u/ackley14

Hello fellow fishkeepers!

My name is Ackley14 and I have been selected to be the new moderator for this subreddit.

Firstly, I want to thank all of you for your efforts in reporting, and otherwise bringing attention to the horrific activities that have plagued this subreddit over the past few weeks. I was among those of you actively seeking out remedies and was ultimately chosen to lead this sub. I understand your concerns, I have been there with you seeing these atrocities and I will be doing my level best to not only act on future violations but prevent them outright however possible. In addition to that responsibility, I would love to help this community grow and thrive. Fishkeeping is an incredibly fun hobby, and I want this place to reflect that.

A little about me:
I have in my house 4 tanks presently. two 10 gallons (one's a shrimp and nano, the other is a betta tank) an 11 (another betta) and a 50 gal community with about 20 xray tetras, a mating pair of pearl gourami (hoping for some babies!) 6 black Venezuelan corys, and of course a smattering of small plecos (my favorite fish, in fact one pleco in that tank has survived a house move and several tank moves and is the fish we've had the longest). I also have 4 dogs (a mutt, a pom, a cav, and a Papillion).

I am going to take the next few days and get the lay of the land. in the mean time, I do intend on bringing on another mod or two so if you have any interest, please feel free to leave a comment and let me know.

And lastly, thank you all for your patience during this transition. I know it's been a rough few weeks but I assure you, I and the future mod team will be working hard to make this a place you all enjoy visiting.

Hello, I am reaching out regarding r/fishkeeping and the situation over there. Currently, a user has been creating new accounts and posting animal abuse videos (very violent horrific animal abuse).

the current and only moderator has not been active on reddit for months, and one of his last posts was him trying to give the subreddit to someone else. this post was over a year ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/fishkeeping/comments/1lgsgp7/would_anyone_like_to_take_this_sub_over/

with the issues happening over there right now, I'd like to request the ability to moderate the subreddit and stop any more posts like the ones causing an uproar in the sub.

one of the subreddits i was following has been experiencing violent animal abuse videos being posted to it daily. it's a fish subreddit but the videos are nonetheless horrific.

the user is posting using a different account for every video, and posts multiple times per day. and because i can't link the content or mention the subreddit here, I'll tell you instead. they are making human centipedes out of plecos, grinding them up in a mortar and pestle and feeding them to other living plecos, snapping the fish in half, force feeding them, and more. just pure animal torture and violence. i do not encourage you to look any of this up yourselves.

the moderator appears complicit as the videos are still up for the most part, and comments are being removed from the videos that speak poorly of the moderation on the sub, while the videos remain up.

i've been reporting these videos both directly to the mod and to reddit.com/report for the last week and the videos are still being posted.

i'ts making reddit useless for me because there are now NSFL landmines on my feed despite leaving the subreddit and doing the "don't show posts like this" button.

My recent attempt at making awareness to this problem was taken poorly and I realize why, sorry about that.

OK maybe this is a dumb question but I love my wyze stuff, or at least i love the simplicity of it. I have one app, one place where i can control everything from my cameras, alarm system, lights, outlets, etc.

only problem is that wyze is very.....low quality. At least the security system side of things. I'm making due for now but i'd love to know if there is a home automation company that also puts out security stuff, cameras, and the like as well that's maybe a bit higher quality?

Hello. I have had my portable unit for almost two months. Its a 10kbtu unit

I've been running it just about non stop since i got it. I drain it weekly and wash the filter covers too

I've never before gotten a p1 error until last night at about 2 am

I drained the unit, put it back, and about 40 minutes later, another error...

So i shut it off for the night

I came back to it today. Drained and turned it on. Ran for about 20 minutes this time before filling up

No idea why suddenly it can't evap the water and so significantly too. Its not terribly humid though def a bit more than usual but i hear of people who do have to drain it every few hours or so, but not every 20 minutes!

What could it be? And its not a stuck float sensor. When i get the error it drains like the full tank for sure. Good stream of drainage before slowing to a trickle... what gives??

TLDR:

if i can't see the bottom, and i can't tell if/where the leaves are, and i've already run my vaccuum over every nook and cranny a dozen times over, what are my next steps to getting rid of the debris?

Second year owning my pool (above ground 20x12x56 bestway). first year was great, used pucks primarily, never really had clarity issues until near the end of the season and at that point just just drained about 10% of the water to get the cya levels down, and refilled. water cleared right back up.

well my dumbass did not really properly prepare for winter. in a bad way.

i drained the pool mostly (effectively down to the last few inches around the drain plug)

which i know was a big nono. i then left the pump/filter outside all winter and of course that cracked because duh.

and i didn't cover the pool and have some big oaks in my yard so the thing was innundated with leaves. then spring came around and i just left it....for months....like an idiot. until it became a festering mess...

really did just about everything POSSIBLE wrong.

