u/Suspicious_Power_568

I've had this redemption for a bit over a year. It blows out leaves and new plants all of the time, even when it's indoors-so much that I repotted one.

Initially I planted the it outdoors when I first got it (June last year, in MA) in direct sun... It probably didn't have enough time to acclimate by the time I brought it indoors in the fall, but it really only popped out 2 leaves... Over winter (south-facing window and a growlight nearby) it started shooting out new leaves and runners.

Late spring I repotted a single one, and it lives outside receiving full sun (morning, noon, evening), and is watered with pond water... It has slowly bumped out new leaves, but nothing compared to the nearby black coral.

Really my question is: when do these guys start to develop the pink veining? It had a start last year when I received it, and the new green leaves have it, but it looses it once it turns black

A local nursery has some large crawling thai's (technically one of them is crawling with a bit of climbing). The leaf size has to be about 3' on the first one

So my girlfriend started us on bracelet collecting together.
It quickly grew.
Whenever we go somewhere or see something we like, we get something for each other too. So far I'm up to one full, one 3/4 complete, and a Halloween one I just started (I made the jack-o-lantern out of a chunk of walnut wood that I carved, painted, and epoxy coated)

I wear the heck out of mine every day doing basically everything except going on runs, so they get a lot of sweat and abuse (I'm a machinist so they periodically get coolant, and oil, and whatever else on them). So instead of trying to keep up with polishing, I did a couple of liver of sulfur treatments on them and did an accelerated "antiquing."
I'm really digging the dark silver and where the tarnish somewhat wears off in certain areas and a "cleaner" look shines through (I'm thinking about polishing the clasps and the mid-bracelet threaded areas).

I also reinforced the dangling ones with split rings after a couple have popped off. Added to that I chained certain ones together to keep them from spinning in the wrong direction (I linked the sailboat to the Haunted Mansion hat box). The rubber o-rings give a bit of extra security if the bracelets comes undone.

I ended up breaking one of the clasps, but found a magnetic replacement company that's been pretty decent.

Anyways here's my loved and abused collection!

Marvin's 5.5 after some months of running. Usually it's much darker with tannins, but cleared it up for pics... Thoughts from the knowledgeable:

Should the plant roots be thinned out a bit, or is it ok for our guy? He's usually lounging on the driftwood in the rrf or chilling in the alocasia roots.

Here he is heading into his feeding cove waiting for a snack when I walk by

So I picked up my Venu 3 (45mm) a couple weeks ago and I've been looking for a hard case due to working in a machine shop for work. Maybe I've been looking in the wrong places, but the best I've found are the soft TPU ones. They work fine, but to me they kind of make it look cheaper.

Anyway, I found the case is the same size as a Samsung Galaxy. So I picked up a couple inexpensive PC units and cut out the hole for the center button and speaker. Fit is spot on and clips on. I may add some thin double tape for added grip. I'm now on the search for an aluminum case for a bit more bling.

Our last guy unfortunately passed a few weeks ago, so after a random walk through a Petsmart this guy stuck out to us and we had to rescue him.

He was labeled as a dragonscale, but we're still learning and don't know what "type" he is. His personality is already off the hook. After a couple of hours acclimating and releasing, he started darting after copepods, when he's not doing that he's found a leaf to chill on... You walk by the tank and he's up front looking at you and has already after his first feeding discovered where his food comes in. In addition to the inverts he finds swimming and crawling and Bug Bites, what else would be good for his diet? I'm looking into frozen. Any other info on what he is (body style) or what we can offer him?