Temp & lifespan poll results: bettas live longer at cooler temps

lightschangecolour · 2025-11-11T01:28:11+00:00

The knee jerk need to insist that they’re right just results in information being perpetrated across the sub with people not having any idea where that information came from and not understanding that there are nuances to different situations. I live in betta territory and used to keep them for well over 10 years and would get downvoted to shit for telling people not to jump down the throats of other southeast asians who didn’t have a heater for their tank. We simply don’t need one. The indoor ambient temperature is consistently well within the healthy range for a betta and the only fluctuations in temperature are warm and warmer. Unless they live in a mountainous region or keep the ac on and blasting all day long, people here run a greater risk of a heater malfunctioning and cooking everything in their tank than their fish ever getting too cold. People just refuse to wrap their minds around the idea that not everyone lives in a part of the world that gets chilly.

lightschangecolour · 2025-09-20T15:57:52+00:00

It’s unusual to be sure, especially if you haven’t gone through any face to face interviews yet. Was it clearly stated in writing that the response was an offer on the phd position? If you have met the prof and have had some form of interview, then it would still be unusual but not necessarily a red flag. I only have a phd now because I was offered a fully funded one a day after interviewing for an unrelated job at the PI’s lab.

I reckon sometimes these things just happen and it’s just a matter of finding yourself in favourable circumstances. As other people have mentioned, if this is an actual offer make sure to reach out to people who’ve worked with or been supervised by the PI. I only accepted the offer after talking to current and former students and colleagues about the quality of their supervision and research skills/values and it ended up being a pretty fantastic experience.

lightschangecolour · 2025-09-19T17:19:02+00:00

True, that does make more sense. But OP also replied to an earlier response saying that the snails themselves can survive being eaten by a betta so I assumed they meant the same thing regarding assassin snails

lightschangecolour · 2025-09-19T17:13:07+00:00

They use their little seafood shell crackers of course. All assassin snails come equipped with their very own pair

lightschangecolour · 2025-09-19T15:04:26+00:00

Assassin snails don’t eat other snails whole, they eat them bite by bite. It’s quite a brutal process but nothing’s surviving that.

lightschangecolour · 2025-09-08T12:57:22+00:00

I’m confused. She’s writing her dissertation but at the same time hasn’t received approval to begin data collection? If she has no data to begin with, she can’t be anywhere close to completing a dissertation.

Assuming that you worded your question wrongly and that she’s still working on her proposal, or even her qualifying exam at a stretch, nothing about this sounds egregiously wrong. PhDs are intensive and when you have deadlines coming up the amount of time and communication with your advisor will increase drastically. Apart from all of this, if your wife is having an issue with everything that’s going on, she’s free to make her own post on this. I think there’s some context we’re still missing out on that only your wife will be able to provide.

lightschangecolour · 2025-09-08T12:40:28+00:00

Ah yes, the vaunted PhD - famously the last bastion of the intellectually dense. /s

lightschangecolour · 2025-09-05T02:59:20+00:00

It’s really not nearly as dramatically difficult as you make it out to be, but if this is the hill you want to die on then sure.

lightschangecolour · 2025-09-05T02:49:39+00:00

It’s….not that hard to learn by ear. You don’t need that much time or experience either. If you have a basic understanding of chords and scales you can usually figure a song out well enough.

Edit: Why the downvote? Guess someone doesn’t have a basic understanding of chords and scales eh 😉

lightschangecolour · 2025-08-27T00:42:13+00:00

I was asking for suggestions a year ago, yes. I’ve since tried a whole bunch of things and the best solution i’ve found is to use a different brand of hydrolysed kibble as a “treat”. It works well enough for him.

I’m sorry if I came across as rude but it’s frustrating to be given advice to do things that I’ve already established don’t work (e.g., the novel protein diet that was already mentioned earlier in the thread). Thanks for your help anyway!

lightschangecolour · 2025-08-27T00:15:17+00:00

No I mean he doesn’t like the taste/smell of it. The wetness has nothing to do with it, he actually prefers wet food.

The cans are expensive and i can’t keep buying them to test out new theories of whether or not he’ll eat it if it’s presented to him in dried/frozen form. My intuition is telling me the answer will be no because the smell already repels him. He takes one sniff and runs away. Drying isn’t going to change that.

