What made you happy today?

Lady Kelly said:
I've been to the hairdressers! So very excited to see my hairdresser again as she was on maternity leave since last October so haven't seen her in the best part of a year
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I discovered today that my hairdress is pregnant 🤰 she will be on leave from December so will have to make sure I see her again before then!
 
alpacasqueak said:
I’m happy because recently I’ve been getting the chance to wear these really great, and cheap, fashionable items to help me clean my fish tanks and stuff :D
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Unfortunately my Rainbowfish didn’t like this one (co op) but they didn’t mind the greenish Lidl one the other day! :))
Good job Arnie the gorgeous goldie was being cleaned and not them! :))
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You have lots of lovely blue rainbows @alpacasqueak. There's 2 in our tank and one of them gets a bright yellow blaze all along the top of his head when he's trying to impress his friend who I assume is female as she is smaller and doesn't do the blaze thing. He goes from light blue on the top half of his body and grey on the bottom half to navy blue almost black with this big yellow blaze it's very impressive! Do any of yours do that?
 
Spaghetti & Noodles said:
I discovered today that my hairdress is pregnant 🤰 she will be on leave from December so will have to make sure I see her again before then!
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I get another one who is also very good but she's not Charlotte. The first time she went on maternity it was about a week before my admin at the time went on maternity. I got very emotional. Two women who I can't cope without were both leaving me :))
 
Eddie & Elvis said:
You have lots of lovely blue rainbows @alpacasqueak. There's 2 in our tank and one of them gets a bright yellow blaze all along the top of his head when he's trying to impress his friend who I assume is female as she is smaller and doesn't do the blaze thing. He goes from light blue on the top half of his body and grey on the bottom half to navy blue almost black with this big yellow blaze it's very impressive! Do any of yours do that?
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Aw thank you, they’re brilliant fish. Actually only had two females and a male (my surprise baby a couple of years ago!) but added 4 babies in April and they’re growing at speed (son kept breeding with mum, very wrong!), got a lone OAP Dwarf Neon that hangs around with them too, originally had a gang of them years ago. Yes that’ll definitely be a boy, they love showing off! Mine does and the two male babies are just getting their hormones kicking in and starting now too!
The girls have bigger bellies and aren’t as colourful as the boys, but far feistier if my girls are anything to go by! :))
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My little boy showing off!
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He’s at the bottom, his mum just above, got a podgier belly! But she’s the boss of the tank! :)) :gp:
 
Lady Kelly said:
I get another one who is also very good but she's not Charlotte. The first time she went on maternity it was about a week before my admin at the time went on maternity. I got very emotional. Two women who I can't cope without were both leaving me :))
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Helen is fab, she is the only person I've ever had at this Salon and they are struggling to recruit someone to cover her, I guess my hair will be a bit longer for a while one she's on her leave ☹️
 
Eddie & Elvis said:
Girl power indeed 😁

I found a video of my male showing off but having problems uploading to YouTube for some reason... I'll see if I can get that sorted as it shows his blaze kind of well. Here's a screenshot from it for now
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Aah so sweet, with more of them the Rainbowfish boys are at it constantly showing off to the other boys too, don’t know how they have the energy! :)) Who else have you got in the tank? Can spot the Neon :D I’ve not kept them but did have Black Neons many moons ago!
 
alpacasqueak said:
Aah so sweet, with more of them the Rainbowfish boys are at it constantly showing off to the other boys too, don’t know how they have the energy! :)) Who else have you got in the tank? Can spot the Neon :D I’ve not kept them but did have Black Neons many moons ago!
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We've currently got 2 blue rainbow fish, 1 angel fish, some runny nosed tetras, some neon tetras, some x-ray tetras, 1 lonely red eyed tetra, 2 corydoras, 2 baby clown loaches (my personal favourites there's been clown loaches in the tank my whole life the previous 2 got quite big!) and a dwarf pleco 😁 When I write it down like that it sounds like there's loads of them but the tank look a bit empty hopefully I can get some more soon. What have you got?
 
Eddie & Elvis said:
We've currently got 2 blue rainbow fish, 1 angel fish, some runny nosed tetras, some neon tetras, some x-ray tetras, 1 lonely red eyed tetra, 2 corydoras, 2 baby clown loaches (my personal favourites there's been clown loaches in the tank my whole life the previous 2 got quite big!) and a dwarf pleco 😁 When I write it down like that it sounds like there's loads of them but the tank look a bit empty hopefully I can get some more soon. What have you got?
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To the non tropical fish initiated it sounds like a load of gobbledegook!
 
