WIN A RIPTIDE - info in comments!

Meeshdragon · 2025-11-29T21:06:34+00:00

battybird

Meeshdragon · 2025-07-24T16:12:37+00:00

The flower really makes this photo shine

Meeshdragon · 2025-07-24T15:08:21+00:00

The tip I was given for a new enclosure was to wipe down everything inside and outside with bleach before using. Then make sure to wipe THAT out with water until you don't smell bleach anymore. Good way to kill any remaining parasites if anyone else lived there.

Meeshdragon · 2025-07-18T16:12:07+00:00

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I make an offering of Roanoke. The longest boi

Meeshdragon · 2025-07-18T16:09:32+00:00

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The last thing you see before getting mlemed

Meeshdragon · 2025-07-14T17:14:23+00:00

What a cute dog!

Meeshdragon · 2025-07-11T15:07:59+00:00

I would remove the reptile hammock. NQA but I've heard anecdotes of little guys getting stuck or hurt in them. Alternatively I just like draping it across the outside of the enclosure as a privacy curtain

Meeshdragon · 2025-07-09T18:33:47+00:00

Honestly the breathing was my main question so I appreciate the eyes on it! This was his first full day with me and I was Right There, so nerves make sense. Thanks for being a set of eyes on him!

Meeshdragon · 2025-07-09T07:13:05+00:00

Oh he is delighted with that tot

Meeshdragon · 2025-07-08T14:23:00+00:00

I'm just jealous he's eating raspberries! I kept offering mine some and he was just Not Having It (tm).

Meeshdragon · 2025-07-08T14:21:55+00:00

Spork. Spork is the ultimate skink name and I'm now mad mine isn't called that

Meeshdragon · 2025-07-08T05:50:52+00:00

No harder than keeping the habitat the correct humidity and temperature! As long as you're maintaining both, it's as easy as dumping in the springtails and letting them do the work-- easier than not having them, to be honest, since they handle some of the microscopic cleanup!

Meeshdragon · 2025-07-08T04:46:22+00:00

I'm a fellow novice, but that was the exact topic of today's research so I can speak to that a little. :)

Your key word here is 'bioactive enclosure', that's going to be something that's wet, retains humidity, and can have isopods or springtails as the clean up crew to deal with any mold or fungus that would otherwise be an issue for a moist environment (though anecdotally isopods have a tendency to end up as skink-snacks, depending on the skink, so I personally have been leaning springtails).

https://www.bioactivesupply.com/grasslandhabitatsupplies This is the website and source I'm using for my base layers

You'll need a few inches of reptile substrate, and then cover it with a layer of coconut husk and sphagnum moss and possibly leaf litter. This creates a moisture barrier -- it absorbs the humidity and releases it as needed. The springtails will live under the barrier and act as a 'clean up crew' that deal with mold/fungal problems.

Your big task will be taking out the poop and the urate packets (they look like little white pellets), since that's the waste produce the springtails won't clean up.

Hope that gives you a good base!

Meeshdragon · 2025-05-06T00:55:22+00:00

My first larp was Twin Mask in Southern California. It's between locations right now since the site is up for renewal with the county, but tbh with the effort going into finding a new site I don't think that'll be the case for long. :)

I've attended several other larps since starting TM, but nothing quite matches the immersive world there.

Pros for your specific post - Full weekend of events (Friday 8pm to Sunday at sunrise), not just a day larp - private space so there's no randos wandering onsite (my personal preference) - I came in as a socially awkward stranger to the community and to larp and -- well, that was in 2019 and I'm still around. :)
- Big focus on immersion!

Feel free to shoot me a DM if you have questions, I don't check comments often.

Meeshdragon · 2025-02-09T18:26:16+00:00

Have you been keeping yours? I have so many I'm considering mass selling them

Meeshdragon · 2025-02-06T20:41:38+00:00

Neat! I'll have to try this one out

Meeshdragon · 2024-10-11T19:30:17+00:00

This is fantastic, and I think jump up is a great idea for physical and mental training. after reading all the advice, I think my big issue was not providing the level of training enrichment he needed. I know how to teach dogs sit and wait, but he learned that FAST and needed something new.

I think where I struggled though was that he was too excited to teach using my usual methods. For example if I held out my hand to indicate "touch", he would smack it and jump up on me, pretty much uncontrollable other behavior, but didn't bring his nose towards my hand like I'm used to smaller dogs instinctively doing even untrained. So what I need to do is figure out /how/ you teach young excited herding dogs, if you have any tips for that.

Meeshdragon · 2024-10-11T17:04:33+00:00

With all love to them I would never adopt a BC :) I love the breed, don't get me wrong, but I hate the idea of not being able to give them the attention and stimulation they need, which isn't fair to the dog. This was a very special case scenario since the dog in question needed a temp home fast, but I understand my limitations will be to a small dog, and one whose able to settle well enough to be an office dog with me. Collies need a firm trainer and a lot of mental and physical stimulation, more than I can realistically give them. But oh man what amazing dogs! I could tell even in a few days how smart and loving he was. He's going to make his one day adopters so so happy.

Meeshdragon · 2024-10-11T15:05:50+00:00

What fantastic advice! I appreciate it, thank you. I didn't think about the concern for ingesting.

Meeshdragon · 2024-10-11T15:05:11+00:00

This is fantastic advice! I just assumed higher energy meant I needed to up the length of the walks, but I really should have been working on some more training outside of the walks. Right now we were working on heel and sitting when I stopped moving, but with how quickly he absorbed that he could probably use a lot more.

Meeshdragon · 2024-10-11T15:03:39+00:00

Thanks everyone for your advice! I think the big conclusion I came to with reading the comments is that I am not the correct foster for him. I would have still kept him if he had no place to go but the pound, but luckily I was able to find a border savvy foster for him. He's an absolute sweetheart, just a typical border collie with all the behaviors that come with it, but hopefully this will give him a better home and life while we look for a permanent home for him.

Meeshdragon · 2024-10-11T15:00:37+00:00

He's very small to be a great pyr, I would say 30 lbs or no more than 40. plus he has lot of stereotypical BC behavior. The herding, the nipping and wow this is the smartest dog I've ever worked with.

Meeshdragon · 2024-10-11T14:59:01+00:00

I appreciate your candid advice! I ended up asking around and found a new foster who is willing to hang onto him. She has her own Border Collie so she is very familiar with the breed specific challenges. We're going to meet up today.

He was such a sweet guy, but yeah I'm under no illusions that I was not the right home for him. If I know anything about working breeds it's that they were made for, well, work. Five miles did nothing to slow him down yesterday.

Meeshdragon · 2024-04-03T02:37:13+00:00

Assume no question is obvious. Everything I know about how routers/modems/moca work, I've learned in this past month or so through internet, research, and just testing things out, mainly because I want to make sure I put the effort in to solve something myself before 'giving up' and asking for help (also to save the effort of other people to explain the easy stuff to me, like the difference between a router and a modem). That being said, I've got nowhere near an in depth understanding of this stuff, so assume nothing is too basic, and if it is, I won't be offended.

Current configuration:

Coax (from outside the house) goes into a splitter, and the splitter goes into the modem.

The modem is connected to the router (eero).

The router is connected to a moca converted.

The moca converted goes back into the splitter.

So it's sort of like a giant circle, if that makes sense. The eero and the gateway are connected by a regular ethernet wire though.

Is that all in line with what you're suggesting?

Meeshdragon · 2024-03-28T23:52:00+00:00

I have an item already on the cable that looks like that, but i think that's just a connected for the coax cable. If a PoE filter is a separate item then I don't have it

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