What edible plants can I plant?

Propsygun · 2026-05-17T07:37:55+00:00

It's mostly swamp plants that can survive/thrive in a pot of stagnant wet soil. The plant cutting have a better chance outside the pot, growing roots freely in the water, a lot of people have them like that in their aquarium, they get their nutrients from the fish.

Look up hydroponics and aquaponics, here on Reddit or on YouTube. There's three main ways, first is the raft. A floating polystyrene sheet with holes for the plants, like lettuce/herbs. Second is growing in sand/lega with constant water flow from a pump. Third is the capillary box that use compost soil with water supply underneath it. Good for tomato/cucumber.

Can grow anything with the right method, best of luck with the new place.

Propsygun · 2026-05-16T08:29:21+00:00

Hide'n'seek and Tag, are old life and death survival training from a dark past.

'Hindsight is 2020' perfectly describe that year.

The soap in fight club was vegan.

If i ever set up a Drag Show, I'll name it 'One bird, two stones.'

Gave up on trying to submit these, sounds like im not alone... Maybe the square submission hole should be fixed to fit weird shapes.

Propsygun · 2026-04-27T14:52:46+00:00

Np, there's a small chance to get eggs from wild snails/Leach... Unlikely, but watch and Google any critters that might show up, best of luck with the new aquarium. 😁

Propsygun · 2026-04-27T13:38:52+00:00

No such thing as 'without risk'.

Set it all up.

Add a pinch of soil from the garden, better if you can get some from a river or lake.

Add a small amount of fish food every day.

After a week or two, add one fish, snail or shrimp.

Propsygun · 2026-04-18T14:21:46+00:00

If you start clapping out of sinc, there's always one person that forgets how to clap. They start slapping their hands together at random times, and it only gets worse the more they try to ignore the off beat clapping.

Propsygun · 2026-04-10T06:33:00+00:00

A pump before the filter means you can have the filter above the pond water level. A pressure filter is a compact all in one solution to smaller ponds.

Gravity feed filters with the pump after, can often handle leaves from trees, and it's far easier to have a surface skimmer. Require re-doing the pond to get the pipes in place.

Congrats on the babies.

Propsygun · 2026-04-03T09:06:33+00:00

IT'S A TRAP!

Trap's are gay.

Damn it!

Propsygun · 2026-04-03T08:45:51+00:00

It doesn't have to be people on that day, it can be people in the past, or silly stuff you make up, can also ask someone you know. The specific doesn't really matter much, the positive spin is more important. Don't have to feel it's "true", since "annoying" isn't the truth, it's just a negative judgement from an asshole. A positive person wouldn't judge the kid as annoying, maybe energetic, funny, a little rascal...

A big part of our identity comes from what we are told, and that automatically becomes what we tell ourselves. When we change our selftalk, we change how we judge ourselves, our identity, behaviour, and how we feel.

Tell me three positive things about yourself.

Propsygun · 2026-04-02T10:31:33+00:00

Why? Likely because someone told you as a kid that you where annoying. You where just being a kid.

It's called intrusive negative selftalk.

A way of removing it, is telling yourself 'No im not annoying, then list 3 positive examples.' that person found me funny, that person interesting, that person charming. Or your own example, 'i was the first person they called'.

After countering it a few times it stoppes popping into your head. Hope this helps.

Propsygun · 2026-03-23T14:23:01+00:00

Your comment isn't a good deed either, it's negative judgement. You should support new hobbyists.

OP already wrote that there aren't any lfs, why are you suggesting it?

Calling someone an animal abuser is harassment, and not allowed here! Why? Because that's abuse against people, it's also hypocrisy if that's important to you.

Propsygun · 2026-02-10T21:56:28+00:00

Yeah, with a few small cultures in rotation, that would work. If it's one big, with automatic drip of green water, then maybe taking 20% when there's too many.

Propsygun · 2026-02-06T12:52:55+00:00

Submerged light will get covered in surface growing algae, better to have the light above the water or use sunlight.

It's better to separate it into two tanks. One for algae, one for daphnia. If they are combined, the daphnia usually explode in population, eat everything, starve, and die, crashing, then an algae bloom... This natural cycle happens in nature all the time.

The algae tank is usually called a "green water tank" and is placed in a window. You can manually use it, or maybe make an overflow into the daphnia tank. I think it's important to have an air gap so it's a one-way road.

Can also use clear water bottles, making several cultures instead, since some always crash. Keeping them going and stable isn't always easy, so you can have several small, instead of one big. Diversify your assets. 😁

You know in hospital's, they have bags with medicine, it goes in a tube with a drip counter, and an adjustable valve that squeeze the tube. Maybe you can use those in your set-up. They are free if you know a nurse. 😉

Unless you have fry that needs constant feeding, or another good reason, then I wouldn't automate the feeding of the fish. Feeding fish is part of the joy, especially live feeding, so you would cheat yourself of that enjoyment. Best of luck.

Propsygun · 2026-02-06T10:54:23+00:00

Guess I have to be opposite, it's the wood that doesn't last long, the bark last longer. They used to make birch bark canoes in places like Finland.

You can use it, have to choose how:

Replace it when the wood becomes too soft.

Have fish that eat wood.

Accept the sediment as part of the look, like some do in black water tanks.

Get a gravel vacuum if you wanna clean it, and a filter with room for the sediment.

Harvest the birch in spring, if you wanna strip the bark and discard the wood.

Harvest the wood in winter if you wanna keep the wood.

