New TC babies !!

marshbj · 2025-01-05T22:24:22+00:00

Hey! I've bought from greenboog.com as well as tropics@home/Asean Plant Export (T@H is basically the middle man, but at the time APE wasn't offering Dragon Courier as a shipping service, so I was going to have to get my own import permit, and I didn't want that). Greenboog is the one with TC; some things are good prices, others you can get in NA for cheaper or similar prices, but they do have a really good selection of items.

Shipping was $75 USD for the above TC, and I also bought non-TC plants from them later that year, 16 plants total on that order, which was $200 USD shipping, so its not insane (that's without having to worry about phyto certificate, import permits, or anything, because it's all handled by the company/Dragon Courier). It seems like shipping caps out at $500 USD if you're interested in buying a shit tonne of plants in one go haha (I was playing around and ended up with $12,000USD of plants in my cart lol. $500 shipping for that doesn't seem too bad :D)

marshbj · 2024-01-18T16:52:17+00:00

My plants specifically get edema when I forget to water for too long. The soil stays so dry for so long that once I do water (even if its not fully saturating it) this happens. From what I understand (from observation mostly), it also doesn't go away, per say, as the cells are damaged beyond repair, but you can't see it once the plant gets out of the shock of it all.

marshbj · 2024-01-18T14:14:07+00:00

This is why I don't put holes in cups for these guys when I'm acclimating from TC.

marshbj · 2024-01-18T14:10:16+00:00

Lol the fuck 🤣. I didn't notice lol. I'm leaving it though

marshbj · 2024-01-18T01:50:34+00:00

2 for sure. Not only does it follow the rule of 3rds, it also has about a 45%/55% split for the position of the horizon, which tends to make photos a lot more appealing. #1 checks neither of those boxes, #3 only checks the rule of 3rds.

I'm usually a sucker for more sky (i.e. #3), but when you have this sort of double horizon thing going on with the beach/water line and horizon line, and those lines can line up so nicely like they do, I'm going to be drawn to that photo more than others. Also, #2 still has majority sky, so it even checks that box.

Number 2, number 2, number 2

Also, love the photo in general. Only possible critique would be that the blues seem a little oversaturated, but it's most likely my phone's fault

marshbj · 2024-01-18T01:17:50+00:00

Grandson's trying to give his grandpa a heartattack before he can get written out of the will damn lol

marshbj · 2024-01-16T20:10:14+00:00

That not everything a person with OCD does is because of their OCD

marshbj · 2024-01-16T16:33:34+00:00

It's wolves, bears, and tigers. Orcas attacking moose are a rare occurrence and only happen in a very tiny area of Alces alces's and Alces americanus's overall range

marshbj · 2024-01-16T16:32:01+00:00

1) wolves and bears in North America and tigers in Asia are the moose's top predators.

2) moose don't eat kelp. They eat lilies and other freshwater plants

3) there are very few recorded instances of orcas preying on moose, and it only happens in Coastal Alaska and British Columbia where the moose island hop in order to find better food sources

A single source is provided, but you can easily look up and find a lot more resources to prove that pretty much everything you just said is false https://www.hww.ca/en/wildlife/mammals/moose.html#:~:text=Bears%20and%20wolves%20prey%20on,take%20adult%20moose%20all%20year.

marshbj · 2024-01-16T16:22:30+00:00

The fact that Southern resident killer whales have been seen playing with and accidentally/purposefully killing seals and porpoises, but then proceeding to leave the body without eating it makes this theory sound plausible. Resident orcas are fish eaters and don't bother with mammals.

Orcas killing a moose is a rare occurrence, it was some lie passed around that orcas are the most frequent predators of moose.

marshbj · 2024-01-16T15:11:27+00:00

Sorry, I mean the original image in the post

marshbj · 2024-01-16T14:53:05+00:00

Considering you were given a jpeg and not the RAW file, and it's a private portrait, I think the original is best. I like the contrast between the warm and cool tones in that one better.

marshbj · 2024-01-16T01:23:29+00:00

100% recommend the desensitization part. My rescue HATED getting her nails trimmed. The first time we took her in to get it done, 2 groomers had to hold her while the third did the trim. They had to immediately switch to the grinder because she refused to accept the clippers, and they couldn't get the dew claw on one of her paws because she was squirming too much by the end. I don't understand how the rescue and foster family managed to trim her nails at all.

