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I should be able to tell the genetic makeup without breeding her to a non-relative based on the ratio of deformed vs. normal offspring they produce. Depending on how certain I am of what I get in the first spawn or the F2, I may consider breeding her to a non-related male too. However, there's...

In temporary tanks right now, they just got here a couple of hours ago and my car is in the shop as of yesterday afternoon, so no making a gravel/decoration run for Syn :(. Had to piece together a couple of setups from what I have lying around. Luckily my storage room is FULL of old tanks and...

I've had some cyano issues in the past, but as long as I keep up with my waterchanges it's not much of a problem.

That's the entire point of breeding her, bronzecat; to find out her genetic makeup. I'm not breeding splendens on a regular basis anymore and have no intention of keeping the line going or selling any "normal" fry off to anyone who intends to breed them. Any fry, normal or otherwise, will be...

Just goes to show what you can accomplish even if you have no freaking clue what you're doing :lol:. This thing has been up and running successfully for about a year now, has survived a move, and apart from a small issue with cyano a couple of months back, no crashes or problems. The only...

That female doesn't have a caudal. She has the same deformity as my midas hybrid does, and I'm willing to bet her fins don't actually fuse, but overlap instead, just like my midas. I've seen fish in which the fins DO fuse, but judging by the ray structure I don't think that's what we're...

"Look what we did, mom!" "Do you like them?!" Hehe, ain't they cute? :wub:

They're subocellatus, not kribensis ;) There are lots of species of pelvicachromis.

Yeaaaaah buddy, Archocentrus centrarchus. You only wish you had a fish that looked this good! :D I couldn't get a good pic of his girlfriend, but that's ok, since I'm trading her in for a larger one tomorrow anyway. He doesn't like his current girlfriend very much. Two of the females at work...

She was $8. They are native to west Texas, so the collection site wasn't too far off :)

They'll be fine together.

Doesn't seem to be. I don't handle my scorpions, but she didn't get flustered when I was adding the decor to her setup, very unlike my dune scorp, who goes nuts even when I'm just feeding! The tank is 6"x3" :P As for the venom I don't know, honestly. The shop I got her from doesn't carry...

Chihuahuan dwarf, Vaejovis waueri... yes, she is less than 1" long, and yes, she is full grown! :D So freakin' cute. She lives in the smallest critter keeper they make. It looks huge with her in it. That's my finger behind her Her setup Queen of the mountain!

I already had the mannequin...

Beautiful pics!

NOT recommended AT ALL.

I saw something about this on Animal Planet once; a well-meaning lady had picked up a stray cat and given it flea treatment, but accidentally gave it the kind meant for dogs. It survived, but only just barely. It was horrible.

It's not actually an Apple product either and may, infact, be in violation of some sort of law because of this.

Bettas are from rice paddies and shallow, slow-moving creeks in the wild. However, like spazz said, domestic splendens are... well... domesticated. It would be like asking where dogs are from in the wild; dogs aren't from anywhere, they were bred for many generations to be in the company of...

I was looking through my album and just couldn't believe how cute she was :wub: Awkward teenage years :rolleyes: Transitional... she was getting fluffier :P Meeting Diva for the first time Everyone's fave :lol:. He was teasing her. "DO NOT WANT!!!" and now... a...

On the plus side, to me at least, the noises budgies make are not annoying and I actually enjoyed hearing mine tweet all day, back when I had a couple :D Of course, maybe that's just by comparison to my mom's lovebirds, who scream constantly, hehe.

I used to collect dead cicadas with all different patterns :wub:

I got a FEMALE African house snake, because it turns out both of mine are males. She's supposed to be a red too, like the others... it'll develop more as she ages. I was kinda disappointed I didn't find a black one, but those are terribly hard to find, it seems. She's high-strung as all hell...

They are not suitable for a family forum :lol:

I could see crating a dog for 7-8 hours at NIGHT, but crating for that long during the day is coming dangerously close to animal cruelty, IMO. I have seen people fined for keeping a dog confined that long.

I didn't have much of a Halloween this year, just went out the eat with a friend and then came back to my apartment for mojitos. I was determined to dress up though, so here's my costume :D. I didn't buy one this year so I had to throw one together out of crap I already had. Luckily, I have a...

Pfft. Try working at a fish store. The kind of reef tank disasters and water tests I see every day put a situation like this to shame. "Neglecting" a tank for months isn't unusual. The corals look great Adrinal :good:

It would be impossible for a physically male child, born with incomplete genitalia, to go through puberty as a female unless a uterus or partial uterus were present, in which case the child would never be considered male in the first place, but instead intersex. One cannot menstruate without a...

I have something to show you.

Seconded! :rofl:

I got my dog from a breeder. I wanted a puppy because for some reason it just seems odd to me not to raise your own dog (as needy as dogs are they often end up being more like children than pets,) and I wanted something I would be guaranteed would stay extremely small so I could take him/her...

OMG lljma06, cutest pics EVER!!!!!!!!!!! :wub: :wub: :wub: Cici's face is very similar to my Gypsy's, so cute!

They have eyelids and no sticky toe pads, just retractable claws :)

New haircut + tattoo and a new piercing (rook, it's the one in my ear)

:devil: It's my nature? ;) I keep both of mine with snails and hermits too, don't get me wrong, but they are temporary tankmates :lol:

Rose is approx. 2" long, actually. She will be about 3" adult size. All the same, she can, will, and has killed fish almost twice her size. I tried a couple of small damsels as tester fish to see if I could keep anything with her, but it was a no go. It took her a couple of days to get them...

Woohoo! Young females are coming within the next two months :kana:

Haha, oh, is that what is going on?? :P

Ours ate a can of spray paint, a coke can, the lighting around our outdoor pond (as in, she grabbed one of the lights and the electrical cords connecting them pulled up the rest as she ran), countless toys, my pet box turtle, a rotting dead chicken she found somewhere, her doghouse, every...

I could have a very small fish or two... if it weren't for Rose. She is a mantis shrimp, and would club fish to death and eat them. The tank was set up around her needs, as mantis are the only reason I got into saltwater ;) Yep, definitely someone else. Although I do like freshwater better...