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Thanks for that. Hadn't heard of that use for cookie sheets, haha. If I had an old truck I'd be tempted to armour up the lower parts that way. Prevent all the chipping.

Around the wheel wells mostly, couple spots on the door. Tons of rock chips all over my car. Realistically I'm not going for a perfect job, just trying to stop things from actively rusting. It's not a valuable or special enough car to dump a ton of money on. Congrats on your awesome new job

Anybody fix their own rust spots? I'm wondering if the grinding is best done with something aggressive like an angle grinder, or if I'm better off with a dremel, or other...I just don't want to go through all the way by accident. Lol. But also I can't hold onto a power tool for long periods of...

If you have access to a yard, puffers also love pillbugs/sow bugs/woodlice or whatever you call them in your area. Those are actually crustaceans, so they have the crunch needed for the puffer's teeth. Plus no parasites that will survive an aquatic environment.

Lol...well, those are fun too. Danios are never dull. Are the eyes still blue??

Time to spawn is to do with the age of the fish, plus favourable conditions, and varies by species. Danios are pretty prolific. They kind of have to be, they don't do any form of parental care and are a prey species. Eggs are scattered all over the gravel and nature takes its course. If you want...

Regarding the danios hanging around the bottom, they are probably spawning. They usually do that in the morning when the sun starts to hit the water (lights come on). They really like spawning in sunbeams for some reason. You have a couple nice round female-looking fish, so if you see them...

From what I can see on my tiny phone screen, it looks like a mayfly nymph.

My money is on this: An Orchid Disguised as a Weed

That's really pretty, what a nice place to live! Unfortunately, sedimentation is the way of nature. Lakes and ponds fill in over time, new ones get formed. You already have vegetation all the way around, which is really the best thing to stop erosion. Wherever the main "wash" is that drains into...

What book is that from?

Nice little bonus anyway! Those are illegal to sell here now. Lol. Fun surprise.

I think 1-2x turnover per hour is generally recommended for fish ponds. It's really for mechanical filtration and effect more than anything else--as long as you don't cram a lot of fish in there. Don't make the mistake I did, break out the mattock before your hole gets 3/4 dug. Lol. And if you...

Weird. I wonder what you have in your water that is reacting with it. Do you have access to municipal water test results? I've got a thermometer that looks just like that, stainless steel and probably above twenty years old. No problems, no black stuff. And most likely there is still a rusty...

My car will excite no one..lol. But, after fourteen years of Firebirds, I "went German" and I will never go back. This twenty year old Mercedes C230 K is the most reliable, safe, nice car I've ever had (not too hard when all my cars have been middle aged) and it is BY FAR the nicest to work on...

2600gph is a lot of flow. Did you arrive at that number because you are going for a river effect or because that's what you would want if it was an indoor tank? If the latter, you can scale down the flow because the algae you'll have on all the pond surfaces (and any aquatic plants) will do most...

Those look more like white cloud mountain minnow fry, or something like that...could have caught a ride in as eggs on plants maybe? There have been posts around here before about WCMM fry appearing unexpectedly. Definitely not apistos! lol.

ISTJ. I hope lots of people answer because I'm curious too.

Looks like a soft kind of wood to me, which if so will disintegrate pretty quickly when submerged. If you can stick your thumbnail into it and leave an obvious mark, I'd call it too soft to use. Also an hour of boiling is a bit overkill. Lol. If it has been out of fish-bearing waters for a...

I'm a little jealous of people who can go scoop tropical fish out of the local waterways. That's the stuff of dreams. Lol. Although not so much the devastation of local species resulting. Up here there are a pair of connected lakes with a population of introduced carp, and brown bullhead...