Sunday, 6 July 2014
MILK FROGS - PHRYNOHYAS RESINIFLICTRIX - JULY 2014
Well here is an update on the young Milk Frogs which have doubled in size, did this badly and will redo as I should have thrown crickets in there as all four of them will then appear in minutes, if no seconds.
Monday, 23 June 2014
NEW HATCHLINGS OF JAGUAR CARPET PYTHONS
Well I said they laid eggs and the eggs have done well.
Yesterday the first hatchling emerged from its egg and today several more appeared! Very cool looking Jaguar Carpet Pythons and someone I know is already having kittens about having some already!! Lol!
Yesterday the first hatchling emerged from its egg and today several more appeared! Very cool looking Jaguar Carpet Pythons and someone I know is already having kittens about having some already!! Lol!
VIDEO..
PLATINUM TIGER RETICULATED PYTHON
And now for something COMPLETELY different ...
... and BIG! But not that big ... YET!
This is a particularly nice colour form, that I do not normally like, of a Reticulated Python. This is called a Platinum Tiger and is over ten feet long and a little under half it full length and likely a third its potential length.
Notoroius for having plenty a tale for their eating people there are a lot of these and some do not get big enough to scoff a human! Lol! From a young boy there was a tale of a poor Chinese fourteen year old that had gone missing and then they found this huge reticulated python ... hmm story went it was either in a shed or under a house. Maybe under the shed?!
VIDEO
SPOTTED TERRAPIN - Clemmys guttata (PICS & VIDEO)
Hmm well its about time I got off to a start with many of my blogs and tonight three different ones get a good start!
Also there are enough pictures and videos to keep me going for days, hmm even weeks!
So here up then is a Spotted Terrapin and one of a pair that have laid one lot of eggs thus far, TWO. Now these are one of my favourite reptiles and certainly one of my top Terrapins which only consists of a handful ...
Also there are enough pictures and videos to keep me going for days, hmm even weeks!
So here up then is a Spotted Terrapin and one of a pair that have laid one lot of eggs thus far, TWO. Now these are one of my favourite reptiles and certainly one of my top Terrapins which only consists of a handful ...
Tuesday, 13 May 2014
THE SPOTTED TURTLE (CLEMMYS GUTTATA) VIDEO
Another one of my favoruites for not only their fantastic colour which in the world of Terrapins, no not really Turtles as they do not possess bloody flippers, is unrivalled but also their diminutive adult size!!
This species, I have realised is quite odd as they are present with Mata Matas, is one of only three species of Terrapins I can think of I would willingly keep! The other being the Diamondback Terrapin.
These are fully grown and about 4 inches and have mated since this video was shot and also laid eggs!!
the latin GUTTATA means spotted. Oddly a favourite toad species of mine is called guttata, sometimes you get guttatus, which oddly has no spots?! Lol! I think the scientist was on some mind altering drug when he named it?! Lol!
Oh and do not ask as they are not for sale!
This species, I have realised is quite odd as they are present with Mata Matas, is one of only three species of Terrapins I can think of I would willingly keep! The other being the Diamondback Terrapin.
These are fully grown and about 4 inches and have mated since this video was shot and also laid eggs!!
the latin GUTTATA means spotted. Oddly a favourite toad species of mine is called guttata, sometimes you get guttatus, which oddly has no spots?! Lol! I think the scientist was on some mind altering drug when he named it?! Lol!
Oh and do not ask as they are not for sale!
THE MATA MATA TURTLE (CHELUS FIMBRIATA) VIDEO
I have some pics to follow up and these have been sitting around for awhile now.
Apologies for the quality but was only done on my Moto G phone and I will get some filmed using my Sony Cybershot in the next few days with a little luck?!
These guys are fantastic and an old favourite of mine. Kids would love them because they look so alien and they also look like wood!
These are youngsters and they get big but not overly huge, perhaps a female Red Eared Terrapin size? Maybe a little smaller been awhile since I saw a big one. Been awhile since I have seen one at all in fact!
Yes they are for sale and yes in my friends sop but be warned they are not exactly cheap, yet I still feel that they are cheap! Maybe a year from now I might be in a new place with a big setup for some of these of my own design?! Maybe?!
