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They should change it to like 100 posts or 50

How many times, in a lifetime? Into the blue again, water flowing underground

There's really nothing good there. Just shit like Packard threads.

Fuck yeah @Ginguy

Help me help you destroy your life and rebuild it into something worse

Weren't you saying not long ago that your current job was going to start requiring 24/7 availability anyway? Staying there for that sounds like a fate worse than unemployment. Put your career on hold, there's nothing wrong with that, get a stress free job that won't drive you crazy and will give you avenues to meet new people your own age, and just have fun for awhile. Get a qt gf with tats or whatever you feel like has been missing from your life. Embrace this opportunity to take a break and get your mind right and remind yourself that you can do w/e you want, you will always be able to return to IT at any time.

Ive had a gold gourami that was huge, like a three spotted blue one that lived a long time, and a dwarf gourami that was kind of an asshole to other fish, but on its own was awesome. I think I saw a yt vid where someone had a small school of honey gouramis and it was great

Hell yeah, pack in tight with the masses on this rollercoaster ride straight to hell

This is what I do. I've had a few gouramis and all were great, I originally started this tank for honey gouramis specifically but then bailed on them for some reason

You probably stopped for a very valid reason that you should try to remember, but it's a pretty ok waste of time and at least gives you something to stare at

I like small tanks because they are easy to refill just by catching shower water as i wait for it to get warm, but they are easier to mess up. Plants give the fish a huge buffer to survive my occasional negligence. I hate doing water changes and vacuuming the substrate and doing anything nice for them, plants and dirt can take care of most of the worst maintenance. I'm at least as much in it for the plants and moving water as I am the fish themselves.

Thanks, I didn't know this. I did read that a male and female shouldn't be kept in a divided tank bc the female could become egg bound, but assumed it was confined to that situation. Usually I do way more research before getting a pet but betta lady's Save the Fish appeals and me assuming I already knew everything about em led to an impulse buy. Kinda loving em tho, I like how aware they are of my presence/in grneral and how they explore every inch of their tank and perch on stuff. So far I've mostly been feeding them ant eggs from a huge ant nest in the yard and they been loving em. Trying not to overfeeding em but it's hard, they're straight ravenous with food and also seem to like the corys' sinking foods. Hoping the one in with them doesn't explode from gluttony

Well, ghostrek was right. Ended up getting a third female betta to try to break the tension between the designated asshole and the beta betta, bc apparently 20 heavily planted gallons is not enough space for two to get along immediately. It didn't really work though since the new one just acts like a cory and ignored the other two for the most part. I assume it would've worked eventually once they got used to each other, all fins are intact and everything, but I just couldn't stand all the constant chasing, too stressful. Ultimately couldn't bring myself to commit to adding a few more and going for the full sorority bc I am a coward, so instead I cleaned out the porch tank that's been empty ever since the unspeakably dark conclusion to last summer's tadpole nursery and threw together a divided ten gallon. Obvs got a ways to go as far as planting and scaping em, this is just what I could throw together quicky. The betta in the 20 gallon won her spot there because of how she spends so much time on the bottom hanging out with the corys and exploring all the caves and stuff, whereas the other two would mostly hang out at the top all the time. Might eventually throw the asshole back in the big tank, I just want it to go in as an underdog. Also might throw it out in the pond for the summer bc that's a thing I've read that people do, but I don't want it to overeat on tadpoles or come back in the Fall with some awful bird shit disease or something. So we'll see

Some of you may remember my frog dad thread from last summer, where I saved some tads from a puddle and raised them into leggy young frogmen and released them into the wild. Well, this year we're upgrading. No more tanks and totes, this time we got a full on pond and as you can see it's already filled itself full of tadpoles. I had a floating water hyacinth plant in there but something came along, I'm thinking a raccoon or possum, and ripped it up and took a few bites out of it, so the only plants in there now is a big piece of hornwort that stays full of frog eggs and the few bits of duckweed that came in on it, which has been exploding and hopefully will cover the entire surface. It gets bright morning sun and stays shaded the rest of the day, so between the good location and the plants filtering the water I am hoping this will end up better than the unspeakably dark conclusion to last year's frog nursery.

"nothing" the principal is putting a black mark on his permanent record, that's a career killer in his industry. There's no coming back from this.

Why are you like this. Did your family do this to you

This is an extremely warped view, you know you don't have like a permanent record or anything right

Haha, how horrifying. What a way to spend a weekend

Your life is all the way over. Might as well find a roommate and get a job at that cool pub where all the young people go, right?

Mostly get high and jack off, I guess

Such tism has no bearing on the balance of power in this realm

Empires rise and fall, but some brave feats are remembered forever, too magical to ever be forgotten