Leptoglossus are pretty and now that I know what to call them, I have a new favorite word.
Also, I've been attempting to culture Daphnia over the last few weeks after they turned up in a bio lab in the lab room I'm using. They are extraneous to the now over experiment, so the professor who was supervising let me run off with a few pipettes full of the little microcrustacea. Free fish food!
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I've killed three brown recluses in the past two months. I'm fortunate it's always been at the office, because I don't think I could sleep with those kinds of numbers at my house. On a positive note, I met the friendliest lobster yesterday. He shook my hand.
The threat that brown recluses represent is significantly exaggerated. It doesn't help that medical professionals and even pest control professionals routinely misidentify other spiders as brown recluse.
The threat that brown recluses represent is significantly exaggerated. It doesn't help that medical professionals and even pest control professionals routinely misidentify other spiders as brown recluse.
they're a fairly unassuming little critter, i would assume that leads to a lot of the misidentification.
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they don't even have the common decency to be as distinctive as the black widow
you see that red hourglass and you know what you're dealing with
actually I'm pretty sure there are similar looking species, but still
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which reminds me, those brown widow eggs I found never hatched
Speaking of crayfish, anyone heard of the marmorkreb? It's a very recently discovered parthenogenic crayfish, meaning the females clone themselves and there are no males, thanks to a set of genetic anomalies. There are no wild examples, so it has no scientific name, as they were discovered in a German hobbyist's pet store one day a few years back and spread through the fishkeeping hobby from there.
The Chinese government is looking to breed them as food because they eat almost anything and breed quickly, and are edible. I've heard a lot of hobbyists with bigger cichlids and other monster fish use them as an infinite food supply, too, because they're nearly impossible to stop from multiplying. Like, one guy on some forum I found while researching this kept getting babies in his Oscar cichlid tanks because, on further investigation, the massive filter sump system he'd set up for the tank actually began to get a colony of them established. Their food source within that system? Fish poop and each other.
Of course, this means they're also becoming a restricted species rather quickly. The paranoia's kinda justified because the normal crayfish territoriality is almost nonexistent, so they can potentially overrun things quickly. One marmorkreb loose and a whole ecosystem could fail if the temperature doesn't outright kill them. Crayfish are like scissors with legs, with both plants and animals.
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Hm. That's really, really interesting. And if they taste anything like like a regular crawdad it'll be basically the most delicious way to end world hunger ever!
I was on a climbing trip a couple years ago in southern Illinois. I was doing some bouldering a little ways away from the group because we had an odd number of people.
I put my hand up in a little bi-pocket next to me on the traverse I was attempting, and suddenly had the sensation I recognized from walking through spider webs in the forest: irrational terror at the feel of silky strands on my hand
I immediately launched myself away from the wall, and a few seconds later I started laughing at myself and wondering why I freaked out so much. I went and looked at the little pocket. There was a fucking gigantic Black Widow with an egg sac in there, rearing up and just looking super pissed at me.
This was also the trip where I almost stepped on three different Copperheads and sat down on a log next to a sunning Rattlesnake.
I've heard a lot of hobbyists with bigger cichlids and other monster fish use them as an infinite food supply, too, because they're nearly impossible to stop from multiplying. Like, one guy on some forum I found while researching this kept getting babies in his Oscar cichlid tanks because, on further investigation, the massive filter sump system he'd set up for the tank actually began to get a colony of them established. Their food source within that system? Fish poop and each other.
That sounds about right, but Cichlids are hardly monster fish. Large and somewhat aggressive, yes, but they're highly intelligent (for a fish) and can even get bored or cranky. I've seen Cichlids take the substrate on the bottom of their tank and arrange it so it was piled at the front and hard to see in from the outside, because they were bored and/or hungry, and cranky no one was paying attention to them. I'm more partial to the African varieties, but the Oscar is a decent Cichlid to own, provided you have the space.
Oh, also, I was just clarifying the bit about Cichlids and their monster aspect. That was some really interesting info on the marmorkreb crayfish.
I was on a climbing trip a couple years ago in southern Illinois. I was doing some bouldering a little ways away from the group because we had an odd number of people.
