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That has more to do with hangovers, I was referring to the night of...

Ahh, I think it still applies though.

You drink more beer quicker after liquor, where as if you turn to liquor after beer, you're taking in less liquid. Only so much the belly can handle, and the drunker you are, the less you realise that line (or care about it).

The laddies vs ladies thing is very easy to do here in the los,there also seems to be a growing number of ladies that want to be laddies.

Morphine makes me feel really sick.

I hate it but I haven't noticed and changes in time perception.

Titus, Tremadol and beer....good night irene good night...

This isn't in response to dasboot, but just a general feeling of impending concern

but lets keep it all family friendly guys.

Knowing my thread, this could decay into anything from this point on

I happen to know there are some kids watching this thread, so "WONT SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN"

And in keeping with my liking for mixing multiple topics in the same post, I just spent a very pleasant 45 mins watching (and patting) my silver perch eat duckweed.

I took some video but ran out of arms to do everything (lighting, camera, patting) so tomorrow I'll get someone to help and get some decent footage.

On a slightly less happy not[e] I just went outside to see how much more duckweed had been consumed, and found my Silver perch dead.

BTW around half my duckweed had been consumed.

So his last meal was pretty substantial.

And...

He tuned out to be a she.

So if anyone has a decent population of silver perch in the adelaide region who would like to dump around 250,000 silver perch eggs into their system to see what might happen, let me know. They are sitting in a sieve in running water. I have no idea if they are viable or not, but I'm guessing the worst case scenario is that your silvers get a free feed. There is around 50g of them. and from what I'm read that means 2-300,000 eggs.
They are the most boring caviar you ever tasted. Even less interesting that escargot caviar, and more akin to just normal every day freshwater fishguts, and we know how bad they can taste, dont we kids.

As far as I can tell one of the natural triggers for silver breeding is that they require 30cm of extra depth to their existing water levels and extra flow.

I havnt changed their depth, but .last week put my power head back into the system to see if I could waker...her... up from her winter lazyness.

Extra flow would be another trigger in spring as the snow

s melt from upstream.

But...

I'm pretty sure you need to inject silvers with human growth hormone to get them to reproduce in captivity.

But if anyone wants 250,000 silver eggs dumped into their system just let me know. I'm even willing to creep into your backyards while you are at work and drop them in (with a lure or two)

Creepy offer, but what are you gonna do?

No we don't. LOL I think that you are meant to bathe them in a brine solution or something before you eat them

Althought I've got vague memories of herring eggs and milt being pan fried.

Hi
My immediate response to,’ feelings of impeding concern’ is to deflect with humour.
A trait we share.
I love children. BUT I could not eat a whole one!
I keep thinking of the young girl in the movie. ‘Dances with Wolves’
White but raised by the Indians.
She was called, “Stands with a fist”
I salute her.
When my children were young my wife complained about my language.
To this day,’Sugar’ and ‘Oops a daisy’ are my expletives of choice.
Titus
Ps Dasboot Please Say hello to Irene from me!

My favorite expletives include "drats" as in "Drats! Foiled again!" and "curses." I really enjoy what Wes Anderson did in "Fantastic Mr. Fox" he replaced all expletives with the word cuss. It is quite fun. You get sayings like "what the cuss?" And "I learned that it was wrong to cuss with their heads, it was fun, but it was wrong." The word cuss was even graffitied in a building in the background.

Every now and then I will belt out "pleasant mother pheasant plucker."

!

No pirate specific cussing?

I had to apologise a bit when I Skyped some help to a young person building an automatic fish feeder.

An hour or two on skype = pretty much an hour or two of apologies

Is it normal for silvers to develop eggs given that the don't breed in captivity?

I think trout can die from being egg bound, I wonder if the same is true of silvers.

+1 from me Titus,many a good night when i had my back injury passing out with irene....