Uh oh, no frogs

Tonight I did some work, not too much, but good enough. 

First I should probably explain the title. I was going to order my tree frogs, and the breeder had blue-eyed morphs... but as tadpoles. Guess I have to wait until they're out of the water. I decided that maybe I'll get a new pacman frog. (Maybe I'm weird, but it helps me so much to replace a pet quickly. It's not that I find them expendable, it's just my way of distracting myself from the loss of a buddy.) I checked Josh's Frogs because I got so many recommendations, but they are all sold out of ornatas. I really don't want another cranwelli pacman, not after my last two died. I guess I just have to wait on frogs, and that frog-shaped hole in my heart will remain empty until then.

Anyway, tonight I started out trying to lure Stumpie out of her hide. She still doesn't feel safe in her new environment, but she'll adapt. I offered a mealworm outside of her hide and successfully lured her out. She stayed outside her hide, not moving, but turning her head to look around. After that she slunk back into her hide, into the shadows. I noticed that some of my plants were looking wilty, so I made sure to water them all. 

The fishing line I bought was too thick to fit through the mesh top of my tree frog enclosure. I sat there pissed off for a bit, but then I realized that the center support bar is under the mesh! That meant I could hang things from it. I'm horrible at tying knots, but the cardboard backing of the fishing wire bubble pack explained how to make a certain knot. I have no idea whether I did it right or not, but it doesn't seem to be getting loose. I hung the two vines and played around with their bendiness. I think I positioned them pretty well. 

If you look at the photo, the big vine goes from the top to the bottom. The small vine goes from the wood tree to the jungle tree. I think this will give my future frogs access to more of the tank. I had also set up the mushroom ledge and redid the velcro dots. I put three dots rather than just two, so we'll see how that works out. I also had to switch fixtures for my new grow light, I removed Stumpie's heat bulb and put it in the large fixture I got from the giveaway gift-cards. It said "for incandescent lights" on the packaging, so I wasn't feeling good about putting the grow light into that.

After that I set up the polkadot plant kit. (aka hypoestes phyllostachya) Basically just a little metal "basin," a puck of compressed dirt, and seeds. I put it in the big green feeding bowl so it can get some exposure to the grow light. This is mostly for me, not for the tanks, though I could spare a plant or two. It's supposed to grow white, pink, and red polkadot plants. I just like how they look.

I found myself super hungry after all of that. Tonight's snack was cheddar Chex mix. I forgot that it even existed but was reminded when ordering my nuts.com box. (Sadly they only had the original mix.) 

I finished off the night with some needle felting. I tried the other needles I had, and they were even duller than the one I was complaining about. It was no surprise that it took forever to make 6 fingers. Now the hands are too big. Maybe I'll just make that the style, big hands, big feet, big noggin. Yeah, that can work.

Time to have breakfast!