Horsehair Puns

I will be using horsehair braid for the first time this week (on a 1950s style circle skirt) and I am ridiculously nervous about it.

If you have used it, what advice would you give to someone who is new to it? Was it tricky for you or easier than you expected?

I will be hand sewing the top edge, does it work well to machine sew the initial bottom edge, or should I plan to do that by hand as well?

I have an old 3/4 double bass and an old student violin. Hobbyist, play for fun, usually pluck the bass but used to play around with the bow sometimes, but not enough to justify spending 80 or more on a new one. The hair on both bows are pretty far gone although the sticks and other parts seem fine. Can I buy the hair somewhere and replace it myself? Is there certain wording I should use when looking for this because I'm not finding anything.

How do you clean a horsehair brush when it’s full of:

1. Conditioner
2. Road salt
3. Dirt

Thank you!

I know that the various kinds of gat headwear were stylized to show various rank and information about the wearer and that higher-ranked individuals could use different metals or jewelry for accenting the hat. However, Wikipedia says that woven hats used to be made of grasses (and commoners' hats were later).

Why was the process of making the gat out of horsehair developed? Was it because the high-quality hair was expensive or hard to get, thus indicating more status? Did the mesh structure of the hat have some benefit itself, such as offering less wind-resistance while riding? From my limited reading, the gat seems to have been more decorative than functional as a sun hat or similar, so I am curious about the actual fabrication. Thanks!

So. I've Googled beyond Googled. I am at an official loss. In April my partner started fish keeping. A 5 gallon tank, healthy water parameters for our fish. 7.7pH and >.02 ammonia levels. Around June or so, he added some ghost shrimp. One must have slipped through with a worm in it(we found out a horsehair worm), somehow unnoticed even though we checked them all over. Sad to say the least, but the shrimp have died, and our fish and snails seem to be fine. We thought we had taken care of the issue by removing the affected shrimp. Now, there seems to be some.. new life everywhere.

We tried the General API Cure. It looked like it was helping a little bit then these.. red orb things appeared. We took one out, unsure if it was red algae somehow. I said it reminded me of an egg. Something about it looked like if you took a spider egg and soaked it with maybe a tinge of pink/red coloring. My partner put the powder of general cure RIGHT on it and... God it was horrific. Hundreds of worms burst out. We thought this was a sign the cure would work too. We tried to keep with treatment, remove any globdules, and kept our fingers crossed with normal maintenance + medicine maintenance it would save the tank.

Dear god... They're everywhere. We don't know what to do anymore. They're prolific and even getting a new tank with new everything doesn't seem to have helped. Other than killing our entire tank we have no idea what the absolute hell we could do anymore.

If anyone can help, provide information, anything... I'd be so grateful. Honestly this is breaking my heart to see the tank infested and my partner just feeling more and more defeated by the day. We are at a total loss.

tl;dr: fish tank has horsehair worms that are prolific and am in search of any info as to how to get rid of them entirely (general API Cure already used) because google is dust with this subject.

Edit: some are asking for photos, I've already given these same photos, but for anyone else who thinks I might be wrong or even have a better clue or anything, here is 1 worm. They like to like... spin their bodies while swimming.

https://imgur.com/GAEtpug.jpg

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Okay guys. Sorry if the flair isn't right. This is my original post that a few people were helpful and seemingly interested in: https://www.reddit.com/r/Aquariums/comments/r4nwla/hard_to_google_issue_horsehair_worm_aka_gordian/

I decided to update because this doesn't seem like an issue a lot of people know how to deal with. There is very little all over the internet. Please take everything of what I say with a grain of salt, maybe my experience is unique, maybe it is as run of the mill as can be, and maybe my info is even potentially wrong, but for the sake of future aquarists out there this is my info.

So. What we ended up doing as a solution was catch every fish we had and place them in quarantine for at least a day before putting them in a fresh tank. We wanted to make sure there were no worms and we wanted to make sure that a worm didn't pass through digestion either (our minnows have been snapping at them here and there). We THOROUGHLY checked their water. We only used water from the new tank that went through treatment and cycle, it was risky because we're stressing their systems out by not acclimating first, but... their water was so infested you can't take a scoop of it.

