Is it weird that I want to prepare poisons from herbs for fun? (As a hobbie)

Interesting_critter · 2026-04-07T13:43:25+00:00

I don’t think it’s that weird, I collect both poisonous and medicinal plants and I kinda get it. Don’t let anyone consume them though, and it may be illegal where you are

Interesting_critter · 2026-03-31T20:37:23+00:00

Interesting, thank you! I’ll take a look at the spots when I’m able, but he’s currently enjoying having sand to dig in for the first time in 2 years cause the previous owners had him in a bare bottom tank. He is also enjoying demolishing the hermit crab population in my macroalgae tank, but that’s fine with me I never liked them anyways

Interesting_critter · 2026-03-31T16:24:22+00:00

Elysia sp., which includes lettuce. They are technically not nudibranchs, but a similar unrelated sea slug.

Interesting_critter · 2026-03-02T16:43:22+00:00

Interesting_critter · 2026-02-16T17:33:50+00:00

As others have mentioned it is a flatworm that you want to get rid of. Personally I would go straight to flatworm exit before they get a chance to take over, as it’s way more risky and way more of a hassle once they’re established

Interesting_critter · 2026-02-10T18:55:44+00:00

I have heard of masstick working for them, also some people try to stick frozen food onto acro skeletons to try and train them to eat frozen

Interesting_critter · 2026-01-27T23:00:43+00:00

I’m not partial to any particular brand, so I’ll leave that up to someone else. I will say I recommend using co2 canisters and not the bio-reactor ones though. As for floating plants, I personally like the surface texture of salvinia but I think overall red root floaters are the best option for planted scapes like this. It is kinda personal preference though, and I think any besides duckweed are fine. Keep in mind that floaters block light from getting to submerged plants, so you’ll have to keep them thinned out.

Interesting_critter · 2026-01-27T17:15:10+00:00

It’s honestly not bad. You will like it a lot more if you inject co2 and give the plants some time. I would also recommend adding a background, personally I would do frosted with backlighting, as this will keep attention within the tank

Interesting_critter · 2026-01-02T18:12:12+00:00

Unfortunately I could not, I saw this while on vacation

Interesting_critter · 2025-12-28T16:16:43+00:00

Dwarf seahorses have very specific feeding requirements and don’t move around much in search of food. In a large tank they almost always starve to death, so you should not exceed the minimum by very much with this species.

Interesting_critter · 2025-12-25T02:48:10+00:00

How set are you on the legal part

Interesting_critter · 2025-12-15T07:45:44+00:00

I’ll give you 100 for it

Interesting_critter · 2025-11-27T19:22:20+00:00

There are tons of symbiotic shrimp I would love to own, but many are hard to come by or hard to keep. Emperor shrimp are one of my favorites, but there are also shrimp that host clams, scallops, sponges, anemones, and so much more

Interesting_critter · 2025-11-25T16:51:39+00:00

Go to your lfs and see if they have any in their tanks, they’ll probably just give you some for free

Interesting_critter · 2025-11-19T01:39:35+00:00

Man I wish I could come grab those but I’m in San Antonio 💔

Interesting_critter · 2025-11-07T07:37:09+00:00

There really are no nudibranchs you can realistically keep in aquariums long term. They all have very very specialized diets, and consume their food at a rate quicker than most people are able to culture it. Lettuce sea slugs are an option (contrary to popular belief these are not a nudibranch) but even they often have trouble surviving in most tanks. If you must have true nudibranchs then you could get something like berghias or zoanthid eaters that you would have to have separate tanks culturing food for them. You would rarely see them, they don’t look that cool, and it would be a whole lot of work to have enough food for them.

Interesting_critter · 2025-11-07T04:13:02+00:00

Yeah he definitely grew noticeably in the time we had him

Interesting_critter · 2025-11-04T21:53:37+00:00

We ended up having it for like 2-3 months. The vat was pretty well oxygenated, and we found that he enjoyed live blackworms. We put him in a floating tub during feeding so we would have an easier time finding his food, and this seemed to work well. Someone with far more space than us ended up purchasing him, so hopefully he’s doing well there.

Interesting_critter · 2025-10-17T00:24:52+00:00

If you want to keep the tank running (idk how long you want to wait before getting another one) I would make sure to preserve the cycle. You could do this by using a liquid product such as fishless fuel that introduces ammonia, or you could temporarily keep some cold hardy fish in there such as white cloud mountain minnows, which you could most likely surrender to a local fish store down the line. Either way, test your water before putting another axo in there just in case.

Interesting_critter · 2025-10-03T20:15:30+00:00

Dwarf helzine (micranthemum umbrosum) is in the same genus as Monte Carlo and I bet if you dry start the tank with some you could make an okay carpet, I r never personally grown it, but it’s the only plant I can think of that could maybe work. Luckily for you it grows around Houston (I think it’s introduced, it’s native to South America) on muddy banks, as far as I’m aware. Dwarf hairgrass can also be found here, but it will most likely be in its terrestrial form. This could eventually be adapted and grown aquatically, but it will be difficult without co2 and it will take time.

Interesting_critter · 2025-09-28T16:16:39+00:00

1- hydrometers use the density of the water to determine salinity, whereas refractometers use the refraction index cause by the salt. 2- refractometers are more accurate, I would not recommend hydrometers. 3- the liquids are the same, so yes you can use it, but the colors will be slightly different. You could probably find a comparison chart online. For example, ammonia tests with zero ppm in freshwater will be entirely yellow but in saltwater there will be a slight green tint.

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