Image 1 — A few of my pothos are putting out leaves which are already brown/crispy in patches.
Image 2 — A few of my pothos are putting out leaves which are already brown/crispy in patches.

A few of my pothos are putting out leaves which are already brown/crispy in patches.

Here are some photos for reference.. some background:

● They get indirect sunlight being opposite an east facing window, theyre about 2.5m from the window so I dont believe its burn.

● When I water, I use a splash of a fertiliser called "house plant focus" not sure if this is doing damage.. its being doing great added to my propagations of a different pothos but could still be the case.

●They're relatively new to my collection, had them roughly 1 month. The first pothos was reduced to £2 and I knew i could save it.. its put out 2 new leaves of good size in this time with no issues, this 3rd unfurling leave is the first to have the browning. The second plant also gave me 2 new leaves in this time, one new the top main "bush" of the plant being perfectly fine, the one at the end of the longest trail browning and missing a chunk. There is new furled growth again on the end of this trailing stem which clearly is already brown before its even unfurled... further making me thing it is not too much sunlight and possibly due to the fertiliser.

●I water when the pot feels light, I've had pothos before and this is what works for me.

Thank you!

u/gibbi164 — 1 day ago

How often do you guys take your lotl out of the tank to give it a deep deep clean?

I do weekly water changes around 30-40%, rinse out the filter material in buckets of old tank water fortnightly but I have been wondering about doing a quarterly deeper clean of the tank, one i wouldn't feel comfortable doing with the baby in the tank.

By this i mean the same 30-40% water change as to not crash the cycle but like taking plants out to give them a surface clean (mine get a brown film over them that I lightly scrub off with a toothbrush occasionally), possibly renewing a portion of the filter material, vacuuming sand etc.

Do any of you doing something similar? thank you 🥰

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u/gibbi164 — 11 days ago

We finally got dark mode 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

So many stupid funny glitches in this game... dark mode would be cool tho!

I'm not sure what else to say here😬

u/gibbi164 — 16 days ago

22F, do I take out a private pension?

☆For context: I make £12.71 p/h, 30h p/w, roughly £1500 per month before taxes, but I also do overtime so I am paid anywhere between £1450-£1700 per month. I live in rural West Midlands, jobs that aren't care or pub work are hard to come by. I'm also a uni student, hence the 30h per week☆

FORGOT TO MENTION!!!: I have £13,500 in savings.. £12k in a two year ISA 4.75% IR and £1500 in my emergency fund (rebuilding, had to buy a car) I save around £1k a month by living with my parents and being extremely frugal! I also have around £600 in S&P500 which I'm slowly building. I saved this money myself by working since I was 16.

I've been asking so many people in my life as well as doing research.. I still don't really have an answer.

I currently pay 3% into my work day pension (I think it's called), the one where your company matches what you put in. I only started paying into this in my June pay check as I havnt long been with the company, and I have since asked for this to be increased to 7%. Being 22, I know I need to start NOW.

But alongside this, do I take out a private pension? What are the benefits and drawbacks in YOUR opinion/ experience.

Obviously the money being in one place will make me more from interest but idk, just curious of the benefits long term (duh)

Thank you!

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u/gibbi164 — 1 month ago

Gang, what would you do about this?

Got a floating belly button piercing nearly 2 weeks ago, the piercer had to use this pokey jewellery because the others weren't coming off.. my issue is.. this jewellery is definitely poking into me when I sit down it was hurting at first but now it doesn't hurt.. there is just a fucking hole in me where it sits that is all gunky 😭😭😭😭😭.

LAST NIGGGGHT omfg last night... I knocked it and fell back asleep thinking nothing of it. I woke up and the bottom flat part of the jewellery was inside of me and I had to pop it back out by like squiding my belly button 😭😐😭😐😭😐😭😐😭😐😭😐😭😐. This did not hurt at all, it seems like the only pain I am getting is from the jewellery digging into me occasionally.

The only way I have been cleaning it is with warm water & drying with a cotton bud. and I have been putting a padded plaster on it when I go to work to avoid my trousers catching it/ rubbing it.

I am going to start cleaning it with saline water...

I have 11 other piercings but this is my first body piercing if ygm, ive never ever had anything like this before... any advice is appreciated 🙂

u/gibbi164 — 3 months ago

Why is this mf so SLOW

Having gigalith as your buddy is genuinely so painful, its like it genuinely takes 1h to walk into view for buddy stuff.... unfortunately he is a hundo and I absolutely love the pokemon 💔🥀. Cope.

u/gibbi164 — 3 months ago

REUPLOAD SORRY: Does anyone have experience with these products?

Particularly the seachem one? My tap water is high in nitrates, I have plants in my tank but it isn't enough to combat the nitrates from the water.. I've only recently discovered that the tap water is my issue!

My lotl has had a HUGE glow down slowly over the year since I've had him and I'm hoping I can add a product like this into our routine to help him.

Nitrates currently sit at 20ppm, sometimes 25ppm.. ideally I'd like no more than 10ppm.

(he originally came from a tank with massive gold fish so idk how he was coping with their bioload! funny creatures.

<1st photo is from 1 year ago, 2nd photo from last week>

u/gibbi164 — 3 months ago

From UK, frequently go to USA so you'll get gifts from there too! Currently have a lucky egg going so add me quick pls! 🙏🥰 400932717812

basically what the title said! thank you

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u/gibbi164 — 3 months ago

Genuinely deepfake is a mind-altering piece of art

I am addicted it sounds so beautiful. What's your favourite on the hypochondriac album? Between deepfake and argyle for me (I try not to sing along to much to argyle bc I'm scared I'm manifesting something 😆😭😭) but it's so beautiful

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u/gibbi164 — 3 months ago