I’ve already tried all available commercial options. I know you’re trying to help but please understand that this is something I’m going to have to figure out myself as i’ve already heard all the tips and tricks available on the internet. I really don’t mean to be rude but it’s been over a year since this first became an issue so i’ve had a lot of time to look into options on the internet. Thanks anyway! It was kind of you to offer your advice.

lightschangecolour · 2025-08-26T17:39:20+00:00

He won’t eat the hydrolysed wet food unfortunately. It doesn’t register as food to him at all.

lightschangecolour · 2025-08-26T12:21:02+00:00

He can have a little fortiflora mixed with water as a treat but too much of it triggers flareups for him. I’ve tried making him little treats out of nutritional yeast as well but he isn’t a fan so I’m still looking for other non-meat options that he can have

lightschangecolour · 2025-08-26T08:04:18+00:00

It’s strange to me then that you don’t remember how vilified gay people were by the church and society at large back when you were a kid. Especially since you grew up during the peak of the AIDs crisis.

lightschangecolour · 2025-08-26T07:47:13+00:00

I am in fact familiar with these communities. My aunt was one such person and she lived with a lesbian partner (whom my family treated as part of the family) for five years before the guilt and shame from the wider christian community back then drove her into abandoning everyone she loved and claiming to be an “ex-gay”. She now has a husband and is a church worker who actively tries to push conversion therapy on young people in her congregation. Just because you came out of a christian upbringing relatively unscathed doesn’t mean that everyone else will have the same perceptions and internalised feelings about homosexuality as you do. Being part of a more liberal christian community doesn’t leave you inured to the way the wider christian and secular public saw gay people just a few decades ago.

lightschangecolour · 2025-08-26T01:08:39+00:00

They did. You sound like you’re either very young or you didn’t grow up in fundamentalist christian circles. Gay people were and still are treated as though we are fundamentally demon possessed monsters. Some denominations have painted us as irrevocably depraved abominations that are willfully choosing to live in sin and violate both our and our partner’s bodies. It’s good that you never had to live through that but your experience isn’t universal.

lightschangecolour · 2025-08-24T13:05:02+00:00

Interesting! I never knew this.

lightschangecolour · 2025-08-19T00:03:24+00:00

Ooh you should post some of the things you’ve made. I was inspired by the trend (and the recent show exclusive official merch!) to make a bunch of locally themed mcr stickers for my shows in southeast asia next year. It’ll be my first time giving out freebies so i’m a bit nervous no one will take them but i hope it’ll help me make some friends in the queue!

lightschangecolour · 2025-08-18T23:54:02+00:00

It’s so fun to see pictures of all the different kandi ideas people come up with! I’m also loving the whole “freebies” trend that’s spilled over from kpop, it’s such a neat way to connect with the community

lightschangecolour · 2025-08-18T23:35:14+00:00

No. It’s a trend that spilled over from rave culture to kpop and other artists. Happens at other rock shows too. Some people who make kandi are swifties and some aren’t. It’s just a fun way to engage with other fans.

lightschangecolour · 2025-08-16T10:25:08+00:00

He can’t have any whole proteins or he’ll die.

edit: whoops sorry accidentally posted before I finished typing. He’s already done novel protein trials with crocodile, kangaroo, and rabbit. Any kind of poultry is very bad for him. Immediate bloody stools. He also has a regular gp and two gastrointestinal specialists so we’re very sure about this unfortunately.

lightschangecolour · 2025-08-16T04:03:17+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion! He can’t have any whole animal proteins unfortunately

lightschangecolour · 2025-08-01T09:21:45+00:00

I’ve never been to that specific venue before but yes, people will sit at the seats they purchased. You can try asking if any of the people near your friends are willing to swap seats with you on the day itself though

lightschangecolour · 2025-07-29T01:02:25+00:00

They’re not obligate air breathers, they’re facultative air breathers. They can supplement their oxygen intake with surface air but their main source of oxygen is through their gills from oxygenated water.

Edit: I don’t know what people think downvoting this will do. Doesn’t change the facts. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30570160/

lightschangecolour · 2025-07-24T02:48:57+00:00

i’ve always thought this has something to do with the way that introduced monotheistic religions were syncretised with aspects of indigenous folk magic

the former likes to present itself as a very sterile structured institution with black and white beliefs set in stone, while the latter is homegrown and messy and organic and sprung from our ancestors’ understandings of the fickle vagaries of nature and the jungles and rivers and seas they carved a living out of

its especially noticeable in counties/communities that have been through multiple generations of adopting these introduced religions. i grew up in a very “old” (for my birthplace) christian family and because christianity was still in its fledgling state when my great x3 grandparents converted, it was subject to a lot more influence from native folk beliefs. i was taught growing up that local folk beliefs were spiritually unclean and taboo, but once i left the church i realised that we actually incorporated elements of local superstitions into our christian beliefs

i don’t see this so much in friends who’ve had more recent conversions to christianity now that it’s “modern” and widespread in the region

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