I put my hand up in a little bi-pocket next to me on the traverse I was attempting, and suddenly had the sensation I recognized from walking through spider webs in the forest: irrational terror at the feel of silky strands on my hand
I immediately launched myself away from the wall, and a few seconds later I started laughing at myself and wondering why I freaked out so much. I went and looked at the little pocket. There was a fucking gigantic Black Widow with an egg sac in there, rearing up and just looking super pissed at me.
This was also the trip where I almost stepped on three different Copperheads and sat down on a log next to a sunning Rattlesnake.
I've heard a lot of hobbyists with bigger cichlids and other monster fish use them as an infinite food supply, too, because they're nearly impossible to stop from multiplying. Like, one guy on some forum I found while researching this kept getting babies in his Oscar cichlid tanks because, on further investigation, the massive filter sump system he'd set up for the tank actually began to get a colony of them established. Their food source within that system? Fish poop and each other.
That sounds about right, but Cichlids are hardly monster fish. Large and somewhat aggressive, yes, but they're highly intelligent (for a fish) and can even get bored or cranky. I've seen Cichlids take the substrate on the bottom of their tank and arrange it so it was piled at the front and hard to see in from the outside, because they were bored and/or hungry, and cranky no one was paying attention to them. I'm more partial to the African varieties, but the Oscar is a decent Cichlid to own, provided you have the space.
Oh, also, I was just clarifying the bit about Cichlids and their monster aspect. That was some really interesting info on the marmorkreb crayfish.
Oscars in particular are recommended to go in a tank of 150 gallons per pair, which is pretty monstrous by me given how the only cichlids I've ever owned were convicts in a 20 gallon. But I totally get what you mean. Definitely smart and fun fish. Just also huge.
But yeah I get that monstrous fish are usually more like freaky Amazonian and Congolese oddballs.
I was on a climbing trip a couple years ago in southern Illinois. I was doing some bouldering a little ways away from the group because we had an odd number of people.
I put my hand up in a little bi-pocket next to me on the traverse I was attempting, and suddenly had the sensation I recognized from walking through spider webs in the forest: irrational terror at the feel of silky strands on my hand
I immediately launched myself away from the wall, and a few seconds later I started laughing at myself and wondering why I freaked out so much. I went and looked at the little pocket. There was a fucking gigantic Black Widow with an egg sac in there, rearing up and just looking super pissed at me.
This was also the trip where I almost stepped on three different Copperheads and sat down on a log next to a sunning Rattlesnake.
Speaking of crayfish, anyone heard of the marmorkreb? It's a very recently discovered parthenogenic crayfish, meaning the females clone themselves and there are no males, thanks to a set of genetic anomalies. There are no wild examples, so it has no scientific name, as they were discovered in a German hobbyist's pet store one day a few years back and spread through the fishkeeping hobby from there.
The Chinese government is looking to breed them as food because they eat almost anything and breed quickly, and are edible. I've heard a lot of hobbyists with bigger cichlids and other monster fish use them as an infinite food supply, too, because they're nearly impossible to stop from multiplying. Like, one guy on some forum I found while researching this kept getting babies in his Oscar cichlid tanks because, on further investigation, the massive filter sump system he'd set up for the tank actually began to get a colony of them established. Their food source within that system? Fish poop and each other.
Of course, this means they're also becoming a restricted species rather quickly. The paranoia's kinda justified because the normal crayfish territoriality is almost nonexistent, so they can potentially overrun things quickly. One marmorkreb loose and a whole ecosystem could fail if the temperature doesn't outright kill them. Crayfish are like scissors with legs, with both plants and animals.
Man this reads like the first half of an SCP article
I was on a climbing trip a couple years ago in southern Illinois. I was doing some bouldering a little ways away from the group because we had an odd number of people.
I put my hand up in a little bi-pocket next to me on the traverse I was attempting, and suddenly had the sensation I recognized from walking through spider webs in the forest: irrational terror at the feel of silky strands on my hand
I immediately launched myself away from the wall, and a few seconds later I started laughing at myself and wondering why I freaked out so much. I went and looked at the little pocket. There was a fucking gigantic Black Widow with an egg sac in there, rearing up and just looking super pissed at me.
This was also the trip where I almost stepped on three different Copperheads and sat down on a log next to a sunning Rattlesnake.
I think Natural Selection is trying to tell you something.
