Recent content by Lora

I am so glad I am on this group now, I had totally forgotten about black blasting sand and was going to buy fluorite black for my 200g. That cost would have been INSANE.

We lost a native tree, and so did both of our neighbors. It has been an ULTRA dry summer. In other news I just scored a new to me used 200 gallon tank.. cleaning it out now. Can't wait to move the babies inside AWWWWW YEAH

Oh trust me, I enjoyed the rain lately too. It also helped with that awful smoke :eek: But I stayed inside and enjoyed it that way.

I used to actually go out of my way to go walking in the rain when I lived in SoCal .... what the heck; I despise feeling rain drops on my skin now. I think one day I will move away and enjoy walks in the rain again :lol and thanks for the welcome!

Omg fantastic haha

Thank you! I can see its a friendly group which is fantastic because... the internet can bring the worst out of people in every aspect especially when it comes to animals. This place is awesome :D

Thanks Betty! Yeah yeah yeah trees are great. I've just lived 'in the boonies' long enough and had enough land that we always lose one or two a year. Less land now by far so its not as bad yet still had to take out a bigleaf maple after half of it dropped in my mini's pasture. I'm from socal...

Yeahhhh, I have two tropical tanks and .. used to have three cold water tanks but my 55 sprung a leak so now its a total of 400 g outside for the goldies. I really need to figure out my big indoor tank for them... any who I digress! The longest power outage we've had was 15 days and nothing...

They're pretty addictive @VickiK ;) I never really gave them a second thought but we have so many power outages I decided to lean towards cold water tanks and here I am. I am way too lazy to fire up the generator.

I have a beautiful lavender and chocolate butterfly telescope from Ken at Dandy Oranda's but she's the most delicate thing and can only eat repashy. Which is totally fine since that's what I feed all the goldfish but man.. I don't think I could breed a fish that "special needs" and sell them to...

Thanks Mike! The parents spawned like a day after they were shipped to me and I was like "uhhhh I guess I'm doing this...." and learned really quickly all about breeding goldfish. Its been super fun and I'm looking forward to doing it again... One day I will get my hands on some blue egg phoenix...

Thanks for the warm welcome! First photo is the Sakura male from Zhao, second is the bronze female from Zhao and last is one of the babies. Best. Hobby. Ever. Once I find my large indoor tank I can pull all the babies out of the pond, some have a pretty nice hump that the parents don't have.

Just introducing myself, hey! I am fairly active on various Facebook fish groups but wanted to hang around here while I try to figure out the source for a new/used 180-200 gallon tank in my local area. I have a lead on a 200 but its got a repair and I am having day dreams.. nightmares? of it...