My house is actually really dusty from the damn dogs. If I gave a fuck I'd have to dust and sweep everyday.
I do not.
Is that why my house is really dusty? I mean there is a later of rather thick dust on everything in this house
Hobbies? I paint pictures and 40k stuff.
I guess I collect comics I do play video games but I tend to like the tactical and puzzle like ones.
I collect Star wars and Gi joe figures.
Now I collect board games? I don't know I get ones I find interesting and try to convence people to play with me but I to have quite the pile of them
if you want to build up to something like an oscar, go with fish. If you start on Shrimp or Frogs it will take you in a different direction.
Gouramis are good as midlevel fish. The best real.. like... aquarium experience are livebearers. They really make you learn everything, because they fucking breed so you get the pleasure of ooooh babies!! And ohh my god why are they DYING. Except when they die it's not the end of the world because hey you probably have like 30 of them. They're cheap, pretty, super easy to keep, but also teach you what you need to know to go forward and whether or not you're cut out for fish keeping. And they're a great launching point for prettymuch all types of fishies. Annndd they're cheap so if you really fuck it up it ain't no thang. Any sort of Cyprinid is also good. But you'd probably have your hands full with livebearers. You'll go, oh shit, my nitrogen, my PH, my everything!! And it will show you very clearly what is going on because they're fucking crazies.
Do not get a pleco. Or Bichirs. Or Discus. Or ANYTHING with the word 'shark'. Or goldfish. Or mollies. Or pencil fish. or ghost fish.
These all look cool but they will die unless you know what you're doing 100%. People pick these fish as specialties.
I am a fellow fish keeper. I love all my little pets.
Oscars are like the pitbulls of aquariums.
My other hobbies include cleaning (weird, right?), cooking, working on cars, tinkering with electronics, drawing things, writing shitty stuff, staring at the night sky, magic, fighting the evil orc empire with my niece, picking heavy things up and putting them down, eating food, burritos, sprinting around like a madman, comic books, video games, and I would normally say sex. I've been trying to remain celibate over the last few months and into the future.
I had a pleco that lived almost seven years, and survived every iteration of the aquarium - even got a year to himself after the rest of the fish (mollies?) went belly up and we decided to leave the aquarium to stabilize. That was when I kept the dwarf frogs in another tank. That pleco catfish was a monster. Nothing could kill it until the point where the convicts bio-nuked themselves and took him with them.
Ooh I like the look of gouramis. I think I had a pair that lasted a good while?
No, really. I started taking classes last fall on a lark, and found I really enjoy it. I've got no interest in doing another bachelor's or anything, so I'm not studying anything specific, just whatever takes my fancy from the list of classes with free spaces each semester.
Last fall I took Scandinavian literature from 1800-2000 and Dialectology, this spring I took Theatre Theory and Business Economics 1, and at the moment I'm doing Norwegian Politics from 1814 to today, Norwegian Theatre History and Politics, and Business Economics 2. Although I'll probably drop one of those because work.
I want to do Mandarin or Arabic, but the first year of that class is always full. Lots of room in 2 and 3, but nothing in level 1.
No, really. I started taking classes last fall on a lark, and found I really enjoy it. I've got no interest in doing another bachelor's or anything, so I'm not studying anything specific, just whatever takes my fancy from the list of classes with free spaces each year.
Last fall I took Scandinavian literature from 1800-2000 and Dialectology, this spring I took Theatre Theory and Business Economics 1, and at the moment I'm doing Norwegian Politics from 1814 to today, Norwegian Theatre History and Politics, and Business Economics 2. Although I'll probably drop one of those because work.
I should note that I really am interested in frogs and/or shrimp just as much as fish. But keeping a tropical tank stable and monitored should be a solid project to start out with.
No, really. I started taking classes last fall on a lark, and found I really enjoy it. I've got no interest in doing another bachelor's or anything, so I'm not studying anything specific, just whatever takes my fancy from the list of classes with free spaces each year.
Last fall I took Scandinavian literature from 1800-2000 and Dialectology, this spring I took Theatre Theory and Business Economics 1, and at the moment I'm doing Norwegian Politics from 1814 to today, Norwegian Theatre History and Politics, and Business Economics 2. Although I'll probably drop one of those because work.
And I thought Warhammer was an expensive hobby.
norwegian universities cost about 75 dollars per semester
No, really. I started taking classes last fall on a lark, and found I really enjoy it. I've got no interest in doing another bachelor's or anything, so I'm not studying anything specific, just whatever takes my fancy from the list of classes with free spaces each year.
