My "dragon tree" was concerning me. It had quite a few leaves yellowing and falling off, all in the middle level of the stem. I ...

Also called "sensitive plant" but I know it's in the mimosa family, wish I knew the exact name of this one. It likes the sha...

Three of my african violet "children" are starting to bloom! So far they all look like they will be purple; the one that has s...

Gave a rather thorough cleaning to my smaller aquarium with the routine water change today. I think it finally had good result. I wanted to ...

They are all in there. I looked into the tank after it was dark, saw not only the three adult malaysian trumpet snails, but two or three bab...

Took some more photos of the aquarium plants, their sorry state. This is my largest, nicest aponogeton- the biggest one from my first purcha...

for my aquariums still. The plants are doing poorly. Getting black spots, hair algae again, some leaves turning yellow then bleaching to whi...

More of my balcony plants are showing disease; to my dismay this includes both pots of mint. Most of the nicotiana are tall and leggy, leani...

My new fish for the 10gal is a "half moon double tail" plakat betta. I've never seen another fish quite like him. I see many...

My camera is alive again, so I'm able to catch up a little bit here. A week or so ago I gave a zucchini slice to the fishes, intending t...

I haven't seen Caleb in two days. I thought he was hiding, nervous in the new environment. He didn't seem stressed when acclimating ...

I have moved my lonely siamese algae eater into the 10gal. The larger tank is crystal clear, just some dark green algae I can't scrape o...

I kept track of what was going on in my aquariums with the ich outbreak, jotting down notes every day. It might help if I have to deal with ...

The tall cupboard in the corner of my kitchen, between two windows, is their spot now. The one on the left has been there far longer, one ...

It's much simpler than last year. It's mostly Nicotiana flowers in pots now. Swiss Chard continued to look diseased, I couldn't ...