Apologies for the quality but was only done on my Moto G phone and I will get some filmed using my Sony Cybershot in the next few days with a little luck?!
These guys are fantastic and an old favourite of mine. Kids would love them because they look so alien and they also look like wood!
These are youngsters and they get big but not overly huge, perhaps a female Red Eared Terrapin size? Maybe a little smaller been awhile since I saw a big one. Been awhile since I have seen one at all in fact!
Yes they are for sale and yes in my friends sop but be warned they are not exactly cheap, yet I still feel that they are cheap! Maybe a year from now I might be in a new place with a big setup for some of these of my own design?! Maybe?!
Sunday, 11 May 2014
DANCING, WAVING OR SLITHERING?
Being something of a very educated man in the world of amphibians but admittedly with my finger of the proverbial pulse in recent times I got a bit confused at this report.
Dancing frogs is what the BBC report calls these things but when I resting about this seemingly unusual dancing behavior it started to become somewhat ... familiar!
Although the frogs in the picture look different to the family of frogs I think they are related to they look more like something related to another, Epipidobates of South America which are plain cousins to the Poison Arrow Frogs, or Poison Frogs, of the Dendrobates groups, many renamed now, of South America?
The odd thing is the behavior they refer to as 'dancing' I think is nothing of the kind, until I have looked into it further. I believe these are types of Semaphore Frogs and the genus I am familiar with are Staurois. These wave they legs about while arising their toes to reveal a turquoise blue webbing because they bred near noisy waterfalls. So body in fact that it renders any vocalization completely useless and therefore they evolved, or learned, to use the blue webbing to advertise themselves. Hence the name Semaphore Frog and the same name as those guys that work on an aircraft carrier signaling to pilots on manoeuvering their jet fighter?
These little guys of the Staurois genus ate in a short list of amphibians that ate fascinating top me but never had the privilege of seeing them, let alone breeding them!
Still whatever the case let's hope they have the initiative, not just the titles, to save the frogs?
Which reminds me if a little report recently in a bespatter regarding Aesculapian Snakes in Camden.
Bloody late yet Anson they state that this is a new colony just appeared of 60 snakes?!
First off ... err NO!! This coming I have been hearing about for bloody years! Secondly do not be stupid enough to write how many there are?! Jesus!
Thirdly, and this is the one I like the most, locals (or likely naive old ladies with dogs the size of rats that make a lot of noise while trembling in a sift breeze) want them exterminated?! Worse still is that there is a decision to be made on this letter in the year?!
Oh my bloody God!!
Oops and here is the big problem, make your fecking minds up about governing alien species in this country because not long ago I was surprised to hear that Ring Necked Parakeets ate now listed as a British species due to the amount of time they have been here?!
First of all this is stupid! No they should not be wiped out like some believe but they are not and never will be a British Bird because they never arrived here naturally!
Despite the Aesculapian Snakes being non-native these should not, I repeat NOT be exterminated!
Now let me clear something up right now? I have been feed up with the decisions many idiots have made over the years and believe me I have meet at least one of them and brain of Britain they certainly are not! There ate all these fines for very silly and nonsensical acts regarding the raster British amphibians and reptiles, asking with many other animals. You cannot sit their handing out preposterous fines for simply 'disturbing' animals with one hand while using the other to wipe out an entire colony!
It's complete hypocrisy!
Also it is very, very difficult to decide what I'd native and what is not because our records simply do not go back far enough. Bird watchers refer to alien species as plastic. An odd choice of word considering that many other things could be 'plastic' and they just do not know?!
Half the fish species or more could be alien because it is very common for fish eggs, and even amphibian eggs, to be carried upon the feet of birds!
This is no different to the man who inadvertently introduced Midwife Toads, Alytes obstetricans, to Bedford around 1882 when some males carrying eggs, yes they are called that for a reason, came in with a load of Asparagus from France.
We are part of the animal kingdom are we not?
However this seems to go out of the window as do the rules when the authorities decide whether or not they want to play God or flex their muscles when others show a keen interest in things. I will never get over then stating on the program coast about how you bed a license to hold a Natterjack Toad?! I literally burst out laughing and was tempted to email in and ask if an average person would die from doing so or if the toads explode if not held correctly?!