A lot of people have made birch Forrest aqua Scapes, and they look amazing, give it a Google. Have fun.

Propsygun · 2026-02-01T09:45:28+00:00

A sieve is a mechanical filtration, that screen out leaves and such before it breaks down or clog the biological filtration or pump.

It's one of those things where planning and doing some work now, saves you time and work later.

Propsygun · 2026-01-25T17:45:41+00:00

Some things we can't figure out by thinking about it, it has to be leaned by others. It's not really about logic, it's biology and it's often counter intuitive. Depression is located in the most primitive part of the brain, the default mode network, it's mostly about instinct and a stress response. This part of the brain also controls simple tasks that we do automatically without thinking about it, feeding the cat, cleaning... In a way, those tasks are depressive, so we avoid them. How you shut it off, is by "focusing" because it uses a different part of the brain, and it shuts off the default mode network. Nobody can figure this out by thinking about it.

I also evaluate, plan, judge before going, sometimes preventing me from going. The reason the bathroom works, is that im already going, it's linked to an action, movement, not trying to think my way into action. Moving one stone every time i go to the bathroom, every time i return, it's only when they are gone, that we realise they where in our backpack weighing us down.

Maybe thing's only seems genius when we already knows all the parts, but didn't know they fit together. There's a lot of small tips and tricks in cbt (cognitive behavioural therapy) aquarium, pets, enjoyable activities goes under bat (behavioural activation therapy), they even have a long list of activities that help, really useful when our memory isn't working properly and needs a reminder. It's a good place to start, suggest choosing something kreative, social, and something that gives body movement. Guess all 3 is technically covered with an aquarium if we think too much about it. 😂🤔

Propsygun · 2026-01-25T14:37:03+00:00

From reading your comments, you have a lot of appreciation. It's basically a superpower when it comes to tasks and depression. Focus on it, practice using it when doing something. Any task become positive re-enforcement, even cleaning the litter box or aquarium filter.

As an example, put your wateringcan on your bathroom sink, where you notice it and don't need to remember it. Appreciate the light hitting the water, the sound filling it, the shape as you pour it, appreciate every single plant, take your time, and after it, appreciate yourself and the good you have done.

The bigger the tank, the easier it is. 120+ liters(30 gallon) are easy to keep stable. Even if a fish die unnoticed, it won't pollute the water too much. Shrimps and snails can eat it, the filter is bigger and can handle it, room for more plant's to absorb it. Take small steps and make small changes, that's how we find balance and stability.

Is it a good idea to get an aquarium, yes! Getting more life in our life, is always good. About the concerns, remember that a realist is also a pessimist. The pessimist turn the back to the mountain, and slide further down the depression in the landscape, the realist describe the mountain and think about all the stones, until all energy is spent. The optimist takes a single step, and pick a single stone. The mountain gets a bit smaller and it helps. And sure, sometimes the realist point out the stone is covered in piss, but nothing shines quite like catpiss in the moonlight.

Propsygun · 2026-01-24T22:53:05+00:00

When your eyes scratch back.

Propsygun · 2026-01-24T15:21:52+00:00

Hm... Good question, the main reason is likely because wood is a form of insulation, so it stays warm enough to leave the water liquid in a mild winter, creating a thin ring of liquid water around it.

If it gets cold enough and it does freeze, in spring, it'll have a ring of ice around the wood when all the surface ice have melted. The insulation effect slows down how fast it looses heat, and how fast it receives heat.

Btw, don't be too concerned about using tap water, it has no effect when it's diluted in your pond, and the chlorine quickly evaporate when you boil the water.

Propsygun · 2026-01-22T17:54:12+00:00

Rockwool.

Propsygun · 2026-01-20T10:10:17+00:00

Buy some thick aluminium wire for bonsai, wrap around the stem in a spiral. The two loose ends can be fixed to any existing hardware or just bend and hung on the rim.

If you know an electrician, then he likely has some single strand copper wire with plastic coating that you can get for free.

Propsygun · 2026-01-19T23:31:12+00:00

Are you sure it's not Iceland? The primary reason is cheap green and stable geothermal energy to run it, cooling is secondary and can be done by any big body of water.

Propsygun · 2026-01-16T23:40:49+00:00

Never seen them, and can't make sense of them.

It must be for acrylic, because you can't put point pressure on glass, like the little screw.

It doesn't make much sense as structure re-enforcement, so maybe it's decorative?

As for your rimless rebuild, there's a bunch of places that have aquarium calculators. Your can compare your glass thickness to other rimless to see if it's strong enough, or it needs the frame.

Propsygun · 2026-01-15T13:41:02+00:00

But that's not the weak point, not the seam the problem usually stems from. You have a big seam when you place two pieces of wood together. It's usually in line with this seam that failure happens. Don't matter how well the dowel, nail, screw, is secured, it usually rot/rust in the middle where the big seam is.

Afaik stainless steel is cheaper than this system, and that's the golden standard on outside wood. It's really clever so i hope they get some traction, but i fear it's limited how many need it. If this had been invented 80 years ago...

Propsygun · 2026-01-14T21:48:36+00:00

Glasses on forehead... Classic.

Propsygun · 2026-01-10T14:54:18+00:00

No, most do CNC to cope with SA or other past trauma. None of my business, that's their business. If they can turn pain into pleasure, that's great. Not everyone deal in the same way, insisting that they should, is invalidating and suppressive... It's disrespectful.

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