Lula_Mae Posted August 13, 2017 Share Posted August 13, 2017 Bettas! Oh my goodness, I adore bettas! I just adopted a baby boy betta a couple of weeks ago, and have a girl and my husband has a male as well. They're such wonderful, personable fish! Bettas are the best! And their tanks look so nice, too! I don't know if you knew, but Photobucket recently changed and no longer allows third-party hosting (like posting your pics on forums) without charging $399/year for the privilege. A lot of people are moving to services like Flickr and Imgur (sp?) since Photobucket decided to be lame. 1 Quote Link to comment
FlowerMama Posted August 13, 2017 Author Share Posted August 13, 2017 2 minutes ago, Lula_Mae said: Bettas! Oh my goodness, I adore bettas! I just adopted a baby boy betta a couple of weeks ago, and have a girl and my husband has a male as well. They're such wonderful, personable fish! Bettas are the best! And their tanks look so nice, too! I don't know if you knew, but Photobucket recently changed and no longer allows third-party hosting (like posting your pics on forums) without charging $399/year for the privilege. A lot of people are moving to services like Flickr and Imgur (sp?) since Photobucket decided to be lame. Thank You, yeah, I had no idea Photobucket did that so I'll have to go learn somewhere else. That's crazy. Way to ruin it for many people. Oh, and I am still taking of my 40g tank of course. Pictures soon. I did though however lose the 4-5 babies that were in the nursery. The radial filefish took care of them. : ( Quote Link to comment
Lula_Mae Posted August 13, 2017 Share Posted August 13, 2017 2 minutes ago, FlowerMama said: Thank You, yeah, I had no idea Photobucket did that so I'll have to go learn somewhere else. That's crazy. Way to ruin it for many people. Oh, and I am still taking of my 40g tank of course. Pictures soon. I did though however lose the 4-5 babies that were in the nursery. The radial filefish took care of them. : ( hopefully some babies in the big tank will survive! And yeah, Photobucket did it with 0 warning so it ticked a lot of people off. If you look at a thread and it's got an ugly gray image saying something about upgrading the Photobucket account, well...that's what they've done to people all over the web. I expect they will probably shut down in the next couple of years because of it lol. 2 Quote Link to comment
FlowerMama Posted August 13, 2017 Author Share Posted August 13, 2017 Yes, the babies in the 40g are doing well. One is just largely over a dime in size, another will soon get there. I need to take a pic of some of the babies, even if they are the same babies. Also have to feed tomorrow. They always enjoy that! 2 Quote Link to comment
Christopher Marks Posted August 13, 2017 Share Posted August 13, 2017 It really was without warning! I was able to cache and save quite a few, but not all Photobucket images on the forum. Many of them in this thread were saved! I'm working towards a solution to hopefully restore more, but moving forward, Flickr is the best option. 5 Quote Link to comment
FlowerMama Posted August 13, 2017 Author Share Posted August 13, 2017 2 minutes ago, Christopher Marks said: It really was without warning! I was able to cache and save quite a few, but not all Photobucket images on the forum. Many of them in this thread were saved! I'm working towards a solution to hopefully restore more, but moving forward, Flickr is the best option. Thank You Mark for trying to help as much as you can. I'm sure they caught everyone off guard. How do they possibly think this is the way to go?? So many types of forums everywhere in the world. Yes, I was wondering why it didn't just shoot up the picture like the link usually does when I put those up. Thank God for YouTube so videos are still alive. 2 Quote Link to comment
teenyreef Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 On 8/13/2017 at 0:03 AM, FlowerMama said: What do you have going on for planted? Lemme see!!! I did have some plant die off but getting new leaves. I have a new plant of wisteria completely just blacken and wither up and cabomba doesn't like my lights really. More to learn! My 90g is a planted tank, I've had it running on autopilot for about 15 years now. Every six weeks I do a water change and clean out the cannister filter. I trim the plants back about every three weeks or when I notice things are getting too shady. I haven't taken a picture in forever but this one is from two or three years ago. 8 2 Quote Link to comment
FlowerMama Posted August 30, 2017 Author Share Posted August 30, 2017 On 8/14/2017 at 10:29 AM, teenyreef said: My 90g is a planted tank, I've had it running on autopilot for about 15 years now. Every six weeks I do a water change and clean out the cannister filter. I trim the plants back about every three weeks or when I notice things are getting too shady. I haven't taken a picture in forever but this one is from two or three years ago. It's really pretty. Looks so perfect really. So much I still need to learn about plants. Though I've really been more out of it otherwise. Just going through mid-life depression I guess. 46 yrs old. Trying to sell make-up, trying to exercise and wanting to go ketogenic as I noticed paleo was hard for me to keep up as I'd give in on cheese. I'd much rather have cheeses and not have carbs. So this week I've been reading up and changing up some things in my diet. I haven't done anything with my tank, except top off and clean the glass. I need to water change. I'll put up a picture this weekend though. I still haven't done anything with Gertie's tank and my radial filefish died today in the Nursery. I need to clean that as well. The babies just melted away after the filefish bothered them. I'm done separating flowers, they'll just remain in the 40g untouched. Probably best anyway. Quote Link to comment
