It’s finally in. Well, the beginning stages anyway. Jar substrate. Anyone who knows anything about snails knows that they can’t live in a glass box without some sort of substrate to hide in, get moisture from, and burrow under. So now you can apply one type of substrate (so far) to a jar. Eventually there will be different kinds of substrate, and maybe even substrate you can mix together from other types of substrate. Currently the substrate has no effect on the snails or the environment outside of being present and visually represented, but eventually it can impact everything from snail nutrients to jar temperature and what kinds of plants you can grow inside the jar. Here’s how it works.

I’ve been having to power cycle my Gastropoda Digital Ocean droplet every day lately because something was hogging up all the memory. It was a little annoying to diagnose because I know the problem had to do with the recurring events that are run using a cron job, of which there are quite a few. I know ideally PHP isn’t something you would use for a long running server process, but these jobs weren’t long running - they were just frequent.

I’ve been having to power cycle my Gastropoda Digital Ocean droplet every day lately because something was hogging up all the memory. It was a little annoying to diagnose because I know the problem had to do with the recurring events that are run using a cron job, of which there are quite a few. I know ideally PHP isn’t something you would use for a long running server process, but these jobs weren’t long running - they were just frequent.

Update on Rigel and response from DjurAkuten

Update: When I first wrote this post I kept all clinic names anonymous. I am now un-anonymising one of the clinics (DjurAkuten), where this whole chain of events was triggered in the first place and which is now trying to claim that Rigel was already sick/had a flaccid bladder when we brought him in for a routine surgery as a healthy kitten despite their own records stating otherwise.

Update on Rigel and response from DjurAkuten

Update: When I first wrote this post I kept all clinic names anonymous. I am now un-anonymising one of the clinics (DjurAkuten), where this whole chain of events was triggered in the first place and which is now trying to claim that Rigel was already sick/had a flaccid bladder when we brought him in for a routine surgery as a healthy kitten despite their own records stating otherwise.