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R.T.B.S

dekker — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 13:54:09 -0400

this is my r.t.b.s.

my bala

dekker — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 13:50:58 -0400

a pic of my bala

New aquisition

J'adore le paissons — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:04:01 -0400

Hey guys,
Well I was visiting a friend of mine this weekend and ended up coming home with two new pets, I now have 2 chinese fire belly (cfb) newts! I will post pictures of them asap but I just thought I would let you all know XD I am delighted with the little guys!

Which age is correct age for dating?

PrettyOrc — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 01:36:14 -0400

Can anybody tell what the correct age for dating is? Please specify both for boys and girls the correct age. I think we have to consider the physical and mental capabilities for dating.
Also kindly mention the positives and negatives in dating.

What kind of full-time job do you do?

mycoolgirl — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 23:06:13 -0400

Hi
I'm curious! What kind of full time jobs do you do? We chat to each other in the forum, but we don't know much about our daytime lives. I set appointments by phone. What do you do?

my rio 125 reef

stumpy316 — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:20:10 -0400

this is my second marine tank it is bout 1 year old. tank is 125ltrs i have a external filter which is just used for rowa phos and carbon there is bout 14 kg of live rock and bout 4 kg of fine coral sand lighting i have 3 aquarays 2 reefwhite and 1 marine white and 3 blue LEDs for night light skimmer is a v2 200 compact and i have a korilia 2 and korilia 1 for flow.
coral livestock r star poylps mushrooms zoas kenya tree leathers torch frogsprawn some other lps coco worm and feather dusters

invert livestock
5 red legged hermit crabs
4 green legged hermit crabs
2 blue legged hermit crabs
8 turbo snails
6 Nassarius snails
1 pom pom crab
1 cleaner shrimp
1 red starfish

fish livestock
2 clowns (breeding pair)
2 peacock wrasse
1 royal gramma
1 yellow headed jawfish
1 green banded goby
1 yellow tang
hopefully will be upgrading this year

thats my tank thanks for looking

hello all

stumpy316 — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:50:38 -0400

hey i'm new to the site and just wanted to say hello. my name is phil. i have a marine tank and i have kept coldwater fish in the past. i also have a yemen chameleon

ELUSIVE CATFISH

scorpio61 — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:31:05 -0400

Some more photos of my catfish. Some of them are not the best as some of the fish just will not follow instructions and stay still for the photo. Would love to see photos from other members tanks.
ps. Just started my new job recently, working in Grosvenor Tropicals. Now I get to play with fish for a living as well as a hobby (or obsession as the missus calls it ).In a few weeks our L046 Zebras will be out of quarentine and I need to explain to the wife why I do actually NEED these fish. All suggestions greatly appreciated.

Downtime

J'adore le paissons — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 11:32:57 -0400

Today (July 7, 2010), between 20:00 GMT and 23:59 GMT, we should be expecting a 2-hour downtime because the data center is going to upgrade power circuits in some of the racks.

Summary:
Date: July 7, 2010
Time: between 20:00 GMT and 23:59 GMT
Duration: 2 hours
Reason: power circuit upgrades (maintenance)

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Thanks.

Hello

froggy — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:28:06 -0400

I'm froggy. The name is unrelated to the hobby.
I have 2 common newts, a male and female which I hope to breed, 5 CFB's and an albino ACF. (all in seperate tanks. )
I'm new to breeding and stuff. :/
Nice to meet you all.

The rising Sun – 2ft tank by blue33

penk — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 05:33:41 -0400

http://www.blueaquarium.org/2008/10/the-...by-blue33/

I found this tutorial while looking for fishtank images. It looks great!

Oscar breeding?

starfang — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:27:22 -0400

Can some one tell me more about this?
I have two oscars. how can you tell if they are a male or a female? Mine seem to "flirt" the way I have seen other fish, but how can I know for sure? What types of things and conditions would they need to breed?
My fish are already about 4 inches long and do a lot of rubbing together.

My Pelvicachromis pulcher fry

nlribeiro — Tue, 11 May 2010 18:14:49 -0400

Here are two videos from my Kribs recent spawn:
Birth date: 4-16-2010
Free swiming: 4-19-2010
Video 1 (edited original videos recorded from 20 to 22 of April) 2 to 4 days old fry and parents

Video 2 (edited
original videos recorded from 4 to 6 of Mayl) 18 to 20 days old fry and parents

New arrivals - Otocinclus Cocama

James0816 — Fri, 07 May 2010 08:29:07 -0400

Here are my newest additions. Been searching for months for these little guys and finally bit the bullet on shipping to get them here. Hoping all turns out well.

