Narcotics should be allowed during physical therapy.
Friendly Giraffe is active, eating, and otherwise appears to be okay. She loves that filter intake tube, though, so the mesh screen is really important.
Between mother's day, my sister's birthday, my dad's birthday, father's day, and coinsurance for the child's MRI (over $500!), a new filter isn't in the cards right now.
My dad's opinion of his birthday gift was not what I had expected. We gave him a print of the topple popple's brain. I thought it was awesome. He said he prefers pictures where she has skin. So I definitely can't skimp on father's day.
Seriously how awesome is that?
Anyway, dads get disproportionate recognition on father's day. Mom got Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee beans. Dad deserves something as good, and I don't think he would consider aquarium equipment he would never see as anything all that great.
I have noticed that the flow is much better where the filter is now. There's no snail poop on the substrate, but the mesh prefilter has to be cleaned every day. Seems like a worthwhile trade-off, though.
), but I have experienced it with a filter I've cleaned, then restarted. Both times I discovered I'd missed some gunk that trapped the impeller.
