Pets?

i have two cats ...

I have a cat called Sherry...and no that's not because my family have some fixation with alcohol; that was her name when we got her and it stuck. She's about 3 years old and we've had her for just over two years. She's a very pretty cat but she's got the attitude that goes with it; I feel we rent the house from her and that all the objects in it are only borrowed by us. I let her off with the attitude though because it's funny and she was really really ill in the first year of her life. She also has a toy mouse which she's had since we got her that she carries around with her. She's also really friendly. For example, she will follow you when you walk up the road and even rub herself against strange builders.

Oh and my sister has a few fish but I don't get involved with them.

I've got a little derpy turtle called Morla. She is a razorbacked musk turtle (Sternotherus Carinatus).
Morla lives in an aquarium with snails, red fire shrimps and bushymouth catfish and a lots of java moss.

I trace her growth in weight and size to figure out, which mathematical equation describes the growth best.



If anyone is more interested, i tend to take pictures of her.
Its a little hobby of mine, because its not that easy to take acceptable photographs through the glass.
dropbox-folder with the best pictures

Its weird to read the word Schnauzers.
Schnauzer (engl. mustache) is a german word, which is singular and plural at once.
Its probably the same, as if you say 'many sheeps/fishs'.

Alright guys, do you want to see my favorite pet? Take one guess. It's an african mudskipper! I just put him in a brand new 20 gallon aquarium and he loves it!


Mudskipper!

Scrolling through forum trying to catch up when...

We have one dog. He's an unusually large black lab, he's like a brother to me, even when he steals and eats my pot noodle , although too smart for his own good sometimes I love him never the less

I has evolved to live on land for many things.

1. The water in it's environment is literally toxic for most fish.  A mudskipper can tolerate it, but goes onto land to "take a breather"
2. Mudskippers primarily eat on land.  They have found out what a giver the tide can be for food.  Washed up plankton and algae always wash up onto shore a mudskippers have found the "clean up" niche to take care of that.  They'll also eat bugs.
3. Mudskippers are not the top of the food chain.  Many predators will live in the water.  So, there's only one way to escape.
4. Again with the toxicity, the water in a mudskipper habitat is oxygen depleted.  So most species of mudskipper(both aquatic and terrestrial types) have adapted to breathe air.  Funny thing is, unlike most air breathing fish, they don't have the key ingredient to breath, a lung!  Most fish retain a swim bladder for buoyancy, and lots of fish use it as a primitive lung(like lungfish, catfish, bettas ect.), however mudskippers are a type of goby, and gobies lack a swim bladder because they live on the bottom of the ocean.  So, mudskippers have modified their gills like SCUBA cylinders to retain air.  This makes their gills inefficient to breathe underwater so they NEED air.  They also breathe with their skin like amphibians.
5. Their eyes can see through air better than water.  Just like us, when they see underwater, it's all blurry.

It doesn't fear me as much as it used to.  He's mad at me now, because I put him in a new home, but he's walked on my hand when I feed him.  In the wild, we are as scary as any bird.

If you want to know some other things about mudskippers, it's a good idea to skim through this website.

An entire website about mudskippers, oh my!  Oh, and maybe the devs can look at this too, there's a lot of biochemistry that might serve well in the game.

I already read about your cat ! So cute <3

Reminds me of Toni, lies around and does nothing