ajm

Too many cats and dogs threads around.... we need one for cold blooded critters, fish, reptiles, invertibrates, amphibians, insects and arachnids!

Here is Mojo the Burmese Python posing as a crooklock!



Go on... nick it, I dare you!

andypugh2000

Excellent theft deterrent

_RIP_

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New_scooby_04

iTrader: (4)

Cool an albino (sp?) one too. Very nice Is he easy to handle, some of the albino ones can be hard to approach as they're very nervous.

NS04

RedFive

I'm running out of animals

16vmarc

How does it act around you?

Chip Sengravy

Do STi's actually rev to 9K?

ajm

I think that the albino = nervous theory is a bit of a myth tbh.... she has an excellent temperament, couldn't ask for better, although I do make the effort to handle her virtually every day.They can be jumpy if you approach them 'in the wrong way', for example they don't like to be stood over as their eyesight isn't too good and all they can see is a big blob looming over them!

The only time she is grumpy is when she is in shed, but then they all are when in shed!

ajm

She's actually becoming very curious about what I am up to and actually comes over to the door to be let out when I'm passing the vivarium now.

As I said above, she has an excellent temperament and is very gentle, which is good, because it is important to forge a successful relationship before she gets to a size where she could become unmanageable should she want to.

She is nearing 8 foot now and will probably end up double that in length and several stone in weight... maybe even more....

ajm

Is that a sturgeon?

andypugh2000

Yep that sure is a sturgeon, I have onne of these too, fantastic looking fish and have skin like a rockface

ajm

Have you ever handled a dogfish or a bull huss? They are right little sand papery gits.... Its like course grit sandpaper. They go out of their way to rasp you with their tails too!

RedFive

Sturgeon yes. That pic was 2 years ago, it doubled in size since then, although it's still rather small for a sturgeon. (but alas, it won't fit in one of those Bio Orbs )

They are the living dinosaurs, estimated to have been around for 200 million years. How they managed that, I'll never know, as they are almost blind, can't swim backwards, and if they are trapped into string algae, they can suffocate as they need to move to be able to get enough oxygen. Survival of the fittest anyone ?

He constantly circles the pond, often with his head above water, which is pretty funny to watch as you see him going up & down.

I had 2, but one of these birds that aren't scaredy of cats got one

He's called Catweasel BTW

ajm

Yes, I have heard they can get themselves trapped in the folds of pondliner if you're not careful!

I take issue with *the* living dinosoaur though.... that accolade must go to the mighty coelacanth!

RedFive

"Virtually unique in the animal kingdom, with a saga steeped in science and popular imagination, the fabulous Coelacanth ("see-la-kanth"), that 400 million year old "living fossil" fish, paddles on. Pre-dating the dinosaurs by millions of years and once thought to have gone extinct with them, 65 million years ago, the Coelacanth with its "missing link" "proto legs" was "discovered" alive and well in 1938!"

That makes my statement technically correct

Iwan

They have been found alive recently by technical divers off the coast of South Africa, pretty amazing they've survived all this time unchanged.

andypugh2000

Just out of interest, how big do sturgeon grow as I have heard people say up to a metre long which is not a problem in my pond, mine does exactly as yours does circles the sides with his nose out of the water, he loves to clean the sides too and is always seen going criss cross having a good tidy up of any algea on the sides of the pond. they really are amazing creatures to look at

RedFive

A metre sounds about right if it's a Sterlet.



The Baeri sturgeon can get up to 3.5 meters (cough), and the Beluga up to 8 meters (gulp)

They can get to the age of 100 ...

Yeah, amazing critters

andypugh2000

Mine is the same as yours with the pointed nose, wow great pics

Jamie

**** that

Jamo

iTrader: (23)

tell me about it, what happened to Alex?

dpb

Mr Potato head ?

Leslie

Interesting pictures, very attractiive looking snake- hope you are thought of as a friend still when it gets to 16 feet long!

Les

pimmo2000

iTrader: (6)

WTF is happening with these old threads ?

Leslie

I never even looked at the date, perhap's the snake has eaten him by now then!

Les