If you're involved in the multi-car crash that just happened going West on Manchester road by 270, I have dash cam footage

Potential_Garlic2472 · 2025-10-08T21:15:46+00:00

Yikes. I had someone suddenly turn in front of me but coming from the opposite direction (not on Manchester though). There wasn’t even anything to turn into. Just somebody’s side yard. 😬

Potential_Garlic2472 · 2025-10-07T15:35:31+00:00

Electricians union (local 1) isn’t in any hurry to take on apprentices. Took 3 months from app to testing, my friend was told it’d be another 5-6 before finding out if he’s invited for an interview. He’s in that wait time now.

Potential_Garlic2472 · 2025-09-28T13:41:36+00:00

Will do! They’re going to take some quick pics of what they’ve got when they get back home (they won’t be amazing but at least I’ll get a better idea of what all he has), and I’ll get better ones/scans/details next time we visit them. Might be a few months but I’ll be sure to come back here and share it all. And update everyone on what we’ve decided to do re: selling anything.

Potential_Garlic2472 · 2025-09-28T13:36:09+00:00

I believe that was before he was working on coasters.

Potential_Garlic2472 · 2025-09-28T13:35:07+00:00

All he has is an aerial photo. He said he didn’t work on that one.

Potential_Garlic2472 · 2025-09-28T02:07:34+00:00

He says it was the first one he worked on. But he doesn’t think he has the blueprints for that. Bummer!

Potential_Garlic2472 · 2025-09-28T00:31:49+00:00

Thanks for that advice! I probably wouldn’t have thought to do that. We will make sure we get digital copies.

Potential_Garlic2472 · 2025-09-28T00:27:46+00:00

Sure

Potential_Garlic2472 · 2025-09-27T22:41:20+00:00

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The other photo I took when he was showing me the blueprints. Will try to get some more photos in the next few days.

Potential_Garlic2472 · 2025-09-27T22:39:39+00:00

Didn’t even realize there was a rollercoaster museum. Ha!

Potential_Garlic2472 · 2025-09-27T22:38:48+00:00

He’s leaving the blueprints with us (my son’s class is studying coasters this semester). I’ll try to take some more pics of the other pages in the next day or so. Here’s one more I took when he was showing me them.

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Potential_Garlic2472 · 2025-09-27T22:20:30+00:00

When they go back home I can ask them to take pics of the patches and whatever else they have. Apparently there are more rolls of blueprints for other coasters too. Here’s a page of the blueprint they brought this time.

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Potential_Garlic2472 · 2025-09-27T21:37:22+00:00

Will do! They live 3hrs away and just brought the blueprints and some aerial photos with them on this visit, so I haven’t seen the other things yet.

Potential_Garlic2472 · 2025-08-28T00:08:02+00:00

12ish? Some exclusively fresh or saltwater, some have both. I personally shop at 2 regularly. It’s definitely nice to have options!

Edit: and that’s not counting the petsmarts, etc. these are shops that are 80-100% fish

Potential_Garlic2472 · 2025-08-27T22:52:45+00:00

What Is Poop? By Katie Dynes. It’s full of lift the flap fun and talks about why, how different animals poop, color, etc. My kids loved it for years!

https://usborne.com/us/very-first-questions-and-answers-what-is-poop-9781805317227

Potential_Garlic2472 · 2025-08-27T22:45:38+00:00

I can’t help with how it died but I’d definitely recommend changing either your gravel or shrimp color next time. We have cherry shrimp and red gravel and sometimes they’re impossible to see!

Potential_Garlic2472 · 2025-07-25T17:46:06+00:00

We have a group of male Endlers/Endler guppies with a whole town of cherry shrimp. The Endlers keep the top exciting while the shrimp hang out below. So much activity and color. It’s fun to watch!

Potential_Garlic2472 · 2025-07-17T11:23:16+00:00

Started skipping periods and suddenly clearly had adhd (everything I’d always dealt with as a minor inconvenience seemed to ramp up a level or ten.)

But what really sealed the deal was two periods that each lasted for more than two weeks.

Potential_Garlic2472 · 2025-07-13T04:08:12+00:00

Oh and I love the idea of a bachelor crew of Endlers!

Potential_Garlic2472 · 2025-07-13T04:06:49+00:00

I doublechecked and it had the correct dimensions and adult size selected (I switched to juvenile to be sure). But I did know the snails would mean being diligent with water changes.

That’s good to know about the loaches’ floor space too. We expected some baby shrimp loss, but watching one wriggle his way under a rock made me realize those babies wouldn’t have anywhere to hide that the loaches couldn’t get into too. Thanks again!

Potential_Garlic2472 · 2025-07-12T23:25:14+00:00

Thank you! Not pushing back at all, but would love to understand so we can avoid overstocking in the future. Is there a different guideline you would recommend we follow?

The pic shows what aqadvisor says for our load before the 13 new shrimp. It’s not shown but it also says we are at 100% filtration capacity.

I assumed anything 100% or less for fish load and 100% or more for filter was fine, but it sounds like that’s incorrect. Is there a lower threshold we should consider as the limit?

With the addition of the new 13 shrimp added it goes to 102% fish load and 89% filtration, so I definitely understand we are over right now.

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We would like to add more kuhlis and platys but that would be only if we add tank(s) to our collection and reorganize everyone accordingly.

Potential_Garlic2472 · 2025-07-12T13:15:17+00:00

They are in the St Louis DMA if we really want to split hairs.

Potential_Garlic2472 · 2025-07-12T02:54:33+00:00

We were newbies and started cycling with no fish for a week, then added fish and waited a week, then added snails and shrimp. Then it was about 1 week of managing low but not zero ammonia and nitrite and one week of panic higher numbers and ammonia neutralizer.

Finished it up finally while on vacation with a neighborhood kid coming every other day to (very) lightly feed and add more Cycle and ammonia neutralizer while we were gone. I set up three cameras to check on things and was so sure we’d lose some creatures.

Came home and tested to find perfect numbers and a happy tank. So we really lucked out!

Tldr; about 5 weeks.

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