Elwood Loc: Florida

My pleasure Alicia. :-D

bahmer

Beautiful very beautiful and so colorful. Isn't God amazing?

AuntiE Loc: 45th Least Free State

I am SSSSOOOOOO unfriending you! :hunf: :hunf:

Do you need a travel assistant? I could check into your hotels a day or two in advance to make sure they are acceptable. :idea: :idea: :mrgreen: :D

AuntiE Loc: 45th Least Free State

He is progressing well. There is a follow up surgeon visit on Thursday.

Elwood Loc: Florida

:thumbup: :thumbup: :-D

Elwood Loc: Florida

Good news. Knees heal a lot faster than hips. I know that from taking care of my wife after her hip replacement and watched her uncle recover soon after from a knee replacement. He should have a good New Year once he has completed rehab. :-D

peter11937 Loc: NYS

I have been down to 165 feet several times. You do need decompression stops after being down that deep, and there is not all that much life swimming around there. Everything, including blood, is faded to a bottle green or brown, Cjt myself down there salvaging a sunken 49 ft. fishing boat, and it looked like a tiny line leaking some brown stuff. When I looked again as I climbed out if the water after decompression, it was bleeding bright red blood freely , boy was I surprised. Regardless we did recover the fishing boat and sold it at a profit.
Went down to 100 ft. at Little St. Johns and at St. Thomas VI briefly one teaching my son SCUBA and once on a tour . Even there , the colors wash out and everything is natural bottle green , and artificial light is needed. Trunk Bay, St. Johns, OFF SEASON, is a great place for shallow water dives with plenty of interesting marine life to watch an very colorful . Same with the reef in Sapphire Bay Beach resort in St. Thomas, again, June thru September, their off season, and it is nice, in season, it is a zoo, stay home.

AuntiE Loc: 45th Least Free State

When my BFF had a hip replacement, I packed up and moved to NC for six weeks and ended up staying an extra week and a half. The biggest issue was repetitively saying, "No bending!"

Elwood Loc: Florida

:thumbup: :thumbup: :-D

Alicia Loc: NYC

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Thanks, Elwood. I subscribed to the site. I was fortunate enough to have had a hatchery I set up in my basement and had the opportunity to observe the spawning of a few freshwater fish. More fortunate to belong to an aquarium club where I befriended others who were in business producing specific species. I did enjoy watching and hearing stories of angelfish and their ability to out-think their breeders until their subterfuge was discovered.

I specialized in Betta Splendens (Siamese Fighting Fish) and had multiple opportunities to observe their spawning. If human emotions were used in this observance, the spawning is most romantic. I highly recommend others to give it a go just for the experience. You know, like everyone wants to see a puppy or kitten being born. The hatchery, even with just one mating pair, will take a bit more space than a dog.

I began viewing the Lambeh Island video and, at that time, was hungry. In no time, my appetite diminished due to the absorbing quality of the video. It's a long one. Bragging point: Back East they do have fish shows (competitive) and in two seasons of showing some results of my hatchery, I took 23 trophies. Had to remove the plates though because who can travel with 23 full-size trophies. It is my goal that one day I will put them all on one plaque. You just might have rekindled an interest I have not been able to participate in for quite a while. Thanks again.

Elwood Loc: Florida

My pleasure Alicia. I have a few koi in my pond but they haven't done any breeding. Must be all males.
:-D

Alicia Loc: NYC

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I can't distinguish g****rs but a friend had quite a large koi pond and he had to make sure there were sufficient hiding places for the fry as carp don't protect their young and will dine on them. Poor little things are left on their own immediately.

peter11937 Loc: NYS

When I was a kid, some one got tired of their Koi, and turned them loose in a small local pond. The local Osprey soon saw them and in a few months, that had zeroed in on them and carried them back to their nests to dine on. The Osprey left for a larger pond about a half mile away and returned to eating perch and smallmouth bass.

Elwood Loc: Florida

Fortunately we have a lot of trees on our property and they tend to obscure the view from aerial predators. I am more worried about raccoons but the pond is fairly deep and I have caught a couple eyeing the pond but they haven't ventured into the water (yet). :-D

peter11937 Loc: NYS

Racoon prefer your garbage first, the carp if there is nothing else. A client had her house broken into by a racoon, it opened a closed closet door where she stored 100 lbs of birdseeds. While she was out of town, the racoon ate every single sunflower seed in the lot scattering the other seeds and the husks everywhere, then it escaped....