@@FishForThought I will always watch your videos! Hopefully everything works well for you. I have been a loyal fan for years now :D woot keep being amazing!
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Those salamander are spanish ribbed newts... they spend most their lifes fully aquatic in the wild so it's absolutely safe to not give them a land portion in your aquarium... they do need access to air though
For qotw: Do rice cooker one-pot meals. Dump your rice, meat, some veg, eggs all inside the rice cooker, season with some oyster sauce and soy sauce and cook it all together in the rice cooker. Tastes great, healthy, less clean up too.
QOTW: Baked potatoes! You can easily cook them in the microwave for 15 mins by stabbing a few holes in them and putting them on a plastic bag. Baked potatoes are very versatile. You can dress them as simple or complex as you'd like: add some butter, maybe some canned chili. Or top them with a fried egg. Your options are limited only by your imagination.
Scoop out the insides, mix with cream cheese, refill skins, sprinkle bacon bits and shredded cheddar. Pop under broiler until a nice bubbly cheese surface forms.
QOTW: Frittatas are a lifesaver. You can use up a lot of leftover veggies, meats, and cheese scraps, and it reheats really nicely too. It does mean you need a cast iron skillet, but let's get real. If you don't have a cast iron, you aren't cooking right. Fix that. Anyways, they're so great because of how versatile they are. Turn the oven to 350 F, dice your add-ins, sauté your veggies and any meat until it's browned, beat together 6 eggs with a bit of milk (nonsweetened soy milk works great here if you're avoiding dairy) and some salt + pepper and pour the eggs over the contents of the pan. Add cheese if you'd like, and cook over medium-low until the edges set a bit. Then pop it into the preheated oven, I let it go for 10, and then check every 5 min until the center doesn't jiggle when you wiggle the pan. If you trust your oven, let it go for 15 and it should be ready. Still do the wiggle test though. Serve with buttered toast, and you just cleaned out the fridge, made a protein rich, healthy meal, and made leftovers for tomorrow. It's the perfect lazy dinner, and I made one last night with leftover ham, tomatoes that were about to spoil, the last of my shredded cheese, half an onion, and some garlic. It was delicious.
@@yutub561 Idk, are you asking what you can do instead of a frittata in a cast iron skillet, or are you asking how to make a frittata enjoyable to a person who doesn't enjoy thick eggs? Because honestly with that last one, I don't think there's a solution. My alternative would have been "make an omelet to lessen the thickness of the egg".
Two 5/5s in one episode? We have been blessed by the FFT gods. QOTW: My favorite go-to meal is instant ramen, but I toss the flavor packet and use chicken stock and my favorite toppings to spice things up.
This time of year, squash is in season. Pick out a variety or two you haven't tried, cut in half, scoop seeds, brush with oil, and roast on a cookie sheet. Easy way. Once you know what flavours you're cooking with, then see about trying other flavours with it, different ways to cook, etc. Save the seeds, and guerilla plant them around the city parks and in the middle of roundabouts in the spring.
Graduated high school, now I can stay up late to watch FFT as soon as the video drops! 🎉🎉🇦🇺🇨🇦 Re-scaped my 20 gallon, got rid of the fake plants and planted a ton of bacopa in the inert substrate, (they grow like crazy without fertilisation in my expirience). And my planted shrimp breeding tank is doing grreeaatt (even though it's overrun with thousands of tiny pond snals and the only thriving plants are the vallisnerias XD) I'm planning on scaping one or two heavily planted nano tanks, for Chili rasboras and endler breeding. Those red and blue endlers are so beatiful.
Thank you so much for rating our tank. 4.55/5 for our first try. Lifelong dream achieved. He is 10 and is asleep now. Should I wake him up to show him or wait until the morning?
Shakshuka is a big quick and easy favorite in our household. We also LOVE carnitas, which is easy but takes a little longer (with little active work though).
Glass tubes like that are often sold as vases can probably find one somewhere... or just call your local glassblower they can probably do it for like $30
I have a 20 gallon fish bowl at my dad’s-been out of service since my goldfish died and I started college. I ran some tubes to an external filter and hung a pendant lamp over the top with a 120 watt grow light.
QOTW: One pan creamy pasta. Butter and chopped garlic in the pan, simmer on medium for 2 mins (stir occasionally till brown), add any kind of cream you want with 1/2 cup water, throw in pasta of choice, add salt and pepper, add mixed italian herbs, stir everything together, increase the heat and cover the pan. Gradually add more water if necessary (depending on how much sauce you want). Check every minute or so to make sure it doesn't burn. Add cheese of choice. Should be done in 15-20 mins max, and you only need to clean the pan + cutlery. If you want to add bacon: butter and bacon in pan at the beginning, remove bacon when done, then throw in garlic and follow the rest. Would also recommend having a salad before the pasta. Nutrition wise: carbs, protein, fat, calcium, veggies which have fibre and micronutrients. Pretty healthy overall
QOTW : i do soups, can use frozen vegies, leftovers whatever you have it always comes out good and easy, just throw somethings in the water with spices and it can be done as fast as 20min :)
13:15 Immediately take them all to your local fish store. Then, contact who you ordered them from. That's someone else's order, and hopefully it'll get straightened out, eventually. But priority one is the lives of the fish.
Quick noms - chip butty (chips as in your French frys but thicker cut ) spread butter on white bread slice (has to be white) put on chips squirt of tomato sauce and the other buttered bread slice on top and eat , simple but filling ( not for every day) 😁
Pasta salad is excellent and easy to make. Dice up fresh broccoli, quarter a container of cherry tomatoes, 2 cans of sliced black olives(drained) diced summer sausage (1/4 in pieces), cheddar cheese (1/4 in pieces), 1 package spiral pasta boiled to desired softness, cooled. Mix it all up with some bottled italian dressing (just enough to cover it all without puddling in the bowl). Leave in the fridge at least 1 hour. Even better the next day, and makes a ton! I hope your home is fixed quickly, and thank you for the content!
1) Thank you for talking about how dangerous floodwater is. It’s very hazardous. 2) Update on my mom’s ecosphere: one of my mom’s shrimp died (rip). But one of the snails has been… Feasting. And the other shrimp is doing well! QOTW: Angel hair pasta (takes max 4 minutes) with a few cans of veggies with onions (frozen or fresh) sautéed in a pan for a few minutes. Seasoned however you prefer. I like cooking with butter but it’s up to you. You can add meat if you like, something like kielbasa cooks up quick and adds a bunch of good flavor, just cook it in with the veggies. Add it in with the pasta. Delicious.
