Other pets (pics and discussions)

[aquamentus_11]

that's calcium powder btw not urate

[guidofatherof5]

Thanks for trying. Good looking animal.

[Natrix]

Oh my mistake. I really like Clown Loaches as well, but I don't have a big enough aquarium. I have 3 Zebra Loaches as of right now, and I used to have a couple others. I'm not sure of what the common name was but I think they were Angelicus Botia or something like that. Overall Loaches are some of my favorite fish. They are very entertaining. When I had the Angelicus I could stick my hand into the bottom of the tank and they would eat out of my hand

Botia angelicus = Pakistan Loach Which is the first loach that is pictured. Botia striata = Zebra loach 3rd, Chromobotia macracanthus = Clown Loach 4th.

[Eight]

here steve. tried to get a few this morning, but he really dislikes being out in the daytime: he tried to hide under my hand.... the flash made it look a little more green in this one, but you can really see the bright yellow outlining the back of his pupil. the iris is a dark slate blue actually.


here's another


dorsal patterning is nice. there are a few different variations on the pattern, but mine happens to have that white stripe down the spine.



cool little guys and very easy to care for.

Is that a gecko of some type? Can I take a stab in the dark and say an African fat tail?

[Eight]

A couple of my Tarantula.

First a Pamphobeteus nigricolor (blue bloom birdeater). This is a sub adult female of around 7 inches in legspan. They originate from south america.



And these are Pterinochilus murinus (usambara baboon) that I mated last year. Great little guys with lots of character. Have been described as orange balls of anger.

[EasternGirl]

My brother kept a pueblan that was hyper and nervous, but beautiful. She partially tamed to the point that she wouldn't bite or musk us (still a risk with other people), but it was like night and day comparing her to his lazy sand boa or my radix. Among the milk snakes, I think pueblans are kind of notorious for being spastic.

That sounds a lot like my female eastern, Cee Cee. She has calmed to the point in which she trusts me...but she will musk the crap out of anyone else who tries to touch her...and possibly bite them as well. Love the pic of your turtle's butt Mike (he is such a cute little "thing" ), and the gecko, Nate...the fish and the tarantula...even though I really don't like spiders very much...but for some reason, I don't mind tarantulas.

[Eight]

I actually had a fear of spiders when I got my first Tarantula. I think they aren't so bad if they are bigger, but I'm pretty good with all spiders now.

[EasternGirl]

Eeeelllchhhh....I can't stand spiders. I am afraid of them and they make my skin crawl. I have an unfinished basement and it's like some kind of scene from Arachnophobia down there. My washer and dryer are down there so I have to go down there to do the laundry. I found a huge dead wolf spider down there the other day. If that thing had been alive and gotten near me, paramedics may have been needed. The good thing is that I occasionally find garters in my basement. I really wish garters ate spiders.

[Eight]

Orb weavers freak me out still. I go nuts if I walk through one of their webs, and throw a complete fit if it ends up on me. I have no idea what it is about them, but they really bother me. Still wouldn't kill one though. I can't kill much without feeling guilty about it. Unless its to feed another animal of course.

[EasternGirl]

Ha ha. We have those all over outside of my house in the summer. I have a bunch of pine trees surrounding me and it seems to attract them. We usually have at least three large webs outside the main entrances to my house at any given time in the summer. Funny...my son and I are both afraid of spiders, yet we always end up naming the orb weavers and taking a bunch of pics of them. They kind of fascinate me. Not that I would want one crawling on me...and I certainly watch closely that I don't go anywhere near the webs. I will try to get a pic of one this summer...they get pretty huge...we had one last summer the size of a silver dollar!