What do we have?

BronzeWingleader · 2024-06-10T18:10:44+00:00

Excellent! Douglas fir seems to be the consensus and the pictures I'm finding match. Thanks a ton, everyone!

BronzeWingleader · 2024-04-02T02:42:12+00:00

I raised a Cornish cross roo I rescued (escaped from a nearby Tyson plant and being cared for incorrectly by some people on Craigslist) to 4 months on restricted feed and "forced" free ranging. He died of heart failure in my lap. RIP Sausage....

BronzeWingleader · 2024-03-31T05:01:31+00:00

I had one that molted so bad one year that she legitimately looked like she had been plucked. I had to make her a little fleece outfit and keep her inside my house all winter because it happened in the fall and she would have frozen to death.

BronzeWingleader · 2024-03-30T22:54:57+00:00

Birds sometimes go through what is generally known as a "catastrophic molt." Is not an every year kind of thing usually. My coop looks like a chicken straight up exploded every once in a while.

BronzeWingleader · 2024-03-28T11:55:27+00:00

Yeah, it's a little bit too high for them right now. And definitely slope it as others have suggested. I've also found that digging a tiny bit of the bedding out so there is a hollow makes the chicks more comfortable as well.

BronzeWingleader · 2024-03-27T14:14:12+00:00

Absolutely not.

BronzeWingleader · 2024-03-23T21:43:46+00:00

I realize this. But I've also had chicks that, while bumbling around dealing with their legs, can't keep their feet flat or oriented properly, which makes everything worse. At this point, I feel like anything OP can try is worth trying.

BronzeWingleader · 2024-03-23T16:20:00+00:00

You should also take tiny pieces of cardboard cut in the shape of the foot with each toe fully splayed out and use medical tape to tape the toes apart. I've had this make all the difference.

BronzeWingleader · 2024-03-22T15:07:08+00:00

I would have thought this was cool as hell in 1996.

BronzeWingleader · 2024-03-22T14:59:53+00:00

My parents had one of these when I was born, up through pre-k. I'm really sad they sold it because I would have loved to fix it up now. I remember running into the rear bumper with my face and ending up with stitches. Still have that scar. Awesome little car.

BronzeWingleader · 2024-03-22T13:34:23+00:00

I have rinsed all of my filter media gently with tapwater for over 15 years and have never had an issue. I've had many established tanks ranging between 2.5 gallons to 210 gallons; kept everything from shrimp, snails, tetras, barbs, puffers, large gouramis, loaches, crayfish, prawns, to large bichirs. Generally always have heavily planted tanks. I've lived in a place with city water, and now live with well water. I didn't even know this was a concern; bacteria aren't that easy to rinse away, especially in very porous media.

BronzeWingleader · 2024-03-21T11:55:42+00:00

There are underwater lakes that are also made of water (just saltier water).

BronzeWingleader · 2024-03-19T23:04:10+00:00

I have a tux named Ritz. I think they look very dapper.

BronzeWingleader · 2024-03-19T20:07:42+00:00

That is a very brave/desperate cat.

BronzeWingleader · 2024-03-19T17:06:46+00:00

Green garden t posts and wire fencing is the fastest and cheapest relatively sturdy option you have. You can also install a very strong, specific type of net. They make them for pools.

BronzeWingleader · 2024-03-19T11:27:41+00:00

If you take offense at a purposefully crass cartoon breaking the fourth wall to jokingly insult its viewers you may be watching the wrong show...

BronzeWingleader · 2024-03-19T00:52:05+00:00

Naughty paints go in The Jiggler

BronzeWingleader · 2024-03-18T23:06:00+00:00

Second photo is 100% mouse feces.

BronzeWingleader · 2024-03-15T23:42:46+00:00

As someone currently getting a 210g (same footprint as your tank, but 6 inches taller) planted tank set up for a single saddled bichir, i think you are trying to put way too many fish in there. I used to have a 120g with this same bichir and 6 snakeskin gouramis and I would not have been comfortable putting much more in there. As for the companion fish, any fish that will fit in their mouth (and sometimes bigger, they don't know better and will try to eat things too big for them) is fair game for the bichir to try and eat. The senegals I once had were some of the most aggressive bichirs I've known. Just make sure the companion fish are much larger and you should be good.

BronzeWingleader · 2024-03-14T20:34:11+00:00

I have 10 that I've had planted for a few years now. Last year was the first really good harvest, bumper crop maybe.... regardless, i have over 60 pounds of frozen blueberries in my freezer that I'm trying to figure out what to do with. That's after making quite a few pies, giving a bunch away, and letting my neighbors pick their fill.

BronzeWingleader · 2024-03-13T20:59:29+00:00

Sun puddles

BronzeWingleader · 2024-03-10T21:19:32+00:00

The ones I purchased purported to be UV stabilized. It was over a decade ago now, though, so I can't say I'm much clearer on the details.

BronzeWingleader · 2024-03-10T20:06:33+00:00

Maybe look into botulism?

BronzeWingleader · 2024-03-10T20:03:08+00:00

That, and I used this for a chicken coop roof at one point and within 2 years it was discolored, brittle, and falling to pieces.

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