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electric yellow edition

Tank Cycling:
>www.modestfish.com/how-to-cycle-your-aquarium/

Stocking and Water Change Calculator:
>www.aqadvisor.com/AqAdvisor.php
>https://finscape.us/
>www.hamzasreef.com/Contents/Calculators/EffectiveWaterChange.php

Articles and Care Guides:
>www.seriouslyfish.com/knowledge-base/
>www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/
>www.aquariumcoop.com/
>www.theaquariumwiki.com/wiki/

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>>5111477
Ahem
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>>5112245
in future please post the link to your new in the old so we don't do this again thank you
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>>5112285
>we
You did it, dont blame anyone else but yourself ;^)

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Sorry I've been MIA it's been kind of a rough patch for me, but I'm going to try and get back at it and post a platypus every day until all of an wants a puggle to snuggle
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This is your daily reminder to want a platypus
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>>5112074
what do you mean want a platypus? you can't have a platypus
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>>5112099
Not with that attitude you can't. But in all seriousness I've gone over it before. These threads started out kind of as a joke the day after SakuraFish got the perma ban on /a/. Then it kinda grew into something else. The point is to get people interested and vested in them and other unique and threatened species so that they will want to support the conservation efforts to protect them. Besides it never hurts to dream big. Mine is to have some property likely a small orchard farm in platypus territory with a well maintained and stocked "farm pond" on it. Hopefully one fed by a small creek. Platypuses love habitats like that and they tend to be highly successful and reproductive in them. So technically I wouldn't "have" a platypus in the strictest sense of the word. I would just have land specifically beneficial, clean and, safe for them to live on. That's the dream anyways. Some people have pulled it off already. One of the most notable being the Tasmanian Salmon ponds just a couple of miles north west of Hobart in well, Tasmania obviously. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/r6bUx-1hX5U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kMjM6JF-A8
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bPEKuCUFIfI
The platypus is at the very end of this one. They actually like the fish food pellets and a couple of them tend to hang out there for the clean water and free food.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6WDSdEA_l0
Plus I've been doing this for like 13 years already and I don't know what I would do in my life without it. No mater how stupid the world gets I can always come here and platypost.

This is your daily reminder to want a platypus

/an/ humor thread
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>>5112019
Literally me
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>>5112019
Losing it at the kids being completely oblivious from the angle they're seeing it from.
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>>5111089
kino
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>>5095627
>X are fish
Why do these "humans are fish hurr durr" retards stop at fish? Why don't they say "humans are bacterial colonies?"

COWS DEMONSTRATE FLEXIBLE MULTI-PURPOSE TOOL USE

Cows are now UNDENIABLY far more intelligent than cats and 99% of mammals. If you think it's wrong to eat cats, then you must feel the same way about cows and pigs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGVo41MuLiQ

“The only well-documented case of something comparable comes from chimpanzees, on those – also rare – occasions when they fish for termites by combining the functions of the two opposite ends of the same stick,” Osuna-Mascaró told BBC Science Focus.

https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/cow-tool-use

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/first-ever-flexible-tool-use-seen-in-a-cow-suggests-livestock-are-smarter/
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>>5110613
You are a retard.
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>>5110617
how so? Hitler was a vegetarian
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>>5110613
>>5112148
Hitler lead germany into such a crushing defeat it normalized pushing for the genocide of germans, of the white races that stopped him, and encouraged israel to form and eventually genocide the remaining biblical hebrews and destroy the world economy while using his failed genocide as a shield from criticism.

Hitler killed 10x more europeans than jews during the holocaust.

