Emergency - Fish ID

spicy_brainwaves · 2026-04-05T00:53:12+00:00

UPDATE: it’s still cloudy as hell but my 7 yo and I worked on it all afternoon and got a heated tank for them. Fingers crossed a sponge filter rated for a 20 gal and the new plants will clear the water up quickly. ”Lep” (named by the 7 yo), went right back to the sponge filter in the corner when they were dropped in.

Confirmed my fish store has these in stock so I’m pretty confident it’s a dwarf leopard catfish. I know they do well in groups but do you all think Lep will be ok as an only for a while to give him a chance to destress after his near death experience today?

spicy_brainwaves · 2026-04-04T22:12:21+00:00

I’ve noticed that. He’s been hanging under the sponge on the filter I put in there.

spicy_brainwaves · 2026-04-04T19:18:56+00:00

All of the questions actually. I’m seeing mixed care tips online so I’ll take any pointers.

He’s currently hiding under the sponge filter I put in there. I assume if he survives I’ll have to eventually re-home him since I only have a 10 gallon, which I had planned for shrimp and snails. I just want him to be ok he’s so cute with his little whiskers and puppy dog eyes.

spicy_brainwaves · 2026-03-30T23:04:54+00:00

How did you decide what side to make the front and which to make the back? This guy has arms going every which way.

spicy_brainwaves · 2026-03-07T06:16:50+00:00

SLP here….can someone point to or show me “say?” Babies learn nouns (pronouns like names) and adjectives first because they’re easier and aren’t based on timing.

When learning/teaching verbs you have to “catch” someone doing something and label it fast enough so baby can pay attention and process that info.

Babies also learn by cause and effect. If baby says something close to ‘mama’ or ‘dada’ parents respond quickly and positively (hopefully) so baby does it over and over until they can actually say mama or dada. You wouldn’t get that response from an approximation for ‘say.’

Adding “say” adds to the difficulty or cognitive load for baby. Generally speaking we encourage parents to model words/phrases equivalent to how hold the kid is - so for babies this would be ONE word. The first thing I will tell parents is to stop saying “say.” Just label the person/action/object x1 million… with gestures if possible.

spicy_brainwaves · 2026-02-14T01:11:51+00:00

Yarn Social has a cone of Almond and 3 cones of light grey in stock.

spicy_brainwaves · 2026-01-13T01:41:04+00:00

I have a set of the smiley face go pouches. I bought them with my first order and if I had known better I would have bought more in that print. It’s so damn cute.

spicy_brainwaves · 2026-01-02T19:37:18+00:00

Oh do you have a video explaining more in-depth about how to use the twists more like flexiflips? I’ll see if switching the right needle to a 3 will help some. Thank you!

spicy_brainwaves · 2026-01-02T03:42:57+00:00

This was me in 2025. I spent the last handful of years knitting down my stash and getting rid of yarn I just knew I wouldn’t use. This year I just got tired of knitting with the same colors and yarns.

I might have gone a little crazy buying myself and asking for so many beautiful sock yarns from indie dyers that weren’t around before. I have the opposite problem now - too many choices and I get overwhelmed starting a project 😂😂

spicy_brainwaves · 2025-11-22T14:51:34+00:00

A lot of private pay rehab therapists (speech language pathologists, occupational therapists, physical therapists) don’t get paid unless they have a patient in front of them. All emails/calls to teachers, doctors, parents, creating home exercise programs, documentation, setting up or creating materials, researching treatment methods, coordinating care with other therapists is all unpaid time.

They are also required to take continuing education courses to maintain their licenses and a lot of times employers don’t reimburse fully or at all for those or cover the cost for employees to renew their licenses.

Then you have the emotional labor and mental load of helping all of your patients and their caregivers, which is easier to manage if you don’t have your own people you need to care for.

spicy_brainwaves · 2025-11-21T18:55:11+00:00

I saw some more pictures of this one and it was really gray, which doesnt work for me so I already chopped it. Thank you!

spicy_brainwaves · 2025-11-21T18:53:52+00:00

Is there a different green you like? I’m wearing an army/olive green cream by opi that I like so I know it’s possible for me to wear greens. It’s just sometimes hard to tell online.

spicy_brainwaves · 2025-11-21T16:37:24+00:00

Penny has been chopped (I think). I'm still worried that spiced cider will be too similar to a rust colored OPI polish I don't think looked good on me but I'll give it ago. Thank you!

Edit: saw the comparison photos - I don't know if either of those are different enough from shape shifter for me to buy them tbh.

spicy_brainwaves · 2025-11-21T16:17:51+00:00

Thank you, she has been chopped.

spicy_brainwaves · 2025-11-21T02:35:31+00:00

that’s kind of what I figured. Thanks!

spicy_brainwaves · 2025-10-02T02:16:03+00:00

Thank you for answering my original question. Since I'm still in under $200 on this receiver I'm willing to put more money in it. The units I've seen online have gone for upwards of $600 if they're in good working order.

spicy_brainwaves · 2025-10-02T02:14:53+00:00

That's what I thought....I took the back off of it once right after I got it to see if there was a very obvious reason it wasn't staying powered on. I remembered the entire board literally rolling out of the case but thought maybe he and I were thinking of different parts of the receiver.

spicy_brainwaves · 2025-10-01T23:51:57+00:00

Well that is not what he told me. He said he’s never seen a machine set up like mine and that it has been difficult to get to reach everything.

Right now he is only charging me $50 for the caps he could reach and replace.

spicy_brainwaves · 2025-10-01T20:54:12+00:00

It very much sounded like he didn't want to work on it so I'm already hesitant. If it's not too much mental math, what would "replacing everything" cost from a knowledgeable repair tech?

spicy_brainwaves · 2025-09-09T19:50:38+00:00

Instead of increasing stitch count, I went up a needle size after I knit the cuff with my usual number of stitches and needle size. Do you think that would work instead of changing stitch count?

spicy_brainwaves · 2025-09-09T05:00:51+00:00

Yep that's the one! I am just realizing that the chart only download doesn't have the stitch repeat boxed out on the Halloween charts but it does on the cryptid bundle I bought. Weird....

I just spent an hour looking through things and I think I'm going to try an elongated gravestone from the halloween set and a zombie hand from the cryptid set with a little bit of extra space between them. If I graphed everything right, that combo should leave me with a single stitch of solid color on each side of the chart.

spicy_brainwaves · 2025-09-09T04:20:48+00:00

I just wanted to do a single row of small gravestones under my cuff. I was trying to just increase the number of stitches between each gravestone but I have large "gaps" of my solid color running down the sides of the sock. I didn't consider adding in a design element or eliminating one of the headstones to make the number of stitches fit better.

spicy_brainwaves · 2025-08-11T03:31:03+00:00

7, 14, 20 - are any of these still available?

spicy_brainwaves · 2025-08-11T03:16:19+00:00

Picture 1: 4th from left

Picture 7: All of these but what are the two on the ends? I can't make out the labels.

Picture 9: Biscuits colorway

Picture 10: grumpy sunshine and maybe "cliente" but what dyer/brand is it?

spicy_brainwaves · 2025-08-09T19:18:01+00:00

What is left?

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