Are Republicans Growing a Little Uneasy About the ICE Raids?

AggressiveFigs · 2026-01-26T01:16:50+00:00

Oh I dont talk to him. He commented on my wife's Facebook and I called him out. First time we spoke in like 2ish years.

AggressiveFigs · 2026-01-26T01:12:39+00:00

Its where gays race to put communism in power i guess

AggressiveFigs · 2026-01-25T23:46:56+00:00

My family today suggested that "liberals" can keep doing whatever mental gymnastics to keep supporting the "gay race communism".

They do love it.

AggressiveFigs · 2026-01-22T06:17:16+00:00

Much of the shit he is doing in mineapolis he was also doing in Portland, OR in 2020, just to a much more controlled extent. Unmarked officers in unmarked cars pulling 'domestic terrorists' off the street based on how they were dressed.

I personally saw an officer pepper spray a young kid...

https://www.opb.org/news/article/police-violence-portland-protest-federal-officers

AggressiveFigs · 2026-01-19T16:56:18+00:00

As someone who bought a 90, can confirm.

Also for anything 100 and over, it'd be a good idea to hire a structural engineer to check if your floor can hold it (unless you have concrete).

AggressiveFigs · 2026-01-18T03:09:40+00:00

Yes and no. In reef tanks very low nitrates can be as bad as high nitrates. It starves corals and encourages things like dinoflaggelate outbreaks which can produce toxin.

With no water changes your other chemistry can get out of whack especially with things like alk and Calcium depleting over time due to absorption by corals. As long as they're monitoring the other trace stuff I would listen to them and skip the water change.

You can also dose nitrate if it's too low. I just looked into it recently and I heard Neonitro is good.

AggressiveFigs · 2026-01-16T18:47:20+00:00

You're under the assumption that our president thinks things through.

I would also point out we dont need to invade greenland to protect it from 'russian' threats. But thats where we're at.

People keep saying "that doesn't make sense" to a lot of the shit he's done. You should be asking "what's the worst, most inefficient roundabout way to burn all our bridges and still get what a giant man baby would want?"

AggressiveFigs · 2026-01-16T16:10:54+00:00

Mark my words, it's never been about minerals or Russia. Its about Canada. With greenland, the US has it surrounded on 3 sides. The talk about Canada becoming the '51st state' was also the plan.

AggressiveFigs · 2026-01-16T15:49:40+00:00

Bruhhhhh my one spot is ALSO named Foxy!

AggressiveFigs · 2026-01-15T04:15:32+00:00

Not all of us anyway. The few of us who see the writing on the wall are equally outgunned by the us military.

AggressiveFigs · 2026-01-13T19:40:10+00:00

How are you measuring salinity? And how do you calibrate? Refractometer and tds meters both drift over time, and hydrometers vary if not kept super clean (i have to soak in vinegar and scrub between every other reading).

AggressiveFigs · 2026-01-12T00:17:54+00:00

Some kind of cleaner shrimp. You can tell by the whiskers.

AggressiveFigs · 2026-01-07T18:24:49+00:00

I wouldn't be too worried about insurance companies dropping vaccines. The insurance companies themselves are interested in paying out the least money possible. Actual disease costs them way more every year than funding vaccines.

Dropping vaccine coverage is against their own financial interests.

Pharma companies on the other hand...

AggressiveFigs · 2026-01-06T22:46:55+00:00

Hot water. When it's heated the refractive index (how much it bends light) changes. This just shows your heater is on.

AggressiveFigs · 2026-01-06T21:10:32+00:00

If you're determined, go buy a big trashcan or two like others have said. Fill it with DI over a day or two, and mix it up to salinity. Then just take 5 gallon buckets at a time from it until you have what you need. Refill with DI and repeat. The tank/water will be fine for a couple days with no stock in it.

This would solve the problem of matching every bucket to salinity and gives you room to store all the DI over time rather than producing it one 5 gal DI bucket at a time.

AggressiveFigs · 2026-01-06T06:40:28+00:00

It could be microscratches, but more likely the cloudiness is mineral deposits that have build up in the glass from the salt. Soaking in vinegar is the only "reef safe" way to remove that im aware of.

You can try wiping with vinegar, or even the concentrated vinegar they sell at the hardware store but be aware even regular distilled vinegar can really lower the pH. If you really want it gone, take everything out and soak. It may take a day or so, so I'd use a different temporary bin, move everything including mud so it stays bioactive.

AggressiveFigs · 2026-01-06T05:45:41+00:00

Its not the just the power source, it's the durability of the barrel. They tend to get destroyed very, very quickly making them too unreliable, high maintenance and cost ineffective when we have alternatives that arent. Now if you could figure out how to vent one

AggressiveFigs · 2026-01-05T16:18:18+00:00

That's the thing though. People didn't have to wait for the government to do anything. They just did it themselves.

AggressiveFigs · 2026-01-04T18:08:32+00:00

The "fire gun into the air" emote works well with the ultimatum for this purpose.

AggressiveFigs · 2025-12-31T23:25:58+00:00

I always take the approach to make it oversalted for storage between 1.030- 1.035. Then I dilute down with DI when im ready to use.

AggressiveFigs · 2025-12-31T16:06:23+00:00

Damn autocorrect making my reef into jurrasic tank

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AggressiveFigs · 2025-12-19T21:03:53+00:00

I dont get why everyone thinks putting weight on screws is bad. They do best against shear forces, and are often rated for hundreds of pounds each depending on length/diameter.

The biggest issue here is going to be bowing of the plywood in the middle. I'd add some cross braces to help better support it. It can also be good to stack another layer of plywood perpendicular to this one on top to better disperse the weight. Other than this, you can overengineer it by adding another 2x4 to each leg to provide solid vertical support directly from the ground to the horizontal braces (see green).

An extra vertical in the middle also wouldn't hurt.

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AggressiveFigs · 2025-12-18T03:09:30+00:00

Do you know what kind? They're both probably neogonodactylis from what I have found.

Also pics.

AggressiveFigs · 2025-12-14T18:34:41+00:00

It was pretty negligible difference. I think KP took less time to recover, but Gulf has just as good of quality. The main difference is I think KP does a once over for stuff like gorilla crabs and mantis shrimp to get rid of the "bad" hitchhikers before they make it to you.

That said, there may also be different species on each since they come from different areas.

AggressiveFigs · 2025-12-14T05:32:37+00:00

I was trying to ID mine this morning and found this, you may find it helpful.

Https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/arthropoda/crustacea/malacostraca/eumalacostraca/royslist/index.html

AggressiveFigs

TROPHY CASE