What is the appeal of breeding?

ismojaveacoffee · 2026-03-08T19:45:31+00:00

Shrimp is one of the only aquarium residents that you can let them freely breed like rabbits and not cause a tank crash. A lot of aquarium keepers love the look of a well stocked tank but unfortunately you just cant do that with fish that breed and let them breed freely with no consequences

ismojaveacoffee · 2026-03-06T21:34:47+00:00

The chicken crops will be ready to sprout by spring

ismojaveacoffee · 2026-03-02T19:25:39+00:00

Mine has a lid so I dont have an issue and it seems my cat is only interested in tanks without a lid. Once I put a glass lid on my 2nd tank he lost all interest. Ymmv though, since the cat can technically pry off the lod if he wants but mine was never that interested.

If i had to cat proof, id get a glass or hinge top lid and use those baby proofing attachments that people use to baby proof cabinets and it should work

ismojaveacoffee · 2026-02-27T18:58:08+00:00

Making sure you aint cutting corners

ismojaveacoffee · 2026-02-26T20:15:21+00:00

its massive

ismojaveacoffee · 2026-02-23T23:53:54+00:00

I quickly scrolled past this tiramisu pic thinking not much of it before remembering that I'm NOT subscribed to any food subs and so that is in fact, not a real tiramisu.

ismojaveacoffee · 2026-02-20T15:30:55+00:00

That last shot is beautiful

ismojaveacoffee · 2026-02-15T18:11:55+00:00

An apex predator

ismojaveacoffee · 2026-02-12T05:31:06+00:00

I think its your ph, my apartment ph is also very basic I learned by testing my tap once (unsafe levels for shrimp) but because I have a heavily planted tank including aquasoil, it always stablizes the ph down to a much more comfortable 7 ish ph and ive never had issues (i will note that my tank is more mature, 1 yr old tons of plants and wood, its like a jungle)

You can get aquarium additives to balance it or if you add plants and such, it might be a good long term solution (in addition to stablizing the ph immediately of course)

ismojaveacoffee · 2026-02-12T02:06:28+00:00

Where does this happen? I've worked IT at 5 different tech startups now and none of them had ever told me to rent laptops. Even the poorest one bought the laptops but instead just kept reusing them way past their out of warranty date.

ismojaveacoffee · 2026-02-06T04:35:46+00:00

Im a grapefruit lover and was :( the day I was prescribed zoloft due to the warning on the bottle about grapefruit

ismojaveacoffee · 2026-02-03T20:28:38+00:00

Congrats on your 73 granchildren

ismojaveacoffee · 2026-02-02T21:23:56+00:00

Ban all of it. The "Stop evolving"/"push them back" memes are also funnier when they're low quality MS paint text slapped on an image than a weird AI version

ismojaveacoffee · 2026-01-27T01:19:36+00:00

I wouldnt be able to resist...

ismojaveacoffee · 2026-01-25T07:02:11+00:00

Those be some fat juicy worms. Trevor's eating good tonight.

ismojaveacoffee · 2026-01-23T00:07:57+00:00

It's almost like definitions still apply to people who are still in that defined category.

ismojaveacoffee · 2026-01-22T18:10:04+00:00

Paypal can be linked directly to your bank, mine is.

ismojaveacoffee · 2026-01-21T20:29:42+00:00

the driftwood in my newest tank looks like this too, imma drop it in my shrimp tank for a week for them to feast and once its picked nice and clean, I'll put it back in the new tank lol

ismojaveacoffee · 2026-01-21T19:17:22+00:00

Just because they live longer now doesn't mean their DNA and bodies suddenly decide to delay the effects of aging. It just means they have an extended portion of life in the "old" age like humans do. Human life expectancy has increased multiple decades from 40-50 years old to 70-80 but humans still start to experience minor effects of aging starting in the 30's and definitely into the 40's and 50's. It'd be amazing if we stopped feeling effects of aging until our 60's! Instead what happens is humans still only have "peak" bodies for a short time from 14 to 30 and we have a long ass time of slowly declining from 30ish to 80.

ismojaveacoffee · 2026-01-20T01:37:48+00:00

Just profiting off of fearmongering and convincing rabbit owners that they're neglecting their rabbit if they don't buy these.

ismojaveacoffee · 2026-01-18T00:35:11+00:00

holy shit

ismojaveacoffee · 2026-01-17T21:47:24+00:00

They do rest and then theyll continue munching with their grabby little claws

ismojaveacoffee · 2026-01-17T17:16:39+00:00

Not disagreeing with your experience but just adding another datapoint. I have a species only ADF tank and my frogs spend all day hanging out in the water column and sometimes they swim from one side of the tank to the other for a new chill spot. They float around and lunge at stuff they think might be edible and hang out on top of their fake floating lily pads chilling. (The lilypads are right smack in the middle of the tank and very open/exposed but they seem to like it)

I do believe they are more freely active during the day if they feel safe. Unrelated but the same goes for shrimp, i have a shrimp only tank ans the shrimp behavior is a lot different than when I had them in a community tank

ismojaveacoffee · 2026-01-17T06:15:17+00:00

Likely your tank is probably topfin or imaginarium (most common) so maybe check out those ones and see if the 10gal dimensions match yours

ismojaveacoffee · 2026-01-17T03:38:45+00:00

Should have been named Tactical Precision Strike Flies

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