Just a drive by posting. For some reason, I started getting BYC notifications this morning after a year of nothing. My PM box is jammed with old messages. I hope everyone and their birds are doing well!
I'm not around much, but occasionally an email notification to a subscribed thread gets through. I never did get prawns. Oddly enough, I had issues with the water temps staying high enough for long enough to grow them out. I'll need to set up a separate grow bed just for the upper tank where...
Hi everyone! Just checking in to let you all know I'm still alive. I've been unable to log on to BYC since June! Got everything fixed and now I'm back.
Bummer! I hate it when that happens and you usually don't figure it out until you get home with the product. It's hard to know whether they came from the manufacturer or the retailer. All it takes is favorable environmental conditions for a population explosion in the presence of any grain...
First of all, I'm not sure how many times I've addressed this issue, but I can tell you it's been quite a number. The first step is by prevention, as aart has noted, by heating the bran (or whatever substrate you're using). This will not, however, eliminate the risk of grain mites from...
As the others have noted, most of the grapes will be out of chicken jumping height and the few that they will be able to reach during the short grape season won't cause problems. That's been my experience.