u/Nervous-Win968

My daughter got her pet crayfish from her 2nd grade class after studying them from tiny babies; unfortunately, it died over the weekend after 18 months due to an unsuccessful molt.

She is distraught and I want to see if I can find a new baby crayfish for her to raise. 

She had a Louisiana Crayfish that was full of character and did the funniest of things as well as bare his claws at me e very time I walked past!

I want to get her a replacement and would like to get another Louisiana Crayfish as they are bigger and seem to be pretty hardy.

However I am open to suggestions for other species if they are relatively big (no dwarf species) and full of character. We would have to order via mail so that may limit options

I am open to suggestions and DMs if you don't want to post publicly.

Thanks in advance!

We’ve had our male Louisiana crayfish for about a year. He’s probably around 18 months old at most. My daughter brought him home from a school science class. He’s usually been active, and his last molt was about nine months ago.

For roughly the last 10 days or so, he became unusually inactive.

We weren’t seeing him come out at night or clearly eating. I tried him with multiple foods. The last food I seen him eat was a tiny piece of beef about 3 days ago that was taken into his plant pot. It was hard to tell how much he ate though. His usual varied diet includes algae wafers, shrimp pellets, catfish pellets, and occasional tiny pieces of trout.

There were no signs of disease.

He lives alone in a 20-gallon tank.

It’s filtered and oxygenated with biweekly 5 gallon tap water changes and top up (I use water conditioner).

The water in Las Vegas is pretty hard, so we always add a gallon or two of distilled water

Here are the recent readings I have:

-Ammonia: 0 ppm
-Nitrite: 0 ppm
-Nitrate: roughly 20 ppm
-pH: about 8.2
-Temperature: 76.2°F
-GH: 425+ ppm
-Phosphate: about 2 ppm
-Dissolved oxygen: no idea but has 2 air-stones and a filter (has had this since day one)

The parameters we have checked have been stable throughout his life. We changed 5 gallons of water 6 days ago and moved his plant pot for the first time in a couple of months.

He moved out of the way but seemed lethargic, although did go back to his plant pot slowly.

Tonight, we found him upside down inside the plant pot. At first it looked like there were “one and a half” crayfish, so we thought he might be molting. Now it’s clear that he is partly out of his old shell.

The new shell is visible, but his head still appears to be inside the old one. He hasn’t moved at all for several hours, and I can’t see his gills moving.

We’re leaving him alone overnight. We haven’t tried to pull him out or remove the old shell.

Has anyone seen a crayfish get stuck at this stage and then complete the molt?

Is there anything safe to do, or is handling him more likely to injure him?

Does anything in the water readings or the recent lethargy stand out as a possible contributor?

Advice based on firsthand experience would be very much appreciated as my daughter is going to be distraught 😩

48M here. My gut has apparently decided to turn itself into a long-term science project.

Overview / timeline
For roughly a year, I’d been getting intermittent discomfort that felt a bit like chest pain/reflux. I eventually went to my doctor about it around late April / early May.

They did an H. pylori breath test, which came back positive.

I was then treated through roughly May with a bismuth-based regimen containing metronidazole and tetracycline, along with omeprazole.

After the antibiotic treatment finished, I continued taking omeprazole for about another month, until around the end of June.

The original chest/reflux-type symptoms improved significantly after the H. pylori treatment, so that seems to have been at least a major part of what was causing them. I still seem to have a little lingering upper GI irritation, but nothing like before.

Around that general period after finishing treatment, I started developing the current bowel issues, which have now been going on for approximately 8 weeks.

Separately, earlier this year I had a routine age-related screening colonoscopy for colorectal cancer which was negative.

I have a GI appointment in about 3 weeks, so I’m trying to make sensible use of the time before then as my butt is sore and I am drained by constant pooping

Symptoms
-Around 4–5 bowel movements a day
-Stools have generally been yellow
-Usually around Bristol 6
-Often get the urge to go after eating
-Some gas
-No bloating
-No cramps
-No abdominal pain
-No blood
-No fever
-No weight loss
-No nausea

One thing that is confusing me is that diet doesn’t seem to make much difference at all. Indian, Mexican, American, high-fat, low-fat, sugary, bland — it really doesn’t seem to change the pattern in any meaningful way.

That makes me less convinced this is being driven by one obvious food trigger.

What we’ve investigated / tried
I’ve been back to my doctor a few times and we’ve investigated quite a few things, but so far we’ve basically come up blank.

-Ova & parasite testing — negative
-Giardia — negative
-Cryptosporidium — negative
-Other parasite testing — negative
-Routine bloodwork hasn’t shown anything obvious that explains it

Doctor suggested Imodium/loperamide
Imodium helps somewhat with frequency, but not dramatically

I’ve also been trying a few things aimed at gut health:

Psyllium husk: 1 teaspoon with each meal for the last few days. This seems to be helping stool consistency somewhat — more Bristol 5 than 6, and more brown/yellow rather than purely yellow.