I was bemoaning my massive bacterial bloom (our tap water😢) after a water change, losing a betta and a guppy, and seeing your perseverance after such a terrible experience made me stop feeling sorry and get back to doing what I can to get back on track
QOTW: Chicken and wild rice with broccoli. Salt chicken and quick sear in Olive Oil. Throw on baking sheet, sprinkle on some Italian seasoning, or whatever you prefer. Throw broccoli on same pan, drizzle in olive oil, salt and pepper to taste. Cook wild rice, can also do a 25/75 wild to white rice mix to stretch the wild rice. Also buy par cooked wild rice to save time.
QOTW: My go-to meal is pan seared cubed spam, dressed in a sweet soy sauce and eat it over a bed of left over white rice. Super delicious, easy and fast to make, and packed with protein. I like to dice some carrots with the spam too. Really feeling for you during these hard times. Just survived hurricane Helene in florida and thankfully my 5 tanks made it through. One of my kuhlis got spooked and is now not swimming well, but we look up! Hang in there my guy, better times ahead!
Been watching since 2019 when I started college, I just finished this past may. I've been watching ftr every morning for years, but now I work and I'm watching at 10pm in the shower... Life changes man 😂
Ramon Chicken Broth with Miso, 5 Slices of Pork, Green Onions, Bamboo Shoots, Narutomaki, Nori Seaweed and a Seasoned Egg, and noodles. Of course you can adjust for what you like. Sometimes I add kimchi.
"Dood" lol, my mystery snails go walkabout like that too. I'll find eggs laid under my pothos leaves above the tank, or find a snail that found it's way down to the floor (tank is on a Husky workbench), and nearly to my cat's water fountain. All closed up. I give a little sniff, and if it's not stinky, back in the tank with em. Sometimes they hide and dry out before I find them, sadly.
That corner cut out isn't for fish tanks.... but for fish tank.... ohhh the dreams i could make come true with that corner.... a Mbu Puffer fish tank would fill that hole so perfectly
I have a “three-ish” gallon planted bowl. It’s a 12” diameter x 10” tall. I got it on amazon for about $40 and then went to Michael’s Craft store after I had it established. … they had a bunch of them for $27.
QOTW: my favorite wick meal is stir fry (cabbage, carrots, onions, peppers and any meat sliced thin fried with garlic and white pepper and a little olive oil with sweet n sour sauce) on some white rice. Can prep the mat and veggies ahead of time and use minute rice.
Thanks for making our Mondays just a little bit better! I'm so glad you mentioned insurance in this episode - I've been wondering if you had been rocking no renters/condo insurance but I should have known better - Hope for the best, prepare for the worst! I hope your agent is taking good care of you. Favorite easy high-protein meal is taco salad night! You only have to cook the meat and shred the lettuce, then everyone can build exactly what they want with salsa, beans, guac, sour cream, cheese, chips... now I'm hungry... ALSO discovered you can sub ground turkey for ground beef, add some worchestersterchestershire sauce to the taco powder, and NOBODY WILL EVER KNOW!
QOTW: Okay, as a PhD student who teaches and directs, I have zero time to meal prep. What you want is protein, carbs, some healthy fats, and throw some vitamins in if you can. So my go to is this: Toast a whole wheat english muffin. In a bowl melt some butter and carmelized onion jam (tastes awesome). 30 sec, melted. Throw in an egg, salt, pepper. Whisk, back in the microwave, another 30 sec. Take it out, mash it up to make scrambled eggs, add in some goat cheese (hell ya healthy fats). By this time the english muffins are done. Slap you oniony, cheesy, scrambled eggs on that, making a muffin egg sandwich. Wrap in baking paper or tin foil. For bonus points, add an orange. They last for flipping ever, and oranges smell so good, uplifts the spirit. Throw it all in a lunch box, plus a bottle of water, run out the door. Takes like 3 min to complete, less if you say f*** it and don't clean up as you go. You can also prep it the night prior, you'll just have to re-toast your muffin the next day. Hope you try it and like it!
QOTW: Arroz con tocino!!! Rice with bacon :)) it’s very simple, this is how I make it! you’ll need Rice, bacon, 1 yellow onion, soy sauce, crushed chili pepper and lemon. If you want to add mushrooms you can for that added goodness! Make your rice and while that’s cooking Just cut your bacon into bits and cook that ishhh, after that you’re going to dice the onion and mushrooms and sauté it with the bacon and once that’s all done and the rice is done… you’re gonna mix em together into one. Add soy sauce lemon juice and chili pepper (however much it don’t matter) and enjoy!! I hope this helps :)))
They are Newts!!! I had some of them in my aquarium as a kid. I floated a piece of styrofoam for them to get on when they wanted out of the water. But a paladarium would probably be the best set up for Newts. So exciting to see them!
Take some seasoned chicken to a med-high heat to give it nice crust on both sides. Add some sliced mushrooms and/or cherry tomato halves. let them cook. Add red wine to de glaze pan, makes cleaning easier. Or some vinegar works. Add heavy cream and butter to thicken over medium heat and finish the chicken cooking off in sauce moving constantly to emulsify butter cream with wine. Can eat alone over rice or pasta.
One pot pasta is my go to just because it uses less dishes and it's easy to change up depending on your mood the point of it is the the boiled down water has starches so you can make a thick sauce without adding any flour. Personally I like added riced veggies and all the herbs and spices at the start so the veggies soak up all the flavor.
Goto quick easy food: hummus and tortilla chips or rice crackers. Pot of lentils cooked up with whatever spices you enjoy, throw in some grilled onions and bell peppers. Put that on rice, and yer set. Cook a large batch and refrigerate or freeze leftovers. There has to be more than 8 hundred different ways to flavour dhal. Easy nutritious variety.
I love airfrying a ham steak that I cut into 1/4 inch pieces, I then use my electric tea kettle to boil water for Idahoan instant mashed potatos while the ham cooks, I then mix a can of corn in with the ham chunks. Super tasty and quick.
Grilled vegetables and potato slices from the oven. Super easy and fast an less work. Just cut everything, olive oil and salt on everything, into the oven, wait (200°C for 30min) and then eat :) put the garlic with the skin in the oven, so it doesn't burn. Bon appetite 😊
QoTW: #1 is pasta, it's quick, if you want extra protein and fiber without bothering to make meat use lentil pasta and if you don't like jarred sauce most can be made in about 10 min (I was very surprised when I first learned Alfredo is like 4 ingredients and takes 10 min lol) #2 anything you can put in a crock pot. Throw in meat, beans, corn, peppers, tomato, broth and a chili seasoning packet and let it be until you are ready to eat. Bonus, lots of leftovers
QOTW Sliced precooked sausage like bratwurst or kielbasa pan fried instead of using beef for HamburgerHelper. Saves about 5 minutes but adds buckets of flavor. Enjoy, and have a blessed week 🙏
QOTW: My favourite quick meal to make? KD with ground beef. There are 2 ways to make it. I completely prepare the KD and add cooked ground beef after it is completely prepared. My friend cooks the pasta, then adds the cooked beef. Then she adds the butter and stirs it. Then she puts it all in the pan the beef was cooked in and puts it on medium heat while she adds the cheese sauce mix and extra milk and stirs until everything is coated. A variation on this is to add canned tomatoes or cooked broccoli at the same time you add the beef
I know Habitat for Humanity exists in Canada too, but I'm not sure about specifics - in the US they have locations called ReStores where folks donate things and they sell furniture for SUPER cheap. Might be helpful trying to get yourselves back on your feet.