So finally come may i decided to filler up and see what mess ive' made. and boy was that a terrible idea. Think swamp tea...... dark green just kinda turned to slightly less dark green....

and so of course i did what anybody does when they see alge. one bag of shock. that's it.

let it sit. obviously saw no results.....then life happend, then it was june. Hey temps are warming up, lets put some more effort into working on this thing, i thought.

so i go to the hardware store and buy 4 gallons of Chlorine. then i proceed to dump them in about a half gallon a day (pool is about 5-6000 gal when full) based on what i read online.

turns out that not measuring your parameters makes it super easy to just waste money like that. My PH was low, like 6. crazy low. i had some baking soda tablets left over from last year, dropped those in the floating dispenser, let that ride for a day or two, came back, 7.2, GREAT we're making progress. plus the chlorine had started to take effect, the swamp green turned to matcha green (Sorry for those of you who like matcha).

so i kept at it for a bit longer, until i realized after day 7.....it's still effin green. no progress, wtf.

that's when i remember the leaves. one google later and i realize i've been shooting myself in the foot THIS WHOLE TIME...

so i go to amazon, order a leaf vac, it arrives. it's the dinkiest tiniest thing i've ever seen. no way this thing works. i give it a go, gets like a small handful of leaves. not bad but the pool's bottom is effectively covered in leaves. back to google! Reddit suggest a new leaf vac, much better, big round opening like a foot wide. purchased it, set it up, now we're talking. big bag, like plastic grocery store bag size here. much improvement. now i'm sucking up BAGS of leaves. do this for about an hour or two over the next few days, bag after bag after bag. bags are starting to get smaller, i'm getting under the stairs, up the side walls, etc. much progress.

i get to the point where i can't really find leaves easily anymore. all this activity has stirred up a TON of debris of course. so i decided hey lets get some more shock and give killing what's left a go.

same story as last time, but this time whole gallons at a time, day after day (though now i'm checking PH and FC) granted i'm on a budget here so i'm just using the simple chlorox liquid test. ph is holidng good, dips down to 7, i drop in another tab, goes up to 7.4. fc on the meter maxes out at 5 but i can tell i'm closer to 10 or more.

then another few days of this go by and STILL it's not cleared up. not even enough to see the bottom. and therin lies my main issue. i can't see the bottom, this entire time. i have no way to tell if i'm actually succeeding at getting the leaves up.....

so here's my question for you

what do i do about the leaves? how do i go about removing them?

my gut says, i have two options. drain and refill with clear water, but that kind of defeats the purpose of everything i've done up till now, and would cost me a few hundred bucks

or turn off the pump for a day and let the particles that will, settle...

The water is a milky hazy greyish color. i can't tell if there's any green to it because there are trees overhead that are imparting a tinge of green to the whole area....

i'm not going to do more testing than what's beyond my present means so please don't turn this into water chemistry. i'd rather drain and refill the pool before i deal with chemistry right now. i'll gladly shock it into oblivion if you think that'd help but the biggest issue right now is visibility. any advice is apprciated

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I was using planning mode today and was mid-sentence on a response to something claude had said while working and the planning confirmation popped up. i hit escape and then claude thought a bit more and said "your message seems to have been cut off after.." and then proceeded to type out part of my message that i had not yet sent..........

is that.....known behavior???

https://preview.redd.it/q75lts5e2w7h1.png?width=535&format=png&auto=webp&s=8544c067352a5f74eef48950d51beec649c51110

Maybe this is just par for the course but I just started some new sims after a long long break and they BOTH want to be mischievous when autonomous. like if i have them conversate but i don't guide the conversation, it's literally all lies and gossip.

i went into CAS and put them to both dislike mischief talking points and now they STILL lie and gossip to each other but then immediately get mad about it and their friendship goes down. like what the.....I've resorted to simply turning off all automation which is a bummer because i had only planned to control one of them. any idea why this may be happening?

OK i use new player lightly. Really I just haven't played in a long long long time.

I haven't really played with any regularity since outdoor retreat (holy shit that was 11 years ago!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

So as many of you know, the game has had a LOT happen since then. I guess what i'm hoping to get is some advice on keeping up with it all? there seems to be a ton of random things happening constantly like notifications, 'rewards' of some kind, phone calls from strangers, etc.

I don't understand the difference between household sim things and individual sim things like the goals on the top left of the screen either...

There's just like...a lot happening and i'm afraid the chaos is putting me off. are there any good guides/tutorials for long dormant players returning? I played the intial launch for a solid year and sims 3 for ages so i'm no sims noob, i'm just a bit overwhelmed is all.

Just getting into the hobby and i want to practice with material that won't break the bank if what I'm making ends up wonky (because it will).

My goal is to mainly work with duck canvas making duffle bags and totes. Is it a terrible idea to buy cheap fabrics on Amazon for getting my feet wet and then hit up the usual haunts for the good stuff? Or is it better to just use the good stuff off the bat even if what i make might be sub par due to lack of skill?

I know this is very subjective but in your eyes, what about your gear or gear you've used indicates good quality? not just the materials sure but what about the construction? what little features or elements made you go "oh wow that was well thought out"?

I'm looking to make some light duty day bags or duffles for christmas gifts for the dudes in my family and i really want them to go "wow this is really nice quality!" not just "wow you made this?" lol. Any patterns you'd reccomend? Or pattern sources?

Thanks!

https://preview.redd.it/izel850gi01h1.png?width=2560&format=png&auto=webp&s=5b05e9f6be8cce3da54868bb7b31f9a908562e45

I created this tool because i didn't buy enough fabric to easily make my backing what i would call the traditional way (cut in half, stitch back into rectangle). i found some talk online of a way to cut your stock fabric corner to corner but i couldn't wrap my head around figuring out if i could even do that at all. Now i can! hope you all can make some use of this! - note, the units are agnostic. all that matters is that when you do this, if you do cm do everything in cm, inches, do everything in inches.
https://ackley14.github.io/diagonalbackingCut/