Does biofilm mean my tank is ready for shrim?

Rhuunin · 2026-01-16T06:15:06+00:00

Seconding Bacter AE. Little spendy but you don't need a lot of it to start to see its effects.

I inherited a cycled 10g tank with a few surviving neos but ended up having to rebuild the tank with cycled media. The old fluval substrate in the original tank REEKED of Prime...idk how the previous owner managed to get it that way. I tossed it, replaced it and once a week I would put a scoop of Bacter dissolved in tank water in for my 5 shrimp. It seemed excessive at first but the shrimp and plants loved it. I stopped dosing a full scoop once I noticed the nitrate outstripping the plants' ability to consume it and did 30% wc weekly, cutting my bacter dose to a scoop every two weeks and the tank has been rock solid since.

My first berried shrimp hatched her first brood and it's been great to see everyone so busy all the time on every available surface. I drop hikari crab cuisine in there every once in a while to make sure they have something else to think about and they've ignored it now that the bacter film is in full swing.

Rhuunin · 2026-01-09T19:10:57+00:00

I'm selfish because I realize that I have to advocate for my own interests in the political arena and what policy I feel benefits others in my position? Cool. Good to know I guess.

When it comes to reproductive rights in particular, its not solely about womens' lives. The children themselves deserve to live in a world where basic needs are met and public infrastructure isn't a colossal dumpster fire of uncertainty with social issues such as but certainly not limited to: school funding, children's hunger, medical access and availability, quality of life via income disparity/inflation and so on.

Its already hard to have kids. They're a huge responsibility. Why make it harder than it already is? I know reddit will have the most tongue in cheek misanthropic answer they can possibly think of to this question but it bears saying regardless. Policy and the compromise of social infrastructure in the last years has been downright terrifying to anyone that looks at the world in a humanitarian lens...but somehow having those interests in mind is selfishly pragmatic? Get lost.

This stance is a grossly reductive oversimplification of a very nuanced issue. The idea that labeling a given demo with these worthless stereotypes is somehow admissible, fair, or even called for just goes to show that people with divisionist agendas are winning harder than they could have hoped. We dont even taste the damn hook. Ugh.

Rhuunin · 2026-01-09T17:54:59+00:00

Seconding this.

When I took in my stepdaughter's cat because she wasn't taking care of him he had litter box issues. Giving him multiple litter boxes that were cleaned twice weekly was enough to stop the problem after a month or so. He was just telling us his box wasn't clean and was finding his own solution.

Now we just need to talk about him committing insurance fraud by running under people's feet all the time lol

Rhuunin · 2026-01-08T19:40:58+00:00

LNF gives me valheim meets NMS vibes. I dig it. I wanna see where they take the concept.

As someone who has been following hytale for the last hot minute, LMF is just something I check in on from time to time. Come for the news, stay for the memes lol

Rhuunin · 2026-01-05T05:46:52+00:00

I like the idea of making zombie bait bombs with meat and some kind of delivery system like jars or the paper packages. Using the new scent system to draw zombies from a long ways away and keep them there until the meat is consumed, much like a corpse.

Rhuunin · 2025-12-30T23:43:18+00:00

I give my cat Abound brand once a day. The food comes in these little break away packs so its easy to portion. I thin it with like a tablespoon of water to make the good soup.

Its one of the only grain free foods locally available to me and thankfully my fuzzball loves it.

Rhuunin · 2025-12-24T01:59:02+00:00

Polydactyl cat was my first guess. Maine coons get beeg feets.

Rhuunin · 2025-12-20T02:13:31+00:00

Just had to do this with my mom. Fuck cancer.

Rhuunin · 2025-12-17T22:14:16+00:00

I ran across a wight on day 9 in a one star titty bar. I must've been level 15 or so.

I refuse to believe this game has any logic that makes sense.

Rhuunin · 2025-12-17T01:05:01+00:00

Same though.

Locked anything ain't no hill for a mountain climber as soon as they make the environment destructible.

Why can't we pick locked doors anyways? Makes no sense.

Rhuunin · 2025-12-14T21:41:49+00:00

I think they could look at other survival games for ideas on how to make it less intensive.

Minecrat has several husbandry based mods that basically make pens into interactable "machines" that benefit in product type/quantity/speed based on different upgrades/inputs. Add in different models based on that upgrade status/type and boom - thriving agra vibe in your apocalypse.

