Isopods are here!

My dwarf white isopods arrived! I'm really happy, now I'll (hopefully) have a population of springtails and isopods in my tank. I really need them if this bioactive tank is going to work.

Bioactive enclosures are pretty damn cool. The intention is this: a contained environment that is self-sufficient. We all learned about the food cycle back in school. Well, a bioactive setup depends on that.

(I'm such a fucking nerd that I made a diagram.)

Basically the point is to keep the frog alive. The frog needs food, shade, and a clean environment to live.

The TL;DR is this: Frog poops. Plants absorb nutrients from the poop, isopods and springtails eat the poop. They also die, which also helps fuel the plants. The plants shed dead leaves and become food for the bugs. They basically both fuel each other. Plants provide shade for the frog, and the bugs are eaten by the frog. That's how you achieve a self-sufficient enclosure.

There's only two things that need to be continually introduced: water and feeder bugs.

You can't make it rain, so yes, water must be added. Water keeps the ground moist, making a nice humid environment for the cleaner bugs. Plants need water to grow, frog needs water to live. As for the feeder bugs, frogs can't just eat isopods all their life. Depending on the size of the isopods, the frog might just consider it to be too small to even bother with. The frogs also need calcium supplementation.

SO ANYWAY.

Good to finally have those isopods. A good portion arrived dead though because USPS manhandled the hell out of that poor box.

So I forgot to photograph what I'm currently working on in Ceramics, but I did photograph what I did last class. 10 pinch pots, all ruggedly textured by my favorite tool. (I should photograph that too.) And guess what? One of the students from last semester came in to work with some clay. Turns out that she is demisexual! I have never met a fellow asexual out in the wild! So damn incredible.

So they uploaded out of order, and I'm too lazy to figure out why. But yeah. Got my lamp hood today! (On sale for 61% off, somehow caught a crazy sale) I put a ceramic heat emitter in it because my daylight heat bulb wasn't giving off enough heat at all. So from left to right, CHE, Grow Light, Daylight Bulb, and UVB. I feel like I really don't have enough shade though. Come on plants, grow quickly!

Later I felt... odd. It's my hormones being crazy again because it's that time of the month, but damn is it annoying. I had this feeling of it being summer and the memory of being depressed. I can't explain it. I wish I knew how to put it into words. 

I forgot to finish this, whoops. And I can't remember what happened that night either.