Recent content by Salamandra

Going back some years I met Jack Watley in passing , went to his Miami fish store and back then it was packed as he had for sale plecos you do not often see for sale being the simpleton which I am I bought common clown plecos ( Panaqolus maccusm } they thrived for years in a backyard buried...

I had shipped a friend 4 dwarf sirens over night day before 9-11 and USPS halted shipping so I got them back 4 days later so kept them. At the time they were in abundance and legally collected in a marsh OUTSIDE the Glades but a marsh fed by Glades canals now they are as rare as can be .

There was or still is not sure as have not gone by the area in 2 years a bullfrog farm by airboat tourist areas what locals call 8th street near the Glades which bred turtles and interestingly enough also bearded dragons in color morphs , it was for sale when I went to see it and lots of the...

lol yes it was I.P.S and being a Senior Citizen growing up with those shows and anal retentive I watch the same shows EVERY night either Everybody Loves Raymond or Seinfeld and top it off with King of Queens from 11 pm to midnight , my favorites are when Arthur Spooner is in the episode .

I think most in NYC do not have cars , they do have garages for parking but not inexpensive at all .

A few breed turtles here keep them out all year long like albino other color morphs but native North American turtles and yes we have had nights since I have been here in low 50's , turtles did not care less .

You mean they were not careful with packages like Doug was ( King of Queens ) ?

Oh that is cold , Are your fish tank heaters holding up ? I went food shopping and even here with shorts weather and truth is most clueless about rest of the country , people were talking about the cold monster hitting the Northern states . MN is cold to begin with as you know but -35 is sick...

NYC always moved and though was not there much I was taken back by the public transportation .

I transferred from work here as after a time which snowed 2 feet roughly 5 weeks apart I had enough . I lived in a dead end street and just brutal but Summers here bite but Winter temp now high 70s can't be beat.

Some are very pretty such as the white mystery snails and certain types of nerites .

For me the water made a huge difference and other then using dechlorinator I do not like to tamper with PH . PH here is high so shrimps / snails thrive even shrimp which prefer lower PH have thrived for me as have all plants , when lived in area with lower PH not as much .

Words of wisdom as never thought about the mating taking a toll on the female . I have no interest in selling / breeding them so might even go with screen partition and now simply get 2 diff colors . I used to have Panther Geckos years ago and same thing they got along great but separated them...

I have no idea is my mystery snails eat fish waste but I know they do devour the same food I feed the Corys . I throw in either pleco algae wafer , spinach fish type pellets or blood worm wafer every day and the mystery snails love it . With a bare bottom tank you can drop in snail type food (...

Yes summers are HOT and last long time , I hit the jackpot as roughly 200 feet behind my house there is a field with big canal and lots of interesting cichlids , etc and snakes even saw a monitor last Summer going after an iguana both went in the water so love the unusual nature but I did not...