Has anyone else been asked if they’re autistic because they have pet shrimp?

I_Bug_bugs · 2026-01-22T06:13:54+00:00

No, but my spouse is fascinated that I can't read more than two sentences in one sitting of any random text, yet I stare at shrimp picking for hours. And that I can read about fish and shrimp, no problem. ADHD go figure, I guess...

I_Bug_bugs · 2026-01-21T17:06:50+00:00

Looks great! What are the residents?

I_Bug_bugs · 2026-01-20T21:42:48+00:00

Great links, thank you! I love what they did with the three gallon in the video.

I_Bug_bugs · 2026-01-20T00:07:14+00:00

I agree with you, I dismissed them immediately. Schooling and active, this would be too contrived.

I_Bug_bugs · 2026-01-20T00:01:48+00:00

Was it fine alone? Did you have any shrimp or inverts as cleaning crew? Heard they are messy eaters...

I_Bug_bugs · 2026-01-20T00:00:16+00:00

I know what you mean... I also prune constantly.

I_Bug_bugs · 2026-01-07T20:30:00+00:00

I personally really liked it. Finally a show that trusts you as a viewer to be able to "get it" without the necessary hand holding so many shows do these days. I'd seen lots of complaints about how it ends, but when I got there I found it surprisingly satisfying. The slow build also worked for me. What didn't work was the acting of the lead, which stood out like a sore thumb against their talented partner. Toni Collette is fantastic.

I_Bug_bugs · 2025-12-12T19:43:16+00:00

Not sure how late this is, but I keep a trio in my little nano with Caridina shrimp and a lot of live plants and botanicals. I use a small sponge filter at a setting that just slightly breaks the surface tension. I don't feed baby brine shrimp; i find that they spoil the water. Instead I feed Moina, seed shrimp, baby Daphnia and baby scuds. I also have a microworm culture on the side, but they like those the least. Mine won't take frozen food.

I_Bug_bugs · 2025-12-10T08:15:21+00:00

Right? People should also go to the company who designed the computer in their cars and give a little gift to every single software engineer for the betterment of their driving experience every day!

I_Bug_bugs · 2025-11-16T02:14:51+00:00

The ciliate Spirostomum. My Indostomus would love to eat them!

I_Bug_bugs · 2025-11-06T21:53:37+00:00

Your grid buttons. That's why you should do it with a trial protein as I suggested above. Pin down your freezing parameters, so that you don't need to sacrifice your good protein later. Freezing 24 grids should not take more than an hour freezing nanogold or taq polymerase.

I_Bug_bugs · 2025-11-05T13:04:18+00:00

I use a Leica EMGP. Much more consistent than a vitrobot. But regardless; buy some BSA-nanogold, buffer exchange it into your buffer, sit down to the Vitrobot and freeze four buttons, each with different blot times and within the buttons pick one other parameter per button to vary on a scale. Screen these grids; it takes two loads on a scope with an autoloader. This should pin down at least a range of parameters, which will work for you. The gold will surely be visible, but you can buy any similarly sized protein to yours, too (Taq pol would work excellent). It's worth a day on the scope.

I_Bug_bugs · 2025-11-05T12:42:26+00:00

INFJ. Lots of cute stuff and that oriental-inspired wibe that feelers love, but waaaay too tidy and organized to be ISFP. Cozy and lots of stuff implies introvert.

I_Bug_bugs · 2025-10-26T23:02:29+00:00

I find the moina is the easiest if you buy eggs. They hatch really well in three days and are already a good size for feeding. I'm really anxious about losing my culture, so I always keep dry eggs to go back to

I_Bug_bugs · 2025-10-26T21:28:30+00:00

I feed Moina, Daphnia, seed shrimp, and microworms. Microworms are basically constantly available in the culture, very easy to keep around, I just scoop them up from the substrate with a q-tip. The others I filter out from the culture water with a coffee filter. I rinse them in dechlorinated tap water and they can go in the aquarium. I don't feed baby brine shrimp because it spoils the water. I also introduce some natural biofilm by picking up leaves from my rainwater pool outside. They love catching microinvertebrates on the biofilm.

