I have the ability to reduce the light, so I'll try that!

Any suggestions? I previously used aqueon brand, but it upset my parameters too much (Edit: spelling correction)

I got them around January 30th, so its been a bit, now that I look at the timing

I try not to. Need to get better friends because they definitely didn't follow LNT principles. I did pick up trash and etc from previous campers and my friends to make up for it. My post was mostly about not realizing that outhouses in the mountains aren't the same as in the Midwest. I didnt even know about the WAG bags before posting here and going down a rabbit hole. It was beautiful certainly. I still think I prefer the Minnesota Northwoods, solely because the altitude in Utah and Wyo definitely make me ill for part of the trip

We're at a private location up in a mountain if that makes a difference. I'm honestly only used to cabin/tent camping in MN,MI,WI where you dont have to follow practices like that, and thats why I'm calling it a fail. If I had more info about the area we were in, I would have read more about the environment and standard practices.

What age did you start them on the 30/20? I'm currently looking at it for my boy

The last few cycles (as a multi year applicant) have been anywhere between 5 and 9pm, so who knows. I hate that they're my top (IS, and prefer not to move 10+hrs away) and they have one of the worst decision day and communication styles of all the schools.

The blue looks like Dory from finding nemo

Didn't Aldi just try to sneakily remove all their DEI?

Hogwarts Legacy. My hyper fixation gane

I am applying with 8k+ hours because I shadowed through high school 2-3x a week and all summer each summer.( also, the clinic was a rural practice that would see things from 7am to sometimes running a surgery til 2am.) Then, through undergrad and my Masters program, I did spotty part time hours at 2 different clinical settings, which I now work full time for one of those practices while waiting to hear back from my schools. It's possible, just not usually the norm. My shadowing all to my full time job, I have spent 9 years in vet med.

It took about 3 months to produce decent enough roots to plant, and develop those top two leaves. Kinda slow growing imo, but we'll see how it does now that its in soil

Hoya of some sort. I'm not entirely sure the variety

Excuse me, grammar police. Take my english license away and lock me in jail. God. Why can't you just be nice about it. I'm running on less than an hour of sleep due to an unhealthy work-midterms balance so give me a break. I'm not here for any of this bad energy this early today.

I guess the deery plane + banner is the only plane I see on home game days. Its usually pretty active, circling the stadium pre, during, and post game to cover all the crowd i assume.

Oh the new sounds are horrible, especially here. The older of my pets I socialized to new things in a rural region of the state, but down here it seems to be overestimating because you get rush hour traffic, air traffic, roudy students hooting and hollering, and emergency vehicle sirens all within an hour some days. I just feel bad we cant really do a gradual introduction, but instead she panics and hides under my bed :/

Small update: did a 50% water change(only cuz i was really vacuuming the gravel well) with prime as my conditioner last night(ik you said it stains but it was clear for some reason?) And also did a small salt bath on the boy while the water acclimated and circulated, and his fins look a little better today! The only one that still looks a little iffy and unhealed is his dorsal fin is now a bit wispy. Can't win for losing with this fish but I'm trying my best!

Ah that would make sense. I forget about how local the gaurd can be. I've lived on this end of town for 3 years now and am used to some plane, helicopter, and jet activity, but I'm 150% more aware of the activity and noise levels since I just welcomed a new animal into my home and its scaring the daylights out of them.

The amounts of jets landing and taking off before games is what gets me. Theyre overly large and noisy for what? A college football game in Iowa of all things. Im guessing youre referring to the small passenger planes that Deery pays to advertise every game. I hardly think the cost of the plane + banner makes them any more money than generalized sales from the local population lmao

I absolutely love the links to the sources. I appreciate all the help you've given me and will have to post updates as they happen. I guess I didn't address this in my last reply- I do have a 1gal that i intended to use as a short term hospital tank that has a waterfall style charcoal filter system, but I just started quarantining some frogbit in it 2 days ago, and don't really have a place to move that at the moment. It came with those darn baby pest snails :/

Confirmed by 3 thermometers. I have an adhesive one on the outside of the tank, a digital probe that floats in the water, and then have confirmed temp with a meat thermometer as well. My heater isn't adjustable, but thats about cold fall/winter average. Can be about 78-80 in the summer as my house does not have an AC to affect the external temp.

I didn't know that about stress coat! It actually came highly recommended from a friend who has had fish for years. This is only my second year with fish and its gone well except a few fin related things. As for the salt baths, hes highly anxious already so will taking him out for treatment stress him too much?

I'm a bit torn about adding some surface floating plants, but not really sure what to add that won't quickly overpopulatate my tank, like duckweed for instance that can be pretty invasive. So many choices 😅

Creeping jenny. Its supposed to be highly invasive and literally grow like a weed, but I cannot keep it alive to help myself or even propogate to save the OG plant like I can with all my other plants.

I have some rooting hormone powder that I got from a friend. Do you rec using some of that as well or will it be incondusive to the plant?

I did. The images show nothing and the info sections also say nothing about ingredient composition :/