My favorite easy meal is box mac and cheese. Sometimes roast or steam brocolli to add it in. You can aslo get "healthy" box mac where the noodles are made with high fiber high protein. i liek the brand goodles. Also leave out the butter if you want healthy or put it in for the yum.
Hardware stores have big tubes that you can get someone to cut certain amounts for you - usually I'd probably check if the plastic is fish/food safe and then I think the person possibly heated it to get it permanently bent between the two jars (which I'm not sure I'd be comfortable putting heated plastic in my tank but who knows) midwest tacos are my favorite go to
Campbell's creamy tomato sip'n'soup. For a real meal with cooking, but minimal effort, it's called lemonade chicken: 6 chicken breasts in a 9×13 baking pan. In a bowl: half a 12oz can (6oz) of frozen lemonade from concentrate, 1/4 cup soy sauce, 1/8 teaspoon garlic powder. Stir the bowl contents. Pour half over your chicken in a baking pan. Oven it for 25ish minutes, covered with foil, at 425°F. Cover off, flip chicken, pour other half of bowl mixture over chicken. Leave uncovered, oven it for another 10-15 minutes (always check chicken temperature to be sure it's fully cooked. Cook times vary with thickness of meat.) while it's ovening, mix the other half of the lemonade concentrate to make lemonade. Use leftovers for sandwiches. I've also made it with canned shredded chicken breast just kind of sauteed on the stove.
AOTW: A barbarian burger: A hamburger where the outside is singed but the rest of the burger is still raw, with ketchup on top. Another one which is super inexpensive and leaves only one dish to clean is a package of ramen noodles crushed up a bit with a little shredded cabbage and a little mirin plus a dash of rice vinegar. Alternatively, don't put in the cabbage and save some time. Works with either nappa cabbage or head cabbage. Really crunchy, really tasty, and doesn't cost much money. Is also quite filling. If I'm totally desperate and have literally zero time, I do have fish food around. Just toss some back and pretend you don't taste it. Fluval Bug Bites turtle pellets might be good to put in your pocket and eat eat on the go. It's expensive, but it will take care of your protein needs. Just make sure not to think too hard about the fact that it's made with soldier fly maggots. Count yourself lucky that you don't have to eat live squirming buts. That's what my mother would have said. Sometimes that seemed like good advice, sometimes not so much.
Meal idea for such times: I choose convenience meals where I can use the leftovers to make an omelette/scramble. Like I order a bowl from chipotle, and know I’m going to fill up on chips. Try and eat up most of the lettuce, and then the leftovers just heat up in a skillet and add a couple whisked eggs.
QOTW A very easy meal is a baked chicken in the crock pot. Wash whole bird and add half onion to the cavity with a little butter. Sprinkle salt, pepper and a little sage (to taste) and put on high. At dinner time you will have the most tender, juicy bird you ever tasted. Warm up some veggies and you are good to go.
as someone who works with fish vendors who reuse boxes it’s super common to see labels like that on the outside of a box with a totally different order in them. i have had saltwater fish boxes come in saying there’s 50 wrasses with an Indonesian shipping label.
THIS WEEK'S QOTW WAS MADE FOR ME 😤 DISABLED POWERS! ACTIVATE! Okay so I'm actually always tired and deal with chronic pain so I have a few recommendations that I use regularly. They shouldn't take you too long to make but I don't have a ballpark since I cook in little stages with rest on between so I don't give up and decide not to eat lmao Meal 1: Spring rolls. I will put literally anything I have on hand in them. It helps me keep up my nutrition and not cave to getting delivery. I tend to have a lot of veggies and chicken or fish and I make sure to have some rice noodles in case I overestimate my energy for the day. Meal 2: Rice and pickled veggies. I like to pickle my own veggies but stuff from the grocery store is pretty good too! I think adding an egg and pork floss is really nice. Meal 3: Beans and rice. Okay so I clearly choose rice as my carb pretty often. I like to use pinto beans and Cajun seasoning with some salt pork into the slow cooker. Rice in the rice cooker. Boom. It's not exactly exciting but it's the least effort while still giving you enough energy to get through the day. It's probably a good idea to have a salad with it because it's kind of a heavy meal all things considered. Meal 4: Everything Soup. This is a roux based soup that is basically just like... leftovers from food prep where I only used half a portion or something. It's like a seasonal stew situation that you can base the seasoning around what you have. I like to put potatoes and onions in it and it can also be cooked in the crock pot. Meal 5: Chicken and rice soup. This one is super easy because I just get a rotisserie chicken from the grocery store and break it down. Then soft sauteed onions, garlic, carrots and celery with salt and pepper to taste. (I might add collards, mustards or kale if I'm feeling extra healthy.) I usually have my own chicken stock that I add with the chicken and veggies as well as a cup of rice and a bit of cream - if you like a creamy soup. This is probably my favorite go to because it means I only have to cook once that week. I hope at least one of these sounds yummy!
I am also disabled and end up getting fatigued quite easily. Multiple sclerosis paired with stage 5 renal failure and a spinal cord injury simply do that. I think I will try some of your recipes so that I can add a little variety to my own. Pintos are awesome. I usually toss a ham hoc into mine. I also add a bit too much water to the soaked beans, then when they're done, I save the water (either freeze it or use it right away) as the base for an easy stew. There are so many ways to be creative and turn that little extra into something special without breaking the bank, or wearing yourself completely ragged. That way you can wear yourself completely ragged on something else! Probably on something you'd rather not do. Of course there's always procrastination for situations like that. I procrastinate way too much.
@@Chompchompyerded For me I'm still trying to chase down what genetic condition I have. So far all I've gotten is that it's likely a connective tissue disorder and there are apparently a ton of things that could be and literally no one is invested in figuring it out 😃 So I just get by with my wobbly joints and try to figure out how my body works all over again. I'm definitely borrowing your bean water idea because I have never thought about that but it would totally make a good savory base. I can't stand for very long without pain or getting dizzy so I tend to try to sit while I chop veggies and stuff but any tips to help with the day to day are so welcome. I've been figuring things out all on my lonesome and just skipping meals altogether when I don't have the energy. The lowered mobility and energy is pretty new for me and I am struggling to say the least. 😭 This is basically what I eat when I don't just blow my grocery money on delivery to have a good meal and that's always a bad idea.
