he sees me, gets my attention, and I feed him. He may well have the whole food training thing turned around from what I do. I'll bet Fin thinks he boss. . . and he could be right. 😉
  15. He does have a hammock. I have an anubias that was badly damaged, and after trimming it up pretty severely, I left it to float around. It has some roots now and a few leaves, and Fin has claimed it for his own. From time to time, I nudge it over to where the bubbles are rising from the sponge filter, and he's quick to climb on and ride. When it eventually bumps up against the front, I nudge it again. Sometimes I think he's like a three-year-old: "Do it 'gain, Mama!"
  16. I'm going to focus on being content with what I have. And to go along with that, I want to actually use the yarn and fabric I have, making things for my family and friends and people in need. I don't know that it should be considered a goal if it's something I already do to some extent.
  17. I'll look for the egg crate light diffusers next time I'm in town - 25 miles away. Fin's definitely entertaining, but why he thinks getting into the basket and waiting for rescue is fun is absolutely beyond me. I've accidentally touched him a couple times, and he doesn't recoil the way he did the first couple of times. One of the cories suddenly seems larger, or maybe I just haven't noticed. They're all amazing to watch.
  18. Well, waiting until after Christmas to do anything worked well for me. I ended up being gifted a glass lid and a light. It isn't fancy, but it's LED lights and a narrow profile - looks nice. Now I can actually see the pothos and wandering jew growing out of the tank. The last of the Christmas money I received went to buying some plants and scissors from the Coop. No more using my good shears! Fin (the idiot betta) has started getting himself into the basket that holds the pothos and some of the wandering jew. He gets in and then can't get out. I left him in there a couple of days ago, thinking that if he could get in, he could get out. Nope. Four days in a row, I've had to get him out.
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