I put my fish to sleep and woke him up again. This was the procedure ( edited 9/4 to add ): I got together all the necessary items afte...

Last dose of Oliver's treatment with PraziPro was monday. Tuesday I did several partial wc to remove the medication. He still looks fi...

Some of my celosia have bloomed a lighter shade, pinks and creams. I went out to take a few pictures. One of the plants toppled over du...

Over the past two weeks I've done a bit of rearranging in my main tank. Last week I took out the buce log, trimmed off all the oldest, a...

I am very happy with the succulents around the tree stump in our front yard. Glad didn't get the stump ground out- the kids like ju...

My husband called me outside to see these interesting mushrooms that came up around the mailbox. Never seen anything like them. Very pa...

Those seedlings that came up on their own are not nicotiana, or echinacea. I recognize them now. It's borage! My borage reseeded itse...

I tried to take a sample off Oliver's skin and view it under the microscope. To see if he really has flukes. They should be visible with...

I gave up trying to cycle the QT. I did everything I could think of to give it an 'instant cycle'- I swapped sponges off the little ...

Starting to clean up the garden. I have cut a few bunches of herbs to dry (more on that later) and took out all the green bean plants today....

I have stuff to note about the front yard, and the garden, and my loosing battle against whitefly- pitched too late. But instead I'm pre...

A white oblong bump protruding from his side. Bigger than an ich spot. He is darting around as if irritated. It showed up suddenly this...

of my little garden plots. A while back I moved all the green bean pots onto the garden soil- they used to be in a row edging the garden. ...

Didn't get exactly what I expected. I put out eight beer traps last night- five in the vegetable garden and three among the salvia. I di...

Well what do you know, this plant is finally making fruit. It's a lot healthier looking than the three sibling peppers down in the ...

Well, I have finally figured out the cause of this disease I see almost every year in my garden. It's whitefly. It causes the mottled, b...

This plant I had never grown before, all that time having its seed packet- has become a grand success. I can't believe how lush it looks...

from this past week. I cut all the swiss chard. There's not much of it. Made a chard frittata, and it will probably be the only on...