Their website says they have a discounted afternoon rate that starts at 3pm, but it doesn’t say anywhere on the website how much the discount/rate is. Does anyone know? I know regular adult rate is $56.99, just wondering how worth it it would be to get the discount.
Thanks!
VERY friend intact male cat, seems young. Found in Highland Park.
I fed him, and would have let him inside, but my other cats are jerks and would fight. He totally wanted to come inside though. Not afraid of my dog either!
He has wandered off now but I’ve seen him around for a few weeks, so if he’s your cat DM me, and I can crate him the next time we see him.
A few years ago we had a neighborhood cat everyone called Moose, who belonged to no one, who I housed over the Snowmageddon Storm week - I would not be surprised if this was one of his sons lol, they look very similar, same sweet disposition too. Someone adopted him, I hope someone can adopt this fella too, he is just too sweet.
We just lost our sweetest boy, 18 year old tabby, a couple of weeks ago, so this feels like the Cat Distribution System at work, but my other two cats are complete aholes and would fight, otherwise I would totally take him.
I’m new to aquariums and I have a dozen ramshorns and one nerite. The ramshorns move around constantly, but the nerite snail does not. He did the first day - seemed to be exploring, he went all over the glass and bottom and all around.
The next two days he has been on just one side of the tank, sometimes an inch or two away from where he was a few hours before, so not totally unmoving, but not exploring anymore and not moving much at all.
Just wondering if this is normal, or if I should be concerned?
I’m not upset with my LFS because I know planaria are a fact of life, but it still surprised me.
Hopefully I am doing everything right?
This is my first ever tank, I have cycled it for a month, got ammonia and nitrites down to zero and nitrates to 50ppm, so yesterday I went to buy all my plants, plus one nerite snail and a dozen ramshorns.
As soon as I’m in the car I start counting my snails and I see a huge full grown planaria - pointy head, black eyes and all.
Here’s what I did:
Once I planted my tank, I opened the snail bag, removed the planaria and put it into a container that I am going to freeze since I don’t want to put it down the drain or in the garbage alive.
Instead of putting the bag water into my tank, I removed each snail one at a time and inspected it, and then put it into my tank.
I inspected the bag water to see if I could see any more planaria of any size and I couldn’t see anything that appears to be moving or worm-like at all.
I boiled the bag water before putting it down the drain just in case.
I am not going to feed my tank yet - the snails can eat algae for now.
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So - since I can’t use de-wormer on snails, and I am already starving the tank, and there are no visible planaria to trap - is that everything I could be doing? Did I miss any steps?
I am not getting any fish yet, as we are heading out for vacation in a couple of weeks, so that will happen once we get back. In the meantime I’m going to keep an eye out for more planaria, but so far so good - I watched for hours last night and the snails are all active and moving and I haven’t seen any more worms of any kind.
It was hanging out on my corkscrew rush in my little patio pond. I’ve never seen one before! Thought it was a moth until I looked it up :) But I did say to myself “if this thing isn’t named after a shrew I will be very surprised,” and I guess I wasn’t far off - they were just more on the nose about it hahahah
I use iOS.
A user with a good comment history in my dog breed specific sub has had a comment removed by anti-evil operations. Admin tattler notified me.
They have positive karma and an inoffensive Reddit history, within my sub and without it.
I cannot see what the comment was because it just says “removed by Reddit.”
If the comment was innocuous I want to inform them of what happened and invite them to comment it again after being approved in my sub.
if it was not, and really deserved removal, I would probably want to ban them.
Since I can’t tell the content of the comment, I can’t move forward. I do NOT want someone in my happy little small dog sub who comments stuff so bad that it gets removed by Reddit - but if it was a mistake I don’t want to ban someone who contributes positively.
I need to see the content of the comment for myself.
Why does anti-evil operations do removals in such a way that makes it impossible for mods to moderate the user/issue?
Is there any way admins can tell me the content of the comment?
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A user with a good comment history in my dog breed specific sub has had a comment removed by anti-evil operations. Admin tattler notified me.
They have positive karma and an inoffensive Reddit history, in my sub and without it.
I cannot see what the comment was because it just says “removed by Reddit.”
If the comment was innocuous I want to inform them of what happened and invite them to comment it again after being approved in my sub.
if it was not, and really deserved removal, I would probably want to ban them.
Since I can’t tell the content of the comment, I can’t move forward. I do NOT want someone in my happy little small dog sub who comments stuff so bad that it gets removed by Reddit - but if it was a mistake I don’t want to ban someone who contributes positively.
