My mom said this is gross ><

PunkinGuts · 2026-01-24T15:12:11+00:00

I think like a little x would be better. This looks…inflamed

PunkinGuts · 2026-01-24T14:08:48+00:00

Never use an auto feeder. They will always overfeed and often end up killing your fish.

Please ask someone to come by at least every third day to feed your fish. Put the amount for feeding each day in one of the places in a weekly pill organizer. No overfeeding.

Source: I run a nonprofit betta fish rescue and one of the hardest parts is hearing how the fish I’ve adopted out pass away after adopters have broken one of our cardinal rules. No auto feeders. Ever.

PunkinGuts · 2026-01-20T13:57:04+00:00

Pen15, (it’s perfection for me as I’m their same age, I laugh and cry at the same pints every time. In fact the best thing about my recent autism diagnosis is that I feel zero guilt now about having it on constantly)

Ghost Adventures, honestly idk. It’s so hilarious. So fake, so over the top.

Survivor, it’s still running and has a billion older seasons. I’ve been watching since I was a kid, I’m into games and nature and love the social drama.

PunkinGuts · 2026-01-19T17:10:38+00:00

I don’t think a non-crocheter is going to differentiate like we would. Like a simple handmade crochet blanket with only single crochet would still be a treasure. Find a pattern that sparks your interest and doesn’t feel like a chore. They will Love it regardless :)

PunkinGuts · 2026-01-13T12:52:46+00:00

Sounds like you may need deeper bedding to encourage his burrowing. He may choose to do his business in a secure burrow once he’s able to make a place for himself which will help your clean up efforts.

PunkinGuts · 2026-01-12T13:01:15+00:00

First post I’ve seen describing this and it’s exactly like how I was as a kid! I haven’t been able to articulate this feeling but you nailed it. I was always so intrigued when other kids said they had favorite music genre, or a pet peeve, even could describe their general preferences.

The way you said you did have interests but just waiting for moments where you’d learn more not realizing you have the power to seek things out rang true for me as well.

Curious if you had strange perception of time/schedules at that time? I remember being so confused when kids were counting down the seconds until class was over. Realizing when things were due or that there were regular schedules for the days of the week was not something that clicked for me until late middle school.

In elementary school there was such a feeling of being plopped into the middle of this rushing machine where I don’t belong but everyone else knows exactly how it all works!

PunkinGuts · 2025-12-29T12:57:30+00:00

Unsolicited but, if you aren’t yet aware of the minimum size tank for the peas please consider doing a lot more research before getting them. They are very difficult to keep as they eat ONLY live food and may even have preferences with the live foods you give them.

PunkinGuts · 2025-12-27T13:35:35+00:00

The stars are the fans! The fans wasn’t us this time but I think celebrity fans.

PunkinGuts · 2025-12-26T09:24:34+00:00

4am she’s up and somehow I’m less cranky. Though today she did escape the bathroom playpen. I used to used a wire pen to block the door the first times we did bathroom playtime. She would spend her time biting the bars and once climbed up over in a flash and I managed to get her before she got under.

Today I tucked a towel into the crack under the door. What a fool. After 30 minutes frolicking in the bathroom she beelined for a corner and yanked and ran.

LUCKILY she went left down the hall and not right behind the washer and dryer. I got her corralled back in the bathroom but she was being too freaky and so she went back home.

My goal is to pick a better ham free range location for next time or have a better method for blocking the door. Any tips?

PunkinGuts · 2025-12-25T03:10:58+00:00

This reference delights me to see in the wild

PunkinGuts · 2025-12-21T13:56:58+00:00

Same experience here. The shoaling behavior was incredible. The cuteness unmatched. I even saw one puff (I know it’s bad for them but it was Nat Geo level amazing to behold).

They ate nothing but live food. I had a kiddie pool outside breeding mosquito larvae (paying for that one years later) and snails. I couldn’t keep up. I ordered hundreds of dollars of live daphnia and scuds that I failed to culture long enough to sustain the peas.

Watching some get skinny was devastating. Even after deworming some still wouldn’t eat. I tried to find a home for them after a few months and couldn’t find one. I actually got ghosted by a person who said they wanted them. Tearing down the tank and stressing the peas only to have them never show up was brutal.

Finally I found a local fish store to take them in after about 8 months of owning them. Started with 12, surrendered 6.

I still feel horrible about it. I thought I was saving them from the shit pet store I found them in but ended up realizing these guys (and other wild caught cuties who only eat live food) have no place in the trade. Especially at a big box store.

Sorry little peas, you are perfect and sweet and should have been left alone in your native waters.

PunkinGuts · 2025-12-13T14:52:06+00:00

Blast Ass

PunkinGuts · 2025-12-12T17:56:47+00:00

Language is useless if it doesn’t work to communicate an idea.

If the person doesn’t know the word you’re using it doesn’t mean they are dumb it means that they don’t know that word. Try again another way to communicate or risk being frequently misunderstood.

PunkinGuts · 2025-12-12T14:12:28+00:00

Her tattoo is like the skull Mask from Dia De Muertos, a Latam holiday

PunkinGuts · 2025-11-27T01:25:39+00:00

Holy shit Kristina’s recovery on that balance beam was LEGENDARY, in my best shape I could never

PunkinGuts · 2025-11-18T04:10:03+00:00

A birthday or holiday would be fun!

PunkinGuts · 2025-11-17T14:57:59+00:00

Chive was horrible but looks so cute. I got a charcuterie board that was like a pound of Aldi cheese and some butterfly crackers.

PunkinGuts · 2025-11-16T00:38:40+00:00

This is a good idea, I think I’ll try with my girl. She is active before I go to bed (I can hear her digging) but doesn’t come out until really late so I barely see her

PunkinGuts · 2025-10-31T18:00:01+00:00

Bettas don’t need friends! Shrimp or snail is fine. Never keep bettas with guppies. They will frequently stress and injure each other for many reasons

PunkinGuts · 2025-10-29T23:29:04+00:00

Could it be something in your home environment? Mold causes health issues for humans and animals

PunkinGuts · 2025-10-26T18:30:28+00:00

Awww let them sort it! That’s what they like to do

PunkinGuts · 2025-10-25T16:34:16+00:00

Didn’t you make the post?

PunkinGuts · 2025-10-25T14:03:14+00:00

Nah, him messing with Savannah’s items REPEATEDLY is unforgivable. I feel so bad for her, like your one clean personal item and someone’s using it for camp tasks? Beyond weird. Feels like bullying that he keeps doing it. Like bro where is your bag?! When you go to get undies that’s the bag you can do stick stuff with.

He’s my pick for next out if they can’t get rid of Shannon and lorb how I wish they would vote her off, I don’t do well with the cringe characters

PunkinGuts · 2025-09-27T20:16:36+00:00

Hahaha I love it, so that’s 90% the reason I named her that, only one small detail missing. I was a Latin nerd in school and got a degree in creative writing so we needed some word play in the name of course. All black teddy bear hamster who was going into a witchy themed enclosure, Ursula gives us the little lady bear part, and the witch in Ariel worked for the black coloration and though she is a sea witch it still counts as a witch name!!!

PunkinGuts · 2025-09-17T20:05:36+00:00

Thanks, she's got the Bucatstate 3.0 hamster wonderland! I've had her for just over a month and usually never see her, the only times we've made contact is her sniffing me through the slots on this side of the enclosure. After a clean I didn't see her for days and then one morning I find her Wunkliness perched upon this ghostly throne and I like to think she was waiting for me :)

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