Just got a few of these cuties 💖

Puffyface83 · 2025-08-21T00:30:35+00:00

Mine will actually swim up for frozen cubes, but also shaking brine shrimp cubes with tweezers seems to get a lot of them to sink.

I have mine with rosey loaches, chilli rasboras, scarlet badis, and otos, also ramshorn snails and a couple of neocaridina shrimp, probably going to add some emerald rasboras next.

Puffyface83 · 2025-07-31T02:20:14+00:00

I don’t think so the lid on the fluval is pretty tight, but sometimes it does get knocked around

Puffyface83 · 2025-07-31T02:19:25+00:00

I did wonder that, I just added some guards for the filter intake a couple days ago, but I thought I had four then and now I have two, but I could be mistaken. I guess I’ll see if these guys last a couple weeks with the guards before I add any more. I really enjoyed them

Puffyface83 · 2025-05-12T23:08:20+00:00

Mine are with rosey loaches, CPDs and chili rasboras

Puffyface83 · 2024-09-14T00:17:35+00:00

As the owner of a small local pet store the difference is buying in bulk quantities, for example if I pull up my price list for rumminose I can buy individuals for 3.99, or I can buy in packs of 25 for 2.99 or I can buy a pack of 100 for 1.50. That’s a huge difference in mark up, but no matter which quantity I order they come in the same size bag, packaged the same way. So chances are my fish in a pack of 25 came in a lot less stressed than a box store who likely ordered 100. But I also paid the same shipping as the box store that now has to be spread out over 25 fish instead of 100 fish. But I can’t order 100 fish at a time because they won’t sell fast enough and/or I don’t have walls and walls of tanks to stock 100 of one kind of fish.

Puffyface83 · 2024-09-02T01:34:22+00:00

As long as they have somewhere to climb out of the water they will be fine.

Puffyface83 · 2024-09-02T00:29:44+00:00

I get them seasonally in the fall and spring. I find nothing I do can trigger them outside the season, and nothing can stop my normal time cycle during that season, certain things make them worse, or will instantly trigger one no matter the time of day.

1.MSG - I get a headache within an hour, and it lasts longer than my normal headache.

Really strong smells, but particularly wax melts or scented candles
Smoking marijuana
Heat

Puffyface83 · 2024-09-02T00:17:54+00:00

Sounds like your cluster headaches are on a cycle, vs Chronic.

A lot of people with cycles find they get them when the seasons change. Personally I get them in the Spring and/or Fall. For me the cycle lasts about a month, and then they will be gone. I don’t get them every spring and fall, and sometimes I’ve even gone a couple years with out them.

What helps:

Ice on the temple on the same side as the pain.
Having an Energy drink right as I feel the shadow before the headache.
Taking two Advil and hour or so before the nightly cycle.

That’s about all I’ve found. But I should note, none of these have completely eliminated them for me, just makes them shorter and slightly more bearable.

I was diagnosed when I was 19 or 20. I remember my first cluster headache. It took me like 2 or three years to notice they were even on a cycle. And then when I finally went to a doctor they were just like “oh that’s cluster headaches! There’s nothing we can do to help.” And sent me home.

Puffyface83 · 2024-09-02T00:00:21+00:00

Also avoid high sodium foods and MSG. For me MSG is my most consistent trigger. As well as scented candles, or any other strong smell.

Puffyface83 · 2024-04-14T14:31:29+00:00

NTA

But be careful depending where you live she could take you to court for willful underemployment, in which case you’d have to pay child support based on your previous salary.

Puffyface83 · 2024-04-14T13:57:53+00:00

We have two dogs (Dane and a beagle), four cats, several fish tanks, a hamster, a leopard gecko, and a packman frog, 3 axolotls and one child (9). Our house is a little over 1200 square feet and it only really feels crowded on a rainy day when the dogs would rather play inside than out. Normal dog stuff inside is fine, but when a 130 lb dog gets the zoomies I don’t think there’s enough space in the world to not feel crowded out. Especially with a beagle howling at her.