Eddie & Elvis said:
We've currently got 2 blue rainbow fish, 1 angel fish, some runny nosed tetras, some neon tetras, some x-ray tetras, 1 lonely red eyed tetra, 2 corydoras, 2 baby clown loaches (my personal favourites there's been clown loaches in the tank my whole life the previous 2 got quite big!) and a dwarf pleco 😁 When I write it down like that it sounds like there's loads of them but the tank look a bit empty hopefully I can get some more soon. What have you got?
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Need some piccies :wub:
Betsy said:
To the non tropical fish initiated it sounds like a load of gobbledegook!
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Think there may be a tiny autocorrect typo, it's rummy nosed tetras :)) they have lovely red noses, not a cold ;)
Its so relaxing watching fish, especially a community tank like that :nod:
What sort of Cory's do you have? Is it you with the albinos?

I need to restock my tank, I've not bought any for 7-8yrs, I usually drive 30+miles to a shop in Weymouth as he quarantines all his fish for 2wks before selling them.
I love neons so will probably get a little shoal of them & my old male Rosy barb would probably like some female company, he hasn't had any for a few yrs!

I'm just a bit nervous of new fish introducing diseases into the tank & Aristotle my bristlenose I've had 26 or 27years now so don't want to upset him (her)!

Jackie I know more about fish gobbledegook than things like cosmetics, if it was a post about blushers & stuff I would be completely lost! Lol!

Although I must admit I'm looking forward to my next haircut in 2wks....First since January! My hairdresser has had a baby, so she's had a little break. I sooo look like 'Cousin Itt 'from the Addams family!... With a few added' silvery, natural highlights'! Lol! X
 
Eddie & Elvis said:
We've currently got 2 blue rainbow fish, 1 angel fish, some runny nosed tetras, some neon tetras, some x-ray tetras, 1 lonely red eyed tetra, 2 corydoras, 2 baby clown loaches (my personal favourites there's been clown loaches in the tank my whole life the previous 2 got quite big!) and a dwarf pleco 😁 When I write it down like that it sounds like there's loads of them but the tank look a bit empty hopefully I can get some more soon. What have you got?
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Yes I had Rummy nose tetras for years too, lovely little fish. Oldest lived to 10! And a pair of albino cories that lived with my others for nearly 12, were some of the first fish in the tank, love them! 😍
I’ve got a King Tiger Pleco, my Rainbows, 6 Endler’s Livebearers and the two Rineloricaria catfish that should’ve had more friends but they hate my tank! That’s it! 2 snails in another tank as they’re so messy! Think I’ll be getting a gang of cories again as miss them hugely! My oldies all passed away in the last few years so am sort of restocking the tank I suppose, my oldest Rainbows are 5+ but they were the only ones in there! I had a lot going on with my health (and Pedro’s!) so this year thought I’d be nice to get them and me some buds!

It might be a good idea to add to what you’ve already got if you’ve got the space, Rainbows and corydoras (and tetras and loaches but clown loaches can get very big!) love being in groups of 5/6+ as obviously live in huge groups in the wild, they’re so much more active and happy with mates about!

Yep I know much more about them too @GPTV! And sure you look lovely as Cousin It! :D :)) xx
 
@GPTV Yes that's meant to be rummy nosed tetras 🤣
Yeah fish tanks are amazing when I was really little my parents would put me and my brother in front of the fish tank and it would keep us entertained for ages. No it's not me with the albino ones I have blue leopard corydoras (I think anyway :)) ).
Wow 27 years! That's one ancient fish I'm not surprised you don't want to upset him/her.
I'm with you on the cosmetics front I'd rather have fish :))

@alpacasqueak I'd love some more tetras we don't have very many atm and maybe some more cories too
 
I harvested my second lot of chilies today - no photos of the first harvest as we ate them too quickly.
But they are really good, and I have lots more on the way!
Feel free to suggest your favorite chili recipes here, as I have no idea why I grew so many and I can't pass them on to my neighbours as the Swiss don't do spicy.

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VickiA said:
The carbuncle that was our 31 year old leaking conservatory has been demolished. Groundwork’s in progress for a whole new structure. I can’t tell you how pleased I am to see it gone.
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Crack out the Early Grey and the guinea pig tea pot, and I shall pop over for a cuppa when it's done :D
 
Well, it didn't start out as a recipe for chilli vodka, it was a byproduct. I don't remember how the discussion started but we were talking about adding chilli to toilet paper and I pointed out that as a prank/revenge/whatever reason it was, it wouldn't work because someone's gonna notice the chilli pieces, right? And this guy came back with the chilli vodka recipe. I'll need to hunt it down again.
 
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