Other pets (pics and discussions)

[Stefan-A]

What is it? Falls into the "so uly, it's cute" category!

Echidna.

[kueluck]

Not ugly, just nude. Most things are not attractive when nude, but once the spines come in it'll be a cutie.

[tress29]

Spiny anteater! Wow, they can get up to 30" long and 22#, depending on the species. You'd need a pretty big ant farm to keep one fed!

[Stefan-A]

Spiny anteater! Wow, they can get up to 30" long and 22#, depending on the species. You'd need a pretty big ant farm to keep one fed!

Worst case scenario, you might need a pretty big ant farm with the right ant species.

[ConcinusMan]

Was digging up some old media and found this clip I took when I visited Redspot (Jesse). Cribo or "chicken eater". He described them as "just like a garter snake, only bigger" A week later, 9 baby cribos hatch out in that snake room.

Correction: The man's name is "Nate". A recent episode of "SnakeBytes TV" showed off one of these snakes....

at 4:30

[kueluck]

I was talking with my neighbor yesterday (she has Cope's Gray Tree frogs) how much I miss my toads (7) since they have gone underground and that I need an amphibian fix. Well this morning he must have sensed this, Rufus came up, soaked, shed, ate some roaches, hung out for about 2 hours then went back down. Short visit but it made my day.

Rufus 11-10-12.jpg

[ConcinusMan]

Meet my Rufus (claus) :



Would a good soaking "rain" and cool down bring the toads out? I know that when I lived in Reno, you would almost never see a toad. But in the fall after a good soaking rain, thousands of them would come out near the banks of the Truckee river and start hopping around the streets of downtown Reno!

[guidofatherof5]

Well, ho, ho, ho.

[kueluck]

You can heavy soak the substrate to bring them top side, but it stresses them out when they aren't ready. I can wait the few months.........maybe.

[thamneil]

Thought this was worth sharing. I aquired a group of tailless whip scorpions(Damon diadema), one of which happened to be carrying an eggsack. Here is a picture of the female the day that the scorplings emerged. They held on to her back for about a week.



Last night, the babies moulted and detatched from their mother's back. You can see the clump of moults attatched to mom. The little guys are scattered around the cork bark.