Lmao!
New 'dancing frogs' found in India http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-27330603
Saturday, 10 May 2014
THE DANCING OR WAVING FROGS?
Being something of a very educated man in the world of amphibians but admittedly with my finger of the proverbial pulse in recent times I got a bit confused at this report.
Dancing frogs is what the BBC report calls these things but when I resting about this seemingly unusual dancing behavior it started to become somewhat ... familiar!
Although the frogs in the picture look different to the family of frogs I think they are related to they look more like something related to another, Epipidobates of South America which are plain cousins to the Poison Arrow Frogs, or Poison Frogs, of the Dendrobates groups, many renamed now, of South America?
The odd thing is the behavior they refer to as 'dancing' I think is nothing of the kind, until I have looked into it further. I believe these are types of Semaphore Frogs and the genus I am familiar with are Staurois. These wave they legs about while arising their toes to reveal a turquoise blue webbing because they bred near noisy waterfalls. So body in fact that it renders any vocalization completely useless and therefore they evolved, or learned, to use the blue webbing to advertise themselves. Hence the name Semaphore Frog and the same name as those guys that work on an aircraft carrier signaling to pilots on manoeuvering their jet fighter?
These little guys of the Staurois genus ate in a short list of amphibians that ate fascinating top me but never had the privilege of seeing them, let alone breeding them!
New 'dancing frogs' found in India http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-27330603
Tuesday, 6 May 2014
THE WET & WILD SHOW RETURNS
First off ... my friends store ... many have fallen in recent times ... a great many!!
Oh and a little video ...
The store, should you wish to look for it, is on the eat side of Baker Street in Enfield and no its not number 221 which you would find funny because I hang out there?! Oh wait a minute?! I am forgetting myself, this is not my corruption blog that contains many tens of gigabytes of data explaing how the entire British Public Service System and government is corrupt and/or very bad at their jobs!! Yeah that has 115,000 visitors plus! Lol!
Now a species of turtle that I have only now taken notice of! I think you will see why in the pictures as I spotted some bright but intricate colouring on them!
WOOD TURTLES
Now for some new arrival species of Tarantulas which there is one lady I must go and tell of this as she might never forgive me if there is anything there she is after?! LOL!
This is not all Sheen, there was like a dozen types and there were White Knees something called Giant White Knees, whetever they are and the Giant Goliath Bird Eaters, Thereposa Blondi, though to read about them you might want to try the name they were previouslky known as which is the same but with TWO extra letters! Yes I kid you not ... THERPOSA LEBLONDI.
There is a video of me scanning across the boxes slowly so you can see the labels, lol ...
THE SPIDER VIDEO ...
Tuesday, 18 March 2014
LEOPARD TORTOISES - GEOCHELENE PARDALIS
A couple of Leopard Tortoises in the shop in Baker Street and around a foot or so long.
I doubt they will be there long though.
I doubt they will be there long though.
NEON RAINBOW FISH - MELANOTAENIA PRAECOX
The Neon Rainbow Fish or Australian Neon Rainbow Fish. Damn it I cannot remember the species name and had it listed as Melanotaenia australis but the latter is wrong. Hmm praecox has just popped into my head and I am certain it is that now?!
THE SIAMESE FIGHTING FISH - BETTA SPLENDENS
Some new Siamese Fighting Fish that have appeared in my friends shop in Baker Street in Enfield.
I did quite like the one on the left and although I openly admit I do not really like fish that have geen genetically produced by man I DID like the one on the left and was tempted to have him in my aquarium until I found a couple of females?! Lol!
Also in one of the videos, for the uninitiated, you find out why they are called Fighting Fish, but they are kept apart by a sheet of glass so do not worry, lol.
Oh and if you see these in a shop kept in a small tank or even a plastic cup, do not panic! They breath by taking gulps of air from the surface! You would be surprised how many people want to complain about this without thinking or asking...WHY?! Lol!
I did quite like the one on the left and although I openly admit I do not really like fish that have geen genetically produced by man I DID like the one on the left and was tempted to have him in my aquarium until I found a couple of females?! Lol!
