Hey, chef. I didn't know you kept herps.
This is Andy (same screen name), over from cichlidmadness.
This is Andy (same screen name), over from cichlidmadness.
our non fishy friends
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I have a zoo, when I am done I will have an insane year round green space with some top notch zoo quality care for my pets.
good to see ya here too
good to see ya here too
Humm dude you arent supose to put store brougth plants straigth away in a herp tank, much less in cham tank, wich like to lik leafs for water. Why? Because store brough plants unless is stated that they are for use in terrariums, are full of fertilizers and much worse insecticides wich can make your cham very hill or even kill him. Put the tank as it was before, let the plants outside for a few mouths under the elements and only then they are safe. Also remenber yemen chams like to eat leafs so make shure all plants are non toxic
I will make sure to subject the plants to a thorough cleaning and might even do a repot into clay pots and new soil to make sure this does not happen. I meant to respond sooner and say thanks for the warning.
On another note I got a new camera and thought I would get busy trying it out here are some of our other non fishy friends. I started doing a refit of our house to redesign it for maximum exposure of the various pets we have so as to make sure that they have optimum communication with us and make our house so that no pet goes without human contact for a good part of the day. I will take a photo tour of the house when I am done, right now just to messy for a photoshoot.
luigi and guido, moved from my daughters bedroom to be beside my brackish tank in the living room.
this is my sons beardie, his before home and his after home. from a 15g to a 60g that sits right beside our couch. The same 60g that was the coffin for the turtle at the museum tank that I took over maintenance of.
I traded my first beardie and it's 150g for my chameleon and have been looking since to replace it with a younger beardie that my son could grow with and came across this one for $50 all in a heck of a deal.
cheeko comes home
the substrate he was on had mould under the water dish, I cleaned up the old turtle tank and put corn substrate in so his new home looks like this
hebron holding him for the first time, this one loves to be held the first one was like 5 years old and had been left in a bedroom with little contact
some shots of cheeko and the family
I redid the blue tounge skinks environment as well as my gecko's
when we cleaned out my son's fire belly toad tank he did a nice rearrangement of it forgot to take a pic of the full tank but here is one of the toads
We also have a aviary in our house, I took one of the bedrooms and converted it as a free flight space for my birds. So last night we were at petland getting some various fish foods and my son hebron kept coming over to me to tell me about this special bird they were holding, the third time I took note of a tone in his voice and decided that I needed to go see this bird.
It had just come in that morning and was the first time a tiel had been very friendly with being held. I have never seen a tiel with this coloration and one look in my daughter christianna's eyes told me this bird was goin home with us. So now baby angel has been set up in her room on her dresser in my medium parrot cage. It's wings are clipped so not the right time to give it free flight.
Here are the pics of the whole bird adventure
christianna by the tiel pen in the store
christianna as we just got in the car with her bird NOTHING BETTER THAN A LOOK LIKE THIS
baby angel coming out of the box after it's cage has been made ready
a ready made hand trained baby bird sweeeeeeet
whoever the breeder is they must have taken very clear interest in this bird as it totally nuzzles in to give kisses and loves to ride on the shoulder. It has no yellow or red of any kind on it only white grey and dark grey, I have never seen this color mutation and the store said they have never had one like it either.
On another note I got a new camera and thought I would get busy trying it out here are some of our other non fishy friends. I started doing a refit of our house to redesign it for maximum exposure of the various pets we have so as to make sure that they have optimum communication with us and make our house so that no pet goes without human contact for a good part of the day. I will take a photo tour of the house when I am done, right now just to messy for a photoshoot.
luigi and guido, moved from my daughters bedroom to be beside my brackish tank in the living room.
this is my sons beardie, his before home and his after home. from a 15g to a 60g that sits right beside our couch. The same 60g that was the coffin for the turtle at the museum tank that I took over maintenance of.
I traded my first beardie and it's 150g for my chameleon and have been looking since to replace it with a younger beardie that my son could grow with and came across this one for $50 all in a heck of a deal.
cheeko comes home
the substrate he was on had mould under the water dish, I cleaned up the old turtle tank and put corn substrate in so his new home looks like this
hebron holding him for the first time, this one loves to be held the first one was like 5 years old and had been left in a bedroom with little contact
some shots of cheeko and the family
I redid the blue tounge skinks environment as well as my gecko's
when we cleaned out my son's fire belly toad tank he did a nice rearrangement of it forgot to take a pic of the full tank but here is one of the toads
We also have a aviary in our house, I took one of the bedrooms and converted it as a free flight space for my birds. So last night we were at petland getting some various fish foods and my son hebron kept coming over to me to tell me about this special bird they were holding, the third time I took note of a tone in his voice and decided that I needed to go see this bird.