Vegetarian L.
Meat eaters that are your actual peers are smarter, stronger, and more level headed even before you start starving yourselves. We merely share the same inferiors despite not pulling a hindushitism and separating them by diet.
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>>5094279
You are just string words together you don't understand
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>>5112159
he’s right.

there is no such thing as good and evil if you do not believe in gods will or something like gods will.
if you think you do, you’re still operating in the societal framework created by religion and are basically leeching off christians morals without actually reciprocating by following their entire moral code (no promiscuity, no masturbation, no bestiality, no sloth, 6 day work weeks, no greed, no gluttony, no hot pockets and gaming). the best you can manage is some sort of faggy social contract you’re free to break in private and “i am a principled and honorable intellectual!” larps (you are also free to just do whatever you want regardless of any schopenhauer larping)

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We often joke about seals being sea dogs, but do they have any actual relations to canines? Like how whales and horses and distante relatives?
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>>5112160
according to Wikipedia:
>Carnivora are divided into two suborders, the Feliformia, containing the true felids and several "cat-like" animals; and the Caniformia, containing the true canids and many "dog-like" animals.
>The caniforms include the Caninae, Procyonidae, bears, mustelids, skunks, and pinnipeds
So yes, dogs are land seals and seals are sea dogs

The last 30 Asiatic cheetahs in the world are all found in Iran, where they and their habitat are currently being bombed by Blompf and Israel. Their range used to extend into India, but they went extinct there in the 1940s. No captive populations in foreign zoos either. Operation Epstein Fury will likely finish them off.
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>>5107894
kys kike
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>>5107543
>subspecies
yeah don't give a shit
subspecies are the DEI of taxonomy
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>>5107543
This is all YOUR FAULT, Trumptards
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>>5110722
What are they then if not subspecies? The same exact species?
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>>5107543
I reckon they could outrun the bombs.

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What would happen if i were to release some Wels catfish in a local pond (southern US) for noodling? The pond isnt usually connected to a large river or something (though sometimes it floods)
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>>5106236
Someone get this fag's IP.
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Wels catfish are delicious
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>>5106236
dont do that they would 100% escape and become invasive.
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>>5106335
op would be responsible for releasing an invasive species that has indeterminate growth, lives 70+ years and is known to attack humans into an environment that is both warmer and more abundant in prey than its natural habitat xD
this would be like what's happened in spain but x2
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>>5106236
If catfishes (the type that lives in eastern europe) could live in oceans, they'd be whale tier and carnivorous, like sea serpents, leviathans. Strongest fish.

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>https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20251121IPR31539/protection-of-dogs-and-cats-deal-on-eu-rules-to-stop-abuse

>Mandatory microchipping and registration of all dogs and cats in the EU

It's happening. The EU has taken the firs step into preventing crush porn. It's a small step but a huge one at the same time. Crush porn enthusiasts torture animals for their entire lifetimes. They will never be caught, they will bury animals in the forest, in their yards, or just throw in the trash can. There will never be an investigation, nobody is looking to prevent animal abuse like we actively strive to prevent and detect human/child abuse. In china it's not even illegal to torture animals so pic related, they do it in the open and you can even get paid to be a professional cat deleter.

But now a first step has been taken in registering all cats and dogs.

We ultimately need to copy/paste all procedures in place to stop child abuse and use them very same ones for animals. It's the only way to keep all animals safe.

But now, if you dump an animal and its not microchipped, there will be a police investigation.

EUROPEAN ANIMAL ABUSERS ARE FREAKING OUT RIGHT NOW. THEIR LITTLE DAILY ANIMAL TORTURE IS ABOUT TO GET NERFED
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>>5111794
Don’t forget:
Halal slaughter
Kosher slaughter
Lag Ba’Omer pet sacrifices
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Honestly this could be a good thing, if i can't have an opossum without a license, nobody should be able to have an intact cat or dog either without one.
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>>5111804
licenses also ensure poor people who typically don't have the money to treat animals well cannot own them

Doesn't prevent the rich person from drilling the anus of his dog and putting a flametorch inside the dog's anus, so we still have to fix the problem of these people torturing animals in secrecy by applying to animals the very same laws and procedures and agencies that exist to monitor human abuse
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>>5111866
>by applying to animals the very same laws and procedures and agencies that exist to monitor human abuse
no, retard. animals are not of the same level of concern as people no matter how much you cry about it
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>>5098159
>crush porn. It's a small step

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>>5110501
faster on land than water?
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>>5110509
Naw, beavers aren't built for speed.
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Brr!
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>>5111979
All first world countries still have rabid cats wandering around. Except new zealand maybe. All our dogs get rabies vaccines now.

