Recent content by e.muehlbauer

2 nights in a row I lost service at 8:30. Was OK last night.

Pick up the big clumps of seaweed on the shore at low tide...there will be plenty of amphipods. Those local hermits are so much more entertaining and active than the tropical ones!

I was very amused to read my post and see that the genus to which our species belongs (Hint: it begins with an H) was blanked out and replaced by ****. My apologies if I offended anyone.

There is substantial evidence that both brain size and intelligence increased in the genus **** after the invention of fire allowed the cooking of foods, releasing more nutrients and increasing the efficiency of digestion.

I've seen these gobies eat algae. Problem is, they get no nutrition from it. I've actually seen them stop sand sifting just to eat algae....and they slowly waste away and die.

Petland doesn't always accept knowledge, either......

There is an issue with pregnant women and cats...its toxoplasmosis (an even bigger issue for people who are immunocompromised, as with chemo therapy or AIDS). However, the problem is with the poop. It's OK for pregnant women to have a cat, just that someone else has to clean the litterbox.

There was an article in the NY Times a few years ago, about how frozen rodents were heavily contaminated with Salmonella. I have 4 snakes...the corn snakes get fresh killed mice, but the gray banded king snake will only eat them live. I gave up breeding my snakes because the babies were so...

I saw Blackfish...and as much as the movie moved me, I always got the feeling that it was promoting an agenda, particularly from the trainers interviewed. I'm glad I read Inevo's links, especially the last one. It was very informative. That being said, I do not believe killer whales should be...

This weather is awful...its destroyed my chest and skin, my nose is a mess, and I'm continually exhausted. I walk a mile to work, so you know it's not fun. I'm a teacher too, and the policy towards snow days this season has been a disaster. No work gets done on snow days...it's a baby sitting...

One of the reason's I've begun to lose interest in the hobby is the lack of LFS in my neighborhood area (Rego Park). When I first got into SW, there was Aquatic Treasures on Woodhaven Blvd, always fun to look through...even my local Petland sold SW stuff (and had a knowledgeable person to manage...

I love uni- when it's fresh. Not so fresh, pretty yucky. But as much as i love uni, I prefer mirugai much more.

I got out of research before I got my PhD. Just couldn't hack it...and decided that since I was a TA, and enjoyed the teaching so much more than the research, even my professor agreed that I should go into teaching...which I did. He himself got screwed over when his old line ichthyology research...

Research is expensive, and money is tight. Grants are hard to get, and competition is fierce...the lab where my son got the PhD in his MD/PhD closed shortly after he left....no one else was a skilled at writing grants for the NIH, so the money dried up. And this was for medical research...the...

Fish "eat" poop all the time (so does my turtle)...the question is what do they do afterwards. A few seconds later they spit it out or it comes out through the gills. Fish don't have our inhibitions...its taste first, decide if its edible later.