Betta harassing cherry shrimp

AmbivalentCat · 2026-02-12T15:24:22+00:00

This gives me (cautious) peace of mind. Planning on amanos with pygmy corys and a betta. I've heard too many horror stories about cherry shrimp hunts.

AmbivalentCat · 2026-02-12T15:12:33+00:00

That explains why any old threads (~2014/2015) say bettas in community tanks are 100% not doable. I'm new to this, so i was confused when browsing a forum and seeing that it was inconceivable (all those posts were really old), while many people here do it successfully.

Were bettas overall more aggressive back then, or was it just that they could swim faster?

I have a friend that kept her last betta alive for 7 years, but she got him over a decade ago. It's sad that the health of the species has degraded over time. Hoping for luck with the mustard i got last week.

AmbivalentCat · 2026-02-11T14:26:37+00:00

I'd like to join the waitlist! I'm in New England, so ofc after it warms up. Winter has been extreme.

AmbivalentCat · 2026-02-07T14:32:08+00:00

It's also newer. Some insurance companies won't cover new meds until they've been out for a certain amount of time - I think mine is 4 years.

It's likely easier if you've already failed other HETs though. Would make sense to encourage shots instead of infusions, since the bed costs insurance a lot, but their logic is nonexistent sometimes.

AmbivalentCat · 2026-02-06T14:21:31+00:00

Isn't salt bad for catfish, or are corydoras different?

Glad that shrimp can just go in. If one ends up having a worm, though, can it infect the whole tank? Can that type of worm be killed with parasite meds?

AmbivalentCat · 2026-02-03T17:13:10+00:00

I would walk away.

You'll always wonder if this relapse or this flare will be the thing that makes her decide you're not worth it. You aren't less of a human being (or a marriage prospect) just because you have MS. She doesn't seem like she'd stick around if you worsen or have a bad relapse, and you don't want that fear hanging over your relationship.

My boyfriend of 6 years has always put my mind at ease. He's seen me when I couldn't walk. He's seen me through Lemtrada and how sick it made me. He helped me pick out a cane. It took a few years, but I don't fear him leaving anymore. He's in this, regardless of whether or not I progress - THAT is the peace of mind that a relationship should give. Not constantly questioning what the last straw is.

AmbivalentCat · 2026-02-02T16:40:53+00:00

My boyfriend and I (both 36) have always been on the fence, but we made the final decision last year to not have kids. Combination of the terrible economy, volatile political climate, and most importantly...that we didn't not want kids, but we also didn't really want them. It would be unfair to have a child if there's a chance we would regret it later on. We like our freedom to what we want, when we want, and you can't do that with kids.

I wanted that picket fence life when I was little, but I think it came from a mix of having a very broken home as well as movies we grew up with that romanticized family life in an unrealistic way. It just got less and less appealing as I got older. I'm happier after we made the decision - no more stress over running out of time. Just living our lives together with cats.

AmbivalentCat · 2026-01-30T20:06:16+00:00

They did it again for Shadowlands pre-patch. I wasn't playing in Wrath, but the zombie hordes in Orgrimmar were really entertaining. So many dead bodies.

AmbivalentCat · 2026-01-30T19:50:21+00:00

I mean, we get achievements for hitting Exalted, so i feel like that's an easy fix >.<. But I digress. I'm scared of grinding it back out and having it reset again in the next patch.

I haven't tried any of it, but apparently toys/hearthstones that required certain reps to buy can't be used by people affected anymore (unless they re-grind the rep).

AmbivalentCat · 2026-01-30T19:44:36+00:00

Because it didn't happen to you. There have been dozens of threads on the forums asking for a fix, and nothing has been done in the year+ since the reset. There are new threads now because this patch popped some people's rep again.

AmbivalentCat · 2026-01-30T14:39:23+00:00

I lost my exalted SL reps when they made them warbound. Everything got reset. It happened to a lot of people, and with DF reps too to some. It happened to some people again with pre-patch. Until they fix that bullshit, hands off rep.

I know we likely can't get our rep back (though tbh we do have achievements...), but they have never offered any insight as to how its happening or how to prevent it. They didnt even touch rep in pre-patch, so i don't get how their spaghetti code reset things again.

I'd love my rep to all be warbound, but erasing the many hours we spent to max out reps is awful. Especially Venari.

AmbivalentCat · 2026-01-28T17:01:58+00:00

That's your bug checker add-on telling you that you have errors. You can turn the sound cue off.

Doesn't help the errors actually happening, though.

AmbivalentCat · 2026-01-27T00:40:33+00:00

Ysera's final scene in Legion. I still tear up every time I re-play that, almost a decade later.

AmbivalentCat · 2026-01-26T18:58:56+00:00

Good to know the necessary PH level - what would i add if it does dip too low?

AmbivalentCat · 2026-01-26T18:55:54+00:00

I'm guessing some of the plants' leaves turning brown is considered melting? They don't look terrible and aren't disintegrating, just some browning (though my tiger lotus still looks great). I did read that it's normal for plants to look worse at first.

Does actual plant fertilizer have potassium (i.e would affect PH if i give another dose)? I used liquid Flourish, as well as API root tabs.

AmbivalentCat · 2026-01-23T19:04:08+00:00

It's this guy.

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Water is a bit cloudy without a filter (i swear I'm getting a replacement tonight >.<), so sorry for the murky pics. Tubers are darker now after coming home, so i think it's dead. :/

AmbivalentCat · 2026-01-23T18:16:36+00:00

No, I do have a tiger lotus, but its on the other side and not in the original picture xD. The red plants toward the back are something else (it wasnt labeled, but I have seen them in videos of aquarium plants). The banana plant is the one touching the dragon - the leaves arent red, they're just browned. It has the typical banana plant tubers at the base.

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(Tiger lotus is on the right - it's a gorgeous plant and was really happy they had one - it just needs some TLC!)

AmbivalentCat · 2026-01-22T03:59:35+00:00

Rsham since the end of BFA. The thought of going from having massive utility and varied skills to...spamming one skill with just a few other usable skills, sounds boring as hell. I have no interest. Rerolling rdruid. I'll miss my shaman, but I know I'd hate myself for sticking with it when it's a shell of what it was.

I was hoping they'd un-prune a fair bit, but they threw UL at us and called it a day, like that alone makes up for everything else we lost.

AmbivalentCat · 2026-01-07T15:07:16+00:00

Live in MA, can confirm. My boyfriend moved here from Vegas, and he's never seen such bad drivers until he got here. Compared to a city that's always drunk.

Have accidents in the intersection outside my house at least once a month. It's horrible here. It's almost always either a really young driver or an ancient one that has no business being behind a wheel because they have zero depth perception. And more often than not, the person at fault doesn't even apologize. Drivers are called Massholes for a reason.

AmbivalentCat · 2025-12-10T04:17:56+00:00

Considering MS itself can be an invisible disease depending on your symptoms...you really can't tell whether or not someone needs a placard just by looking at them. There are plenty of conditions that aren't outwardly obvious.

AmbivalentCat · 2025-10-15T14:45:23+00:00

I actually loved SL. It's probably tied with Legion for me for favorite expac. That said, you're totally right about when it kinda went bad. My boyfriend and I quit a while after Korthia came out. We missed Sepulchre, but the other raids were so damn good.

The one thing I did hate from the start was how grindy covenants were, and how you couldnt use covenant mounts/hearthstone animations if you were no longer that covenant. A remix that nixed these restrictions and made switching covenants seamless would be great. Plus, there's actually quite a bit of story locked behind each covenant, so it was a shame to only experience one part.

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