Pets are so lovely

[ub3rman123]

 

 

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The guppies! Oh god so many guppies! Not sure if you can tell, though. Baby guppies refuse to hold still. The sole neon tetra is at the bottom. It seems to think it's a red platy. Nobody bothered to tell it otherwise.

 

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The second best picture I could get of the new goldfish. It's healthy and happy, glad to say. Seems to think it's a red platy.

 

http://i1023.photobucket.com/albums/af356/ub3rman123/P1010022.jpg?t=1285286841

Another shot of the goldfish and my pair of skirt tetras. You can sort of see the last member of a long series of generations of platies in the background (Inbreeding from 3 parent fish finally got them).

 

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Just to show you how many of these dang guppies there are. At least 20 guppies are in the 10 gallon tank now.

 

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Overview of the 10-gallon tank. You can see most of the fish in it. It's blurry, though.

 

 

 

[ub3rman123]

 

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A picture of the pond. It's inhabited by a number of goldfish and their babies, about 7 small fantails, 3 large old fantails, and about 15 koi. Large pond.

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This is the oldest fish in the pond, Catnip at 5 years. First fish I ever got, actually. He just mopes around under that rock most of the day, and swims around outside at night. Also: Never stick your finger into a black moor's mouth while it's sleeping. It has reflexes for food. Sorry for the blurry picture, Catnip wouldn't cooperate and come out of the depths.

 

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Apicture of the waterfall on the pond. You can sort of see Catnip's outline over to the side, too. Although one of the koi was swimming over him at the moment.

 

 

Sorry for the triple posting, there's a limit to how many images I can post per post.

[Pushkatu]

 

Beautiful little dogs. They are all adorable and I'd kiss and hug every single one of them. I'm sorry to hear about the black one, it must have been hard for you. I also had a pekingese some years ago that was hit by a car and the pain was incredible, even worse for me becouse I was the one who found her on the side of the road. I won't bother you with such a sad story, but I still miss her, becouse she was my very first dog.

 

Also ubber, thanks for the pictures, I will take a look at them tomorrow. I don't dare to open the spoiler tags on this computer, it might block it and I can't have that happen. I'm anxious to look at them, but until I'm home there's nothing I can do.;D

 

 

Cheers,

Pushkatu!

[ub3rman123]

Apparently one of the funniest pranks to play on a fish is to put a glass jar in the tank with a small opening their size. Fish are kind of stupid, so they just swim into it and can't find their way out. That goldfish holds the record at 10 minutes sitting in it before finding the exit. The fastest to escape are always the plecostomi. Probably because they actually follow around the walls.

[Vindekarr]

No such fun with spiders.

 

Mine are all burrowing species, my idiot friend put a glass in the tank once to see how smart/stupid they were, but the inhabitant, a big pedigree Mexican Flame Knee named Ultralisk who I was looking after for my girlfriend's cousin. (they're a rare, beautiful, gentle breed, midnight black with hellfire red highlights. Great as pets, but very expensive since they're only a recently discovered species)

 

This wasnt a clever test, spiders like warmth since they're cold blooded, especialy in the morning as this was. The glass was fairly warm from being held and previosuly resting on the stove top. Ultralisk crawled into the cup and went back to taking a sunday morning sleep-in. It took me a good five minutes to shoo her out and remove the glass.

 

You have to be gentle with arachnids of any type. If you get a cut, your blood has an automated clotting agent tha seals the wound and begins to repair it. Spiders lack traditional blood or a traditional cardiovascular system, but they also will continue to bleed even from the most minor wound due to a lack of that clotting agent, so if their carapace gets cracked no matter how slightly, they can die. And spider first aid, while very possible(I saved a wounded wild wolf spider once, but she bit my glove twice) can be risky, so you've got to be very careful, and simply avoid having to do it at all.

 

For this reason, when they go somewhere they shouldnt, you cant just scoop them up and carry them back home, I usualy lay some food to lure them onto a plate so as not to take chances-it's just a dicey task I like to avoid when possible. And it didnt even have merit as a prank, Ultralisk was just too sleepy-and too used to solid, round walled tunnels with ambient heating.

 

You might get one of the more skittish species-maybe a Pinktoe or a Jumping Spider to skitter around in one, but they're just a bit disinterested.

 

My assassin bugs and ants are completely diferent. The A-Bugs have this hilarious air of hyperactivity. Especialy at feeding time. They tipicaly rush around the tank at breakneck speed looking for a meal, when they find a column of ants, they sneak up with exagerated caution, take careful aim with those wicked looking cranial barbs, then stab an ant like a kebab.

 

Sometimes they'll then careen and skid about trying to pry the ant off the bone skewer so they can eat it. It's genuinely funny-they're such goofy things-legs way to long for their body, awkward and unwieldy "bone" spear mounted on the cranium, huge killing power, but really a bit badly thought out. Not only that, but while they do use tactics and planning to kill the ants, they're a bit stuffed when it comes to eating them. That spear is a deadly weapon, as it punches right through ant armour, but it's like a tank turret on ant scale, and tricky to swing around.

[Pushkatu]

Pictures with my new fish tank and with old one tha has suffered some modifications to.

 

http://s280.photobucket.com/albums/kk185/pushkatu/Acvariu%20neoni/

 

To many pictures to post'em all, but you can see the hole album if you click on the link above.

[Salamander8]

He's bigger now as he's 14 months old instead of 3 months shown here, but here's Karl my new cat as a kitten when I got him last November.

 

http://i870.photobucket.com/albums/ab268/Salamander8888/PICT0004.jpg

 

His favorite hobby is turning basement lights on and off by playing with the lanyards. :tongue:

[Pushkatu]

Adorable creature! :wub:

[Illiad86]

Oh goodness, he's so cute! :D

 

Found this one of Mr. Romeo hehe...Christmas kitteh :D

 

http://i683.photobucket.com/albums/vv200/Illiana86/DSCF0568.jpg

 

gonna get a pic of him next to our pumpkin when we get one :D He is a Halloween kitty after all ;) hehe

[ub3rman123]

I wish my tiger barbs would be breeding like the guppies. There's only 7 of them to fill up a 30 gallon tank and I'm too cheap to buy more.