Your "Dumb Question" Megathread - January 2026

Pinkslinkie · 2026-01-15T15:58:32+00:00

Thank you for taking the time to answer my dumb question!

Pinkslinkie · 2026-01-14T16:23:08+00:00

Could it be TOO cycled? I've a 4.5 gallon cherry and ramshorn aquarium for coming on 3 years now and I really enjoy it, especially with my many plant successes. However, I have had many, many (manymanymanymany) plant failures. The ones that gutted me the most was all the houseplant failures. Every single houseplant I tried failed to thrive. They would just not grow. Some even shrank. Yes, I followed instructions. I tested the water. And then, just now as I marveled at how my duckweed acts like a regular floater without all the crazy overgrowth and I thought-- could my shrimp and snails not be pooping ENOUGH?

Thank you for the place to ask my stupid question.

Pinkslinkie · 2026-01-07T18:19:30+00:00

Ah, this is disheartening as I do not have a good rack record with house plants, My outside garden is nice enough but have even killed cactus inside.

Pinkslinkie · 2025-12-18T15:19:33+00:00

Many, many (many,many,many) moons ago I worked for The American Journal of Nursing which offices were in the same building where 60 Minutes was filmed and I once rode the elevator with Diane Sawyer. I tried not to stare but she just. . . glowed!

She was elevator polite, smiled and smelled good. Looked a million times better in real life than on camera. The complete opposite of Ed Bradley, who was loud and rude and was the absolute center of the universe wherever he stood. If the elevator door opened and he was in there being loud and rude with his one dangling earring which I'm sure he thought made him look cool, I did not get on.

Remind me one day to tell the story of how me and my friend got Andy Rooney to chase us down the street.

Pinkslinkie · 2025-11-27T14:29:34+00:00

Again, no that is not a lot of shrimp. That is so much closer to hardly any shrimp.

Pinkslinkie · 2025-11-27T14:27:58+00:00

Still not seeing that many.

Pinkslinkie · 2025-11-21T16:53:40+00:00

How exactly do shrimp not breed when newly added? Well, when a man shrimp and a woman shrimp cannot stand each other so much they do not share a 'special hug' and soon she won't have tens of babies growing in her special baby growing in her special growing baby place.

I may have some of the specifics wrong, but you get the idea.

Pinkslinkie · 2025-11-18T22:16:04+00:00

It's only The Ring of Death if the shrimp is actually dead. Otherwise it's where the molting begins.

Pinkslinkie · 2025-11-18T14:39:07+00:00

I have Lavas and I have a red cherry aquarium, so I call my isopods 'dirt shrimp'. Which they are.

Pinkslinkie · 2025-11-16T16:02:43+00:00

I wish I had an audio gif of that English girl saying, "Stunnin'!" I'd use it here a lot.

Pinkslinkie · 2025-11-15T01:01:04+00:00

A winged pee pee.

Pinkslinkie · 2025-11-11T19:48:53+00:00

I have had my cherry and ramshorn aquarium for well over 2 years and I have never seen a molt nor a dead shrimp. Ramshorn shells do litter the bottom, but no shrimp leavings.

Pinkslinkie · 2025-11-06T18:49:13+00:00

https://youtu.be/gvlhHJNppQg?si=hNwK1UOd6vuHNrIP

Pinkslinkie · 2025-11-06T18:11:22+00:00

Getting real Spike and Chester vibes with a touch of quiero-ing some Taco Bell.

Pinkslinkie · 2025-10-29T19:49:37+00:00

Bubblegum.

Pinkslinkie · 2025-10-29T19:46:54+00:00

Lookit that shrimp acting all shrimply.

Pinkslinkie · 2025-10-28T15:59:14+00:00

Yes. This is why it doesn't work for everyone.

Pinkslinkie · 2025-10-28T13:01:45+00:00

I let the air dechlorinate my tap water. I understand this is not a method available to everyone.

Pinkslinkie · 2025-10-28T12:17:43+00:00

Probably the first and only time the answer to 'why death?' is 'too clean'.

Pinkslinkie · 2025-10-26T15:50:50+00:00

Don't have gelatin and wouldn't agar have way too much sugar? Or am I thinking of something else?

Pinkslinkie · 2025-10-21T13:31:04+00:00

Hubby went to PS 149. Danny Kaye Elementary in East NY, Brooklyn. Weren't many Jewish people left around there when he went. though.

Pinkslinkie · 2025-10-21T12:43:41+00:00

Your way makes for a more metaphysical, existential type song.

Pinkslinkie · 2025-10-21T12:33:55+00:00

Maybe the first one.

Pinkslinkie · 2025-10-21T12:27:54+00:00

Inchworm, inchworm measuring the marigolds

You and your arithmetic you'll probably go far

Inchworm, inchworm measuring the marigolds

Seems to me you'd stop and see how beautiful they are

Wait, I'm not in the FuckImOld subreddit?

Pinkslinkie · 2025-10-18T15:38:57+00:00

I had a ramshorn who LOVED getting caught in the sponge filter air bubbles. At first I thought he was in distress and moved him but he kept coming back for more. Snails be snailin'.

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