QOTW- my two favorite simple comfort foods: -grilled cheese sandwich- (sourdoughbread, American cheese, a dab of Grey Poupon) -blanch rapini and sauté in olive oil, add to pasta cooked “al dente” and top with grated Parmesan- joy! ( I blanch it in the water I’m using for the pasta) One more recipe- have you tried making instant mac & cheese, except (after cooking the noodles) add Greek yogurt instead of water?The difference is extraordinary!
I haven't seen my corys actually eat snails, but corys have a sand-sifting behavior where they'll suck up the sand for whatever food is in it and spit it out through their gills. One time I saw one of mine suck up a very small Malaysian trumpet snail and eject it through its gill!
Honey glazed pork A warm, sweet & savory dish with comfort food vibes - cube pork in bite-sized pieces - 50/50 honey + soy sauce. You need less of this than you think, it's pretty potent. Add spices and dilute with water to taste. Ginger, all spice, and smoked paprika are tasty choices - any random veggies you feel like adding First you pan fry the pork and veggies until the pork is almost done cooking. Make sure you have rice cooking on the side as you do this. Add your honey/soy sauce slurry. Cook until pork is done and sauce is a preferable texture. Serve over rice You can also make a slurry with about a table spoon of corn starch or other thickening agent and a little bit of room temp water if the sauce needs to be thickened. Make sure this gets cooked into the dish before serving Final step, we ballin B) Found this to be a good emergency meal because it cooks quickly, requires minimal prep (even easier if you cube pork before hand and keep it in the freezer), uses one pan, and is filling
Bird poop has nutrients that are good for fish. Also, it's possible that snail was dead already and the cory was cleaning up the leftovers. That being said- maybe he was hungry ;)
Fav easy go to meals that are pretty affordable where i live are, Pork with rice, kimchi and any other greens you want to get in bulk. then just use different sauces and flavorings. keeps the dish unique without having to buy a bunch of different ingredients and saves space x'D then also changing up the protein here and there helps.
Breeding Amano shrimp isnt a secret but it's very difficult as you have to tightly control and modify the salinity/water chemistry throughout the breeding cycle
That second fish tank with the "axolotl" is actually a pair of Spanish ribbed newts (from what I can see with the video quality provided) I'm in the process of building a paludarium for one however they are actually a fully aquatic salamander unlike other breeds of newts like the fire belly newt
I've been in this hobby too long, because my IMMEDIATE thought about the water change post was 'seven 3L water changes aren't equivalent to one 21L water change'
Preferred meal for quick, somewhat healthy: eggroll in a bowl. onion, garlic, green onion. separate green onion white and green. Toss the onion, white part of the green onion, and garlic together, and get a medium chop.(I toss into a hand crank food processor...) fry it in toasted sesame seed oil until soft and add in 1 lbs. ground pork, with 1 teaspoon each of salt, powdered ginger, and pepper, along with a 1 teaspoon of minced ginger, and a good helping of a sriracha of choice. Cook meat until browned and well broken up. Add in 1 bag of coleslaw mix, 1 tablespoon of rice vinegar, 3 tablespoons of soy sauce, and just cook it until the coleslaw mix wilts. When serving top with finely sliced green bits of green onion, a spicy mayo, or sriracha. It still feels like you've made something from scratch, takes less than 45 minutes, full of flavor, not horrible for you, and it's all made in one large pan, so minimal dishes.
califlower spagetti!! soo easy and you'd never know it wasn't meat. saute some diced garlic and onions, throw some cut up (finely) cali in there, fry for a bit, add some beef/veg stock to make sure the cali is soft, add in tomato basil sauce (I like raos) and tomato paste (to thicken) and then boil out some of the water to thicken. Ofc boil noodles and you are done B)
My QOTW answer. I personally prefer using my air fryer for quick meals. I can toss in some seasoned chicken strips, with seasoned potatoes and some corn and its done in 15-20 mins.
QOTW: 1) Chop and drop all your veggies and meat in a wok & stir fry. 2) Chop and drop everything in your rice cooker - one pot meal. 3) Use a microwave to steam some fish fillet & vegetables. 4) If all heat sources fail, then toss a quick salad with cheese & nuts.
I’m setting up my first fish tank in about a year and its going to be my first planted tank, its for 2 baby platies until I get a bigger tank set up! just want to make sure its big enough for the platies (babies) at least for a little while
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Thank you for your continued support throughout this crazy time in my life 😭🙏
@@FishForThought no problem (;
@@FishForThought I will always watch your videos! Hopefully everything works well for you. I have been a loyal fan for years now :D woot keep being amazing!
eat ramen with egg 16:56 perfect combo of carbs and protein n hope that u get out of this phase fast❤❤
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Those salamander are spanish ribbed newts... they spend most their lifes fully aquatic in the wild so it's absolutely safe to not give them a land portion in your aquarium... they do need access to air though
Yep, it’s like giving a whale enclosure a massive beach that takes up 40% of the tank.
nice! glad to see they're doing it pretty well
I have a piece of cork bark floating in my tank for mine to chill out on.
“No no no no no…you sell fish now…” lmfao
Love the positivity in the face of adversity.
thanks I try haha
For qotw: Do rice cooker one-pot meals. Dump your rice, meat, some veg, eggs all inside the rice cooker, season with some oyster sauce and soy sauce and cook it all together in the rice cooker. Tastes great, healthy, less clean up too.
QOTW: Baked potatoes! You can easily cook them in the microwave for 15 mins by stabbing a few holes in them and putting them on a plastic bag. Baked potatoes are very versatile. You can dress them as simple or complex as you'd like: add some butter, maybe some canned chili. Or top them with a fried egg. Your options are limited only by your imagination.
awesome love it
Extra topping suggestion: butter and dill.
Scoop out the insides, mix with cream cheese, refill skins, sprinkle bacon bits and shredded cheddar.
Pop under broiler until a nice bubbly cheese surface forms.
Just got 6 albino corys!! and yep! they´re eating my mini snails XD
dang!
QOTW: Frittatas are a lifesaver. You can use up a lot of leftover veggies, meats, and cheese scraps, and it reheats really nicely too. It does mean you need a cast iron skillet, but let's get real. If you don't have a cast iron, you aren't cooking right. Fix that. Anyways, they're so great because of how versatile they are. Turn the oven to 350 F, dice your add-ins, sauté your veggies and any meat until it's browned, beat together 6 eggs with a bit of milk (nonsweetened soy milk works great here if you're avoiding dairy) and some salt + pepper and pour the eggs over the contents of the pan. Add cheese if you'd like, and cook over medium-low until the edges set a bit. Then pop it into the preheated oven, I let it go for 10, and then check every 5 min until the center doesn't jiggle when you wiggle the pan. If you trust your oven, let it go for 15 and it should be ready. Still do the wiggle test though. Serve with buttered toast, and you just cleaned out the fridge, made a protein rich, healthy meal, and made leftovers for tomorrow. It's the perfect lazy dinner, and I made one last night with leftover ham, tomatoes that were about to spoil, the last of my shredded cheese, half an onion, and some garlic. It was delicious.
