u/Jazzlike_Fault_4728

Brought this guy home just over a month ago, and proceeded to murder ~80% of its existing fronds while I figured out exactly how to care for it.

I think I've got it down, its been putting out new fronds like crazy for the past couple weeks. I'm almost tempted to chop the remainder if its sad old fronds to give it a face-lift 🤣

But I'm totally new to ferns and I'm curious, why are the new fronds all so short? Will they continue to get taller even after they've unfurled, or are they going to stay that small?

I got this guy about a month ago and its been steadily putting out new growth. I noticed today that 2-3 of the leaves on one stem are turning red? That would generally indicate displeasure to me but the rest of the stems are fine and even the one with red leaves is still working on putting out a new leaf. So I'm not really sure what this is telling me.

Potted in 40/40/20 peat/perlite/charcoal and bottom watered about once a week. Last photo is of the lighting setup.

How do I know when these are ready for soil?

They look very different....any idea what they actually are?

The more speckled one is super white, the other is more of a yellowy cream, if that helps anything.

I got this guy about a month ago and the brown spots have been quickly spreading for the last couple weeks. Lately the leaves have also been drooping. He's still putting on a new leaf roughly every week, but some of the new leaves have been very sad. I've pruned off the most heavily damaged leaves since this photo.

He currently lives near a south facing window on a shelf with a grow light, and gets watered weekly (if needed). Potted in a mix of potting soil/orchid bark/perlite.

I've been gardening for several years but I'm very new to the indoor potted plant life so any help would be greatly appreciated!

11 months.

13,500 ounces.

600+ hours.

I've donated 1000oz to local moms. Unfortunately lost another 1000oz to a freezer mishap. And built up another 1500oz freezer stash that is allowing me to quit a month early. The remaining 10000oz has grown my beautiful, perfect baby girl.

While I am blessed to have had it very easy (a manageable oversupply, responding well to portable pumps, never pumping more than 6x daily, never a hint of mastitis) I am still extremely proud that I did the damn thing. I fed this baby from my body, something my mental health didn't allow me to do with my first.

Its a bittersweet feeling. I am not at all sad to have one less thing to manage, but I am so sad knowing that this also means my last baby is growing up.

Onward, I suppose, to the next chapter ❤️

My three year old BP has suddenly developed a mouse preference.

He started with the breeder on live mice but I got him at roughly 8 weeks old and switched him to FT rats no problem. He was a super reliable eater until about a year ago, when he suddenly stopped eating. After a vet visit to confirm he's perfectly healthy and get some advice, he recently started eating again. His first meal in almost a year was a FT mouse (I figured some food variation might also help get him back to eating). He ate a mouse 2 feedings in a row with no hesitation, so I switched him back to a FT rat of identical size last night. No dice. I had a hunch and some residual anxiety from his long hunger strike so I prepped a mouse and he immediately took that.

Currently he is ~1100g and my jumbo mice are ~40-45g so they're not wildly undersized for him yet but I know they eventually will be. Is it possible to keep him on mice long term and just feed him more often? How often would I need to feed for this to be sustainable?

I obviously now know he can and will fast for a concerning length of time if he's not offered exactly what he wants so switching him doesn't seem feasible at this point.

Picture of the little jerk for tax.