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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2013 18:08:30 GMT -5
Yes Standingi are from the southwest desert of madagascar. Not super impressive colors so I left them out.
Should I tour the tortoises? lol
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2013 18:17:48 GMT -5
Madagascar has four endemic** species of tortoise. While there are subspecies involved, I do not recognize them. The only thing that is real is species. Animals are about species, but they do not care about subspecies. Here we go. Does smallest to largest work? No? Ok then, south to north it is. I am ignoring new scientific names are irrelevant for this crowd. The Flat tailed Tortoise (Pyxis planicauda)The appropriately names Spider Tortoise (Pyxis arachnoides)Another appropriately named "Plowshare Tortoise" (Geochelone yniphora)Can you guess why this tortoises is the "radiated" Tortoise. Not Irradiated. Just radiated. (Geochelone radiata)** endemic = found nowhere else in the world.
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Post by jakesrocks on Sept 30, 2013 18:27:54 GMT -5
I'd like to get one of those geckos from Vietnam. The ones that make a noise. Won't put on here what it sounds like they're saying.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2013 18:33:53 GMT -5
I'd like to get one of those geckos from Vietnam. The ones that make a noise. Won't put on here what it sounds like they're saying. Well then, let's everyone else hear the sound and decide for themselves! Don, they come in lots of colors now too.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Sept 30, 2013 18:55:56 GMT -5
We had a tokay a long time ago. That sucker had some short but needle-sharp teeth on it, and wasn't afraid to use them! I did not like that gecko. Whenever the cat would walk near his tank, he'd bark at her and scare the sh!t out of her, LOL!
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Post by jakesrocks on Sept 30, 2013 19:03:45 GMT -5
That be the one. Only the Geckos in the delta sounded a little different. Sounded for all the world like they were saying F-U.
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Post by bushmanbilly on Sept 30, 2013 19:56:31 GMT -5
Very cool creatures. Wild markings on the turtles. These were in my ex's backyard along with some of brown gecko. Those little gecko's could really move. They would hang out in the Mango tree. It was fun to watch them hunt in the mornings while having coffee and a morning smoke.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2013 21:40:16 GMT -5
billy, the green is Anolis garmanni. Re-patriated into Miami too.
Brown is also an anole. Geckos are rare in the new world.
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Post by Pat on Sept 30, 2013 23:30:58 GMT -5
Beautiful thread! All new to me. Especially like those with the leaf tail. Neat little critters.
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Post by jamesp on Oct 1, 2013 9:17:34 GMT -5
Good gosh a mighty. What a reptile show. Never knew such mimicry existed.
The tiny chameleon is way out there-actually all of these are off the chart.
I had a customer in downtown Atlanta that rented plants and maintained them in office spaces. He would rotate plants as they got tired looking back to his super environment greenhouses. The conditions were steady state and perfect mild tropical enviro. Maybe 10,000 square feet. A big area.
New plants were coming in constantly from all over the world. They had lizard/gecko eggs in them. if i am not mistaken they lay a lot of eggs regularly??
It was a zoo in there. And he was very cautious of poisons since the plants had to be in office environs.
All big cities have those plant rentals. That guy could have had a great reptile business. Not to mention rerenting the same plant 20 times over. Very lucrative.
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Post by jamesp on Oct 1, 2013 9:30:45 GMT -5
Looks like a science thread got attacked. Need a hacker to remove that issue. Hell, she would just re enter through another portal.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2013 10:45:08 GMT -5
jamesp geckos lay two eggs at a time every 21 days or so. BUT, they will also have communal laying sites. A single plant may have 40 eggs in a leaf axil. Yes, I love the concept of renting a pothos 3 times a year for $20 a month. $240/yr for making sure the office always had a nice plant by changing it out monthly; rotating three or four plants thru the same spot throughout the year. The math is easy from there. The office I worked in had 60 pothos and a dozen draceanas. The boss got a massive draceana in his office free of charge for the long term contract.
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Post by jamesp on Oct 1, 2013 12:02:00 GMT -5
It is a sweet deal. Some plants thrive in the office hab. As long as they looked good they paid w/out concern. What a pleasant business. Having an old razor wired lot w warehouse and lexanable skylights and you are rock in roll. Nice if you could get a well permit.
I need to do something w/this new well. I put a honking 35 gallon per minute pump and it does hot put a dent in the static water level. Must be a 500 gallon per minute well w/that kind of recovery. Easily do a water factory. It is delicious water. Run it for 2 weeks at a time just because i can. sicko man
Mushrooms or frogs or shrimp or something that needs 62F water.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2013 15:04:44 GMT -5
62F water is trout water. Clown Loaches like it too. Maybe you could raise Paddlefish. The Japs love the babies. What other fish you guys have back there that is not bream/bass/catfish? Anything colorful or unusual? Sturgeon comes to mind as well.
Mushrooms like dark. PM me for reference manuals for that. I looked into it myself.
Hellbenders are out cuz they native to Georgia.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Oct 1, 2013 15:21:16 GMT -5
What about raising frogs for eating their kickers? 'Course, they'd eat anything and everything in the ponds, could probably get real noisy, too. Bull frogs are a bad problem here, introduced just for that reason (to eat). They've pretty much wiped out all the native species. Maybe not a good idea, then.
Would have to think this through, first. Mushrooms could be a good idea... The kitchen type.
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Post by jamesp on Oct 1, 2013 16:06:43 GMT -5
Mary Jane! That's it! Thanks for the ideas. I think...i think that the way turtles reproduce here in my lily ponds i should do map crosses and other rarities that are in the SE. I am still pumped about that cross from my turtle post. Do y'all remember ? Let me get it> I think Scott is challenged by this little mongrel.I think it is unknown new cross. Ha Well, all i can tell you is i have mega babies every year. And the fence around the edge of the pond protects them from the hawks
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Post by jamesp on Oct 1, 2013 16:08:00 GMT -5
Kickers?
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Post by rockpickerforever on Oct 1, 2013 16:10:55 GMT -5
C'mon, James, whadaya think? Frog legs, of course.. I think I've only eaten 'em once. They taste like chicken, LOL! So, why not just eat chicken, then?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2013 20:49:23 GMT -5
Chickens are nastier than frogs. We raised them when I was a kid and it is a wonder that I can eat the nasty things. Think pork. We raised nasty pigs too but a pork roast is the finest cut of meat on the planet. A friend that I lost track of ate turtles out of the Yellowstone river. I was never around it but he told me that the meat would twitch in the bowl for a long time. No no no, I ain't goin there. I have some slides that I need to figure out how to get digital. I think I can do it on a light box. Geckos and stuff. This is my photo on the cover of a children's book about snakes. I also took 32 of the photos inside the book Jim
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Post by jakesrocks on Oct 1, 2013 21:08:16 GMT -5
Them thar frog kickers is good eatins. But let them sizzle in the pan for a while before you salt them. If they're still raw the salt makes the muscles contract. Damn things will jump right out of the frying pan. Snapping turtle is good eatins too.
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