Natto: roughly 3–4 teaspoons a day, which I’ve been eating for around 3 months before this started.

Greek yogurt: roughly 2–3 times a week

Kombucha: currently having a small glass daily
So far, none of the fermented foods seem to have made any obvious difference.

What I’m trying to figure out
Given the timing around the H. pylori treatment, antibiotics, and prolonged omeprazole use, I’m particularly interested in whether this could be some kind of post-antibiotic dysbiosis or microbiome disruption.

What would you be looking at next?

Dysbiosis? SIBO? Bile acid malabsorption? C. diff? Pancreatic insufficiency? Rapid transit? Something else entirely?

And for anyone who’s had something similar, what actually moved the needle? Specific probiotics, fermented foods, prebiotics, fiber, diet changes, supplements, or particular tests worth discussing with the GI?

Not looking for Reddit to diagnose me — mainly interested in sensible avenues to research while I wait for the GI appointment.

I’ve got a couple of toenails that have basically declared independence and become their own fungal ecosystem. This has been the case since 2005.

I can’t take terbinafine because I had a bad reaction to it, and the usual pharmaceutical options haven’t exactly worked or inspired confidence, so I’m looking into older/traditional/herbal approaches.

So far I’ve come across things like:

-Tea tree oil
-Propolis
-Norway spruce resin
-Oregano oil blends
-Vinegar/acetic acid
-Potassium permanganate
-Hydrogen peroxide

I’m not expecting some magical “rub a leaf on it and it’s gone by Tuesday” cure, but I’m curious whether anyone here has actually had success treating stubborn toenail fungus naturally, especially something that was pretty well established.

I’m also looking at getting the infected nail heavily debrided or possibly removed, then treating the nail bed once it has healed, which seems like it might give topical treatments a fighting chance.

Has anyone tried something that genuinely worked — ideally backed by more than “my cousin’s neighbor swears by it”?

Very interested in old-school remedies, herbal preparations, resins, oils, tinctures, etc. Bonus points if there’s actual research behind it.

I’ve got a couple of toenails that have basically declared independence and become their own fungal ecosystem. This has been the case since 2005.

I can’t take terbinafine because I had a bad reaction to it, and the usual pharmaceutical options haven’t exactly worked or inspired confidence, so I’m looking into older/traditional/herbal approaches.

So far I’ve come across things like:

Tea tree oil
Propolis
Norway spruce resin
Oregano oil blends
Vinegar/acetic acid
Potassium permanganate
Hydrogen peroxide

I’m not expecting some magical “rub a leaf on it and it’s gone by Tuesday” cure, but I’m curious whether anyone here has actually had success treating stubborn toenail fungus naturally, especially something that was pretty well established.

I’m also looking at getting the infected nail heavily debrided or possibly removed, then treating the nail bed once it has healed, which seems like it might give topical treatments a fighting chance.

Has anyone tried something that genuinely worked — ideally backed by more than “my cousin’s neighbor swears by it”?

Very interested in old-school remedies, herbal preparations, resins, oils, tinctures, etc. Bonus points if there’s actual research behind it.

Welcome to r/VegasPolitics.

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The trunk opens automatically but ends up about 4" short of the top. When I manually move it further it stays in that position.

Is there a way to recalibrate it as I am thinking the struts are fine as they stay at full extension when moved manually.

Any ideas?

Please stop driving a car with a dog on your lap!

I just witnessed an Escalade swerve and hit a wall with the drivers airbag deploying squishing the dog on the owners chest. It was a big ass labradoodle!!

The driver is distraught and blaming the dog for stopping her being able to turn back away from the wall after it blocked her vision which caused the swerve in the first place.

The car is badly damaged.

The owner thinks she has a cracked rib and had a bust lip and nose.

The dog is likely going to die as it is not breathing well.

100% avoidable and 100% unnecessary all because a driver couldn't regulate their emotions enough to strap a dog into a seat or in the trunk if you have an SUV.

Poor dog....

I posted a spreadsheet that I use a few days ago and got a few DM's with suggestions to improve it (thank you!!).

During the conversations I mentioned I use AI a lot and automate almost everything I can. This includes quotes, invoices, expenses, job scopes etc.

We seem to get some coding bro with the latest wonder app that will solve all of our problems every other day. The sub seems to be a massive pitch-fest of the latest unproven tool that promises to solve all of your problems but you have to pay for it.

I do everything using Google Gemini that these apps can do.

If I spent the time creating a few videos on how to do this with Gemini or Chat GPT, would it be helpful?

I have nothing to sell.

I don't want an email.

It will be a few video links that are free to access, probably Youtube.

I just want to help the solopreneur handyman make more money and spend more time with family and less time working on the soul destroying tasks like preparing quotes, invoices, tracking expenses etc.

I can give you the knowledge to automate all of this within a couple of hours.

Let me know if there is some interest.

We are looking at high schools for 2027/28 and from a few conversations online, CCSD has gotten it's hooks more and more into Charter and Magnet schools.

