I scrubbed all the brown algae off. And I made a discovery! There are FOUR babies! They got very active after I cleaned and two were in one corner and another two were in a different corner.

The mesh top is on and it doesn't look so bad. I can still access the top easily by pulling up a corner. Now the snails can't escape. I've changed my mind about them again, well the way they look anyway. The sellers that had the sun spiked ones were in New Jersey and Florida... but the Florida ones were way expensive, and I thought New Jersey was too far away. I looked around at other nerite snails and found some tigers from Georgia for a reasonable price with free shipping

I bought a proper bucket and an acclimation drip. They'll be here Tuesday. Then I'll order more ghost shrimp.

The reason many pink and orange ponies get regrind is because the color red is the least stable. But LBS is right, it can happen to any color pony.

As far as yours goes, they look like transfer marks to me. Or maybe from ponywear.

Last week I ordered a pizza from Domino's. The delivery guy, who I'd never seen before, was holding the pizza bag like a suitcase. My pizza got all scrunched on the side and there was cheese all over the top of the box.

Tonight I ordered a Marketfresh pizza from WalMart and once again, the delivery person was holding it vertically. All the toppings slid to one side.

Like, how can you not know how to hold a pizza??? I think you have to be pretty dumb to do this. And these people drive!

I'm thinking of a pony

The three babies are still alive I put a small pellet in the other day and they all came to eat. I changed my mind about the snails and I'm going to get 5 of the sun spiked ones. I have to prep the tank with the magnetic mesh top though, so they can't crawl out. I'm going to scrub what algae I can. Think I'll unplug the heater and scrub that too. The top and sides of the filter housing could use a cleaning too. There's a white build up - lime? Calcium? Something. I suppose I should wipe the light too.

I still want to get more shrimp, the crayfish, and I've added clams to my list. I'm also looking into getting a bigger tank. I can't go too big, my apartment lease doesn't allow large tanks. Just something bigger that still fits on my desk, maybe a 15 gallon.

I would, just to be safe

My orange cat lit her tail on fire once... so glad I was there to put it out because she had NO idea. Sweet Mousie. I miss her.

I would suggest lighting a candle when you are working, since they are already by your work space. I like to light mine while I'm at my desk. It's hot now though and I always have the fan on, so I've been using them less because they don't burn very well with a breeze on them.

But yeah. When you know you are going to be at your work station for a while, I would light one If you need to get up for any length of time, like to make something to eat, blow it out so your kitty doesn't get too curious.

As far as forgetting, just put it close to where your line of vision is. Like, if you're working on an iPad or something but it above that, so it's always in your peripheral. Hard to forget when it's in your face

PBW, don't look on Etsy at the hand dyed yarn! I don't even knit (yet) and I've got a wishlist of yarn with like hundreds on it

Today, I should clean up the bathroom at some point. Aster's dishes need to be washed. Other than that, I've got nothing going on so I guess today is a gaming day. I've caught up on Planet Zoo and know how to play again I have trouble starting a zoo though. There are so many animals to choose from (I have all the DLC) it takes me forever to pick out what I want to make a habitat for.

edit, later: I washed my hair and scrubbed off all my dead skin My skin actually squeaks
I also got Aster's dishes washed and refilled. I still need to clean the bathroom, but I feel like cleaning up the kitchen instead. I got stuff to make tacos!