I need to see the content of the comment for myself.
Why does anti-evil operations do removals in such a way that makes it impossible for mods to moderate the user/issue???
Is there any way admins can tell me the content of the comment?
Please feel free to roast me, I’m a newb so idk yet.
I feel like it’s easier to tell through my phone camera than with my naked eyes.
I clearly maxed out the regular pH solution so this is with the “high range” solution.
If it’s the overall color in the tube I’m supposed to be trying to match, I cannot tell if it’s 7.4, or 8.0.
If it’s the bright glow-y color my lamp lights up, at the back of the tube, it seems pretty clear that’s it matches 7.8.
Since I’m a newb and don’t have the experience yet - please tell me what you think.
Is this 7.4, 7.8, or 8.0?
Me thinks the reward is a bit too low for the street value of 34 glocks.
I have a bad infestation of field sand burr (the grassy weed that makes those horrible spiny seeds that hurt dog paws and bare feet).
They’re all over the neighborhood and no one cares to control them. My infestation is just too much to treat, so I want to start fresh by ripping up my lawn, treating the dirt, and re-sodding it, then being extremely diligent about prevention measures.
So - who should I use to do all that for me? I have never paid anyone for lawn stuff before aside from mowing, so not sure who is good, reasonable, etc around here.
Thanks!
Website says it’s temporarily closed for renovations - I can’t wait to check it out and bring my pup now that she’s fully recovered from bone surgery and allowed to run around again :)
Thanks!
[I know this isn’t restaurant related technically, but my post got removed from r/Austin “because it’s asking about a restaurant” and they suggested I post here instead.]
Website says “(temporarily closed for renovations)” and I was wondering if anyone knows the ETA on when it’ll be open? I’m super excited to bring my pup, play some disc golf and have some beers and tacos, especially since yard bar is closed.
Thanks!
Anyone else have a Texas sage lying its ass off about rain? Lol
It does also bloom beautifully when it’s going to rain, but it puts on the BEST show at 0-10% chance when there’s a front moving in that will produce a lot of wind, but no rain.
God I love this shrub so much.
Hey yall - just a heads up for RangeUSA members who might not know this, as I did not know.
I went to cancel my membership, and was offered 60% off for 3 months instead.
Offer says it’s one-time only, which, fair enough.
I clicked “get offer” and instantly got a confirmation email saying “Thank you for continuing your RangeUSA membership! This is confirmation that you’ve accepted the 60.00% off your next 3 monthly payments discount. After the 3rd month, your payment will adjust back to normal pricing. Please know that any special pricing you may have, cannot be redeemed after a cancelation is made.
Thank you!”
I’m looking for minnows - I don’t actually need them for fishing, it’s for my small native pond.
I swear I’ve seen “live bait!” signs around but cannot for the life of me remember where.
So all yall local fisher people - where do you get live bait?
Here’s my original post, where yall gave me a ton of great guidance and advice. I wanted a very small pond that was very low maintenance, with or without fish, and don’t know if that was possible, but yall came through with lots of advice and encouragement.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AustinGardening/s/bSpAUt4aID
That was 12 days ago - I went zero to 100 in a couple of days of watching pond YouTube, and decided not only do I need a WAY bigger pond than I thought - I need more than one! So this is my first - my porch pond, for enjoying some fishies. Later on I’ll put a smaller pond (or two) in the yard just for the wildlife, hopefully get some frog spawn :)
So after reading all your comments and advice, I watched a ton of pond YouTube, and then visited Hill Country Water Gardens and Austin Aqua Dome last weekend. Bought the tank Tuesday, then planned all week. Friday I cleaned out the tank and decided on placement, and filled it, treated it, and let it agitate. Sunday morning we had to go to cedar park anyway, so I stopped by Hill Country Water Gardens again on the way home to pick up the plants and fish, and I got everything situated in the tank by around noon - overall, really simple and easy (just a lot of being wet and sweaty lol), especially considering I did everything myself.
And not too expensive either. $150 for the tank after tax, $119 for all the plants and fish, about $30 for the gravel and dechlorination treatment, and I already had all the cinder blocks and pavers. A++++, can’t wait to do this again.
Porch pond setup:
4ft x 2ft x 2ft stock tank from Home Depot, pressure washed it, then used some dechlorination that removes chlorine, chloramine (which Austin adds to the tap water and which doesn’t evaporate), and heavy metals from the water, and let that treat for a couple of days.
