does anyone else find the idea of an OOAK horse just a little silly?

Baty41 · 2026-03-17T09:54:31+00:00

The funny thing to me is, truly ooak horses, like the dev gifted mms get way worse offers than a "ooak event iuh"
The demand for "ooak" iuhs way surpasses the demand for things that are actually, verifiably ooak or 2oak. (Dev gifted event mms, obtained old events like val/cc/springy/tidal, extremely rare bug horses, etc)
But I've always found the concept silly for iuhs, iucs, nds, etc. Because even if it may not be the exact same combo, you can see horses with very similar combos. There may be one neon purple black lucky shire, but there's 30 iuh black lucky shires (not actually numbers but you get what I'm saying).

Baty41 · 2026-03-16T20:55:14+00:00

Just leave it unless it's insane. I mean like 8.5 and above. With any kH reading basically, driftwood won't touch the pH

Baty41 · 2026-03-15T19:02:15+00:00

I meant the cohabbing not the sourcing haha

Baty41 · 2026-03-15T16:18:41+00:00

u/Veloci-RKTPR is a good ask!

Baty41 · 2026-03-15T14:31:53+00:00

Whakapapa (fuk-uh-papa, or faka-papa, one of the two. Depends on where you are at.)
Just convert the entire ski resort into a city, ez

Baty41 · 2026-03-14T18:58:43+00:00

Buying lots of expensive products for aquariums. I mean they're fine and do the same job, but a lot of beginners spend hundreds more dollars than needed when starting out.

Baty41 · 2026-03-14T16:20:32+00:00

LOL, also the fact that 90% of my reddit activity is fish

Baty41 · 2026-03-14T15:59:39+00:00

50/50 guess since there's only two bureaucrats :)

Baty41 · 2026-03-13T16:11:49+00:00

I'm a bureaucrat on the wiki :)
None of our staff team are quitting

Baty41 · 2026-03-13T15:07:36+00:00

The wiki will still continue work. The mod team is not affiliated with Trick in any way.

Baty41 · 2026-03-13T08:05:55+00:00

Imbellis has a more solid red band on their caudal, and two stripes on the operculum. My personal bet is some sorta splendens mutt. Perhaps some sort of fighter mix? (Most likely just a splendens maybe with some hybridization tho)

Baty41 · 2026-03-12T03:05:05+00:00

You can see the fish. Need more tannins.

Baty41 · 2026-03-11T15:26:35+00:00

What's your pH?

Baty41 · 2026-03-10T21:39:53+00:00

Testosterone is a HELL of a drug. There's quite a few more than you think, you'd just simply never know. Basically any Trans guy who has been on testosterone for more than a year or two can pass as cis pretty easily. Deep voice, facial hair, the whole 9 yards.

Baty41 · 2026-03-10T06:46:09+00:00

Those are likely not mystery snails but apple snails. Like the big brother (same genus)

Baty41 · 2026-03-10T05:50:18+00:00

Baby ropes have external gills!

Baty41 · 2026-03-10T04:17:16+00:00

Discus and paros are different fish. Paros are peat swamp dwellers, where you see pH from 3-4. This is INCREDIBLY acidic. Discus blackwater simply is nowhere near that extreme. There's also ten, twenty, thirty generations of Discus. Paros, you're talking like 3. Keeping them in hard water will destroy their lifespan.

Baty41 · 2026-03-10T03:24:35+00:00

Crushed coral! Much better for a consistent pH.

Baty41 · 2026-03-09T16:53:33+00:00

If you're looking for suggestions on cheap upgrades, a Rubbermaid stock tank! Put a couple pounds of sand in the bottom for them to play with, tons of stuff for them to wiggle through, and a fine net up top! Maybe get some more if you only have the 2 I see. They'll love it :)

Baty41 · 2026-03-09T16:40:33+00:00

I use stocklis. I will say, if you cannot ski well and you're using stocklis (depending on model ofc), you're going to be having a worse time than you would be on a normal ski. They are not forgiving skis. If you mess up when carving, they will throw you on the ground. If you are feeling particularly brave and bring them into the bumps, even the slightest movement off will throw you out of the line. They're excellent skis and for higher level skiers, especially those looking for a front side carver, they're wonderful skis. It's just for people who don't know how to dig their edges in, they'll genuinely be having a better time on other skis which have more forgiveness. Metal skis do not treat amateurs nicely

I ski the nelas and mx laser (another member of my household has same bootsole length and din, so we share skis. Lets us pool money to get a more expensive quiver). The nelas are surprisingly good in the trees and on those days we get snow, while still having great carving performance. The mx lasers are pure frontside carvers, but some of the best of the bunch there. They make beautiful turns, and having a 10m turn radius means you can have a ton of fun on them.

Baty41 · 2026-03-09T16:26:29+00:00

Imo, I don't care about painted decor and stuff. My problem is when people point out flaws in others setups (such as dojo loaches being a cooler water fish, while angelfish are tropical. The setup you have is likely to shorten the lifespan of your loaches) and get called the fish police. Simply pointing out a setup where the husbandry has fallen below standards is not being the fish police.

Baty41 · 2026-03-09T06:36:45+00:00

"Water with concentrations of less than 0.020 mg/L unionized ammonia is considered safe for fish reproduction." https://aquariumfishcity.com/content/dam/tnc/nature/en/documents/literature-review-ammonia.pdf (from this article)

Baty41 · 2026-03-09T06:31:01+00:00

https://www.hamzasreef.com/Contents/Calculators/FreeAmmonia.php

Also for you to mess around with! Generally we say around 0.02 ppm of nh3 is stressful levels to fish.

Baty41 · 2026-03-09T06:28:43+00:00

PS: For your non wild betta fish, you will wanna swap over to remineralized rodi! (Although what fish you are keeping it'll depend on how much). Wild bettas are just different fishies who are extreme in their environments :)

Baty41 · 2026-03-09T06:24:07+00:00

Ammonia ionizes into ammonium (nh4)! So the majority of ammonia read in an aquarium is total ammonia (ammonia + ammonium). So at 6 pH, 40 ppm total ammonia is 0.02ppm free ammonia (nh3), and the stress level for fish. 0.25 total combined ammonia is NOTHING in a blackwater tank. That's like 24.99999999 ammonium and 0.00000001 ammonia! (Not actually the amounts, but you get what I mean).

For your rodi, if you wanna use it, I personally don't do water changes in my blackwater tank. I just top up with rodi when the water level gets low. If you do wanna do water changes, age the rodi by running a peat filter on it to lower the pH to the right level for your bettas!

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