It had just come in that morning and was the first time a tiel had been very friendly with being held. I have never seen a tiel with this coloration and one look in my daughter christianna's eyes told me this bird was goin home with us. So now baby angel has been set up in her room on her dresser in my medium parrot cage. It's wings are clipped so not the right time to give it free flight.
Here are the pics of the whole bird adventure
christianna by the tiel pen in the store
christianna as we just got in the car with her bird NOTHING BETTER THAN A LOOK LIKE THIS
baby angel coming out of the box after it's cage has been made ready
a ready made hand trained baby bird sweeeeeeet
whoever the breeder is they must have taken very clear interest in this bird as it totally nuzzles in to give kisses and loves to ride on the shoulder. It has no yellow or red of any kind on it only white grey and dark grey, I have never seen this color mutation and the store said they have never had one like it either.
Humm... dude first of you have some great pets and kids, love the hairless rats
Second sorry to pick on you again but you just do make ocasional very bad choices regarding material, not trying to be a jerk, just trying to help 
Now on the suject: corn knob , wich you are using on your beardy and skink tank, has to be one of the most dangerous substrates on todays herp industry. It is indigestable, your reps will pick up a bit here and there over a long time and one day you wake up to see your once healty reps dont eat a thing, they get weaker, you dont know what to do, you take them to a vet, the vet fells something abnormaly hard on the vent area, he takes a X-ray to find your reptiles digestive sistem is absolutley filled with korn knobs, surgery wil be needed and in a happy ending you will endup with a few thousand dollars less and live pets, in a bad end they will die
NEVER EVER USE KORN KNOPS (and wallnut shell, worse substrates ever), the only animals for wich they are safe is scorpions and other land invertebrates. A good looking substrate for your beardy would be playsand. For your skinks either paper towels or a natural one I already told you. Change that thing asap and spread the word, trust me, you dont want to see what comes of that
Second sorry to pick on you again but you just do make ocasional very bad choices regarding material, not trying to be a jerk, just trying to help Now on the suject: corn knob , wich you are using on your beardy and skink tank, has to be one of the most dangerous substrates on todays herp industry. It is indigestable, your reps will pick up a bit here and there over a long time and one day you wake up to see your once healty reps dont eat a thing, they get weaker, you dont know what to do, you take them to a vet, the vet fells something abnormaly hard on the vent area, he takes a X-ray to find your reptiles digestive sistem is absolutley filled with korn knobs, surgery wil be needed and in a happy ending you will endup with a few thousand dollars less and live pets, in a bad end they will dieNEVER EVER USE KORN KNOPS (and wallnut shell, worse substrates ever), the only animals for wich they are safe is scorpions and other land invertebrates. A good looking substrate for your beardy would be playsand. For your skinks either paper towels or a natural one I already told you. Change that thing asap and spread the word, trust me, you dont want to see what comes of thatthat is why I have started a thread I have a bag of sand here I will redo the cages as soon as I get home thanks so much will definitely do that asap
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Here are the pics of the whole bird adventure
christianna by the tiel pen in the store
christianna as we just got in the car with her bird NOTHING BETTER THAN A LOOK LIKE THIS
baby angel coming out of the box after it's cage has been made ready
a ready made hand trained baby bird sweeeeeeet
whoever the breeder is they must have taken very clear interest in this bird as it totally nuzzles in to give kisses and loves to ride on the shoulder. It has no yellow or red of any kind on it only white grey and dark grey, I have never seen this color mutation and the store said they have never had one like it either.[/quote]
thats me and my bird baby
christianna by the tiel pen in the store
christianna as we just got in the car with her bird NOTHING BETTER THAN A LOOK LIKE THIS
baby angel coming out of the box after it's cage has been made ready
a ready made hand trained baby bird sweeeeeeet
whoever the breeder is they must have taken very clear interest in this bird as it totally nuzzles in to give kisses and loves to ride on the shoulder. It has no yellow or red of any kind on it only white grey and dark grey, I have never seen this color mutation and the store said they have never had one like it either.[/quote]
thats me and my bird baby
so I switched out that substrate the very same evening as per your advice and replaced it with some #7 grade sand.
The other day I found an add for a person lookin to rehome a albino ferret named bandit, so since we have 3 already and a very nice large cage 5 feet tall 3.5 wide by 3.5 wide I figured sure we got room.
Here are a few shots
in the bathroom mirror
a couple of when syd woke up to investigate the new person
and of course bandit lookin in the tank thinkin I could really eat that I could so close yet so far lololololol
The other day I found an add for a person lookin to rehome a albino ferret named bandit, so since we have 3 already and a very nice large cage 5 feet tall 3.5 wide by 3.5 wide I figured sure we got room.
Here are a few shots
in the bathroom mirror
a couple of when syd woke up to investigate the new person
and of course bandit lookin in the tank thinkin I could really eat that I could so close yet so far lololololol
