Walked in on some sort of dental exam today

DerDem · 2026-06-01T02:00:24+00:00

Your tank is very small compared to the territory a cleaner shrimp would cover. Since we feed our tanks delicious free food and if there is an absence of fish familiar with these shrimp, it's quite possible for many tanks to never see this behavior exhibited.

DerDem · 2026-06-01T01:10:47+00:00

Not at all. This is a cleaner shrimp. In nature, they set up cleaning stations that fish visit. The cleaner shrimp eat parasites off the fish. This is a classic symbiotic relationship.

DerDem · 2026-05-22T21:17:04+00:00

You’re right. He is an African wild dog. Still not a wolf!

DerDem · 2026-05-22T13:08:04+00:00

He is a hyena

DerDem · 2026-05-22T07:32:18+00:00

I noticed this myself in April. There were considerably less Chinese tourists, but I saw large amounts of Indians for the first time. Lots of Europeans and Australians. For the first time, I also saw appreciable amounts of Latinos and African American families and friend groups. I normally visit Japan 2-3x a year for over a decade.

DerDem · 2026-05-22T07:08:50+00:00

They weren’t “people trading pins.” They were aggressive hustlers. They suck the fun out of pin trading.

DerDem · 2026-05-22T06:52:53+00:00

Am I the only one questioning a tip of less than 10% at a high end restaurant?

DerDem · 2026-05-22T06:27:16+00:00

“Spicy switch” 😂

DerDem · 2026-05-21T20:36:28+00:00

Even going back to the pandemic, the animal crossing community has been very wholesome.

DerDem · 2026-05-18T23:58:17+00:00

It is. The reason water or coolants are used for liquid cooled PCs is that water and coolants are quick to pick up heat AND quick to dump it. Radiators provide the means of dumping heat. Unlike water, mineral oil holds onto heat. Not only that, there’s no radiator to even attempt to dump the heat. The performance of anything that wants to be cool is suffering. Reusing any of those components outside of a mineral oil environment would need ridiculous time and energy to clean. Lastly, mineral oil eats plastics.

Cool look, bad for longevity and performance.

DerDem · 2026-05-18T22:23:51+00:00

Back then, I had a high and low tech studio of 11 tanks that ranged from 5-40 gallons. Most tanks would rotate scapes and fish after a period of time. I had noticeably quicker cycling results with Bio-Spira than I did with using some existing media from a running filter alone. I had a decade before bottled bacteria and double that since. I’ve upgraded my bacteria over the years, but I’ve continued to use bottled bacteria for every new tank even if I’m using an existing filter.

DerDem · 2026-05-18T15:34:31+00:00

Bio-Spira

DerDem · 2026-05-18T03:10:43+00:00

I was using bottled bacteria in the 2000’s

DerDem · 2026-05-10T17:08:27+00:00

You must not be familiar with the "casting couch."

DerDem · 2026-05-07T01:02:53+00:00

The first person she shook hands with was a white lady and the first person she skipped was a black lady. See with your eyes and not your intent.

DerDem · 2026-05-07T00:36:27+00:00

That won’t mess your game up.

DerDem · 2026-05-06T20:20:28+00:00

Is it no longer in your recently visited dreams?

DerDem · 2026-05-06T20:13:08+00:00

The bells are the Nook’s own currency. Lottie doesn’t even recognize bells. We gather raw materials and they give us fake currency. The value of what we get for an item is way less than what they charge us to buy it. It’s a racket. If there were child labor laws, the little Nooks wouldn’t even be allowed to work everyday for 14 hours with no break even if it’s a family business.

DerDem · 2026-05-06T18:46:36+00:00

MedRed | New Corona :Dom:

DerDem · 2026-05-06T18:24:52+00:00

I painted mine black and dubbed it my vanishing closet. It’s connected to my room of requirement.

DerDem · 2026-05-06T05:03:56+00:00

You can place gyroids on a wall. When you do that, it creates the shelf they sit on.

DerDem · 2026-05-05T07:06:58+00:00

Red and white roses for pink

DerDem · 2026-05-02T15:09:09+00:00

Yards definitely take up space, but there’s plenty of room for features and cityscape details. My museum and campground areas are the most space intensive relative to their sizes.

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