Month: February 2012
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When I walked out the door after work on Thursday, about 5:50 p.m., it was still bright, beautiful evening sky shot with pinks and the sun still slightly above the Coast Range peaks. Sitting here this morning at 6:30 a.m., the eastern sky is light. Listening to the morning train whistling through town, I feel…
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A month ago, the cube garden was a disaster, overrun with a stubborn algae the otos couldn’t keep up with and rotting fish food because I hadn’t yet figured out how much the neon tetras were eating. Cleaned it out. Cut out the plants that were algae-choked, replanted with micro sword and glossostigma, recharged the…
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The otocinclus (dwarf suckermouth catfish, nine of them) and the plecostomus (a solitary albino) went into the tank on Saturday. By Monday morning most of the algae had been eaten. Wow, you guys. Nice work.
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 