Long Distance Friendships :-(

[Nicola]

yea vinegar reaks!!!

Lol feeder fish??

Turtles go omnomnom

 

[Nicola]

Okay

tank and filter bits and plants are clean

Now all i needa do is Rinse the rocks in Hot water!

 

[SourRoses]

Yeah you should have seen her with Grasshoppers!

Ooo theres a half a grassopper swallowed.. and the other half still trying to swim away

The feeders were those 'Rosettes' whatever those are... they looked like tiny, plain goldfish with a red hue. a dozen for 99 cents

Only the darn things had the nerve to swim away from her highness and hide under her basking rock she was getting to big to swim under!

Poor Shelley. Mom found her for me on a construction site when I was 11 or so... she was the size of a quarter maybe... I remember how she only took up a small area in the bottom of the styrofoam coffee cup mom handed her to me in (she had been running across a housing site with a bulldozer about to level the area she was in) ...
anyway... I had for 6-7 years and she got to be 4 1/2 inches in diameter. I spent a loooong time looking up her species... because she didnt fit anything common. Turns out she was a rare Pseudemys Floridana Hoyi ( I still remember how to spell it! Woo hoo!) and she would have grown to about 12 inches in diameter at 15 years old or so.

But poor dear... she moved everywhere with us and lived through a lot. She didn't much appreciate Idaho winter though

I dont think a Florida native turtly was ever meant to be frozen.
I still feel like I murdered her

Have you ever felt that way about an animal you lost?

 

[Nicola]

yeah

a cocketeial i had as a kid

either josh or i fed it a bit of plant that we thought was food... and it posioned the bird so i did kinda murder an animal but was too young to know now im too old to know if it was me or my brother

 

[SourRoses]

Sowwy

If you have a moment... help me choose thermometers?

I have the stick on the glass kind and I like those best... but realized I need an inside one for the spawn tank since its really a plastic tub. I want the stand alone one.. but concerned the fishies might knock it over during spawning chasing nonsense. Then theres the glass one with suction cup but its not as attractive

Thus Im stuck!

http://www.fosterandsmithaquatics.com/product/prod_display.cfm?pcatid=22587

http://www.fosterandsmithaquatics.com/product/prod_display.cfm?pcatid=3921

 

[Nicola]

http://www.fosterandsmithaquatics.com/product/prod_display.cfm?pcatid=3921 i like that one as i have one just like it

and cuz it sticks to the glass its easier to read

and its accurate, as i think the weighted one tests the temp in the gravel

and rocks hold heat..

 

[SourRoses]

OK Thanks!

Whew now I can finally submit my order... took forever for all those little decisions

Thanks!

 

[Nicola]

Haha No problem

)) Nearly ready to fill my tank

 

[SourRoses]

Yey!

Dont throw any toast crumbs in this time though!

 

[Nicola]

i wont

I'll get some pics once its filled