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How do you run in to a train? 🤔

Don't mind me, just trying out my new em dash 😎

I bought a torch that has a 365nm UV light, which I believe is UV-A?

When doing a poke around my house to see what I could see with UV, I noticed that my freshwater fish tanks looked "cloudy" / "milky" under UV, yet they are crystal clear under normal light.

I checked tap water and bottled water with the same torch and they do not react and look perfectly clear under both UV and normal light

I also have an auto top off for one of the tanks which is full of ~50L of a mix of RO water and tap water treated with dechlorinator and this also does not react.

I have 3 tanks inside of various volumes (700L, 150L, 20L) and various stocking levels which all show the water as a pale flourescent green colour under UV. The colour is uniform and completely spread out through the water volume, not concentrated on any area or in layers or whatever.

The currently empty 20L tank reacted the least, leading me to believe that it may be some sort of organic material that is causing the UV light to react so much?

Bringing back the dash separator in the title

Team Dash v Team Colon

I got half a dozen dwarf chain loaches to compliment my 6ft community tank... And the stupid things have spent more time in the weir and the sump than they have in the tank.

I literally just fished three of them out of the sump, and the second I put them back in the tank one went directly to the overflow and straight in to the weir again. At some point it'll reappear in the sump.

I don't even think they'll grow big enough to stop being able to squeeze through the weir guard so I guess they live in the sump now.

Here's a teddy bear

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Some Brisbane customers were without power for over 8 hours during record-setting power usage in south-east Queensland.

Queensland Energy Minister Mick de Brenni told Craig & Loretta that the main reason for the power loss was due to overheating – not a lack of supply.

• In short: Optus says close to 2,700 customers tried and failed to call emergency services from their mobile phones during the November 2023 network outage.
• This number is more than 10 times higher than what the telco previously told the Senate.
• What’s next? Optus says it is writing to each customer individually to apologise, and the federal government is conducting a post-incident review.

Consider the bandicoot beaten 😎

Woken by the dog literally chewing a hole in the wall. Why? No idea. Plenty of chew toys, access inside and out... Decides to chew a 6" diameter hole in the gyprock.

Free to good home, turd of a dog.

Some real estate dickhead just rang my mobile (which is not advertised anywhere) saying they were "just in the area" and wanted to do an appraisal on a house we own in .

It's an agency we don't use for any purpose, have never used for any purpose, and have never approached for any reason.

Is there some sort of legal issue with some smarmy sales knob looking up property owner details and cold calling them?

Makes me feel all gross that their grubby mitts are pawing through my deets somewhere in the hope of being able to stick a tongue up my bum and get a taste of some back door cash.