Well it isn't MY idea!! I guess there are algae spores all over and they get in the pool. Certainly there aren't any right after the spring chlorine shock. But chlorine is volatile and dissipates from the water which is why people with chlorinated pools need to test daily and add chlorine as necessary. The Pristine Blue chemicals also kill algae but sometimes it gets overpowered when the temps are high (good for algae growth). With Pristine Blue, you take a water sample to the pool store every 2 weeks where they test it (free) and you get a printout of how much of each chemical to add.
Ahhh that makes sense. It's nice they do it for free.
It helps to have an approachable teacher so hopefully you'll do well with all of your studies
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Well, I have four little quail hatched now and the last one has pipped externally, so hopefully it won't take too long. Thankfully I did put these little eggs in the incubator because three of them are that unusual colour! I think the fourth little baby will be an ivory. I found someone up north who looks to have this same colour but it would be a 6 hour round trip, and considering DH is driving me down south to Tauranga to pick up a Bourkes parakeet (which will almost be a 6 hour round trip), I think I'll have to leave getting any of her birds for now.
Not the best photo but it'll do for now:
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They now look very tiddly compared to their big siblings who are getting wing feathers (and one escaped the cage this morning then started yelling for its mother - I had to go on a little chick hunt)! Here's the older unusual:
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Thanks! This teacher definitely seems nicer and more relaxed. And I think there's only one paper. It's also a community college though so hipefully easier. I should be able to handle it ha I am a little concerned about the science though since we apparently have lots of work. I mean, he said we don't and that it's one of the easier sciences, which it is, and that it's not a class to stress over but then he also says we have like 3 quizzes plus midterm and final (or maybe it was 3 tests?), a homework assignment online every week which I think averages like 20 parts, plus a quiz due every Sunday. Plus we're gonna read/cover the entire book. The homework you have all the way until the last day of class to do them, though I'm not gonna wait that long, no time limit, and unlimited attempts to redo it to get a 100 so that's not so bad. But then the quizzes close at 11:59pm every Sunday and there IS a time limit. You only have 20 minutes to do it once you start it, can't stop or pause it, and only one attempt. They're only 10 questions and supposedly to help prepare for the tests but it's just scary to me because 20 minutes isn't THAT much time. Like why can't it be even just 30 minutes instead of 20? And like with slight OCD/ADD/whatever, sometimes I kind of spend the first few minutes of tests spacing off or reading and rereading every question. I guess I just shouldn't do that though, that's something I could change and slightly common sense anyway but still. Even if I didn't do that, maybe I like to take my time and make sure I am choosing the right answer. But I guess that's probably enough time to do it, that's 2 minutes per question, and they are only multiple choice, but still. Maybe I like to think. Or also sometimes I like to look at the questions ahead of time so I can know what to study or what is on it and prepare. This one once I start it I just have to take it right then. But I guess maybe I am psyching myself out or worrying over nothing haha
Also, I think I worded the other thing wrong and want to clarify. I made it seem like the psych one was the only professor I liked because of where I put the parentheses but I meant he's really their only psych professor. They've had a few people come in and out.
Although he is the best one haha
But there's other good/great ones too. That's the goid thing, most people are nice here
And sorry, didn't mean to go off on a big anxiety driven rant about the science lol
OH!
Actually.
The other, and somewhat main, reason I am nervous about it is I am REALLY bad about having weekly assignments. Papers I do okay, though last minute, but having something every single week and a routine and schedule and managing my time and all that I am not good with.
But I guess it's just something I have to work on.
And they are the sweetest birds to boot with a beautiful song. I have two unrelated Rubino coloured hens (one was supposed to be a male but turned out it wasn't) and I need a Normal boy to breed to one, then pair up one of the male offspring to the other hen as he will be carrying the Rubino or Lutino colour (Rubino/Lutino are recessive, sex-linked colours). So that's the plan, but finding a Normal (wild-type) boy has been harder than I thought it would be! My other ones are cinnamons but that's a sex linked colour too so I can't use it as it will brown up the yellow on any resulting "ino" birds.
They sound beautiful
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...Hopefully next attempt we'll be able to "clean" up that spider web mess 
I have seen a Dentist twice in 40 years!