Cats come out to play

scorpio61 — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:45:06 -0400

Hi everybody, havent been on in months . Computer screwed up and just never got round to getting it fixed. Have it back temporarily but it gets sent off tomorrow to be fixed properly so I've got a few minutes use before the wife gets her turn. I promised that I would post some photos of some of my fish so here they are. Hope you like.

Philippines dragon-sized lizard is a new species

J'adore le paissons — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 04:15:03 -0400

yahoo.com Wrote:A dragon-sized, fruit-eating lizard that lives in the trees on the northern Philippines island of Luzon has been confirmed as a new species, scientists reported on Tuesday.
Hunted for its tasty flesh, the brightly coloured forest monitor lizard can grow to more than six feet (2 metres) in length but weighs only about 22 pounds (10 kg), said Rafe Brown of the University of Kansas, whose team confirmed the find.

"It lives up in trees, so it can't get as massive as the Komodo dragon, a huge thing that eats large amounts of fresh meat," Brown said by telephone. "This thing is a fruit-eater and it's only the third fruit-eating lizard in the world."

Discovering such a large vertebrate species is extremely rare, Brown said. The lizard, a new species of the genus Varanus, is skittish and able to hide from humans, its primary predators, which could explain why it has gone undetected by scientists for so long.

Biologists first saw photographs of the big, skinny lizard in 2001, when those surveying the area passed hunters carrying the lizards' colourful carcasses, but the species at that point had never been given a scientific identification.

In the next few years, Brown said, ethnobiologists kept hearing stories "about these two kinds of lizard that everyone liked to eat because their flesh tasted better than the ones that lived on the ground; this thing was described as bigger and more brightly coloured."

The two kinds of lizard described by the local people were two names for the same animal, Brown said.

CLAW SCRATCHES ON TREES

In 2009, graduate students at the end of a two-month expedition kept seeing signs of the big lizard. There were claw-scratches on trees and clumps of pandanus trees, whose fruit the lizard prefers.

The clumps indicated that the lizards had eaten pandanus fruit and then excreted the seeds in clusters.

"It was literally in the last couple days of the expedition, we were running out of money and food and this was the payoff: they finally got this gigantic animal," Brown said.

Hunters who had heard of the team's interest brought a barely-alive adult male lizard to their camp. The team euthanized the animal and did genetic tests that confirmed it as a unique species, Brown said.

DNA analysis showed there was a deep genetic divergence between the new lizard and its closest relative, Gray's monitor lizard, which is also a fruit-eater but lives on the southern end of Luzon, rather than the northern end where the forest monitor lizard lives.

"They are extremely secretive," Brown said of the new species. "I think that centuries of humans hunting them have made the existing populations ... very skittish and wary and we never see them. They see and hear us before we have a chance to see them, they scamper up trees before we have a chance to come around."

These findings were published in the Royal Society Journal Biology Letters, with additional work by scientists in the Philippines and the Netherlands.

SOURCE: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20100406/tsc...1ccfa.html

Alien' fish found in cave lake

J'adore le paissons — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:27:53 -0400

ananova.com/ Wrote:Villagers in China have caught some alien-looking fish from a lake in a mountain cave 1,000m below the ground.

Experts have been unable to identify the fish caught in the cave, near Daluo village, Bama County in southern China's Guangxi province.

The waters of the lake are said to promote longevity in the region which has more than its share of centenarians.

The fish have a duck bill-shaped flat mouth and red lips, long, slim 'moustaches', and eyes close to their mouth.

The head of the village, Li Zuneng, said locals had previously heard the oldest members of the village speaking about the fish.

However, as none of the younger generation had ever seen them before, he says, many considered them to be a "fairy tale".

They were proven wrong when a number of the fish were caught deep in the cave, known as Fu Yuan Dong, which means 'Cave of Fortune'.

Speciments were sent to the Bama County and Guangxi provincial aquatics institutes for inspection, but none of the experts there knew what species they were.

In the remote and mountainous area, a census in 2000 recorded 74 centenarians out of the total population of 238,000.

