I tried to get most of my 10gal aquarium setup secondhand, but I got a new LED hood with a day/night light feature. I have since caved to peer pressure and put a couple live plants in there, but while my Anubias Glabra has been putting out a new leaf on occasion, the older leaves have been getting black spots.

I'm not sure if the "night" light is just a blue light, or if it's a blacklight and I've been torching my bebe plant with excess UV beams for 12-14 hours a day.

So Grandma has gone into the old people home and my mom is doing a purge of the house. Mom threw out Grandma's scrapbook of gardening magazine clippings from the 1980s and if Grandma finds out, she's getting disowned.

I have 2 more African violets and my sister who moved to New Mexico has half a dozen newly repotted cacti.

I've only seen a couple reviews on it, not the piece itself, but my general impression is 1) diabetes-inducing adorable, 2) probably as anticapitalist a message as we're gonna get from a capitalism factory.

I recently upgraded my phone, and I'm having a better time with tank photography. Here is the least potato pic I've taken of my boi Diogenes.

He's recently turned very blue. He deffo was not this blue even last week. He was, tbh, kinda shit-colored with blue tints in his fins when I first got him.

He's also the most puppy-like out of the couple-few bettas I've had. Corbulo was leery of fingers and faces near his tank, but Dio just wants to see what's up. I wonder if it has anything to do with breeding -- are wild types or wild hybrids less grumpy than most bettas?

My poor dude Corbulo kicked the bucket a few weeks ago when I fucked up planting his tank. I've been waiting to see if I killed the plants, but at least one (1) is growing.

I already had 'Diogenes' picked out as a name for my next betta, and it seems like a name for a something in the yellow-red spectrum. Except I also liked the look of the 'alien' boys, which mostly come in blue.

So I picked a rather bland speckled boy who may or may not be a wild type. I hope he brightens up as he grows.

My crypt undulata has had 3 weeks to melt and be dramatic, but I can't really tell if it's doing anything under the fuzz. How long before I can say that I gave it a good run before I yoink it for something else?

My anubias, planted at the same time, gave me a new leaf so I'm not totally hopeless.

Still waiting for my newest African violet to shape up, but it was cruelly yanked from an auntie's loving humidity cabinet and then thrown to sink or swim on my countertop.

IDK if this is quite solarpunk, but it's some kind of eco-punk.

This guy films himself cleaning up culverts and street drains, mostly in the New England region of the US, with a rake and hip waders. He bitches about beavers and idiots with excavators and has a lot of technical opinions on road engineering that I find interesting for no good gawddamn reason.

Props to him if he makes a decent amount on these videos. Better than customer service work.

sustained fangirl squeeing I'm only about eight episodes in, but gAwD, it's amazing what studios can do when they actually do long-term planning. Consistent characterization that isn't just smashing foils together like Tuvok and Neelix or Tom and Harry? More than 4 recycled plots? YAY BOSS BAE JANEWAY. Unfortunately, Chakotay doesn't have enough screen time (yet) to see if they figured out what to do with him. Voyager definitely didn't seem to know what to do with him except as the vehicle for Creeping Heteronormativity. JUSTICE FOR CHAKOTAY

My gesneriad gang made the commute to the kitchen bar top. I remembered where I stored the grow light but I can only find one of the heated cat beds. Send halp, there will be hissing and flexing

Inherited a set of these amber glass cups from my dude's great-grandma. I like them, they make me feel a little fancy, but I absolutely cannot gauge a steep color in these. I've got water as hardass as a Humphrey Bogart character, and it helps to glance at the color to see if I've got a decent steep, especially for herbal tisanes.

Welp.

Because redecorating a 10g fish tank with fake plants is cheaper than redecorating my apartment. It ended up more open on top than I wanted but my betta boi still has his floating log to hide in. Gonna go blow all my money on more aquarium decor to alter it during next week's water change.

Jumping from a previous post on education. Feel free to skip the first 7:30 minutes (which mostly defines solarpunk as a concept, I think we're good on that in this space), but this seems like this Human Restoration Project is a good thing with the wonk behind it to make it functional. (extra linky just in case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Nh0EkuiBzs)

Maybe I'm just a dirty tree-hugging hippie, but captive bred is better.

This is the 3rd betta I've had and he's just not food motivated like every other betta I've seen. We've tried pellets, flakes, and assorted freeze dried shit and he'll still mostly ignore it until it sinks to the bottom, and then maybe he'll nibble it. Bruh you are not a catfish or pleco, wtf. He's a "samurai" plakat male, while before I had the bog standard veiltails. Is this why he's weird? It doesn't seem likely tho?

midday sunlight, so only the shade pics have "proper" lighting, but I saw some lil froggo frens. (hopefully all the pics upload okay)

why tf a handful of almond leafs be fukcen 15 dollars??? Bitch you're getting the Lipton.

Lil 10 gallon tank, fake plants because I don't have the mental bandwidth for live plants at this point in time. I need to learn more tricks for tank photography.