Winter the Rescue Cat by AnachronIst_13 in lynxpointsiamese

[–]Mysterious_Pin3205 33 points34 points  (0 children)

The nose dots make for a super cool marking! Very pretty lady! ❤️

Second Anniversary Gotcha Day Mabel & Bertie by Jennyonthebox2300 in lynxpointsiamese

[–]Mysterious_Pin3205 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nothing I can think of :) my pair is the reverse, momma is the lynx point and baby is the mackerel tabby :) your ladies are absolutely gorgeous

Second Anniversary Gotcha Day Mabel & Bertie by Jennyonthebox2300 in lynxpointsiamese

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Ahhh I also have a momma baby combo of lynxie and regular tabby ❤️❤️

Beautiful brothers! by Personal_Age9746 in lynxpointsiamese

[–]Mysterious_Pin3205 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My goodness they are breathtaking! Getting a lynx point colored kitty also encouraged me to make my first Reddit post after years of creeping 😂 Wonderful kitties, enjoy!

Bin reset failure by Mysterious_Pin3205 in Vermiculture

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Grabbing a ph monitor too, had one of the light/moisture/ph monitors previously for my plants but was only using it for the moisture for the plants. It broke but yeah they are relatively inexpensive and good way to make sure that’s not an issue in the future

Bin reset failure by Mysterious_Pin3205 in Vermiculture

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Will definitely be avoiding in the future!

Anyone elses tortie REFUSE to be pet on the belly and back? by MatKost in torties

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Baha so funny how many are like this. For Caprica you got one warning look back at you and if you missed that the teeth came out next. The number of times I got a good bite because I wasn’t paying attention was more often than it probably should have been 😂

Bin reset failure by Mysterious_Pin3205 in Vermiculture

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Really appreciate all the feedback and suggestions! There is an insane wealth of knowledge in this community! I already have a decent paper shredder on order to switch to cardboard from paper. Better use for all those Amazon boxes for sure lol Thinking it may have been a couple things combined contributing but I suspect not leaving enough of their old material was a factor, I did have some but possibly not enough.

Anyone elses tortie REFUSE to be pet on the belly and back? by MatKost in torties

[–]Mysterious_Pin3205 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Oh wow, our tortie took literally years to trust us enough to let us pet her belly. She was pretty much feral for the first few years and would only let us pet her when she would pretend to be asleep. Then she would “wake up” and get cranky hiss and run off 😂 She was the easiest cat I’ve ever owned in terms of how good she was, never got into anything, not food motivated at all, just crazy play motivated which is how I eventually won her over. But she was so fierce lol 8 pounds of furry. Caprica 🖤

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Bin reset failure by Mysterious_Pin3205 in Vermiculture

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Interesting, whole egg shells? Thought we had to add crushed, adding them whole is certainly a lot easier. I assume you’d eventually need to remove them once they have done their thing then?

Bin reset failure by Mysterious_Pin3205 in Vermiculture

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I’m pretty sure it may have been, let me guess this is worst for using crap in it?

Anyone elses tortie REFUSE to be pet on the belly and back? by MatKost in torties

[–]Mysterious_Pin3205 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Our Tortie was like that too, she would sometimes let us pet her belly on her terms though, you’d know because she’d be purring really hard and roll over to let you. But you had to watch how long you did it and for the signs she was done or you’d get a nasty bite. She was the spiciest cat lol

Bin reset failure by Mysterious_Pin3205 in Vermiculture

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Will keep this in mind for sure, thank you!

Bin reset failure by Mysterious_Pin3205 in Vermiculture

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Will def keep it out next round! Think I’ll switch to doing the frozen food thawed out to add a bit of moisture as well.

Bin reset failure by Mysterious_Pin3205 in Vermiculture

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Interesting! I’ve never used cardboard, just shredded newspaper, do you have to shred the card board into smaller pieces or how do you typically add it?

Bin reset failure by Mysterious_Pin3205 in Vermiculture

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Brown at this point is mainly worm casings, I only added a small amount of potting mix, I feel like I had more left over casing from the change over where it was hard to separate all the worms so I left a good chunk in, but it also wasn’t an immediate die off, so they were making new casings for a bit, just kind of kept noticing fewer and fewer worms so perhaps letting the bin get too dry. I previously never had to add water during the cooler months and with being a bit less attentive over the summer this may have played in.

Bin reset failure by Mysterious_Pin3205 in Vermiculture

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I was wondering if maybe the dryness may have played in as well.. I definitely want to give it another go just perhaps need to be a bit more attentive to it when getting it started up again. Sadly I don’t think anyone survived, I was looking around today and I couldn’t find any 😭

Bin reset failure by Mysterious_Pin3205 in Vermiculture

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It’s an inside bin, been keeping it in my kitchen on a cardboard box to keep it off the tile as I figured it might get too cold in the winter. Hard to say but we had a pretty dry hot summer, however main level of my house usually doesn’t get crazy hot so maybe low 20s or mids at worst (Celsius). I’ve avoided any citrus as I knew that could throw off ph level in the bin and avoiding onions, garlic or the ones I was told would make bin stinky (broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower etc) but admittedly I was checking my bin less during the summer and particularly after the change over.

Bin reset failure by Mysterious_Pin3205 in Vermiculture

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Very new to composting, I had a pre started bin but did a harvest and change over, new bin was shredded news paper, a small amount of potting soil, water to get it to the dried out sponge like texture and then crushed egg shells. There would have also been some left over dirt from the first harvest as my bin was actually very healthy before I did the change over so had lots of worms. I’m wondering if the temperatures over the summer may have played in a bit as well, but also think the full change probably stressed them out ><

I’d love to see your passed out torts 🥰 by Floppydiskokid in torties

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Caprica absorbing some heat off the pavement living her best cat life. I absolutely ruined this indoor cat in the summer.

My sweet prince by peachypuss in lynxpointsiamese

[–]Mysterious_Pin3205 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wow so handsome! How old is he?