No Cast Iron, Fix It!
yeah but what if you hate thick eggs/omelets.
@@yutub561 Idk, are you asking what you can do instead of a frittata in a cast iron skillet, or are you asking how to make a frittata enjoyable to a person who doesn't enjoy thick eggs? Because honestly with that last one, I don't think there's a solution. My alternative would have been "make an omelet to lessen the thickness of the egg".
@@trout512 I didn't mention a cast iron. Just that frittata and quiche and omelettez and the like make me nauseous
@@yutub561 Then why comment on an egg recipe you know you won't like?
Hope your "don't forget to get your house wet" scenario goes more smoothly now, and you can get stuff sorted soon! You make my Mondays!
Two 5/5s in one episode? We have been blessed by the FFT gods. QOTW: My favorite go-to meal is instant ramen, but I toss the flavor packet and use chicken stock and my favorite toppings to spice things up.
true it's a beautiful ep
nice tip
This time of year, squash is in season. Pick out a variety or two you haven't tried, cut in half, scoop seeds, brush with oil, and roast on a cookie sheet. Easy way. Once you know what flavours you're cooking with, then see about trying other flavours with it, different ways to cook, etc. Save the seeds, and guerilla plant them around the city parks and in the middle of roundabouts in the spring.
Waited for this from India. Just learned my "Albino Siamese Algae Eater" are actually CHINESE ALGAE EATERS and I'm doomed.
Graduated high school, now I can stay up late to watch FFT as soon as the video drops! 🎉🎉🇦🇺🇨🇦
Re-scaped my 20 gallon, got rid of the fake plants and planted a ton of bacopa in the inert substrate, (they grow like crazy without fertilisation in my expirience). And my planted shrimp breeding tank is doing grreeaatt (even though it's overrun with thousands of tiny pond snals and the only thriving plants are the vallisnerias XD)
I'm planning on scaping one or two heavily planted nano tanks, for Chili rasboras and endler breeding. Those red and blue endlers are so beatiful.
Congrats on graduating!! And wishing you much luck with your projects!
@@laurabustos6560 thank you!!
Thank you so much for rating our tank. 4.55/5 for our first try. Lifelong dream achieved. He is 10 and is asleep now. Should I wake him up to show him or wait until the morning?
I woke him up.
My bronze Corys eat snails.
They are serial snail killers of my fish tank 😂
I'm pretty sure the clear tube is one used in HOB overflow boxes, but I could be wrong.
Shakshuka is a big quick and easy favorite in our household. We also LOVE carnitas, which is easy but takes a little longer (with little active work though).
Glass tubes like that are often sold as vases can probably find one somewhere... or just call your local glassblower they can probably do it for like $30
I have a 20 gallon fish bowl at my dad’s-been out of service since my goldfish died and I started college.
I ran some tubes to an external filter and hung a pendant lamp over the top with a 120 watt grow light.
I'm truly sorry for your situation!! Praying!! Glad you're ok & safe!!
QOTW: One pan creamy pasta. Butter and chopped garlic in the pan, simmer on medium for 2 mins (stir occasionally till brown), add any kind of cream you want with 1/2 cup water, throw in pasta of choice, add salt and pepper, add mixed italian herbs, stir everything together, increase the heat and cover the pan. Gradually add more water if necessary (depending on how much sauce you want). Check every minute or so to make sure it doesn't burn. Add cheese of choice. Should be done in 15-20 mins max, and you only need to clean the pan + cutlery. If you want to add bacon: butter and bacon in pan at the beginning, remove bacon when done, then throw in garlic and follow the rest. Would also recommend having a salad before the pasta.
Nutrition wise: carbs, protein, fat, calcium, veggies which have fibre and micronutrients. Pretty healthy overall
Im so trying this..may add some chicken for z bit more protein if first try goes well!
Other people: name a 3 word Amazing channel about fish
Me: FISH FOR THOUGHT 🔥🗣️🔥🗣️🔥
QOTW : i do soups, can use frozen vegies, leftovers whatever you have it always comes out good and easy, just throw somethings in the water with spices and it can be done as fast as 20min :)
13:15 Immediately take them all to your local fish store. Then, contact who you ordered them from. That's someone else's order, and hopefully it'll get straightened out, eventually. But priority one is the lives of the fish.
They are also all species a LFS should be able to handle. Even those snakeheads are a smaller species.
Quick noms - chip butty (chips as in your French frys but thicker cut ) spread butter on white bread slice (has to be white) put on chips squirt of tomato sauce and the other buttered bread slice on top and eat , simple but filling ( not for every day) 😁
Pasta salad is excellent and easy to make. Dice up fresh broccoli, quarter a container of cherry tomatoes, 2 cans of sliced black olives(drained) diced summer sausage (1/4 in pieces), cheddar cheese (1/4 in pieces), 1 package spiral pasta boiled to desired softness, cooled. Mix it all up with some bottled italian dressing (just enough to cover it all without puddling in the bowl). Leave in the fridge at least 1 hour. Even better the next day, and makes a ton!
I hope your home is fixed quickly, and thank you for the content!
Woo finally returned to this channel after a few months! And I’m instantly hooked! 🔥
1) Thank you for talking about how dangerous floodwater is. It’s very hazardous.
2) Update on my mom’s ecosphere: one of my mom’s shrimp died (rip). But one of the snails has been… Feasting. And the other shrimp is doing well!
QOTW: Angel hair pasta (takes max 4 minutes) with a few cans of veggies with onions (frozen or fresh) sautéed in a pan for a few minutes. Seasoned however you prefer. I like cooking with butter but it’s up to you. You can add meat if you like, something like kielbasa cooks up quick and adds a bunch of good flavor, just cook it in with the veggies. Add it in with the pasta. Delicious.
I was bemoaning my massive bacterial bloom (our tap water😢) after a water change, losing a betta and a guppy, and seeing your perseverance after such a terrible experience made me stop feeling sorry and get back to doing what I can to get back on track
We need an update on Millie and repashy after the fire and we need to hear their opinions on the fire!!
Good news! I started a new fish tank and have great success! Blue dream shrimp on top
QOTW: Chicken and wild rice with broccoli.
Salt chicken and quick sear in Olive Oil.
Throw on baking sheet, sprinkle on some Italian seasoning, or whatever you prefer.
