hi

for me 11 am.

A few days ago I remember it was once 2 am, then after a hour it was still 2 am, it was weird and I became suspicious since then; I feel like I need to be alert and carefully observe time all the time.

Please tell me if it stops being funny and I will stop continuing this; but the Litter Box has worryingly small activity and I noticed it, so to say, stirs the gravel a little and engages people.

It's 6 am for me.

I haven't discovered any recent irregularities with time :)

(I also agree that more engagement is good. Especially for relatively small sites like Pets, or Drones which is even smaller)

@lila eh, least as far as chatrooms go...

activity begets activity

if people are talking, people keep talking :D

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@JacobB I once found a youtube video from Father Fish while I was searching for tutorials about aquarium biochemical balance, it intrigued me how he claimed to have many tanks, with dirt layer under thick substrate, that have been going on for a few years without any water changes, only topping water loss from evaporation.

@JacobB It reminded me that oh, somebody on Pets once asked a question about this, then I found that was actually you and I discovered that you actually linked to Father Fish in the first place.

@JacobB And it's good that just a short time after I found Father Fish, you started talking on Pets chat. I wanted to talk on Drones chat about this, but I don't know anything about drones, and you know about both drones and pets.

@JacobB Only thing I know about drones is that they freak me out, because I sometimes have a phobia that I could be filmed by a drone through my window :D but I also respect drones because I know that where I live drones are used to hang over chimneys, analyze the smoke, then discover and punish people who burn plastic in their home heating furnaces, and it's great thing.

@JacobB Okay so how is your dirted aquarium now?

@JacobB And another thing that intrigued me, why is Litter Box a super secret chat? :D

@lila My dirted aquarium is doing pretty well :) Some of the plants are even growing too big for the tank

And recently, I took cuttings of some S. Repens in the tank and propagated them. They seem to be growing now.

The only issues are algae and shrimp. The algae can blanket the plants in just a few days, but it's fairly easy to remove. And the problem with shrimp is that I can't get a sustained population of shrimp to start. Every time I put shrimp in, they just live their lives and don't have any babies :(

@lila I don't really know why I called it a super secret chat. Maybe it was just because I wanted to make my profile more interesting :)

@lila Where did I link to Father Fish? I don't actually know who Father Fish is.

@JacobB Okay I understand, thanks for update, yes I've read that it is tricky to breed shrimp babies.

@JacobB Haha okay, then I guess it is a success because it certainly intrigued me :D

@JacobB It is the first link in your question pets.stackexchange.com/q/27891 and leads to tropicalfishcareguides.com/dirted-tank-setup/… and if you scroll down there is an embedded video with an old bearded gentleman in the thumbnail, and this is Father Fish.

@lila Ah... I see now.

And you mentioned drones being scary, It's unfortunate that a few people do illegal stuff (like spying) and it makes it to the news and then lots of people think drones are bad :( I think that's one reason why Drones SE is small.

Completely unrelated to everything, but why is there a feed that pops up in the top left-hand corner of this chat room?

@JacobB Because there are automated feeds or "users" for chatrooms that post feeds, sometimes people turn that off in chat settings or sometimes replace it with these pop-ups in top left corner, for Litter Box it was chat.stackexchange.com/users/-238/ceiling-cat?tab=recent user but they turned it off because it was obnoxious I guess, don't you have this on Droning On too?

@lila No, we have a seperate chat room for HNQ's and feeds.

@JacobB Oh okay, maybe they just set it to be all in one room on Pets, I don't really know because it was already set up that way since I joined there. But on other chat I visit often Awkward Silence they have posted feeds for their main site and meta but a completely separate chat for hot network questions.