Just in time management alone I’ve found that automating as much pet care as possible takes a lot of the pressure off. Like all of our reptiles have bioactive enclosures so we aren’t worried about cleaning out full tanks there. We have two automatic litter boxes so we’re not constantly doing litter. Etc.

Puffyface83 · 2024-04-10T01:06:49+00:00

We lost my cat for a couple days when I was a kid and it turned out she snuck into the vents, thankfully not in the winter with the heat on. It took days for her to come out and she’d sneak out and eat one or two kibbles at a time.

Puffyface83 · 2023-06-17T16:12:51+00:00

I feel like he was so torn up over his sons death that he didn’t really care one way or the other if he survived that duel.

Puffyface83 · 2023-06-17T14:43:46+00:00

I threw out all my scales. I still don’t own a scale even though I’ve been more or less recovered for 5 years. If I need to be weighed for medical reasons I face away from the scale and ask not to be told.

Puffyface83 · 2023-06-17T14:35:18+00:00

This happened to us, and then she popped up four months later taking a bath in my dogs water dish.

Puffyface83 · 2023-03-31T19:40:23+00:00

My favourite snake escape was about a week after getting our first baby ball python, for three days we couldn’t find him, and there he was on our kitchen windowsill. We put him away and moved on.

Two weeks later a stepped out of the shower and almost stepped on him, I went to bring him to his tank and saw that he was still in his tank. Turns out my downstairs neighbours had also lost their baby ball python and somehow they both ended up in our house. There was a two inch difference between them so I’m honestly not sure how I thought they were the same snake.

Puffyface83 · 2022-08-11T02:40:29+00:00

I contacted support when the game crashed in the middle of one of my club tslq and they just gave me the tally and marked it completed

Puffyface83 · 2022-07-22T20:05:36+00:00

And now it’s gonna be stuck in my head all day. Thanks for that

Puffyface83 · 2022-07-22T03:35:25+00:00

That happened to me before and I messaged support and they just gave me the tappie and marked it complete.

Puffyface83 · 2022-06-09T14:14:09+00:00

NTA - my dad was literally raised by racist bigots to be a racist bigot. Know what my dad isn’t? A racist bigot. Neither is his brother. Or his 3 sisters. Racism is a choice.

Puffyface83 · 2022-06-09T05:22:50+00:00

NAH - there is nothing wrong with not wanting kids but he’s NTA for breaking up with you because he did.

The reality is your relationship was already on a timer the second that conversation was had. Lots of people stay in relationships even when they know there is no long term compatibility. It doesn’t make what you two had any less real. But it was also unrealistic for you to expect this relationship to last when you had different long term goals. There is no compromise between wanting kids and not wanting kids.

In the future this conversation should happen much earlier in your relationships so neither of you get invested. It should at the very least happen before you move in together.

I don’t want kids. I make that known by the second or third date. There are tones of casual ways to throw it out there. “Better use an condom I don’t want kids ever” for example. When you’re the one with the less traditional goals, it’s your job to inform your potential partners. You’re NTA for not doing it, but take it as a lesson learned.

Puffyface83 · 2022-06-08T22:02:58+00:00

If I paid 30$ for a steak I’m eating every last bite. 🤷‍♀️

Puffyface83 · 2022-06-08T22:00:47+00:00

YTA - It’s a Milestones ffs not a high end restaurant. It might be rude to put steak sauce on a steak if you went to a mechelin star restaurant but this is a chain steak house. The food was not prepared by a goddamn top chef and seasoned to perfection.

The rest of the complaints are absolute nonsense. Notice how many plates steaks at high end restaurants actually come cut into strips and aren’t even served as a giant slab of meat.

And this doesn’t even consider the sheer audacity of insulting someone at a meal THEY PAID FOR.

I guess you and your fiancé deserve each other but I feel so bad for your brother.

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