A few random questions...

[dashnu]

1: I have noticed some of my garters sticking their head up and moving their head from left to right back and forth back and forth. Is this a defence thing or what?

2: How long can you leave a F/T pinky/fuzzy out in the cage before bad things happen to it?

3: What about cut up thawed fish?

Thanks.

[Zephyr]

1. I see my garters doing this when they've been placed in a new environment, usually with a lot of tongue flicking. It might help them gather scent info quicker.
2. 4 hours. I forgot I left a fuzzy in with my garters yesterday... Not a pretty site. But if you have a colony of hungry orange head roaches it isn't a problem.
3. Until it dries up or starts to smell.

[dashnu]

1. I see my garters doing this when they've been placed in a new environment, usually with a lot of tongue flicking. It might help them gather scent info quicker.

Good thought!


2. 4 hours. I forgot I left a fuzzy in with my garters yesterday... Not a pretty site. But if you have a colony of hungry orange head roaches it isn't a problem.

I just looked at you roach thread... dude your CRAZY.. I would rather die then touch one of those things :eek:


3. Until it dries up or starts to smell.
Yea fish does tend to dry up pretty quick.

[Zephyr]

Heh, it's like a living garbage disposal if you ask me. I swear if the mouse were alive they would've attacked it and eaten it.

[infernalis]

If WW3 broke out, and the whole planet were blanketed in radioactive dust, Scientists have speculated that roaches would live through it.

http://www.blankparkzoo.com/documents/Hissing_Cockroach_hand.jpg

[dashnu]

:eek:I saw a show on that.. Some goverment agency was testing radioactive crap on roaches and they got out, now a town has radioactive roaches running all around :eek:

[Zephyr]

Speculated. Although the whole "Radioactive resistance" isn't entirely true; The tolerance of most roaches to radiation is only a little more than ours. Their secret to survival would be that in their adult stage their cells don't divide as fast, which would only make them grow faster. But they are considerably weak when it comes to atomic resistance.
Now fruit flies, they're a little less than 20x as resistant to radiation than roaches.
All hail Drosophila! XD

[crzy_kevo]

i watched them test this on mythbusters i think it was the garden beatle or something that resisted 100,000 rad (100,000 times more radiation than it would take to kill a human)

[Zephyr]

I believe it takes 5,000 whatever radiation units to kill a human, while it takes around 6,000-6,500 to kill a roach. Of course, it also depends on what kind of roach you're killing...

[ssssnakeluvr]

we put an american roach in a microwave years ago in the army.....turned it on for a minute....opened the door and let the roach run off! we let him have the break room to himself the rest of the night! :eek:

[Lori P]

Freezing seems to work. :-)

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

The head bobbing thing is not a sensory thing... its actually something that many colubrids do, especially ones that are often found in tall grasses or in plants, shrups and trees.

They bob their heads back and forth in that manner the same way that many mantids do when they walk, they do it in an effort to mimic the grasses and branches in nature swaying in the breeze. They will do it, both mantids and snakes, regardless of whether there is a breeze or not, especially, as Kyle said, when you put them somewhere new that they are unfamiliar with, it's a security thing I guess!

[Snake lover 3-25]

oo that makes sense!!!! too funny!!!! i never would have thaught of that!!!

[infernalis]

we put an american roach in a microwave years ago in the army.....turned it on for a minute....opened the door and let the roach run off! we let him have the break room to himself the rest of the night! :eek:

Since he grew 20 feet wide of course, right?:rolleyes:

[ssssnakeluvr]

Since he grew 20 feet wide of course, right?:rolleyes:
he was at about 5 feet when we left there....:eek::rolleyes::D and growing!!!!