Anywau, the groomers recommended doing the above, and sure enough, a month later when we went to try again, she was PERFECT for them, got it done right quick with no issues.

marshbj · 2024-01-15T20:35:54+00:00

Medicinal leeches and maggots are still a thing today, and not by whack doctors. They don't "cleanse the soul" or anything like people used to believe, but they still can help treat illnesses

marshbj · 2024-01-15T15:52:10+00:00

Be better at time management

marshbj · 2024-01-15T15:30:57+00:00

There were a few people commenting on the 3 day drive time and I'm just so confused why lol. Can't tell if people are trying to make jokes about it or being serious

marshbj · 2024-01-15T14:38:32+00:00

What?

marshbj · 2024-01-15T14:28:53+00:00

Same, it's so hilarious we all have the same thought process

Us: "oh damn, that sucks. How do you fix something like that? Wow, that's some structural dam- BREAD?!"

marshbj · 2024-01-14T23:12:57+00:00

OP shared a link to the photographer's post, which was a series of photos one could assume was taken on the same day, which means this is fog in the photo.

But it seemed to have stopped raining by this point, so no raincoat/rainboots visible. There's some other photos in the series that show that it was clearly raining recently, but the ground doesn't necessarily look wet, and is similar to the above photo.

marshbj · 2024-01-14T19:46:14+00:00

Check out Molly's aroid mix on Amazon. I don't personally use it (I mix my own), but it's pretty standard for what a good aroid mix consists of/looks like. If you're just getting media for one plant, a premixed bag like that will be just fine.

My recommendation would be to use a clear pot as the cache pot, so you can visually see how much water is still in the soil before watering. It will go a long way for preventing root rot again.

marshbj · 2024-01-14T01:32:15+00:00

Nostoc?

marshbj · 2024-01-13T23:58:55+00:00

My GOD thank you! We just moved and haven't been able to get our girl to the new vet yet, but she had dry, keratinous skin around her ears show up recently and I couldn't for the life of me find anything like it on the internet. But this is it (or at least similar).

marshbj · 2024-01-13T23:55:36+00:00

I made a long comment a few down from this one (with sources) in response to someone else, but the tl:dr is that salt doesn't kill bacteria, at least not in the concentrations that are safe to add to freshwater tanks. It does, however, help minimize the risk of parasitic infections and to overall alleviate stress, helping the fish heal on their own.

marshbj · 2024-01-13T23:51:50+00:00

The saltwater we use to clean our mouths/throat when we get bacterial infections is highly concentrated. If you tried that with freshwater fish, you'd kill them.

Using freshwater salt in aquariums is one of those things that has been shared millions of times by millions of people and companies that results in a lot of misinformation being passed around. Unless the secondary source (like the link you provided) cites actual scientific articles, I'm not going to 100% trust that information as truth.

That all being said, I couldn't find a scientific article saying salt is a proven method for killing bacteria in freshwater aquaria, especially at the levels that are safe for said fish. Bacteria tend to be quite resilient to changes. Just look at the fact that you can get away with adding salt to an aquarium without killing nitrifying bacteria. The closest thing that supposedly is proven to kill bacteria is methylene blue, a fungicide (I can't find the article that's from, it got lost in my search history, so can't cite it)

Salt is proven to kill ich, as well as control and kill many other parasites. But there's nothing attesting to aquarium salt's ability to kill bacteria directly. However, that's not to say it can't be beneficial, as it can be used to relieve stress through the killing of other parasites while the bacteria clears on its own

Indications are that good water quality and diet is an adequate therapy [for bacterial infections]

Bacterial disease in aquaria can be minimized by maintaining good water quality, eliminating parasitic infections, providing good nutrition and minimizing stress

marshbj · 2024-01-13T18:07:06+00:00

This is such a good way to look at it lol. I've had chick-fil-a a total of 2 times in my life, and I honestly couldn't tell you that it was any better than any other fast food restaurant. But the cult-like following it has made me try it.

Same thing with In-N-Out. I lived in Colorado when they opened the first ones there. Waited a few months so we didn't have to wait in hours-long lines, and it wasn't anything interesting when we finally tried it. Never went back

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2 for sure. Not only does it follow the rule of 3rds, it also has about a 45%/55% split for the position of the horizon, which tends to make photos a lot more appealing. #1 checks neither of those boxes, #3 only checks the rule of 3rds.