I've been slow at work and am struggling to keep myself occupied. I built a sandbox. Great. That was three days. However, back before I was married, I was into some...well..alternative lifestyle stuff. I'm not going to put a label to it, but it's not generally accepted but whatever. It's what I was doing at the time.
As the saying goes, idle hands are the devil's playground. And, anyways, old habits surfaced.
This brings us to our story. I'm outside today, and I see this big lunk of a dude yobbin around in his turd cutter running shorts and a freddie mercury sling. And, of course, I'm currently in..."character." So he starts getting closer, and I starts growling. A little bit at first as is customary, but I see he's not backing off, and well, a mawg has to protect his territory. Or else what's been the point of marking all these things.
He gets closer, I start barking louder, and running side to side a bit. Clearly this idiot isn't amused, and was like, "hey man what's your dealio." If he had said, "Yer a good boy do you want a belly scratch." this would have been a different game. But he came at me all aggro, and I read the room, and went berserker.
I charge. He takes off screaming. But, I'm faster than you think on all fours and he's very confused and I can tell the shorts are more for ascetics than function and he's all bunched up and slow. And fwiw I can't really help it when I'm in character. I'm transported to another plain of existence. Of course this guy doesn't know that.
When I arrive I immediately go for his legs because he's a big dude and I need to get him to the ground. Bingo. Got him.
Except this is where things took a turn.
Rather than falling to the ground and accepting my demonstration of power, he shouts -- nay, screams -- DOG ATTACK! and *boop* suddenly I got two fingers up my rektum. At this point I don't know whether to release or...release so I do both and run away yelping.
As I was running away I heard him shout his phone number to me and I think I'm going to give him a call tonight.
I don't get on here much anymore, but saw your reply a couple of weeks after the fact. Go with test strips, you'll get tired of using the test tubes and droppers eventually, and frankly once the tank is established you don't really need to test that much anyway. Live plants also help stabilize water parameters, although you're probably like 2 months into this by now and have figured all of it out.
Have had it running with fish about two months now? Lost a few along the way, but it's been very stable, with most of the original fish still kicking it. Had an algae issue. Solved it. Then tried to make it come back because I thought the oto catfish were bored/hungry, and I overdid it. So now trying to balance it back with dropping water temp, reducing light, and giving my plants some more fert.
I recently added an air pump for a bubbler, and that's bringing me new joy.
With the tank stabilized I haven't been testing nearly as much. Just changing out water 5/10 gallons at a time pretty regularly.
I had shrimp pellets, and they didn't seem to have any interest in them. And then when my algae went away, one died (I'm assuming starved). So that's why I started to run the lights longer and it came back with a vengeance.
My header does the same thing. Had it set at 79-ish, and was running hot at 81 when it started to get warmer. Had to dial it back more.
I for one am glad you are stopping. You are one of the most ignorant posters ever. You obviously think very highly of your own opinion, unlike the rest of us - RockHillTiger
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