#going to the aquarium today!!

[frat-house-collective]

Aquarium fit 🔥‼️

[wifegideonnav]

the worst part of long term depression is how fucking boring it is. like im on my knees begging my asshole brain to just let me be interested in something, anything, i don’t care what it is i just can’t take another day where the time crawls by excruciatingly slowly and i still have to do it all again tomorrow.

[sorrcha]

my lovely gourami, mango

[thedailydescent]

Meet Ace, our new octopus!

Been with us for two weeks and will be released after two more, as she will be too big to be kept for longer (for reference, she’s currently 31 pounds, and Tanner was 23 by the time he was released)

[vulcanette]

I feed my corycats this type of sinking pellet that I sometimes call their “hamburgers” but this morning I was like “give fish….. kibbles”

[toastedjeans]

What if i wrote a short Siren Tower fic about how Gustavo saves Peppino from drowning, then weeks later Peppino sees Gustavo injured on the shore and takes care of him in his home, and Gustavo is just so fascinated by all the human things he discovers that Peppino can't help but find that little merman endearing

Would anyone even wanna read it? I don't think so. But I'm gonna do it anyway

[howdoyousleep3]

the beans' birthday is tomorrow 🥺😭

[blocky-tides]

tides my beloved happy birthdayyyyyyyyy i hope you the best of the best ilyyy may your back never hurt may all your dreams come true ily ily ilyyyyy

rou my beloved 💞💞

i went to the park and then the beach with some friends had some drinks and s'mores it was fun! i smell like fire smoke rn

we walked like a mile along the beach trying to a fire pit someone had to walk back to pull the cars around

[krispiecake]

I am officially an entire year free from suicide attempts

[saint-bestial]

busy today but hopping on here really quick bc HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY LOVELY BABYGIRL KIRYU

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[hey-scully-itsme]

trying to find nice older furniture for a reasonable price on facebook marketplace in SoCal is a labyrinth of overpriced Ikea and shoddy 80s cabinets and its driving me nuts

[coridallasmultipass]

It took me, ugh, MONTHS (2), to get to cleaning the two shrimp tanks I have... I had IRL issues going on that would have made it extremely difficult to do a water change especially while injured, and I just had to keep putting it off. It's just shrimp, so it wasn't like, the worst situation, especially since I have established plants and the tanks are a couple years old. There was just a lot of algae build-up on the glass, and, well... Let me just say it was not contributing to my mental health and well-being while the tanks were in that state.

I tested the water before I started cleaning and the parameters were fine (like, I could have left the tanks even longer if I would be okay with selling my soul to the Algae Collective), and the plants and shrimp look fine, too (I mean, I've obviously been keeping an eye on the tanks bc I sit right next to them). Actually, I'd wager to say that the plants are looking really great (the lilies haven't died off [yet? This is the longest period of time I've seen them stay... foliage... fol... foliated? Idk.] and the cryptocoryne in the 10gal is fucking huge and needs to be rearranged, just not right now). That fucking algae was a motherfucker to get off the 10gal (it's a plastic tank and I think that makes the algae grip harder than the glass 5gal).

[Also, fyi, depending on the tank's needs and stability, recommended water changes are a small one every week or every other week. My parameters don't seem to do anything dramatic, so I usually aim for a 20-30% water change every third week (just depends on how much vacuuming needs to be done and how cooperative the shrimp are with moving aside). So 2 months is still a lot. I still did the normal 30% ish amount, since doing more will risk the shrimp's well-being if there's a sudden change in everything, and my water parameters indicated a change was unnecessary - but I don't test for more than the minimum freshwater tests, so there could be a buildup of some mineral I'm not testing for, which is why the change IS actually necessary regardless of what my test kit says - because these tanks were evaporating a lot in summer, it condenses the minerals added with each water addition, even tho I usually top up with R.O. water.]

My back is fucking killing me lol. It has been killing me since spring when it 'went out' for the first time, and I'm not getting any relief, it sucks. But this had to be done.