Last fall I took Scandinavian literature from 1800-2000 and Dialectology, this spring I took Theatre Theory and Business Economics 1, and at the moment I'm doing Norwegian Politics from 1814 to today, Norwegian Theatre History and Politics, and Business Economics 2. Although I'll probably drop one of those because work.
And I thought Warhammer was an expensive hobby.
norwegian universities cost about 75 dollars per semester
No, really. I started taking classes last fall on a lark, and found I really enjoy it. I've got no interest in doing another bachelor's or anything, so I'm not studying anything specific, just whatever takes my fancy from the list of classes with free spaces each year.
Last fall I took Scandinavian literature from 1800-2000 and Dialectology, this spring I took Theatre Theory and Business Economics 1, and at the moment I'm doing Norwegian Politics from 1814 to today, Norwegian Theatre History and Politics, and Business Economics 2. Although I'll probably drop one of those because work.
And I thought Warhammer was an expensive hobby.
Actually, it's practically free.
The semester fee is 550 kr and text books run me a bit under 1000 kr per class (divide this by 5 for the US$ price). But then I get a student discount on public transportation which saves me about 1800 kr per semester. Plus there's various other student benefits that crop up every now and then.
So basically I end up paying about the price of a new videogame every six months, and I get to have a hobby that is super fun and interesting. The biggest hurdle is managing studies and work, but I run my own company and freelance a lot of the time, so unless things get really busy I can usually work around it. (And really, who cares if I miss a class here and there - I'm not trying for a degree.)
I had a pleco that lived almost seven years, and survived every iteration of the aquarium - even got a year to himself after the rest of the fish (mollies?) went belly up and we decided to leave the aquarium to stabilize. That was when I kept the dwarf frogs in another tank. That pleco catfish was a monster. Nothing could kill it until the point where the convicts bio-nuked themselves and took him with them.
Ooh I like the look of gouramis. I think I had a pair that lasted a good while?
Oh yes, I am sure your pleco lived. But it is not fair to them. Plecos can, and should live from 20-30 years and grow 1-2 feet large. Whenever people have goldfish and Plecos in undersized tanks and go, well my fish lived like, so many years! And never got that big! it is because it died while it was still relatively young. I don't mean to make you feel bad, it's just that people really shouldn't have Plecos or goldies unless they have the proper sized tanks. Adult plecos need 50-100 gallons and any single goldfish needs 20 gallons. Common goldfish need more. I mean, I don't give people who just want to keep fish and whatever guff for it, do what you want, but if someone genuinely seems like they want to do a good job and really get into the hobby then these are things they ought aknow
gouramis are cool! They make good community fish. Smaller cichlids, like dwarf cichlids can be kept with them. You can really only have multiple gouramis if the tank is big enough for them to have their own 'territory' or they get aggressive. Stuff like plants is good.
But I mean, when you get your aquarium you need to have some little cycling fish in there, and then it's like... anywhere from 2 weeks to 2 months until you can put actual fish in.
When you're building your tank you wanna keep in mind every fish you put in it needs to have compatible PH, temperatures, water hardiness... Dwarf gouramis aren't very hardy. Pearl Gouramis are greattt fish.
I should note that I really am interested in frogs and/or shrimp just as much as fish. But keeping a tropical tank stable and monitored should be a solid project to start out with.
frogs are like, a totally different realm. I haven't actually kept them so I can't give any advice, but they have huge humidity needs and dietary shit where you need to breed your own colonies of wingless fruit flies so it's always seemed like way too much work to me.
Shrimp are easy but the hardest part is the set up cost and shrimp tanks are really more about the plants most of the time. Well, that's what takes most of your time. And you can't have an unplanted shrimp tank or they'll be too fucking stressed. A tropical tank would be a good starter stage for this, as you can plant it and then learn how to take care of plants that way.
edit: Note that with planted tanks you can go off into a whole new realm of Takashi amano style tanks with C02 and shit
I was thinking aquatic frogs like dwarf frogs or, were they legal in VA (not anymore, but similar species exist), clawed frogs. They're delicate to set up - taught me how to cycle and manage ph the hard way - but lasted a while after that. And breeding brine shrimp for them was a fun side project. And then I went on vacation and the petsitter forgot to feed them.
@Bugboy: when I was younger we had a ton of decaying wood in the backyard from cutting down a few trees that were threatening the house. I'd go over that stuff daily for bugs.
Did something similar during the rainy season in Tanzania when I lived there. Had a scorpion the size of my shoe look me over for a minute, and once wore two millipedes of about seven inches as armbands for a while. Also found a pond of pixie frogs (imagine pacman multiplied by a bullfrog) on the day of the first rain. Well, I heard them first. They dropped the bass hard.
