External Filters
Jun. 11th, 2025 09:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
senashentaThe last little while the axolotl tank has gotten a little smelly, and I can only attribute it to two possible things. 1) The water that's leaked out the cracks in the bottom and is sitting there getting mouldy while my ribs heal to the point I can actually tackle swapping the tank out for the new one or 2) The external filter needing desperately to be cleaned.
You typically don't use external filters with axolotl aquariums, just the internal ones, but the internal ones only filter chemicals, not particulates, so I have both going on. Anyway, so tonight I unplugged the external filter and took it to the basement and cleaned it thoroughly, and then when I brought it back up and put it back in place... it won't turn on. I THINK I accidentally got some water into the motor casing while I was cleaning it, so I'm leaving it to dry out overnight and tomorrow I'll give it a try again. If it still doesn't work I'll have to buy a new one, which I CAN NOT afford. =/
Other than that, a little over a week ago I bought two black sweet potato vines from the garden shop at Country Produce, and one of them (Castiel) I put in the aquarium and he is THRIVING HOLY SHIT. He sits right next to Dean, naturally, but Dean isn't doing well atm, most of his leaves have systematically fallen off, especially the last little while. I have a spare Dean downstairs, though, so I just have to do some pruning and fixing and current!Dean with spare!Dean and he should be fine. Sam is still doing really well, too, and though Jack is recovering from when Pluto... ate some of him, because he was living on my windowsill next to my bed. EVENTUALLY JACK WILL BE BIG ENOUGH TO JOIN HIS FAMILY.
I've had two orders of computer ink lately where one of the cartridges was defective and my printer couldn't read it. I just returned one like yesterday, and the replacement one that came in today needs to be replaced too. I'm really fucking annoyed, but at least Amazon has a good returns policy. *shrug*
Tomorrow is Thursday, which means it's Fic Update Day on my literally nonexistent update schedule lmao. I'll be posting Solid Foundations, and I already have Nightlight finished and edited for next week. I'm currently working on Put Your Hands On Me for the week after, and then that's the end of the post-HH fics, and I'll be working on post-SS fics instead, which are totally different stuff.
But before I start posting more post-SS fics, I'm taking a break (for real this time!) to finish up TKA, and maybe get a start on My Zombie or Freefall, Then I'll go back to writinf post-SS fics for a while, and then after a few of them I'll take another break to work on something else. Maybe Frailty or Tempest. I haven't quite decided yet, I just know I need to at least PERIODICALLY work on stuff that isn't related to Horror High et al, as much as I love it.
Which reminds me, I've gotten a couple of really nice reviews since I posted Absolute Devotion, ones that were really kind and made me feel really good about myself and my writing. But in the notes for Absolute Devotion I talked about how it was a good thing I didn't mind not getting any kudos/comments on my stuff because I get like less than 200 hits and maybe 7 kudos and no comments on most of my fics. I guess a few people read that and took it to heart. It was nice.
You typically don't use external filters with axolotl aquariums, just the internal ones, but the internal ones only filter chemicals, not particulates, so I have both going on. Anyway, so tonight I unplugged the external filter and took it to the basement and cleaned it thoroughly, and then when I brought it back up and put it back in place... it won't turn on. I THINK I accidentally got some water into the motor casing while I was cleaning it, so I'm leaving it to dry out overnight and tomorrow I'll give it a try again. If it still doesn't work I'll have to buy a new one, which I CAN NOT afford. =/
Other than that, a little over a week ago I bought two black sweet potato vines from the garden shop at Country Produce, and one of them (Castiel) I put in the aquarium and he is THRIVING HOLY SHIT. He sits right next to Dean, naturally, but Dean isn't doing well atm, most of his leaves have systematically fallen off, especially the last little while. I have a spare Dean downstairs, though, so I just have to do some pruning and fixing and current!Dean with spare!Dean and he should be fine. Sam is still doing really well, too, and though Jack is recovering from when Pluto... ate some of him, because he was living on my windowsill next to my bed. EVENTUALLY JACK WILL BE BIG ENOUGH TO JOIN HIS FAMILY.
I've had two orders of computer ink lately where one of the cartridges was defective and my printer couldn't read it. I just returned one like yesterday, and the replacement one that came in today needs to be replaced too. I'm really fucking annoyed, but at least Amazon has a good returns policy. *shrug*
Tomorrow is Thursday, which means it's Fic Update Day on my literally nonexistent update schedule lmao. I'll be posting Solid Foundations, and I already have Nightlight finished and edited for next week. I'm currently working on Put Your Hands On Me for the week after, and then that's the end of the post-HH fics, and I'll be working on post-SS fics instead, which are totally different stuff.
But before I start posting more post-SS fics, I'm taking a break (for real this time!) to finish up TKA, and maybe get a start on My Zombie or Freefall, Then I'll go back to writinf post-SS fics for a while, and then after a few of them I'll take another break to work on something else. Maybe Frailty or Tempest. I haven't quite decided yet, I just know I need to at least PERIODICALLY work on stuff that isn't related to Horror High et al, as much as I love it.
Which reminds me, I've gotten a couple of really nice reviews since I posted Absolute Devotion, ones that were really kind and made me feel really good about myself and my writing. But in the notes for Absolute Devotion I talked about how it was a good thing I didn't mind not getting any kudos/comments on my stuff because I get like less than 200 hits and maybe 7 kudos and no comments on most of my fics. I guess a few people read that and took it to heart. It was nice.
