Grandchildren's gifts...should I still keep sending them?
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guppies....why cant i keep them?
Comments (22)Missa (this is long and I hope my success and failures help) I just started a tank in Jan...16 gallon Aqueon widescreen kit that i got at 50% off at Petco on black friday (it wasn't even $50!) A fancy tail guppy pair was one of the first I bought as the tank ended it's cycle (it cycled really fast 2 1/2 weeks!) I think this was because I had 9 plants and added TSS to it I lost my male guppy within 2 weeks...started to hide and then 24 hours started swimming in large circles and within another day small tight circles and then upside down circles hours before he died. Returned him to the store and a customer said it's a common defect. I still have no idea what happened but I was also told that the males have weak genetics due to inbreeding and factory farming fish. SO sad...in the 80's you could throw anything into the tank including crayfish and tadpoles from the creek and they'd all survive together! Your water parameters sound stable...a 10 gallon tank is small...the rule is 1 gallon per 1 inch of fish and since the guppies are about an inch and a half...that's three gallons for two. I'm assuming that your tank has cycled since it's been so long since the first post! My female however...gave birth in the first week and I ran out and bought a breeder basket and saved 10 babies (the rest got eaten.) They are going strong a month later and will need to be given away. She is already pregnant and will give birth again any day now. (females had hold up to 6 months of fertilized eggs.) I have since bought a 10 gallon for my daughter's room as a hospital tank...this one I salted for a gourami's wounds (he tried to wedge himself someplace while I was vacuuming the substrate) He looked like he had a pink pig snout! I have read so much about salted tanks...it seems unnecessary unless it is for treating an illness. I found this because I was thinking of moving the baby basket to the new 10 gallon salted tank to relieve the stress off my 16gallon. Where are you getting your water? Tap? Is there a water softener or chlorine? These may be a factor. Mine is softened well water and I have high ph 8.2...0 ammonia, 0 nitrite and 5ppm nitrate. temp 75f. I add TSS after water change (to build up beneficial bacteria aka BB) and NEVER change a cartridge...just rinse in a separate bowl with tank water. I have even added filter fiber to the filter to build up "old media" with BB. They say if you use a cartridge...slit open dump out old carbon and add new...never throw out the cartridge filter material because that is where all the good stuff is! I think that a planted tank does help although it makes vacuuming difficult. So things like driftwood with fernleaf or anubias on it and those cool moss balls are easily movable...I have successfully kept 3 bloodfins, 1 female guppy, 10 baby guppies (now 1/2"), 1 highfin tetra, 1 panda molly, 1 Gourami, and an apple snail (eats all the algae)...for a month now. I can't say it was a success since it's new but the baby guppies...are happy healthy and eat like piranha's. I did lose a bloodfin to a spinal defect and a male guppy...as well as 4 raspboras to a betta attack, so it's been a learning process. Fishlore dot com is a GREAT forum and they may be able to help....helped me with all my newbie dumb questions!!! andrea :)...See MoreAnyone still sending out seeds?
Comments (45)Jandey, That's a very nice presentation. Thank you for taking the time to post it. I'm sure it will be very helpful for many that aren't familiar with how this procedure progresses and an eye opener for even the one that do. I won't show it to my husband. LOL Right now he isn't thinking about long term, he just thinks they are cute little seedlings and is enjoying how different each one can be from the same package of seeds. I tried to cull 2 more this morning and he said just leave them.... sigh. He loves the seedlings but the big, heavy ones, not so much. My guess is his devotion to the babies will wane once they go into 1-5 gallon pots....See MoreGrandchildren Keeping in Touch with Grandparents
Comments (6)If you're too busy to spend time with your grandparents, you need to re-think your priorities and perhaps re-order your life. I've got three daughters in their 20s. When they were growing up, their grandmother and grandfather (paternal grandparents) treated those children like royalty. In this life, we just don't get that many people who show up and say, "I'm going to love you unconditionally" and yet that's exactly what these paternal grandparents did. And - as I told my kids - when we do get people who love us unconditionally, we should drop to our knees and thank God above for such a great blessing. I didn't have grandparents when I was growing up PERIOD, and my father wasn't around, so I do NOT understand how anyone can have grandparents and not be supremely grateful for such a blessing. So, now my kids are in their 20s and last year their beloved grandfather died. Now Grandma lives alone and only my eldest daughter pays attention to her. I don't get it. And Grandma is healthy and fun and independent and mentally sharp. What's going to happen if she ends up being less than healthy and not-so independent? I shudder to think. I'm divorced from my children's father and yet I still plead with my children to show their father's mother some love and attention. Despite the fact that they rarely take the time to even call her, she *still* treats them with so much love. When my kids were little, there was NOTHING those grandparents wouldn't do for my children. They were the best grandparents a child could possibly have. I always taught my children that family was a priority and I told them - a thousand times - that they were very fortunate to be surrounded by such a loving extended family. I only hope that one day those lessons will sink in. My own mother is dead, so Grandma J. is their last grandparent. Thank goodness my eldest daughter "gets it" and lavishes love on her Grandma. Rose...See Morehow to keep oaks from sending up shoots
Comments (6)In my yard it's a very old oak (150-200 years old), that is slowly thinning out and declining. It compensates by putting out suckers underneath to add foliage and get nutrition from additional photosynthesis. They do come from the roots, and are true suckers. I have other oaks that are younger and healthier that don't do this. It's important for the health of the old tree not to do away with the suckers as it needs them for survival. Some people spray the unwanted suckers with roundup, which results in slow tree death. I think we just have to make the best of it. It's a good place for a pot garden....See Morebeliever
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