Posts Tagged ‘ snail

Snails are back! 16 January 2006 at 8:38 am by Jason 75 views

Well, I did another water change in the tank yesterday (I wonder how many of you saw that?) and I decided it was safe enough to re-add the snails to the tank (after risking my fingers to pull them from the lobster tank). They have mainly been sticking to the back wall (as it’s got a bit of algae on it), but you may see them slimin’ around.

For those wondering, we have two snails in there… one Ivory Snail (who has a messed up shell, it had been damaged when we got him and it healed kinda weird), and one large Colombian Ram’s Horn snail. We’ve had both for awhile, but had them put in the Lobster tank a couple months ago while I treated the tank for Ich.

That’s all for now… stay tuned for more updates later!



+ Vacation ≠ Rest By Jason 19 December 2005 at 1:06 pm 134 views 2 Comments

Well, we have three more days till we’ll be heading down to FL… I feel like we’ll never be ready. We still have to clean the house (water is once again out today), do some laundry, etc… and if that’s not all I should have to worry about, it seems our kitten (Kisa) has developed conjunctivitis (pinkeye). Lovely. :(

I swear, you should be allowed to get a bonus vacation after you ever take a vacation that involves going anywhere further than your front door.

On the bright side (and a completely different subject), our lobster (Levi) moulted again… although he doesn’t seem to want to eat his old shell this time. I wonder why? Also, the snails are back to being healthy and since I just did about a 50% water change in their old tank, I may put them back. Now, not to leave anyone out, NoName (the rescue betta) is doing excellent and looks like he’s going to make it. His fins are regrowing some and he no longer has any stress lines. :D

Okay, well I need to get back to work (and back to finishing this blog… I should hopefully launch it before I leave), so that’s all the posting you get for today.



+ Life, the Universe, and a Blog… By Jason 22 June 2005 at 6:22 pm 43 views 1 Comment

This here, is Levi. He’s not really a lobster, he’s actually a crayfish (Procambarus alleni, to be exact). Why am I blogging about my aquatic pal here? Well, I figured he’d never be able to claw his own blog, so I’d help him out.I’ve had him for about two and a half weeks now, and he is one of the coolest pets I’ve ever had (no offense to the snail, fish, or cats I own). He spends his days under the leaf you see here, coming out at night to dig up all our rocks. So far, he’s left the rest of his roommates alone, except I believe he ate two of our smaller fish the first two nights we had him, but none since (guess the stuff I feed him tastes better than real fish, anyhow).

Well, that’s all about Levi, for now… I’ll be sure to bring him up again at a later date.

Now, about other things!

I have about 40 min to go before I can leave work and go home… and I just can’t wait. I just need to relax (had to format a machine this morning, and currently I’m in the middle of burning 36 DVDs on a 4x burner), plus, my new favorite show comes on tonight!

30 Days

If you haven’t already started watching, you need to. It’s one of the best shows on TV right now, and it might make you learn something (I can hear the groans now). So, if you have FX, you need to tune in… do it! Now*!!

So, I need to do a little complaining about a company I have to deal with on a daily basis. Let’s call them “HouseCube”**… they make a product called “Constructor180″** and it sucks. Now, we’ve been using this product for over 2 years now… and it still isn’t being completely implemented. Why? Well, because it sucks. It crashes constantly, and when it’s not crashing, it’s changing our data… which ties into our accounting, nice, huh? Also, to make matters worse, they have a support staff consisting of 2 high school cheerleader dropouts and one trained monkey. It takes days (if not months, one issue has lasted nearly a year) to have them get back to us and fix the problem. Also, they rarely (if ever) admit it’s their program’s fault. Here are the things they normally blame:

Microsoft Windows (and components such as MDAC)
Microsoft Office (namely Access)
Dell PCs (when blaming software gets boring, try hardware!)

I just don’t see why we still use them. As I type this, they are currently on two different computers, logged in remotely, trying to fix issues that they don’t understand. *sigh*

Okay, I think I’m ranted out for the moment (plus, I have a couple things to do before I leave)… so feel free to drop a comment or whatever, and I’ll try to keep this up to date.

* Not “Now”, at 10:00pm, EST
** The name of the company and product have been changed to protect the innocent.