Throw broccoli on same pan, drizzle in olive oil, salt and pepper to taste.
Cook wild rice, can also do a 25/75 wild to white rice mix to stretch the wild rice. Also buy par cooked wild rice to save time.
QOTW: My go-to meal is pan seared cubed spam, dressed in a sweet soy sauce and eat it over a bed of left over white rice. Super delicious, easy and fast to make, and packed with protein. I like to dice some carrots with the spam too. Really feeling for you during these hard times. Just survived hurricane Helene in florida and thankfully my 5 tanks made it through. One of my kuhlis got spooked and is now not swimming well, but we look up! Hang in there my guy, better times ahead!
Grilled cheese and tomato soup. My favorite. You’re doing great.
keep making videos, your real fans will watch twice.
I guess I'm not a real fan. I couldn't limit it to just twice.
You can get large gauge hose like that at most hardware stores. They sell them by the foot, from large rolls.
Been watching since 2019 when I started college, I just finished this past may. I've been watching ftr every morning for years, but now I work and I'm watching at 10pm in the shower...
Life changes man 😂
Ramon
Chicken Broth with Miso, 5 Slices of Pork, Green Onions, Bamboo Shoots, Narutomaki, Nori Seaweed and a Seasoned Egg, and noodles. Of course you can adjust for what you like. Sometimes I add kimchi.
"Dood" lol, my mystery snails go walkabout like that too. I'll find eggs laid under my pothos leaves above the tank, or find a snail that found it's way down to the floor (tank is on a Husky workbench), and nearly to my cat's water fountain. All closed up. I give a little sniff, and if it's not stinky, back in the tank with em. Sometimes they hide and dry out before I find them, sadly.
I forgot today was Monday until just now. Thank you for reminding me it’s a day today
haha well there ya go!
At 8:05 he says its debateable and I heard "it's the betta bowl".
That corner cut out isn't for fish tanks.... but for fish tank.... ohhh the dreams i could make come true with that corner.... a Mbu Puffer fish tank would fill that hole so perfectly
I have a “three-ish” gallon planted bowl. It’s a 12” diameter x 10” tall. I got it on amazon for about $40 and then went to Michael’s Craft store after I had it established. … they had a bunch of them for $27.
QOTW: my favorite wick meal is stir fry (cabbage, carrots, onions, peppers and any meat sliced thin fried with garlic and white pepper and a little olive oil with sweet n sour sauce) on some white rice. Can prep the mat and veggies ahead of time and use minute rice.
"It may not look like 1000, but it goes deep, this thing goes deep" Chris, FTR, 2024
Thanks for making our Mondays just a little bit better! I'm so glad you mentioned insurance in this episode - I've been wondering if you had been rocking no renters/condo insurance but I should have known better - Hope for the best, prepare for the worst! I hope your agent is taking good care of you.
Favorite easy high-protein meal is taco salad night! You only have to cook the meat and shred the lettuce, then everyone can build exactly what they want with salsa, beans, guac, sour cream, cheese, chips... now I'm hungry... ALSO discovered you can sub ground turkey for ground beef, add some worchestersterchestershire sauce to the taco powder, and NOBODY WILL EVER KNOW!
8:25 this shrimp bowl feels like I'm looking into a magic crystal ball at somewhere much bigger lol
QOTW: Okay, as a PhD student who teaches and directs, I have zero time to meal prep. What you want is protein, carbs, some healthy fats, and throw some vitamins in if you can. So my go to is this: Toast a whole wheat english muffin. In a bowl melt some butter and carmelized onion jam (tastes awesome). 30 sec, melted. Throw in an egg, salt, pepper. Whisk, back in the microwave, another 30 sec. Take it out, mash it up to make scrambled eggs, add in some goat cheese (hell ya healthy fats). By this time the english muffins are done. Slap you oniony, cheesy, scrambled eggs on that, making a muffin egg sandwich. Wrap in baking paper or tin foil. For bonus points, add an orange. They last for flipping ever, and oranges smell so good, uplifts the spirit. Throw it all in a lunch box, plus a bottle of water, run out the door. Takes like 3 min to complete, less if you say f*** it and don't clean up as you go. You can also prep it the night prior, you'll just have to re-toast your muffin the next day.
Hope you try it and like it!
QOTW: Arroz con tocino!!! Rice with bacon :)) it’s very simple, this is how I make it! you’ll need
Rice, bacon, 1 yellow onion, soy sauce, crushed chili pepper and lemon. If you want to add mushrooms you can for that added goodness! Make your rice and while that’s cooking Just cut your bacon into bits and cook that ishhh, after that you’re going to dice the onion and mushrooms and sauté it with the bacon and once that’s all done and the rice is done… you’re gonna mix em together into one. Add soy sauce lemon juice and chili pepper (however much it don’t matter) and enjoy!! I hope this helps :)))
They are Newts!!! I had some of them in my aquarium as a kid. I floated a piece of styrofoam for them to get on when they wanted out of the water. But a paladarium would probably be the best set up for Newts. So exciting to see them!
Take some seasoned chicken to a med-high heat to give it nice crust on both sides.
Add some sliced mushrooms and/or cherry tomato halves. let them cook.
Add red wine to de glaze pan, makes cleaning easier. Or some vinegar works.
Add heavy cream and butter to thicken over medium heat and finish the chicken cooking off in sauce moving constantly to emulsify butter cream with wine.
Can eat alone over rice or pasta.
One pot pasta is my go to just because it uses less dishes and it's easy to change up depending on your mood the point of it is the the boiled down water has starches so you can make a thick sauce without adding any flour. Personally I like added riced veggies and all the herbs and spices at the start so the veggies soak up all the flavor.
Goto quick easy food: hummus and tortilla chips or rice crackers.
Pot of lentils cooked up with whatever spices you enjoy, throw in some grilled onions and bell peppers. Put that on rice, and yer set. Cook a large batch and refrigerate or freeze leftovers.
There has to be more than 8 hundred different ways to flavour dhal. Easy nutritious variety.
I love airfrying a ham steak that I cut into 1/4 inch pieces, I then use my electric tea kettle to boil water for Idahoan instant mashed potatos while the ham cooks, I then mix a can of corn in with the ham chunks. Super tasty and quick.
1 minute this feels magical
Grilled vegetables and potato slices from the oven. Super easy and fast an less work. Just cut everything, olive oil and salt on everything, into the oven, wait (200°C for 30min) and then eat :) put the garlic with the skin in the oven, so it doesn't burn. Bon appetite 😊
Ive had the absolute best luck finding awesome bowls for shrimp at the Thrift Store!!!