Speaking of crayfish, anyone heard of the marmorkreb? It's a very recently discovered parthenogenic crayfish, meaning the females clone themselves and there are no males, thanks to a set of genetic anomalies. There are no wild examples, so it has no scientific name, as they were discovered in a German hobbyist's pet store one day a few years back and spread through the fishkeeping hobby from there.
The Chinese government is looking to breed them as food because they eat almost anything and breed quickly, and are edible. I've heard a lot of hobbyists with bigger cichlids and other monster fish use them as an infinite food supply, too, because they're nearly impossible to stop from multiplying. Like, one guy on some forum I found while researching this kept getting babies in his Oscar cichlid tanks because, on further investigation, the massive filter sump system he'd set up for the tank actually began to get a colony of them established. Their food source within that system? Fish poop and each other.
Of course, this means they're also becoming a restricted species rather quickly. The paranoia's kinda justified because the normal crayfish territoriality is almost nonexistent, so they can potentially overrun things quickly. One marmorkreb loose and a whole ecosystem could fail if the temperature doesn't outright kill them. Crayfish are like scissors with legs, with both plants and animals.
Man this reads like the first half of an SCP article
I was just thinking this, especially after reading the Wikipedia article describing the German store owner's description of their origins "totally confusing and unreliable."
...their peculiar taste, described as "something like iodine"[1] and "rubber dipped in ammonia."
Before following any advice, opinions, or thoughts I may have expressed in the above post, be warned: I found Keven Costners "Waterworld" to be a very entertaining film.
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Metzger MeisterIt Gets Worsebefore it gets any better.Registered Userregular
yeah see, that sounds gross. if that thing tasted like toasted marshmallows or something i'd be all over it.
Ammonia is found in trace quantities in the atmosphere, being produced from the putrefaction (decay process) of nitrogenous animal and vegetable matter.
This is especially common with seafood. Ammonia can build up in seafood long before it becomes unsafe to eat. So the seafood will taste off, but will still be safe to eat.
And yes, the quote says "in the atmosphere" but it also builds up in animal tissue, especially fish and crustaceans.
The toxicity of ammonia solutions does not usually cause problems for humans and other mammals, as a specific mechanism exists to prevent its build-up in the bloodstream.
Speaking of crayfish, anyone heard of the marmorkreb? It's a very recently discovered parthenogenic crayfish, meaning the females clone themselves and there are no males, thanks to a set of genetic anomalies. There are no wild examples, so it has no scientific name, as they were discovered in a German hobbyist's pet store one day a few years back and spread through the fishkeeping hobby from there.
The Chinese government is looking to breed them as food because they eat almost anything and breed quickly, and are edible. I've heard a lot of hobbyists with bigger cichlids and other monster fish use them as an infinite food supply, too, because they're nearly impossible to stop from multiplying. Like, one guy on some forum I found while researching this kept getting babies in his Oscar cichlid tanks because, on further investigation, the massive filter sump system he'd set up for the tank actually began to get a colony of them established. Their food source within that system? Fish poop and each other.
Of course, this means they're also becoming a restricted species rather quickly. The paranoia's kinda justified because the normal crayfish territoriality is almost nonexistent, so they can potentially overrun things quickly. One marmorkreb loose and a whole ecosystem could fail if the temperature doesn't outright kill them. Crayfish are like scissors with legs, with both plants and animals.
Man this reads like the first half of an SCP article
I was just thinking this, especially after reading the Wikipedia article describing the German store owner's description of their origins "totally confusing and unreliable."
Yeah, the minute I saw the thing about the pet shop, I thought "welp, someone's gonna call this a conspiracy theory".
Binary SquidWe all make choicesRegistered Userregular
Yeah, concentrations of Ammonia are one of the reasons why Giant Squid won't be on human menus. It's not good business to have your customers puking all over the place.
Unless you run a vomitorium, I guess, and then it's kind of expected.
Oscars in particular are recommended to go in a tank of 150 gallons per pair, which is pretty monstrous by me given how the only cichlids I've ever owned were convicts in a 20 gallon. But I totally get what you mean. Definitely smart and fun fish. Just also huge.
But yeah I get that monstrous fish are usually more like freaky Amazonian and Congolese oddballs.
Yeah, that is a pretty big tank. I've never owned a tank that large myself, but I have babysat (fishsat?) other people's large tanks. I'm used to those kind of set ups but I can definitely see why you'd call them monstrous given that you were raising convicts.