Yesterday I added:
Surface plants, set on cinder blocks and red paver bricks:
corkscrew rush, lemon bacopa, water poppy, dwarf papyrus
Underwater plants:
eel grass (in a pot), hornwort, anacharis (in pea gravel substrate)
I placed in the cinder blocks first, arranged the surface plants, then rinsed 2 bags of pea gravel before pouring it all in around the cinder blocks, then placed in the underwater plants. Some of the anacharis did not want to stay anchored in the pea gravel and is floating around, which just adds to the beauty IMO.
Lastly - added 10 gambusia/mosquitofish.
The water cleared up in a few hours and we kept going out all afternoon and evening to spy on the fishies. It was amazing how quick the water bugs showed up! The moment we started seeing the fish enjoying their habitat and darting around made it all worth it.
In this spot it’ll get full morning sun until around 11am, then shade the rest of the day, which I think is just right for this setup if I want to avoid a pump and filter, but still have enough algae for the fish to eat.
If the water does get icky or I need more oxygen for how warm it gets, and I end up needing a filter, my plan is to build a bog filter, and as long as I’m doing that, I’ll add some goldfish for more interest.
Thanks again to everyone for all the advice and encouragement! New special interest unlocked. :))
Thanks so much to this community for the inspiration!
I got a 4ft x 2ft x 2ft stock tank from Home Depot, used some dechlorination that removes chlorine, chloramine (which my city adds to the tap water and which doesn’t evaporate), and heavy metals from the water, and let that agitate for 48 hours with a pump.
Yesterday I added:
Surface plants, set on cinder blocks and red paver bricks:
corkscrew rush, lemon bacopa, water poppy, dwarf papyrus
Underwater plants:
eel grass (in a pot), hornwort, anacharis (in pea gravel substrate)
I placed in the cinder blocks first, arranged the surface plants, then rinsed 2 bags of pea gravel before pouring it all in around the cinder blocks, then placed in the underwater plants. Some of the anacharis did not want to stay anchored in the pea gravel and is floating around, which just adds to the beauty IMO.
Lastly - added 10 gambusia/mosquitofish.
The water cleared up in a few hours and we kept going out all afternoon and evening to spy on the fishies. It was amazing how quick the water bugs showed up! The moment we started seeing the fish enjoying their habitat and darting around made it all worth it.
In this spot it’ll get full morning sun until around 11am, then shade the rest of the day, which I think is just right for this setup if I want to avoid a pump and filter, but have just enough algae for the fish to eat.
If the water does get icky and I end up needing a filter, my plan is to build a big filter, and as long as I’m doing that, I’ll add some gold fish for more interest.
Just got this text:
Assessing Low Water Pressure and Outages
The City is aware of low water pressure and outages in southern areas of the City affecting Pflugerville Estates, Gatlinburg and Mountain View Estates and some commercial customers. We are assessing the situation and will provide updates.
I am the ultimate lazy gardener. I don’t mind backbreaking labor to get things going, and watering for a couple of months to get things established - but after that, if it dies, it dies. If it gets eaten, it gets eaten.
I have a huge, wonderful garden - of only natives and adapted plants that bunnies don’t eat (or can survive being eaten by bunnies), and nothing ever gets supplemental water from me. (I have rain barrels for an extreme emergency draught, and anything new I plant to fill a spot where something died).
The only thing missing is a pond/water feature. I want one so dang bad. I already have lots of frogs and lizards so I know they’re getting moisture just fine, but still.
The thing is - I am so freaking lazy. I will NOT upkeep anything that needs regular upkeep. I am a twice a year maintenance kind of person. Winter protection, and springtime cleanup. Beyond that it’s trim tree branches when the HOA says I have to, or when storms force me, and my husband mows.
But I want a little tiny pond soooo bad. Preferably with water plants in it. Preferably without any pumps, but I am willing to do a good pump if it won’t need a lot of fussing.
Up front work is not a problem - but once it’s in, it needs to be okay with only being maintenanced twice a year at most.
I don’t mind some initial babysitting for a couple of months to get things established, but after that it needs to be fine on its own.
I don’t need fish or anything (not opposed to it, just don’t care).
But I would love a pond/barrel pond/water feature, preferably with plants in it.
Refilling with water every week or so because of evaporation is totally fine (I have 3 giant rain barrels I never actually use). I also don’t mind popping in mosquito dunks once a week.
So - is there a realistic way to set up a water feature without having to, like, clean it all the time, unclog it constantly, troubleshoot the pump 10 times a year, etc? Is there a perfect formula of a particular size of barrel plus x number of water plants that will keep things from getting brackish and disgusting?
Guy certainly ran a red light.