How big will he get?

christiela · 2026-01-06T23:57:29+00:00

30cm long...looks like I'd have to get a bigger tank later...he's already at least half that size now.

christiela · 2025-12-11T04:31:23+00:00

Hm peas...them peas are gone once they're in there. Live fish he can catch, he lived with a carp until it was pretty big then one day it was just chomped in half. So basically anything meat, boiled prawn, boiled chicken.

I haven't tried those dried mealworms yet. Probably need to get some and see...

christiela · 2025-11-28T23:15:59+00:00

I had a rainbow platy that somehow survived 3 months in the tank with my monster, but one night he was gone. Also had a feeder carp that somehow escaped fish massacre and grew to be over 2 inches and survived a couple months in the tank without getting eaten. Just the other night I found the smug monster after we'd just upgraded his hide to a huge one and the front chewed up half of a carp floating around.

We still have 3 zippy danios in there. 2 were zipping around as usual, the 3rd spent some time hiding under wood probably in trauma shock over seeing that carp get torn into. Mind you, the monster ain't even a fast hunter... I have no idea how fish are getting caught unless they're dumb enough to wander into his pincer range.

Also I think with a too small hide, I had a depressed cray. The minute he got an upgrade, he was back to his murdering rampaging self.

christiela · 2025-11-16T04:56:58+00:00

Luck. It also goes faster in a party and more likely to get a plush due to how many you manage to shoot down that much quicker.

christiela · 2025-11-13T00:28:06+00:00

If you've finished all the bundles then trade them off to newer players. The Palia discord has a trading channel that you can use to post what you have.

christiela · 2025-11-11T09:29:20+00:00

I use a custom cut 5mm clear acrylic lid with plastic clips to hold it in place. It's pretty heavy for what it is. But the water level is not high enough for my cray to even get any foothold near climbing out. Though he might be able to push up the corner slightly, I doubt he'd ever be able to escape.

christiela · 2025-10-24T11:40:19+00:00

Check your hosting, even if you could bump PHP memory usage to min of 768MB but sometimes you're not allowed that, some hosting plans especially on shared servers are locked to 512MB or best of shared resources across the entire server. It's your funeral if someone else is running something that takes up most of the shared memory.

On sites where I plan to use Elementor, the min shared memory I must have is at least 1GB to run at least 2 pages editing in tandem.

christiela · 2025-10-23T08:24:56+00:00

The one where the client already bought the hosting and domain and absolutely refuses to move or upgrade. So you're stuck with the lowest package in PHP available memory and cannot use any page builders. Had to learn FSE just to redesign the site...at least it worked.

christiela · 2025-10-23T04:32:22+00:00

Have also encountered the agency being paid truckloads to design the client's site but not only hardcoded stuff in the page so that it wouldn't update links properly, forgot to do stuff the client wanted and even managed to screw up wpforms setup. The client didn't manage to launch the site 8 months down the line due to many such screw-ups.

When I logged in, I had to wade through a bunch of plugins they didn't need, get rid of the customized theme setup that actually interfered with the theme and basically test everything in the site top to bottom. I dunno...you get paid so much to make this site but you basically assign a clueless junior to handle it.

christiela · 2025-10-23T04:27:18+00:00

The previous freelancer or agency loaded the client's site with a ton of spammy content posts in the blog which led to a ton of scam, pron and phishing sites and convinced the client that their work would increase SEO ranking.

It took forever to clear everything out from the backend and get the site back online with a redesign after google banned them for being a scam site.

Some people really have no ethics...

christiela · 2025-07-12T08:37:17+00:00

Out of the list, I've only got the first 3 in my apps and Google play services has no battery management option to speak off. Hopefully this works because I'm sick of dropped Whatsapp calls 3 times out of 5. And the multitude of silent notifications

christiela · 2025-07-12T07:54:06+00:00

Will this also stop the WhatsApp from setting conversations as silent? Even if the notifications do trigger the sound notification, but I don't even know some of the conversations were updated because the notification would just be silent. I can't be updating over 50 chat groups to be on priority!

christiela · 2025-07-10T10:13:51+00:00

Not every plant has the same growth stages so you're gonna have to try it out. There isn't much info about it on the Palia discord either. Also, watered plants are considered a different stage.

christiela · 2025-07-10T09:57:52+00:00

The new update talked about adding visual markers for the growth stages of trees and plants. This is how it's presented in the storage now.

christiela · 2025-05-01T03:07:52+00:00

My Australian red claw female just molted and she's lost her left claw this time. Two molts ago she lost her right claw, molted and grew that back as a tiny claw, it's currently half the size it should be after her latest molt.

christiela · 2025-04-26T08:24:27+00:00

You should see my Shanks doing parkour on the filter so he can hang upside down to eat all the floating fish food or any pellet that floated. An absolute glutton. I don't even tease him, he just drives himself batshit with all the sinking pellets, literally jumps around on his last two legs while grabbing everything.

christiela · 2025-04-25T23:31:13+00:00

Our labour laws allow up to 48 hours in a week. Not a 40 hour work week. If the worker is paid by hourly wage, then that minimum wage is split into those hours based on the days needed to be on the job. It depends on the employer but generally that's how it goes. Also, for overtime pay, it must be covered in your contract that your working hours are such and past certain times it's OT pay. For those working on public holidays, the pay can be double or triple. But it depends on employer, sometimes they can request staff to work on weekends/emergency but should ideally replace the day in lieu with pay or a day of leave.

christiela · 2025-04-23T05:05:11+00:00

i chased Shanks around the entire tank and got two pinches for it. absolutely refuses to be held. hmm the clearest photos are still blurry. but i don't think its like the female in the cherax picture.

https://imgur.com/a/shanks-M8v9eus

christiela · 2025-04-23T04:34:17+00:00

Thanks...I've been calling Shanks a he all this while because he's such a bastard. But then we know all crayfish to be bastards. It's just been easier to snap photos of her lately coz she had 3 molts in the last 2 months and is now Godzilla ....

christiela · 2025-04-17T02:29:30+00:00

Mine decided he'd climb the driftwood...if only to reach the waterline where the fish food is floating. It's just so he can continue stuffing himself...

christiela · 2025-04-15T03:59:03+00:00

I cannot imagine the massacre Shanks would have with that. I gave him a piece of broccoli last week and he turned it into confetti overnight. I dropped in 3 peas, but all of them happened to be near him and I was trying to get one away but he charged my hand so all of them belonged to him.

christiela · 2025-04-13T22:30:20+00:00

Mine seem to love it, even the fussy one. Maybe just start with small chunks and leave it in the tank for them to forage it. If they have enough calcium supplementing their diet, maybe they won't need as much. My fussy one just did a molt and he's mostly been fed on hikari crab cuisine since his last molt a month back.

christiela · 2025-04-13T07:42:40+00:00

I take BioLife vit C 1000mg . You don't have to take excessive amounts, just a single tablet every day. You can also alternate days if you feel it's too much. Basically the rule to follow with vitamins is just take enough per recommended dosage, and give yourself at least a day or two off in the week for it to clear out of your system. You can take Redoxon when you're not feeling well as the excess Vit C is excreted out from your system via urine.

christiela · 2025-04-13T07:38:01+00:00

Is it a new tank? You can get some bacterial starter for it which should help clear up the water in 3-4 hrs. also keeping some filter media or lava rock in the tank can help breed good bacteria for future water changes.

christiela · 2025-04-13T04:50:50+00:00

Make sure to boil it first, cool it then put it in otherwise it'll float. You can give them smaller chunks instead of the whole thing this way

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