I collect Pirates boosters and accessories. A quick Google search tells me they're re-launching the property with a new card game this week, but I'm still holding out hope for more tiny pirate ships. I have like 50+ unopened boosters, just waiting to find someone that wants to play some games right out of the pack. I should probably start a posting on my FLGS Facebook page asking if there is any interest.
As for all this talk of aquariums and fish, my sister has a goldfish that has been living in a bowl for the last year and a half. I don't know how it has survived for so long. It seems to be in good health, it's active and responsive to us coming near the bowl. All she ever does is feed it and change out the water about once a week.
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My current obsession is not just writing games, but specifically creating RPG stuff, but creating RPG stuff I can give away to friends as gifts. Like Guestbook character sheets, or Button Men cards, as well as small mods for existing games based on my friends interesting. I like making stuff for people, it's weird.
Also, I am ripping apart Dungeon Crawl Classics to learn how it works, and building a thousand new classes for it, because I love it so much.
I collect Pirates boosters and accessories. A quick Google search tells me they're re-launching the property with a new card game this week, but I'm still holding out hope for more tiny pirate ships. I have like 50+ unopened boosters, just waiting to find someone that wants to play some games right out of the pack. I should probably start a posting on my FLGS Facebook page asking if there is any interest.
As for all this talk of aquariums and fish, my sister has a goldfish that has been living in a bowl for the last year and a half. I don't know how it has survived for so long. It seems to be in good health, it's active and responsive to us coming near the bowl. All she ever does is feed it and change out the water about once a week.
Goldfish can live 30 years with proper care and get huge over time. Sounds like she's doing something right.
I recommend a filtered tank though because bowls get nasty even if it's invisible.
Goldfish can live 30 years with proper care and get huge over time. Sounds like she's doing something right.
I recommend a filtered tank though because bowls get nasty even if it's invisible.
Yeah, I keep recommending that she get at least a small filtered tank for it. In her defense she does scrub the inside of the bowl once ever third week or so, so there isn't much build-up at any given time. Oh, and she won this fish at a local carnival.
I just remember one of my high school science teachers (who also raised fish for shows and pleasure) talking very passionately about how bowls were the worst possible thing for fish.
I had a betta fish that I forgot about.
I really had no idea how long I ignored it but my mother told me to take down the tank it was in
To my surprise it was still alive and quite hungry
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Is that why my house is really dusty? I mean there is a later of rather thick dust on everything in this house
Hobbies? I paint pictures and 40k stuff.
I guess I collect comics I do play video games but I tend to like the tactical and puzzle like ones.
I collect Star wars and Gi joe figures.
Now I collect board games? I don't know I get ones I find interesting and try to convence people to play with me but I to have quite the pile of them
And RPGS
Sounds like you need The Cleaner.
if you want to build up to something like an oscar, go with fish. If you start on Shrimp or Frogs it will take you in a different direction.
Gouramis are good as midlevel fish. The best real.. like... aquarium experience are livebearers. They really make you learn everything, because they fucking breed so you get the pleasure of ooooh babies!! And ohh my god why are they DYING. Except when they die it's not the end of the world because hey you probably have like 30 of them. They're cheap, pretty, super easy to keep, but also teach you what you need to know to go forward and whether or not you're cut out for fish keeping. And they're a great launching point for prettymuch all types of fishies. Annndd they're cheap so if you really fuck it up it ain't no thang. Any sort of Cyprinid is also good. But you'd probably have your hands full with livebearers. You'll go, oh shit, my nitrogen, my PH, my everything!! And it will show you very clearly what is going on because they're fucking crazies.
Do not get a pleco. Or Bichirs. Or Discus. Or ANYTHING with the word 'shark'. Or goldfish. Or mollies. Or pencil fish. or ghost fish.
These all look cool but they will die unless you know what you're doing 100%. People pick these fish as specialties.
Man, this one is mad cool.
Oscars are like the pitbulls of aquariums.
My other hobbies include cleaning (weird, right?), cooking, working on cars, tinkering with electronics, drawing things, writing shitty stuff, staring at the night sky, magic, fighting the evil orc empire with my niece, picking heavy things up and putting them down, eating food, burritos, sprinting around like a madman, comic books, video games, and I would normally say sex. I've been trying to remain celibate over the last few months and into the future.
It ain't easy.
Ooh I like the look of gouramis. I think I had a pair that lasted a good while?
No, really. I started taking classes last fall on a lark, and found I really enjoy it. I've got no interest in doing another bachelor's or anything, so I'm not studying anything specific, just whatever takes my fancy from the list of classes with free spaces each semester.
Last fall I took Scandinavian literature from 1800-2000 and Dialectology, this spring I took Theatre Theory and Business Economics 1, and at the moment I'm doing Norwegian Politics from 1814 to today, Norwegian Theatre History and Politics, and Business Economics 2. Although I'll probably drop one of those because work.