Our oldest attended John Bonner for 6 weeks as it was not a pleasurable experience for a 5 year old.

The staff were very rigid on their teaching and methods, they used things like behavior charts and awarded "treasure" on Friday for the "good" children.

Threatened to suspend my son if he and his friends didn't stop (consensually) play fighting at recess, called us to discuss my son not being able to sit still all day, his teacher asking me to tell my son to stop fiddling with his t-shirt collar when she was teaching, forcing children on the class matt to sit a certain way for 30 mins.

Everything possible to make a typical 5 year old boy hate education and school.

My son went from hyper-excitement on day one to "I have a sore head and can't go to school" by week three! We had 3 meetings with the Principal and teachers and it was clear nothing would change, so we removed him from the school. It was a truly awful, awful experience that we don't want to repeat.

We currently have our children in a private school, which is stretching us financially so a free school would be a lifeline for 8th grade forward.

How much are the CCSD problems present in magnet and charter schools?

I’d like to get some outside perspectives on something unusual we caught. This happened in Las Vegas during DEF CON(hacking conference), so I fully appreciate there’s a chance we’re all just seeing “hacker behaviour” where there may be none. 😄

A man entered one of our building’s elevators carrying a backpack. Once inside:
● He removed a small electronic device with several wires attached
● He then put on a fanny pack
● He stood very close to the elevator control panel for ~20–30 seconds
● After that, he left without any further interaction
● He appeared fully focused on the control panel

The behaviour wasnt normal waiting and he left immediately after finishing

We had our maintenance team review the elevator afterwards, but they didn’t find anything obvious. That said, they are general facilities staff rather than elevator or embedded systems specialist

I want to be very clear: I’m NOT looking for exploit methods or “how-to” guidance.

I’m just interested in ideas from people with experience in:
● Physical security
● RF systems
● Embedded hardware
● Access control systems

Questions for the experts in this sub....
If you saw this on CCTV, what would your initial interpretation be?

Some possibilities we’ve considered:
● RFID/NFC reader interaction or testing
● RF scanning or reconnaissance
● Attempting to identify installed systems or hardware
● Accessing a maintenance or diagnostic interface
● Something unrelated we haven’t considered
● Or just DEF CON paranoia influencing perception 😅

Investigation perspective
If you were tasked with following up on this, what would you look at?
● System or access logs
● Elevator control hardware inspection
● RF environment analysis
● Maintenance or diagnostic records
● Any other indicators of interaction or tampering

Would really appreciate thoughts from anyone with relevant experience. Trying to separate “interesting behaviour” from “actually meaningful signal” here.
Thanks in advance.

2015 Kia Sorento EX 3.3L V6

I live in Las Vegas and it is hotter than a stripper convention. My AC is also bust!

Today was 112F and my car is like a nuclear reactor when I get in it due to being in the sun all day. It is time.... I need to put some window tint on to block the heat while I find enough money to get the AC fixed.

I have a budget of around $50 as my wife is not working due to a lay-off and kids off school, so I need to be sensible with the pennies.

I am going to do it myself but have no idea what films ACTUALLY work to reduce the heat.

I want the front side windows to be very lightly tinted or not at all (70%) and the rear windows around 35%.

So I am open to recommendations. What specific brands or Amazon specials actually made a real difference?

2015 Kia Sorento EX 3.3L V6

I live in Las Vegas and it is hotter than a stripper convention. My AC is also bust!

Today was 112F and my car is like a nuclear reactor when I get in it due to being in the sun all day. It is time.... I need to put some window tint on to block the heat while I find enough money to get the AC fixed.

I have a budget of around $50 as my wife is not working due to a lay-off and kids off school, so I need to be sensible with the pennies.

I am going to do it myself but have no idea what films ACTUALLY work to reduce the heat.

I want the front side windows to be very lightly tinted or not at all (70%) and the rear windows around 35%.

So I am open to recommendations. What specific brands or Amazon specials actually made a real difference?

2015 Kia Sorento EX 3.3L V6

I live in Las Vegas and it is hotter than a stripper convention!

Today was 112F and my car is like a nuclear reactor when I get in it due to being in the sun all day. It is time.... I need to put some window tint on to block the heat.

I have a budget of around $50 as my wife is not working due to a lay-off, so I need to be sensible with the pennies.

I am going to do it myself but have no idea what films ACTUALLY work to reduce the heat.

I want the front side windows to be very lightly tinted or not at all (70%) and the rear windows around 35%.

So I am open to recommendations. What specific brands or Amazon specials actually made a real difference?

Howdy,

So I have seen a ton of posts about how to run a business and keep track of finances, tasks etc.

Here is my Google Sheet to share.

No charge.

No catch.

Enjoy....

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Nbp1gJhZM6FQiW2XzwfEW3yYZ6D0eLXU6T15eNio4As/edit?usp=sharing

p.s. You will have to save a copy as I dont want everybody else's data in my Sheet 😄

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