The 5gal is looking pretty cloudy still, since the filter was super gunked up and I accidentally spilled gunk back in, so I may need to retest the 5gal parameters tomorrow just to make sure I don't have to do another water change, but it'll probably be fine, right? Shrimp love mulm and detritus. I did give both tanks a big ole algae tab for their trouble, tho. (I need a fuckening dish for the big tank. I really wanna clean off that white quartz rock again, but being white means it's an algae magnet, and it's just gonna go green again after a month or two.)

Anyway, shrimp tax:

I lov thees widdle oange bebies.

Wish I could take better pictures rn, but I am. Like. Dying. My recommendation: never live in an A-frame style room if you have the option. The wall above my tanks is slanted, and NOT fun for my back to bend underneath the wall for maintenance. (My only flat wall in the room is for my TV/PC.) Also, treat your back nicely, in general. I unfortunately have not had the option to treat my back nicely since spring (fall now), because 'when it rains it pours,' and heavy shit that needs to be moved will not move itself. Once I get a few more things in my room in order, I will hopefully be done with the IRL chaos, bc I have Halloween socks to knit, and I'm not putting that off for another year. (I'm still mad that I couldn't make the ones I planned last year. And I found more Halloween yarn I forgot I bought, so I'm gonna try to make multiple socks.) And I just really need to fucking chill and knit and stop having panic attacks and meltdowns.

[magicalgirlsandcerulean]

More famous scenes from the Love Macho X account. (Ryuu: "...Io..." | Atsushi: "My waist is thin?...En-chan, you really are..." | Atsushi: "W-What?!"/En: "Sorry, I tripped over a rock.")

[donuts4evry1]

these are jellies from the S.E.A aquarium in singapore!! i think they had more jellies actually but i didn't take pictures... the aquarium overall was pretty cool though, they had lots of huge tanks with large fish and sharks.

the last picture is just a screenshot of a video, but they had the moon jellies housed in a tank where they continually rotated through different lighting colors. it was super pretty but i was wondering if the jellies would be bothered by the constantly changing lights??

AHHH THESE ARE LOVELY!! and your camera skills are so much better than mine, haha. I love how crisp and clear they all turned out ^-^!! (Maybe it's also because the lighting in the aquarium is better? Well, regardless, these are gorgeous photos.)

Rating (14/20):

Diversity - 6/10 - The included species seem to be pretty generic all things considered, but at least there's some variety

Presentation - 8/10 - Everything looks neat and clean, and the Rhizostomid jellyfish have some pigmentation on them. Also, I'm a sucker for Jellyfish Raves.

Learning - N/A - Haven't been there in person, can't say for sure how good the information is.

(I'll ramble a bit about jellyfish eyes under the cut!)

You actually bring up a great point! However, you need not worry about these poor jellyfishes' eyes- they should be completely fine.

Moon Jellyfish are part of Class Scyphozoa- which are about in the middle when it comes to "seeing organ" complexity in Sub-class Medusozoa (or the Jellyfish Subclass).

Their primary seeing organs (Ocelli) are contained within "Rhopalia"- which also control orientation (the uh, position kind not the pride kind) through statocysts and also bell pulsation.

Unlike Box Jellyfish, which have true eyes that can perceive different wavelengths of light, ocelli can only perceive brightness.

Moon jellies exhibit vertical migration (basically raise to the surface during the day and to the bottom at night), so perhaps if the brightness of the lights are played with too much, it might confuse their natural sense of migration? But jellyfish do not have a brain, so I think they will be fine regardless :)

However, since we are on the topic of rhopalia, did you know that moon jellyfish polyps were sent to space in mission STS-40? There's a video on youtube about that with the ugliest looking jellyfish I've ever seen (affectionate). Apparently, they developed just fine in space, though their statocysts seemed to develop improperly. Poor little guys.

[djarinova]

okay pls help me!!!!

so i was planning to go to the aquarium tomorrow for my birthday but the weather is supposed to be absolutely terrible, rainy and windy all day, and id have to walk 20 minutes in order to get there... i cant decide whether to go or not, and if today has been any indication then the wind will truly be very crazy but 🥺 aquarium

if u pick stay in pls feel free to reply with some ideas of what i could do instead!! bec im desperate not to waste my birthday and i would like (surprisingly) to celebrate my birthday for once:)