We were meticulous. NOTHING from the old tank is allowed near the new one. Our fish seemed good. We put them back. Our betta and minnows seemed good. Betta got a bit aggressive in the new tank and killed a minnow, but other than that, everyone made it... Even 1 worm somehow. We scooped that bitch so fast. We spent a long time just staring at the water, looking for any worms that somehow managed to get in.

We weren't going to add the snails or the shrimp. Our nerites and our amanos. But the way the water looked... it broke our hearts. We did the same isolation. Making doubly sure with the water that everything was okay.

1 more worm. Removed him again. Checked again for hours. And nothing. We waited a week and there were only the inhabitants we wanted. We added some new friends (Cory's, tetras, blue velvets, a mystery snail) because the new tank was a huge upgrade for everyone.

Its going well now. But our old tank has yet to be dealt with. Why? We weren't sure how to get rid of everything. These are parasites, we can't just flush them right? So we were going to find a "treatment" for the tank. We asked somebody at a the petstore.

The response? "Oh yeah horsehair worms are basically like fleas for tanks. If one gets in and lives you need to bomb the whole tank and there is

I need help. I posted my tale of horror to the Aquariums subreddit and I was reccomended to check out the shrimp specific places for added help.

My partner and I think we have horsehair worms. We are having some doubts since our other post but hey that's why we are here for help.

Why we believe we have horsehair worms, and this will be a lot more in depth than on aquariums: in April we started keeping fish, around June we got ghost shrimp, one looked a little odd. We couldn't put our finger on what. A few days go by and it is obvious he has a parasite in him. We remove him, isolate him, see if there is any saving him by keeping it dark 24/7 and minimal amounts of food. Our thinking that if it is a parasite it will leave if it thinks the host is dying or too weak. The worm left. The shrimp was alive still to our happy surprise. We killed the worm and got rid of it, put the shrimp back. Everyone looked happy!

Next day the shrimp was dead. We were sad but figured he was weak and we were happy he got to be in his home before he passed. Then a week passes and more shrimp start to die. We don't understand. Everyone else looked fine. Our fish are fine, so are the snails. Our amano lived and so did our cherry, but the ghosts just keep dying. We tried to get some more, they died shortly after entering the tank(acclimated first). We were at a loss. Then we saw something in the water. Freely swimming around. A worm. We got to research and there is not a ton on this god forsaken subject that I personally was able to find. We tried the General API Cure. It seemed like our tank became lively, almost making us feel like the worms were creeping out our fish too because they were exploring their aquarium again! It had been a minute and we didn't understand why.

After the treatment, these reddish/pinkish globs showed up. My partner thought "red algae" and I just looked at it and was creeped out. I told him it looked like someone soaked a spider's egg in some light pink coloring. He decided to put the Cure powder directly on top of one we had taken out and put in a bowl to look at... it exploded. So many disgusting worms, hundreds, just burst out of it.

We removed as many as we could find and see. We hoped getting out eggs sacs, doing the cure, and the maintenance would help, I mean shit I think I forgot to mention on my other post but our minnows (yellow white clouds) eat the worms sometimes too so we thought, there would be enough.

We just got a new tank. We want

I'm planning on making a cloak for a costume out of fleece and flannel (lining). Something similar to this but longer and more open in the front. The black dress is what I would wear under it, along with a long petite coat to show underneath and make the skirt fuller.

I wanted to put horse hair in the bottom of the cloak to have it stick out a bit and give it more shape, but I haven't found any references about doing this on 1) not a skirt and 2) fleece fabric.

Is it possible? what things should I look out for if I attempt this? and what length of horse hair should I use to get my desired outcome?

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i feel like it’s comparable to backpack and deathlessness in the way they are all songs that get better and better with each listen but start off a bit weak

This is probably one of those bagpipe topics that has several answers (like oiling and hemp type, etc) , but how do you care for your horsehair sporran?

Some people use a stocking to store them, some people use beard oil to prevent tangles/bad hair days, etc…