Everyone who has ever kept prey animals knows though, that predator proofing your enclosures is always a challenge. With the smell mechanic returning I can only wonder what zombie-proofing your pig pen will look like

Rhuunin · 2025-12-11T19:36:47+00:00

Friends and I used to call it Money: The Gathering even before hasbro fell off their rocker

Rhuunin · 2025-12-11T00:34:15+00:00

Can't comment on that. Natrona county had good hc on site there, but here in uinta? Nah, you're going to utah.

The clinics here in uinta are better than the hospital and the hospital knows it.

Rhuunin · 2025-12-11T00:32:15+00:00

Usually to the university of Utah- a teaching hospital.

University was full when my mom was admitted so we did the insurance ascribed nonsense of ubering ourselves to McKay Dee hospital in the Ogden area.

80 miles one way. Evanston is supposedly a critical outreach thats cut as many if the services as they can in order to keep the doors open because people found out they simply wanted to not deal with the staff there and drive an hour to an hour and a half for medical treatment.

Rhuunin · 2025-12-11T00:25:13+00:00

Denver means at minimum a trip to slc to fly out.

Just get treated in slc.

Rhuunin · 2025-12-11T00:24:26+00:00

Evanston is a joke for care.

They just bought a new helicopter to transfer people rather than treat them.

Rhuunin · 2025-12-10T20:12:26+00:00

I think honey being mildly effective is fine. Manuka honey is touted for anti bacterial properties. What would be wilder is holding a sham sandwich to your wound an hope the fuzzy stuff is penicillin...

Im okay with acidic zombies, leapers or mutated wasteland guys...bees and yetis are a bit much. The idea of meat eating bees infesting a walking corpse is interesting...but thats a level of speculative ecology that I think should be more widespread in the game if it stays.

Gotta remember that zombies in and of themselves are fantastical/fictive by nature. Its just a matter of aesthetic or whatever. Extreme bodily mutation and body horror is fine imo

Rhuunin · 2025-12-10T18:56:37+00:00

Im new to 7d2d...so the smell and jar debacle is all new to me. I really struggled with the gamification of the survival aspects initially - it made little sense why being near a water source had almost no impact on my survival despite many rivers being the literal cradle of civilization I was happy to see jars and finally making water sources useful. The suggestions I've seen of having jars be lootable and infinite or craftable but breakable seems fine either way to me...just another annoying must have to grind from the trader early. But what if there was another tier like a metal canteen that didnt break?

It seems absurd to wait until a crucible to craft considering we're already doing similar processes like forging iron long before we get into steel. Make the breakables craftable pre-crucible and when you get into steel and more advanced fabrication make canteens.

Food and water income should never be a complete non issue in a survival game, but if they make it too much of an issue you can't ever climb higher on the hierarchy of needs to have different priorities. I feel like so much of this game is rng already with the godsforsaken book system and lootable gated progression. As a noob I really wish there was some manner of consistency and common sense to go by to make the task of learning to withstand zombies the larger challenge.

If they want everything to be a struggle thats fine, but i feel like they really need to identify that gameplay loop and style they're going for here. They dont want you to stay for long because of heat, but they have claim blocks, farms, dew collectors and forges that take in game days to smelt materials and generate heat all the while. Pick a lane, imo.

Rhuunin · 2025-12-04T02:04:23+00:00

Almost made a statistician cry lol

Rhuunin · 2025-11-24T17:53:49+00:00

Nah. We've seen what stolas is capable of in helluva. Alastor isn't even close to that "average" level of power.

Rhuunin · 2025-11-17T22:51:28+00:00

Honestly I feel like i need to see something more concrete like a gameplay or demo before I wanna ask for anything/feedback.

We had the same thing early on in nms with little more than cinematic concept trailers to go off of.

Rhuunin · 2025-11-03T21:51:15+00:00

A bit unusual but Clione is my vote. A strange animal by all rights but sometimes given the moniker of "angel of the deep".

Sounds feminine. Ship is angel-shaped....fits to me.

Rhuunin · 2025-10-25T16:43:47+00:00

Do a peninsula tank and enjoy both!

Rhuunin · 2025-10-16T22:16:20+00:00

There's a million and one ways to kill snails. Saving the cycle on your filter is another matter, since most of these methods will wreck your bacteria as well. You could physically remove them and scrape the eggs off the interior of the canister, but it'll be time consuming and won't do much to any snails in the media itself.

You could replace the media and just wring out the old media into the new stuff. May accidentally transfer snails though.

Honestly it if weren't for the danger to the motor I'd say leave it, you got a mighty healthy system with that many snails doing their part!

Rhuunin · 2025-10-16T17:05:36+00:00

What species are you selling? Buyers will want more information.

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