That works out at more than 30 per 100,000 people - well above the international standard of 25 for "hometowns of longevity", recognised by the International Natural Medicine Society.

SOURCE: http://www.ananova.com/News/story/sm_3672315.html

Scientists to explore sex lives of gobies

J'adore le paissons — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:26:05 -0400

windsorstar.com Wrote:University of Windsor researchers are hoping to exploit an invasive species' romantic side -- and save the Great Lakes sport fishery in the process.

The researchers have snagged a $446,690 grant for a three-year study aimed at tricking female round gobies into thinking males of the species are nearby.

Instead of finding a stud goby, the female round gobies would get caught in traps, researchers hope.

The traps will not kill off the billions of gobies in the Great Lakes, but could protect select spawning areas of sport fish such as lake trout and bass or endangered fish such as lake sturgeon.

Research has shown 100 gobies per square metre in some fish spawning areas and video footage has captured gobies eating eggs in a feeding frenzy when a male bass leaves his nest, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources research scientist Tim Johnson said Monday.

"The second that male is gone the gobies are in with their mouths open. Gobble. Gobble. Gobble," he said.

Trapping the females not only takes 1,000 or more of her eggs out of play, it means the eggs of sport fish have a chance to develop, he said.

The research could help save the $5 billion recreational fishing industry on the Great Lakes.

"What we want to do is protect breeding areas for the sports fisheries," University of Windsor biology professor Barbara Zielinski said Monday.

Zielinski will lead a group of researchers that includes Johnson from the MNR and University of Windsor professors Lynda Corkum, Dennis Higgs and Stephen Loeb in the three-year study. The funding came from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council.

Zielinski said male gobies make a thumping sound that can be played in speakers in the underwater trap.

She's working with Loeb, who is from the department of chemistry and biochemistry, on the smell from the male goby's urine.

The researchers are trying to isolate what chemicals are in the smell that attracts the females, a feat she compared to breaking down the smell of a pizza with many ingredients. She can test how the females respond to a chemical by putting a tiny electrode in the nose of the goby to see if neurons are activated and there is a charge.

Chemical compounds called pheromones have been used to control insects and sea lamprey, she said.

The combination of pheromones and sounds could be field tested in three years, she said.

Johnson said there are an estimated 10 billion gobies in the western Lake Erie basin between the Detroit River and Point Pelee and south to Michigan. Round gobies were first reported in 1990 in the St. Clair River by anglers and have spread to the Great Lakes. The aggressive bottom dwellers spawn more often than other fish and have moved into rivers in Southwestern Ontario.

The traps could also be used to slow the spread inland if scientists knew there was a river with a small amount of gobies, Johnson said.

Bruce Thompson, a Windsor bass fisherman, said he hopes the traps work.

Gobies can be a pain when he's fishing, he said.

"When we go out for perch you probably get half a dozen gobies per perch you catch."
© Copyright © The Windsor Star

SOURCE: http://www.windsorstar.com/technology/Sc...story.html

Another Reptile Show ^^

Painted4L — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:11:18 -0400

I tried taking pictures of different things this time, things that the other reptile show i went too didnt have.

We just talked about baby red eared sliders and not getting them. This guy was selling them like crazy. It was petexpo actually so alot of people who weren't there for reptiles came to this and ended up buying. Everytime i went past it there were people buying. He was selling the lagoons too-.- His care info was feed everyday, have a land area. Thats it -___-

He did say though that if they buy the turtle and they get to big bring them back to him and he will trade them for another baby. I feel bad for these turtles.

This was just for show, Not4sale. They had a sign saying its 1 of only 30 albinos in the world.

This makes me cry. I didnt bring enough money! I wanted this pair of dbt's so badly. The guy knows me well he even dropped the pice for me but i only brought $200 to spend argh! That female is amazing. The small dbts you see next to it were from them.

Sooo i just bought the two nicest ones lol. Im need to change my Name to DBT4Life now ha. As my diamondback collection will soon pass my painted collection. For those that dont know i sold all my adult painted turtles.

Newest Additions

James0816 — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:54:17 -0500

Here's a couple of my newest additions:

First we have Tiger Shrimp. These guys have taken up residence in the Juvenille Oto tank.

Next is a CRS. There are also CBS in with them. They are in a 20high. Didn't get a good pic of a CBS but will add one when I do.