natalia_la_loca Posted June 19, 2015 Author Share Posted June 19, 2015 Ha, I wanna be in the ice cream clique too Link to comment
Lawnman Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 I volunteer to be the leader of the ice cream clique! Nope diet time Sunday Link to comment
ReefWeeds Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Nope diet time Sunday you're no fun. Link to comment
kimberbee Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Nope diet time Sunday Yes, the ice cream diet. Haven't you heard of it?? Link to comment
natalia_la_loca Posted June 19, 2015 Author Share Posted June 19, 2015 My "diet" consists of eating slowly and avoiding sweetened drinks. Exercise: carrying buckets of water up and down stairs. Link to comment
Mirya Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 I volunteer to be the leader of the ice cream clique! It's been a sad summer so far here in Ohio. Jeni's Splendid Ice Cream has had a Listeria issue in their manufacturing plant. None of it ever made it into their ice creams, but the plant has been closed for weeks. However, their scoop stores reopen tonight! I'll have to go and see if they have my favorite combo in stock. I get one scoop of each: Link to comment
natalia_la_loca Posted June 22, 2015 Author Share Posted June 22, 2015 It's been a sad summer so far here in Ohio. Jeni's Splendid Ice Cream has had a Listeria issue in their manufacturing plant. None of it ever made it into their ice creams, but the plant has been closed for weeks. However, their scoop stores reopen tonight! I'll have to go and see if they have my favorite combo in stock. I get one scoop of each: holy cow, that sounds incredible. I keep hearing about Jeni's. One of my colleagues was raving about it, he says Talenti (my current fave is their salted caramel) pales in comparison. I hope they get their ice cream back in stores soon. Went on a four day business trip last week, came home to this (yay tank sitter!!!) and this and this and this (here comes mr. peppermint yelling for his dinner) But there always has to be a downside, doesn't there? It appears my oompa loompas are not long for this world. Two or three times since I got them, I've had parts of the colony close up and melt, a couple polyps at a time, all while the rest of the colony quickly puts out new heads. When I got home, all the polyps were closed and starting to shrivel. Really sad about this, the oompas are some of my favorites. And I have no idea why it's happening. Right next to them, the Utter Chaos are gorgeous. Very frustrating. In happier news, our scarecrow is proving highly effective in the vegetable garden. At least when she isn't sleeping on the job, or wandering off. okay, maybe she's not so effective after all. Link to comment
vlangel Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 Does your scarecrow work on scaring deer? If so I would like to rent her for awhile before I have no garden left! Link to comment
evanski Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 Squirrels are KILLING my tomatos.... Link to comment
natalia_la_loca Posted June 22, 2015 Author Share Posted June 22, 2015 Does your scarecrow work on scaring deer? If so I would like to rent her for awhile before I have no garden left! ha, I bet she would luckily our fence is apparently high enough to keep the deer out. Squirrels are KILLING my tomatos.... Squirrels???!! the squirrels must be different deep in the heart of Texas. Ours don't ever touch the tomatoes. Granted, our little scarecrow does terrorize the squirrels too. She chases after the big ones, and once she brought us half a baby squirrel Link to comment
ReefWeeds Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 The squirrels here eat our tomatoes! Like big huge bites out of them. It is really annoying! Link to comment
natalia_la_loca Posted June 22, 2015 Author Share Posted June 22, 2015 that is so weird to me. We have squirrels everywhere, they are voracious little sh!ts, but they've never shown the tiniest bit of interest in our tomatoes. Maybe it's because our neighbors keep well stocked bird feeders? Now last year some kind of rodent totally ruined our butternut squash harvest. Huge bites and gnaw marks on every single one. I was thinking woodchucks or possums or raccoons, but maybe I should blame the squirrels. Link to comment
ReefWeeds Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 I thought it was weird when the squirrels were eating tomatoes as well - I had never known they would and I assumed it was something else until I saw the suckers actually holding the tomatoes and chomping down. Link to comment
natalia_la_loca Posted June 22, 2015 Author Share Posted June 22, 2015 I hope our squirrels don't figure out the wonder of tomatoes. The tomatoes are my favorite part of the garden, we got four heirloom varieties this year. Don't ask me which ones. Link to comment
vlangel Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 Our squirrels only raid bird feeders so far. That is annoying enough! Link to comment
natalia_la_loca Posted June 22, 2015 Author Share Posted June 22, 2015 yup...the squirrels are very clever and persistent. Our neighbors have made several attempts to keep them away from the bird feeders...now I'm pretty sure they just stock extra birdseed. Link to comment
HarryPotter Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 Parrots eat all of our coconuts. Big Blue Macaws! Link to comment
natalia_la_loca Posted June 22, 2015 Author Share Posted June 22, 2015 I know all that stuff about the grass being greener on the other side of the fence, but big blue macaws are a pest I would love to have. (I imagine I'd take that back if I were living down there and trying to grow coconuts, lol) Link to comment
Merthynia Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 Parrots eat all of our coconuts. Big Blue Macaws! I'm not sure I'd ever get used to having Macaws as pests lol Link to comment
HarryPotter Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 I'm not sure I'd ever get used to having Macaws as pests lol http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/birds/macaw/ They're endangered! Haha every time I see them eating I think that my back yard is saving their population Link to comment
Merthynia Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/birds/macaw/ They're endangered! Haha every time I see them eating I think that my back yard is saving their population That is awesome. I can imagine them being extremely loud in a group though! Link to comment
vlangel Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 yup...the squirrels are very clever and persistent. Our neighbors have made several attempts to keep them away from the bird feeders...now I'm pretty sure they just stock extra birdseed. For a short time if your bird feeder is on a pole, you can grease the pole with vaseline and that will keep them off. And if you are lucky enough to witness a squirrel's first attempt you can be thoroughly entertained too. Link to comment
teenyreef Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 Any updates? I've been near despair over my zoas lately but catching up on your thread has reinspired me to try harder. I'm going to start daily target feeding with reef roids and restart the sanolife stuff Link to comment
natalia_la_loca Posted July 9, 2015 Author Share Posted July 9, 2015 Any updates? I've been near despair over my zoas lately but catching up on your thread has reinspired me to try harder. I'm going to start daily target feeding with reef roids and restart the sanolife stuff Ah, thanks for checking in. So yeaaaah...well, part of it is that I've been busy doing a lot of summer fun stuff. But I've also been procrastinating about posting updates here because yeah...I messed up big time. I had a small infestation of flatworms in my tank, so a couple of weeks ago I decided to stay on top of it by dosing some Flatworm Exit. No problem, right? I've dosed it several times in my big tank. At best, it's knocked back the population to a manageable number, with no ill effects to corals or inverts. And I found that it's best to hit the infestation with a large dose, so that's what I did. Other than that, I followed the directions, had a big water change ready on hand, etc. But my zoas did not take it well. Instant carnage. Several colonies are gone or on their way out. Several others are chronically closed, are just barely starting to open or have lost tons of color. Only three or four colonies have shown no ill effects (and the peppermint shrimp is fine.) I've done several large water changes, carbon changes, you name it, and it's barely helping. So, basically I'm an idiot. Depressing pix to follow. P.S. I'm sorry about your zoas. They do like that daily target feeding. Try Coral Frenzy too if you have it. Link to comment
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