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Also, I've been attempting to culture Daphnia over the last few weeks after they turned up in a bio lab in the lab room I'm using. They are extraneous to the now over experiment, so the professor who was supervising let me run off with a few pipettes full of the little microcrustacea. Free fish food!
How about....a King Prawn?
We had a crayfish in our fishtank when I was a kid.
He ate all the fish
So it was just a huge tank with a crayfish in it
who just sat there
then he died
what a shitty pet
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they're a fairly unassuming little critter, i would assume that leads to a lot of the misidentification.
you see that red hourglass and you know what you're dealing with
actually I'm pretty sure there are similar looking species, but still
alas
You're such a terrible father.
on the plus side, I thought my labyrinth orbweaver's web had been lost in some heavy rains, but it's still there
if the eggs are intact they should be hatching in a month or two
heres hoping
Used to be in our back garden, we'd get large clumps of about 20 to 30 spiders building their webs all near each other in one tree.
As someone who gets super uncomfortable at the thought of spiders on him, they are rather beautiful at a distance.
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The Chinese government is looking to breed them as food because they eat almost anything and breed quickly, and are edible. I've heard a lot of hobbyists with bigger cichlids and other monster fish use them as an infinite food supply, too, because they're nearly impossible to stop from multiplying. Like, one guy on some forum I found while researching this kept getting babies in his Oscar cichlid tanks because, on further investigation, the massive filter sump system he'd set up for the tank actually began to get a colony of them established. Their food source within that system? Fish poop and each other.
Of course, this means they're also becoming a restricted species rather quickly. The paranoia's kinda justified because the normal crayfish territoriality is almost nonexistent, so they can potentially overrun things quickly. One marmorkreb loose and a whole ecosystem could fail if the temperature doesn't outright kill them. Crayfish are like scissors with legs, with both plants and animals.
I put my hand up in a little bi-pocket next to me on the traverse I was attempting, and suddenly had the sensation I recognized from walking through spider webs in the forest: irrational terror at the feel of silky strands on my hand
I immediately launched myself away from the wall, and a few seconds later I started laughing at myself and wondering why I freaked out so much. I went and looked at the little pocket. There was a fucking gigantic Black Widow with an egg sac in there, rearing up and just looking super pissed at me.
This was also the trip where I almost stepped on three different Copperheads and sat down on a log next to a sunning Rattlesnake.
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That sounds about right, but Cichlids are hardly monster fish. Large and somewhat aggressive, yes, but they're highly intelligent (for a fish) and can even get bored or cranky. I've seen Cichlids take the substrate on the bottom of their tank and arrange it so it was piled at the front and hard to see in from the outside, because they were bored and/or hungry, and cranky no one was paying attention to them. I'm more partial to the African varieties, but the Oscar is a decent Cichlid to own, provided you have the space.
Oh, also, I was just clarifying the bit about Cichlids and their monster aspect. That was some really interesting info on the marmorkreb crayfish.
This reminds me of one of my favorite tumblrs.
http://evopropinquitous.tumblr.com/
Oscars in particular are recommended to go in a tank of 150 gallons per pair, which is pretty monstrous by me given how the only cichlids I've ever owned were convicts in a 20 gallon. But I totally get what you mean. Definitely smart and fun fish. Just also huge.
But yeah I get that monstrous fish are usually more like freaky Amazonian and Congolese oddballs.
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Man this reads like the first half of an SCP article
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I think Natural Selection is trying to tell you something.
I was just thinking this, especially after reading the Wikipedia article describing the German store owner's description of their origins "totally confusing and unreliable."
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonia#Natural_occurrence
This is especially common with seafood. Ammonia can build up in seafood long before it becomes unsafe to eat. So the seafood will taste off, but will still be safe to eat.
And yes, the quote says "in the atmosphere" but it also builds up in animal tissue, especially fish and crustaceans.
Yeah, the minute I saw the thing about the pet shop, I thought "welp, someone's gonna call this a conspiracy theory".
Unless you run a vomitorium, I guess, and then it's kind of expected.
Yeah, that is a pretty big tank. I've never owned a tank that large myself, but I have babysat (fishsat?) other people's large tanks. I'm used to those kind of set ups but I can definitely see why you'd call them monstrous given that you were raising convicts.