QoTW: #1 is pasta, it's quick, if you want extra protein and fiber without bothering to make meat use lentil pasta and if you don't like jarred sauce most can be made in about 10 min (I was very surprised when I first learned Alfredo is like 4 ingredients and takes 10 min lol)
#2 anything you can put in a crock pot. Throw in meat, beans, corn, peppers, tomato, broth and a chili seasoning packet and let it be until you are ready to eat. Bonus, lots of leftovers
QOTW
Sliced precooked sausage like bratwurst or kielbasa pan fried instead of using beef for HamburgerHelper. Saves about 5 minutes but adds buckets of flavor. Enjoy, and have a blessed week 🙏
QOTW: My favourite quick meal to make? KD with ground beef. There are 2 ways to make it. I completely prepare the KD and add cooked ground beef after it is completely prepared. My friend cooks the pasta, then adds the cooked beef. Then she adds the butter and stirs it. Then she puts it all in the pan the beef was cooked in and puts it on medium heat while she adds the cheese sauce mix and extra milk and stirs until everything is coated.
A variation on this is to add canned tomatoes or cooked broccoli at the same time you add the beef
What in the world is kd?
@@LukeMcGuireoides Sorry. I forgot that KD is mainly a Canadian term. It's Kraft Macaroni and Cheese Dinner (aka Kraft Dinner)
I have my aquarium plants in terracotta pots. I love it!
In the betta fish tank with the tube! I have that exact same cookie jar! I use it to keep Malaysian trumpet snails.
I know Habitat for Humanity exists in Canada too, but I'm not sure about specifics - in the US they have locations called ReStores where folks donate things and they sell furniture for SUPER cheap. Might be helpful trying to get yourselves back on your feet.
Saskatchewan gives a shout out ! Keep your fish safe out there
So does Alberta!
@@Chompchompyerded I’m your 41 sub now 🫶
My favorite easy meal is box mac and cheese. Sometimes roast or steam brocolli to add it in. You can aslo get "healthy" box mac where the noodles are made with high fiber high protein. i liek the brand goodles. Also leave out the butter if you want healthy or put it in for the yum.
another monday another fish tank review keep posting vids like this
Hardware stores have big tubes that you can get someone to cut certain amounts for you - usually
I'd probably check if the plastic is fish/food safe and then I think the person possibly heated it to get it permanently bent between the two jars (which I'm not sure I'd be comfortable putting heated plastic in my tank but who knows)
midwest tacos are my favorite go to
My first ever FTR that I’ve watched, since I’ve started watching the series
Campbell's creamy tomato sip'n'soup.
For a real meal with cooking, but minimal effort, it's called lemonade chicken: 6 chicken breasts in a 9×13 baking pan. In a bowl: half a 12oz can (6oz) of frozen lemonade from concentrate, 1/4 cup soy sauce, 1/8 teaspoon garlic powder. Stir the bowl contents. Pour half over your chicken in a baking pan. Oven it for 25ish minutes, covered with foil, at 425°F. Cover off, flip chicken, pour other half of bowl mixture over chicken. Leave uncovered, oven it for another 10-15 minutes (always check chicken temperature to be sure it's fully cooked. Cook times vary with thickness of meat.) while it's ovening, mix the other half of the lemonade concentrate to make lemonade.
Use leftovers for sandwiches. I've also made it with canned shredded chicken breast just kind of sauteed on the stove.
AOTW: A barbarian burger: A hamburger where the outside is singed but the rest of the burger is still raw, with ketchup on top. Another one which is super inexpensive and leaves only one dish to clean is a package of ramen noodles crushed up a bit with a little shredded cabbage and a little mirin plus a dash of rice vinegar. Alternatively, don't put in the cabbage and save some time. Works with either nappa cabbage or head cabbage. Really crunchy, really tasty, and doesn't cost much money. Is also quite filling. If I'm totally desperate and have literally zero time, I do have fish food around. Just toss some back and pretend you don't taste it. Fluval Bug Bites turtle pellets might be good to put in your pocket and eat eat on the go. It's expensive, but it will take care of your protein needs. Just make sure not to think too hard about the fact that it's made with soldier fly maggots. Count yourself lucky that you don't have to eat live squirming buts. That's what my mother would have said. Sometimes that seemed like good advice, sometimes not so much.
Meal idea for such times: I choose convenience meals where I can use the leftovers to make an omelette/scramble. Like I order a bowl from chipotle, and know I’m going to fill up on chips. Try and eat up most of the lettuce, and then the leftovers just heat up in a skillet and add a couple whisked eggs.
QOTW A very easy meal is a baked chicken in the crock pot. Wash whole bird and add half onion to the cavity with a little butter. Sprinkle salt, pepper and a little sage (to taste) and put on high. At dinner time you will have the most tender, juicy bird you ever tasted. Warm up some veggies and you are good to go.
as someone who works with fish vendors who reuse boxes it’s super common to see labels like that on the outside of a box with a totally different order in them. i have had saltwater fish boxes come in saying there’s 50 wrasses with an Indonesian shipping label.
THIS WEEK'S QOTW WAS MADE FOR ME 😤 DISABLED POWERS! ACTIVATE!
Okay so I'm actually always tired and deal with chronic pain so I have a few recommendations that I use regularly. They shouldn't take you too long to make but I don't have a ballpark since I cook in little stages with rest on between so I don't give up and decide not to eat lmao
Meal 1:
Spring rolls. I will put literally anything I have on hand in them. It helps me keep up my nutrition and not cave to getting delivery. I tend to have a lot of veggies and chicken or fish and I make sure to have some rice noodles in case I overestimate my energy for the day.
Meal 2: Rice and pickled veggies. I like to pickle my own veggies but stuff from the grocery store is pretty good too! I think adding an egg and pork floss is really nice.
Meal 3: Beans and rice. Okay so I clearly choose rice as my carb pretty often. I like to use pinto beans and Cajun seasoning with some salt pork into the slow cooker. Rice in the rice cooker. Boom. It's not exactly exciting but it's the least effort while still giving you enough energy to get through the day. It's probably a good idea to have a salad with it because it's kind of a heavy meal all things considered.
Meal 4: Everything Soup. This is a roux based soup that is basically just like... leftovers from food prep where I only used half a portion or something. It's like a seasonal stew situation that you can base the seasoning around what you have. I like to put potatoes and onions in it and it can also be cooked in the crock pot.
Meal 5: Chicken and rice soup. This one is super easy because I just get a rotisserie chicken from the grocery store and break it down. Then soft sauteed onions, garlic, carrots and celery with salt and pepper to taste. (I might add collards, mustards or kale if I'm feeling extra healthy.) I usually have my own chicken stock that I add with the chicken and veggies as well as a cup of rice and a bit of cream - if you like a creamy soup. This is probably my favorite go to because it means I only have to cook once that week.
I hope at least one of these sounds yummy!