Dogs being seen as a problem is thirdie coded
Realizing cats were always the real problem is firstie coded
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>>5111675
He's got that "I had snu-snu" look on him.
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>>5112093
He got his nuts chopped off in 92

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Keep in mind that nuclear weapons would be useless against them and since they possess human-level intelligence, they will quickly figure out how to sabotage drones, take down power lines/grids, organize well-coordinated attacks, etc.
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>>5110615
Birds would just destroy all the radar systems just like Iran did to the USA/Israel
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The people sperging over bird apocalypse are the same ones the cry at how easily we wiped out the passenger pigeon.

Bro, goggles and smoke. Bitch ass birds dead.
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>>5111874
>bird radars can detect birds from several kilometers away
>even more so considering birds would have to carry shit to destroy the metal radars, making it much more easy for the radars to pick it up
>more than enough time to drive to the nearest gun warehouse, prepare the birds a nice welcome party and set up the grills to roast the tasty ones
but considering what the other anon says, shotguns aren't even needed, all you need is to deploy gas whenever the radar picks up funny bird business coming up, they won't see it coming, they have no defense against it, they'll drop dead
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>Chickens alone outnumber humans 3.5:1
>Birds as a whole outnumber humans 6.25:1
I feel like the sheer numbers advantage birds have over us would be enough for them to win if they had human level intelligence.
Not to mention they're faster rate of reproduction and quicker time to reach maturity would mean that casualties would be much less of an issue for them than it would be for humans.
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>>5112081
sheer number advantage means absolute jack shit when they got no defense against things like gas

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Weren't they adorable?
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>>5110435
>No predators, just microbial mats as far as the eye could see (though I'm not sure if anything had evolved eyes yet)
>You could live out your whole life peacefully grazing on algae and never have to worry about anything
Truly the greatest period.
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>>5109817
They are my favorite despite being a radiodont lover, they are so simple and alien and yet so cuddly
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>>5111156
that's a big gock
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>>5109817
So, any idea on how the fuck did rangeomorphs would consume food?
i don't buy the whole "absorbed carbon from the water though their skin" bullshit, even the simpliest filter feeders have mouths,
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>>5111650
>even the simpliest filter feeders have mouths,
anon...

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>"Dogs are man's best fr-"
>*shoves a delicious honey glazed nut in your mouth*
>*crunch* "Mmm...I mean BEES are man's best friend"
>*buzzes in agreement*
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>>5108154
>Wasps, to my knowledge, don't produce honey.
Wasps make marmite
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>>5091902
Scientists have been real quiet since this guy was seen flying.
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>>5091947
that child was never seen again
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>>5108154
>Live somewhere meliponines exist
>They are rugged and live in any crevice they can find, including beer cans
>Pick up coca-cola bottle, spray a mixture of propolis, high % alcohol and lemon grass, it attracts them and they start living there
>Take the bottle out of the dirt, open it up with a box cutter and move the beehive into a small bee box
There you go.
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>>5108154
But you have to be careful which ones you pick up, for example, these ( Oxytrigona tataira ) are a BIG, VERY BIG no-no.
They do not have stings but what they use for defense is spray acid on whoever bothers them.

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>>5112014
Pan means bread in spanish

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What time is it?
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>>4987489
Any tips for getting my pigeon to roost on me? He's got behavioral issues and just wants to fight and nap all day.
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>>5108447
cover yourself with seeds
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>>5108447
pretend to be a statue
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