RFA Maria Posted September 10, 2017 Share Posted September 10, 2017 Hi flowermama Just want you to know that you are a great inspiration! Because of you there was a girl in Norway (me) who started up a tank for rfa's! Keep up the good work i'm sorry that your filefish caused your rfa babies to melt and then go off and die.. It's not fun when that happens 4 Quote Link to comment
BulkRate Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 More likely the aiptasia-eating filefish simply regarded them as a gourmet option and did what it does (ate them). Same reason I avoid keeping peppermint shrimp in my RFA tank. Flowermomma tends to have that inspiring (or is it inciting?) effect on people. I can name at least 6 tanks that have breeding populations in them today because of her contributions to his and her own build thread. 1 Quote Link to comment
RFA Maria Posted September 22, 2017 Share Posted September 22, 2017 On 11.9.2017 at 7:55 PM, BulkRate said: More likely the aiptasia-eating filefish simply regarded them as a gourmet option and did what it does (ate them). Same reason I avoid keeping peppermint shrimp in my RFA tank. Flowermomma tends to have that inspiring (or is it inciting?) effect on people. I can name at least 6 tanks that have breeding populations in them today because of her contributions to his and her own build thread. You're probably right about it seeing them as a gourmet meal, but it's still very unfortunate.. could you please name them? I would like to read their threads too if they have one I have read reefhounds thread where he's set up a breeding tank for them Quote Link to comment
BulkRate Posted September 22, 2017 Share Posted September 22, 2017 Well... ah... here, for starters (I'm too lazy to do much more than slap pics into FM's threads) and over in the "official" Rock Flower Anemone Information and Appreciation thread. Local fish store owner's gotten hooked and is attempting to make one of her next tanks a 3' breeder after I showed her NR's topics on the subject. As of other NR member's tanks? Seafurn's got the start of one. HarryPotter and getmealemon both have tanks crankin' out de bebeh nems and a spectacular variety. TimberC up in Canada I think got started before waay before FlowerMomma and puts just about everyone to shame. OK.. so not quite 6 instigated as I claimed. But so veeeeery close! Quote Link to comment
debbeach13 Posted September 23, 2017 Share Posted September 23, 2017 Counting you is 6 5 hours ago, BulkRate said: Seafurn's got the start of one. HarryPotter and getmealemon both have tanks crankin' out de bebeh nems and a spectacular variety. TimberC up in Canada I think got started before waay before FlowerMomma and puts just about everyone to shame. Quote Link to comment
RFA Maria Posted September 24, 2017 Share Posted September 24, 2017 On 22.9.2017 at 9:03 PM, BulkRate said: Well... ah... here, for starters (I'm too lazy to do much more than slap pics into FM's threads) and over in the "official" Rock Flower Anemone Information and Appreciation thread. Local fish store owner's gotten hooked and is attempting to make one of her next tanks a 3' breeder after I showed her NR's topics on the subject. As of other NR member's tanks? Seafurn's got the start of one. HarryPotter and getmealemon both have tanks crankin' out de bebeh nems and a spectacular variety. TimberC up in Canada I think got started before waay before FlowerMomma and puts just about everyone to shame. OK.. so not quite 6 instigated as I claimed. But so veeeeery close! Wow, so she's getting famous! I want to read their threads, I read anything I can find about these anemones, and others experience is worth a lot! How many rock flowers do you have? Quote Link to comment
righttirefire Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 Are you still around? Quote Link to comment
Snow_Phoenix Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 20 hours ago, righttirefire said: Are you still around? I think she left some time ago. Hope she returns one day. She was nice and her tanks were awesome. 3 Quote Link to comment
WV Reefer Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 1 hour ago, Snow_Phoenix said: I think she left some time ago. Hope she returns one day. She was nice and her tanks were awesome. I see her name in the list sometimes so I think she may pop in now and then...... but no posts. 1 Quote Link to comment
Snow_Phoenix Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 28 minutes ago, WV Reefer said: I see her name in the list sometimes so I think she may pop in now and then...... but no posts. I hope she posts again someday. Her mantis tanks and RFA tanks were gorgeous. Hope she's doing ok in RL. 3 Quote Link to comment
Newstead Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 See her occasionally at the LFS. Next time will tell her she is missed. 1 2 Quote Link to comment
Christopher Marks Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 44 minutes ago, Newstead said: See her occasionally at the LFS. Next time will tell her she is missed. Definitely! ❤️ 1 Quote Link to comment
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