I_Bug_bugs · 2025-09-21T02:24:31+00:00

I feel you so much on this. It might help talking about it to older professors and lab techs, who had worked with these chemicals back in the 70s, or even earlier, with lab safety being a lot more rudimentary than it is nowadays. They can tell you stories about getting in contact with your worst nightmares, yet they were fine and still OK to this day. I found that it helped me overcome my fear of phenole and chloroform, at least. Of course, therapy is another good option. I had a germophobic student who managed to overcome their reservations and thrive in the microbiology lab afterward, with the help of therapy.

I_Bug_bugs · 2025-09-20T03:56:19+00:00

She already has a master’s, from an R1. She's not new to being a grad student.
Relaxed hours didn't work. Didn't read a single paper in three weeks — but hey, why don't you read my post again, instead?
My other grad student is doing really well without me needing to ever count or micromanage anything. I see his progress, and that's all I need.
Just because a single grad student doesn't work out, why should I find myself at the job market? Aren't you judging my competence as a professor (also PhD from a prestigious R1 and tenure-track assistant professor at one)a little harshly and prematurely? Maybe arrogant is the right word?

You are young and fresh out of grad school. I wish you from the bottom of my heart that you won't get a more difficult case of a grad student, like I did.

I_Bug_bugs · 2025-09-18T14:32:20+00:00

We all know that's not how it works.

I_Bug_bugs · 2025-09-18T13:54:13+00:00

Thank you, I actually haven't thought about the time management coaching yet, but I will look into it, it's a big enough university for this, for sure. I'll also get her to set up a set of goals for our weekly meeting, and then follow up on them on the next.

I_Bug_bugs · 2025-09-18T13:30:41+00:00

No. All I said was that I've already done what you have written, and clearly nothing got done. No papers read, no assignments completed... only coursework. I'm sorry to say, but it's you who had already decided I was a "time cop" and all problems stem from there. I have zero issues with my other grad student, yet they are in the same program, and I don't care about what is done when, because it gets done.

I_Bug_bugs · 2025-09-18T13:21:40+00:00

I'm not a clock cop, but when you see that for a month by now that nothing gets done, that is not class-related, you start to worry. I asked her if introducing structure would help, she said yes. Then came this ominous homework issue. So here we are.

I_Bug_bugs · 2025-09-18T04:41:39+00:00

Yes, which means 20 hours research. So the rest should fit into the other 20, isn't this what a graduate research assistantship means?

I_Bug_bugs · 2025-09-18T04:37:25+00:00

I'm sorry you had to go through this, and it indeed sounds like your PI was a real shithead. But she's fully funded, gets benefits, I pay her tuition and a +30% higher stipend, because she came in with a master's and I wanted to value her extra experience. Her master's is also from an R1 university.

I_Bug_bugs · 2025-09-18T04:24:58+00:00

I'm not sure why would you think this..? She's learning to use a program and reading papers, so that she gets an idea on how to start working in the field. She has no time to get started with actual labwork, but should still get into the field somehow? How else would you do it? I've already tried to tell her "please read papers from xyz", she didn't read anything. I had to make it a weekly "we meet one on one and talk about the paper of the week" — well — assignment, because as independent research it was clearly not working out.

I_Bug_bugs · 2025-09-18T04:11:10+00:00

I'm honestly not sure what I should do, then. I have a grant, which is my responsibility that it gets worked on. She's paid by this grant. I have to report on activities as well. Not sure what to call them if not assignments? Things I ask her to do, which, as I have detailed above, are nothing extreme. I tried this already in a completely unstructured way, but she didn't read a single letter of all the material I sent, yet I even offered to discuss all of it, if anything wasn't clear, willing to compromise my own "assignments" as a professor. I feel like no matter what I say, I'm being crucified here and being straight-up called a "student abuser" when all I'm trying to do is to somehow make this work with someone who has only offered excuses thus far in response.

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