E Equals MC Hammer posted:

Keep your eyes on the horizon boys and girls. Around the beginning of December I have some big plans. Big plans with prizes. I haven't fully worked out the plan yet but rest assured that you will all be judged.

nvm no cake posted:

they will die if you feed them too much, though. apparently they aren't smart enough to know to stop eating and just eat until they die. found that one out the hard way as a little kid.

Ahundredbux posted:

I just indentify everyone by avatar or sig

Saint Isaias Boner posted:

god it's hard to keep track of these name changes.

just going to assume i don't know anyone. hi luvcow, nice to meet you.

Ahundredbux posted:

I just indentify everyone by avatar or sig

Luvcow posted:

who the gently caress are you!? what did you do to gilganixon!?

Saint Isaias Boner posted:

i killed and became him, naturally

social vegan posted:

holy sh***t you were gilga this whole time welp

Saint Isaias Boner posted:

hahaha

HangRoose posted:

what the hell is plantar faciitis and how can i fix it or what is the most efficient way of ignoring it

GoodbyeTurtles posted:

Fanky Malloons posted:

Yes do, I need this in my life pls.

mysterious frankie posted:

sorry I went to bed after I posted that. here's the photo. the day I took it was a slow dog day, so there wasn't much of a line



if I see a big dog line and remember I'll take another photo later.

mysterious frankie posted:

sorry I went to bed after I posted that. here's the photo. the day I took it was a slow dog day, so there wasn't much of a line



if I see a big dog line and remember I'll take another photo later.

The Titanic posted:

gold fish. so they are apparently durable. they are significantly larger than I see in the pet shop, but apparently they grow to be fairly large. I didn't know that until these were given to me.

I guess they can get as big as a koi or something?

Commie NedFlanders posted:

Welp it's officially my birthday now,

my wife is super excited and chipper and wants to have lots of fun but this celebration of my birth feels more to me like a reminder of my age and i can't help but have a background feeling of angst


i sort of want to stand in the dark and stare at a field smoking a cigarette or something, i wish it were cold enough for a scarf



maybe i'll eat some crab for lunch in 12 hours

The Titanic posted:

dog truck.

Rockin Orthodontist posted:

Yeah, goldfish can live 20 years and get huge. Over a foot long and a couple pounds.

The reason you rarely see them more than a couple inches long is because people accidentally poison them. They stick them in a 1 gallon bowl with no filtration, over feed them, and don't change the water often enough, until the fish are literally poisoned by their own poop water. In a wild or low maintenance pond they get by without filtration, but that's because they have like 50 gallons of water per fish, and lots of plants and bugs to eat waste products. They can survive for a couple years in a so called "goldfish bowl" if you do water changes once or twice a week, but they are living on the edge the whole time. When it inevitably dies you can get a new one for like a buck, so there's no incentive to put much effort into keeping them alive.

Sorry to be a downer.

Rockin Orthodontist posted:

Yeah, goldfish can live 20 years and get huge. Over a foot long and a couple pounds.

The reason you rarely see them more than a couple inches long is because people accidentally poison them. They stick them in a 1 gallon bowl with no filtration, over feed them, and don't change the water often enough, until the fish are literally poisoned by their own poop water. In a wild or low maintenance pond they get by without filtration, but that's because they have like 50 gallons of water per fish, and lots of plants and bugs to eat waste products. They can survive for a couple years in a so called "goldfish bowl" if you do water changes once or twice a week, but they are living on the edge the whole time. When it inevitably dies you can get a new one for like a buck, so there's no incentive to put much effort into keeping them alive.

Sorry to be a downer.

Luvcow posted:

this

i used to make fishponds with a friends little company and ended up making a few for my parents:


this one is about 12 years old and was actually built as an expansion of one i had made in '98 before i knew what i was doing (i'd used a standard plastic pond tub instead of a liner). we moved the koi and smaller goldfish to the new pond and several of the koi lived for around 14 years before a power outage/hot summer day caused a massive kill off. supposedly koi can live for several hundred years old and they are very smart, ours recognized us and would eat out of our hands.

you can't see it well in this picture but there is an upper and lower pond, the upper (to the back left in the picture) is full of water celery which helps filter out the water before it cascades back into the larger lower pond. the fish live through the winter just fine under the ice as long as you keep the pump going so that the waterfalls keep oxygenating the water and leave a hole in the ice.

The Titanic posted:

wow, this is impressive stuff. very pretty too!

I'm equally impressed by the koi. I really had no idea fish could do that. I'm new to the whole owning fish business. my goldfish don't exactly strike me as intelligent though.

funny Star Wars parody posted:

goldfish are super gross bottomfeeding fish anyways so while yeah they're kind of neat they're also supremely gross

I had the same six goldfish for 15 years and it was really gross but they did reach about a foot each

every time i think to myself "a fishtank could be a nice addition to my house" i have flashbacks to cleaning their 40gal tank

The Titanic posted:

I try to keep their tank clean, and do a good job. I'm not exactly a fish kind of person though so I'm not really into it a lot. I'm a dog girl more than anything, and that's ok in my book.

I'm not sure if the tank I have will be big enough of they get that large. and I don't want to buy a new tank just for big goldfish. they're not like super pretty to begin with.

and yes, they're cheap and kinda just there. I don't think I can get attached to a fish so I'll try not to best myself up if they die.

Palisader posted:

Post dog pics pls

funny Star Wars parody posted:

here i gotchu covered

rascal and me chilling on the porch


my brother's gf holding a v enthusiastic rascal


chillin


camera shy chillin

funny Star Wars parody posted:

here i gotchu covered

rascal and me chilling on the porch


my brother's gf holding a v enthusiastic rascal


chillin


camera shy chillin

Palisader posted:

Your pupper is huge!

The Titanic posted:

I am in your old shoes apparently.

cleaning the tank is a real chore and yucky. the fish and tank were given to me though, so I guess it's kind of experimental. I'm doing my best to like them and keep them healthy!