I am also disabled and end up getting fatigued quite easily. Multiple sclerosis paired with stage 5 renal failure and a spinal cord injury simply do that. I think I will try some of your recipes so that I can add a little variety to my own. Pintos are awesome. I usually toss a ham hoc into mine. I also add a bit too much water to the soaked beans, then when they're done, I save the water (either freeze it or use it right away) as the base for an easy stew. There are so many ways to be creative and turn that little extra into something special without breaking the bank, or wearing yourself completely ragged. That way you can wear yourself completely ragged on something else! Probably on something you'd rather not do. Of course there's always procrastination for situations like that. I procrastinate way too much.
@@Chompchompyerded For me I'm still trying to chase down what genetic condition I have. So far all I've gotten is that it's likely a connective tissue disorder and there are apparently a ton of things that could be and literally no one is invested in figuring it out 😃 So I just get by with my wobbly joints and try to figure out how my body works all over again.
I'm definitely borrowing your bean water idea because I have never thought about that but it would totally make a good savory base. I can't stand for very long without pain or getting dizzy so I tend to try to sit while I chop veggies and stuff but any tips to help with the day to day are so welcome. I've been figuring things out all on my lonesome and just skipping meals altogether when I don't have the energy. The lowered mobility and energy is pretty new for me and I am struggling to say the least. 😭 This is basically what I eat when I don't just blow my grocery money on delivery to have a good meal and that's always a bad idea.
Solidarity floor gang over here. I didn't have a fire, just moved and tank/stand switching got... complicated
8:54 pepper cory
The substrate colour made him her dark 😂
QOTW- my two favorite simple comfort foods:
-grilled cheese sandwich- (sourdoughbread, American cheese, a dab of Grey Poupon)
-blanch rapini and sauté in olive oil, add to pasta cooked “al dente” and top with grated Parmesan- joy! ( I blanch it in the water I’m using for the pasta)
One more recipe- have you tried making instant mac & cheese, except (after cooking the noodles) add Greek yogurt instead of water?The difference is extraordinary!
geez I was trying to make bullet points, not cross out words!! :^o
I haven't seen my corys actually eat snails, but corys have a sand-sifting behavior where they'll suck up the sand for whatever food is in it and spit it out through their gills. One time I saw one of mine suck up a very small Malaysian trumpet snail and eject it through its gill!
Love these videos!! ❤
That is 100% a fish store order 😂
I love the bacon pancakes bird and did not expect to see it on here!
I have 4 tanks with kuhli Liaches..I do see them all the time I look at one of them.The tanks are heavily planted but I still can spot them
You can use hamster tunnels that are sealed with plumbing tape to make a fish tunnel
Great idea!
Honey glazed pork
A warm, sweet & savory dish with comfort food vibes
- cube pork in bite-sized pieces
- 50/50 honey + soy sauce. You need less of this than you think, it's pretty potent. Add spices and dilute with water to taste. Ginger, all spice, and smoked paprika are tasty choices
- any random veggies you feel like adding
First you pan fry the pork and veggies until the pork is almost done cooking. Make sure you have rice cooking on the side as you do this. Add your honey/soy sauce slurry. Cook until pork is done and sauce is a preferable texture. Serve over rice
You can also make a slurry with about a table spoon of corn starch or other thickening agent and a little bit of room temp water if the sauce needs to be thickened. Make sure this gets cooked into the dish before serving
Final step, we ballin B)
Found this to be a good emergency meal because it cooks quickly, requires minimal prep (even easier if you cube pork before hand and keep it in the freezer), uses one pan, and is filling
Bird poop has nutrients that are good for fish. Also, it's possible that snail was dead already and the cory was cleaning up the leftovers. That being said- maybe he was hungry ;)
Honey and ginger marinated pork chops are easy! You can grill outside or bake
When i crush snails my Corys tend to eat them. As for the tubes, you can get them at Home Depot at the pumping section.
I was also forgotten while playing hide and seek as a kid... never got over it
Fav easy go to meals that are pretty affordable where i live are, Pork with rice, kimchi and any other greens you want to get in bulk. then just use different sauces and flavorings. keeps the dish unique without having to buy a bunch of different ingredients and saves space x'D then also changing up the protein here and there helps.
Yay a new fish tank review
Breeding Amano shrimp isnt a secret but it's very difficult as you have to tightly control and modify the salinity/water chemistry throughout the breeding cycle
That second fish tank with the "axolotl" is actually a pair of Spanish ribbed newts (from what I can see with the video quality provided) I'm in the process of building a paludarium for one however they are actually a fully aquatic salamander unlike other breeds of newts like the fire belly newt
Beef and bean burritos! Canned beans mean it only takes 20 minutes to make your filling.
I've been in this hobby too long, because my IMMEDIATE thought about the water change post was 'seven 3L water changes aren't equivalent to one 21L water change'
Go-to quick meal: brown sugar oatmeal! Low mess too!
Preferred meal for quick, somewhat healthy: eggroll in a bowl. onion, garlic, green onion. separate green onion white and green. Toss the onion, white part of the green onion, and garlic together, and get a medium chop.(I toss into a hand crank food processor...) fry it in toasted sesame seed oil until soft and add in 1 lbs. ground pork, with 1 teaspoon each of salt, powdered ginger, and pepper, along with a 1 teaspoon of minced ginger, and a good helping of a sriracha of choice. Cook meat until browned and well broken up. Add in 1 bag of coleslaw mix, 1 tablespoon of rice vinegar, 3 tablespoons of soy sauce, and just cook it until the coleslaw mix wilts. When serving top with finely sliced green bits of green onion, a spicy mayo, or sriracha. It still feels like you've made something from scratch, takes less than 45 minutes, full of flavor, not horrible for you, and it's all made in one large pan, so minimal dishes.
califlower spagetti!! soo easy and you'd never know it wasn't meat. saute some diced garlic and onions, throw some cut up (finely) cali in there, fry for a bit, add some beef/veg stock to make sure the cali is soft, add in tomato basil sauce (I like raos) and tomato paste (to thicken) and then boil out some of the water to thicken. Ofc boil noodles and you are done B)
My QOTW answer. I personally prefer using my air fryer for quick meals. I can toss in some seasoned chicken strips, with seasoned potatoes and some corn and its done in 15-20 mins.
QOTW:
1) Chop and drop all your veggies and meat in a wok & stir fry.
2) Chop and drop everything in your rice cooker - one pot meal.
3) Use a microwave to steam some fish fillet & vegetables.
4) If all heat sources fail, then toss a quick salad with cheese & nuts.
I’m setting up my first fish tank in about a year and its going to be my first planted tank, its for 2 baby platies until I get a bigger tank set up! just want to make sure its big enough for the platies (babies) at least for a little while