I want to do Mandarin or Arabic, but the first year of that class is always full. Lots of room in 2 and 3, but nothing in level 1.
And I thought Warhammer was an expensive hobby.
norwegian universities cost about 75 dollars per semester
go socialism
Well dang.
Actually, it's practically free.
The semester fee is 550 kr and text books run me a bit under 1000 kr per class (divide this by 5 for the US$ price). But then I get a student discount on public transportation which saves me about 1800 kr per semester. Plus there's various other student benefits that crop up every now and then.
So basically I end up paying about the price of a new videogame every six months, and I get to have a hobby that is super fun and interesting. The biggest hurdle is managing studies and work, but I run my own company and freelance a lot of the time, so unless things get really busy I can usually work around it. (And really, who cares if I miss a class here and there - I'm not trying for a degree.)
so really university costs like -4000 dollars a semester
Oh yes, I am sure your pleco lived. But it is not fair to them. Plecos can, and should live from 20-30 years and grow 1-2 feet large. Whenever people have goldfish and Plecos in undersized tanks and go, well my fish lived like, so many years! And never got that big! it is because it died while it was still relatively young. I don't mean to make you feel bad, it's just that people really shouldn't have Plecos or goldies unless they have the proper sized tanks. Adult plecos need 50-100 gallons and any single goldfish needs 20 gallons. Common goldfish need more. I mean, I don't give people who just want to keep fish and whatever guff for it, do what you want, but if someone genuinely seems like they want to do a good job and really get into the hobby then these are things they ought aknow
gouramis are cool! They make good community fish. Smaller cichlids, like dwarf cichlids can be kept with them. You can really only have multiple gouramis if the tank is big enough for them to have their own 'territory' or they get aggressive. Stuff like plants is good.
But I mean, when you get your aquarium you need to have some little cycling fish in there, and then it's like... anywhere from 2 weeks to 2 months until you can put actual fish in.
this is a good tool
http://www.aqadvisor.com/
also you should do some googlings on cycling.
frogs are like, a totally different realm. I haven't actually kept them so I can't give any advice, but they have huge humidity needs and dietary shit where you need to breed your own colonies of wingless fruit flies so it's always seemed like way too much work to me.
Shrimp are easy but the hardest part is the set up cost and shrimp tanks are really more about the plants most of the time. Well, that's what takes most of your time. And you can't have an unplanted shrimp tank or they'll be too fucking stressed. A tropical tank would be a good starter stage for this, as you can plant it and then learn how to take care of plants that way.
edit: Note that with planted tanks you can go off into a whole new realm of Takashi amano style tanks with C02 and shit
every time I go on a walk I find at least one cool thing
this summer I followed a ladybug larvae through pupation
watched it develop and then one day found its shed pupal skin
I took it home as a memento
also found a leaf mimicking plant bug and some mealybugs, which look like little tiny mobile balls of cotton
life's good
Well, that's a slight exaggeration. But yeah, socialism is pretty nice.
Did something similar during the rainy season in Tanzania when I lived there. Had a scorpion the size of my shoe look me over for a minute, and once wore two millipedes of about seven inches as armbands for a while. Also found a pond of pixie frogs (imagine pacman multiplied by a bullfrog) on the day of the first rain. Well, I heard them first. They dropped the bass hard.
someday I've got to travel the world
on a bug hunt
yeah, not sure where I got that number
right around 3000 less tuition, books, and assuming you pass everything which is technically assumed to be a full-time job
As for all this talk of aquariums and fish, my sister has a goldfish that has been living in a bowl for the last year and a half. I don't know how it has survived for so long. It seems to be in good health, it's active and responsive to us coming near the bowl. All she ever does is feed it and change out the water about once a week.
Also, I am ripping apart Dungeon Crawl Classics to learn how it works, and building a thousand new classes for it, because I love it so much.
That's if you study full time. If you study part time you can halve that, but on the other hand you can also feasibly work at the same time.
Goldfish can live 30 years with proper care and get huge over time. Sounds like she's doing something right.
I recommend a filtered tank though because bowls get nasty even if it's invisible.
Yeah, I keep recommending that she get at least a small filtered tank for it. In her defense she does scrub the inside of the bowl once ever third week or so, so there isn't much build-up at any given time. Oh, and she won this fish at a local carnival.
I just remember one of my high school science teachers (who also raised fish for shows and pleasure) talking very passionately about how bowls were the worst possible thing for fish.
I really had no idea how long I ignored it but my mother told me to take down the tank it was in
To my surprise it was still alive and quite hungry
This is my hobby. I make delicious food.
This is my latest purchase