There's some small pawpaws growing wild on the property, with fruit. I'd like to put them in a container and grow them on my porch. What sort of color are they when ripe and how best to get the seeds started?
Huge heavy rain yesterday and this morning found this outside. Looks unusual?
This is my upstairs unpowered 20 gallon tank, named "top tank" even though it now contains no topminnows. It's placed in the window and about 3/4 of the way through a "season of green" as I call it. This algae has completely covered the back wall (the window side) but then started to "shrink" as if dried out, until it's all clumped at the top. It still has a "strand" connecting to the floor, looks very spooky. The surface is covered in fine "hairs" since there's no agitation, but really only a very thin biofilm, all things considered. Despite every wall being thick with green, the water itself is actually quite clear, and the parameters are right where they should be.
Tank occupants include one white river crayfish named Puppydog from a nearby lake, 4x zebra danios from the store, one shrimp who is in heaven, a single Asian clam, and recently a batch of limpets that I'm delighted to see! An amount of rotala, duckweed, and hornwort has been added, but didn't really take, so there's not many plants.
I drop a spirulina wafer every few days, that's about it. I keep a loose piece of cardboard over it so there's airflow but not a ton of evaporation, so I rarely need to touch the water, maybe every 6 or 9 months I'll do a partial change with a top up. There are no devices, lights, filters or anything in place since I set it up about a year ago. I absolutely love everything it's doing 💚
Yeah I guess it's kinda like egg theory but more assertive
edit /uj I had forgotten about forcefem
Took her out of the dog yard quickly enough. She's having a sleepover and will be eating from my domestic toads' mealworms tonight, and I'll release her at a place tomorrow when I'm able. I've seen her species at a nearby waterway but never close enough to photograph like this.
Alabama
No longer a worm, but something more...