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this video i found on pinterest kicks ass

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New girl (who is still nameless) managed to become my easiest betta ever to feed. Lid is opening? Time to BOLT to the surface for yummy dried bugs. Zero hesitation

#insert name here #shes still meh about bloodworms

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uh, YEAH, pond snails are P.E.S.T. snails (Perfect Enrapturing Silly Things)

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made an impulsive purchase yesterday

#she is unbelievably difficult to feed #wont eat food at the surface. sand food is 50/50 #she will kinda chase food while it's sinking #hoping it eventually clicks cause I'm not feeding the snails fancy betta food #bettablr #fishblr

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The computer is a machine built for looking at pictures of fish you wouldn't otherwise see. Anything else you can do with a computer was an accident and unintended

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OuO

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My brain: what if….everything BAD???

Me: how about we just look to the right of the bed here

And contemplate a shrimp instead?

Brain: …a compelling counterpoint.

#i was dangerously close to coming home with a bag full of shrimp today

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Rescape day!!!!

#behold my box of brown #fishblr

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some kids i saw at petco today

#blue pog boy was building a nest #chicken cutlet king was chill and so shimmery #copper was one of two females there #bettablr

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Acorn Woodpeckers (Melanerpes formicivorus), family Picidae, order Piciformes, CA, USA

The individual on the right is amelanistic.

Photograph by Mark Rauzon

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Heket seems to have passed this morning. She was acting a little shy the past few days but was still active and eating.

I'm not sure what could have caused this since she is visually fine. Nothing swollen, no spots or marks. I will test the parameters today, once this is a little less fresh.

#heket the betta

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Chicken Pot Pie! :D

this is an actual recipe, but I have not tested it so have no idea if its good.

Ingredients

1 tbsp. olive oil

1 1/2 lb. bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs

Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper

1/2 yellow onion, chopped

2 carrots, chopped

2 stalks celery, chopped

1 tsp. fresh thyme

1/4 c. all-purpose flour

2 c. chicken stock

1/4 c. dry white wine

1 c. frozen peas

1/4 c. fresh flat-leaf parsley

1 (14-ounce) package all-butter puff pastry

1 large egg, beaten

Directions

Step 1Preheat oven to 425°F. Heat a large cast-iron skillet over medium-high heat. Add oil. Season chicken with salt and pepper. Cook, skin sides down, until golden brown and crisp, 6 to 8 minutes. Flip chicken and transfer skillet to the oven. Cook, until the internal temperature of the thickest thigh registers 165°F on an instant-read thermometer, 12 to 14 minutes. Transfer to a cutting board. Discard skins and bones, and chop chicken. 

Step 2Place skillet over medium-high heat. Add onion, carrots, celery, and thyme. Season with salt and pepper. Cook, stirring occasionally, just until crisp-tender, 3 to 4 minutes. Add flour and cook, stirring, 30 seconds. Slowly stir in stock and wine. Bring to a boil. Reduce to a simmer and cook, stirring occasionally, until thickened, 4 to 6 minutes. Remove from heat. Stir in chicken, peas, and parsley. 

Step 3Cut puff pastry into a circle 1 inch larger than the outside rim of a cast-iron pie plate. (You may need to roll the dough on a lightly floured work surface to get it to size.) Place pie plate on a rimmed baking sheet. Transfer filling to pie plate and top with puff pastry; crimp edges. Brush puff pastry with egg. Bake, until golden brown, puffed, and cooked through, 20 to 25 minutes.

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Closest match: Neolamprologus multifasciatus genome assembly, chromosome: 18 Common name: Many Banded Shell-Dweller

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, September 15, 1907

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