Also in one of the videos, for the uninitiated, you find out why they are called Fighting Fish, but they are kept apart by a sheet of glass so do not worry, lol.
Oh and if you see these in a shop kept in a small tank or even a plastic cup, do not panic! They breath by taking gulps of air from the surface! You would be surprised how many people want to complain about this without thinking or asking...WHY?! Lol!
THE NEON TETRA - PARACHEIRODON INNESI
The first of some new additions of fish to my aquarium and these are the oldest, though some seem to think it is the Paradise Fish, known tropical fish and often thought of as the one that started it all?!
Now I have spent years overlooking these quite deliberately but just to show that all life and all animals fascinate me and when I saw them in a friends shop I thought, 'Hey, why not?!'
Now these are the Neon Tetra, Paracheirodon innesi, and despite them being dirst cheap to buy they are also difficult to breed. Well except for when you have a very mature aquarium with acidic as well as soft water. Previously when I used to introduce fish I would often have them courting in the space of 24 hours and laying eggs with a month or two!
To my shock and despite being empty for what must be two years the Neon Tetras are follwing the rule!
Now I have spent years overlooking these quite deliberately but just to show that all life and all animals fascinate me and when I saw them in a friends shop I thought, 'Hey, why not?!'
Now these are the Neon Tetra, Paracheirodon innesi, and despite them being dirst cheap to buy they are also difficult to breed. Well except for when you have a very mature aquarium with acidic as well as soft water. Previously when I used to introduce fish I would often have them courting in the space of 24 hours and laying eggs with a month or two!
To my shock and despite being empty for what must be two years the Neon Tetras are follwing the rule!
I will also try to add a pair or preferebly a trio of Apistogramma hongsloi to the mix.
I will add some Cardinal Tetras in the aquarium too, like Neons but get a bit bigger and red runs right through from mouth to the caudal peduncle (where the body meets the tail fin)
I will likely add some Killifish if I find things I want out of the Aphyosemions and Spectralebias/Cynolebias?
BLOODY HELL I LOST TRACK OF HOW MANY VIDEOS I DID?! LMAO!
Or of course if I find anything particularly beautiful I may add them, think Celestial Pearl Danio of the Margaritatus genus.
Friday, 31 January 2014
YELLOW BELLIED TOADS FEEDING - EUROPEAN BOMBINA
Must have forgotten about this video and as I was doing another three videos with one on corruption I thought I would put this one up.
My two types of Yellow Bellied Toads belonging to the European branch of the Bombina family.
Rest assured you are going to see a great deal more on this blog during the coming year and if all goes well it should build up a fair old bit too?!
My two types of Yellow Bellied Toads belonging to the European branch of the Bombina family.
Rest assured you are going to see a great deal more on this blog during the coming year and if all goes well it should build up a fair old bit too?!
THE JAGUAR CARPET PYTHON
..or cross, I cannot bloody remember!
This one grown a bit too and looks to be double the size of when I saw him or her last?
This one grown a bit too and looks to be double the size of when I saw him or her last?
THE JAGGEDY CARPET PYTHON
I calld it the JAGGY or JAGGED Carpet Python. Probably has a name but I have no idea what it is, lol.
It has grown somewhat! Looks to be about three times bigger than when I last saw it!
You might note some Jaguar Carpets in thre too.
It has grown somewhat! Looks to be about three times bigger than when I last saw it!
You might note some Jaguar Carpets in thre too.
Sunday, 26 January 2014
YELLOW BELLIED TOADS FEEDING VIDEO
Well I say FEEDING but I threw some crickets on their and left it filming for a few minutes, lol. These are my Julian Alps Yellow Bellied Toads, Bombina variegata kolombatovici and are the olive ones, and the possibly Greek Yellow Bellied Toads, Bombina variegata scabra which are the brown ones.
Well either greek or Bombina pachypus hybrids, I have not looked close enough yet, still yes I know, to cast an opinion but I will in the next few weeks, fingers crossed.
Hopefully something happened on video, fingers crossed as I have not looked at it...
Well either greek or Bombina pachypus hybrids, I have not looked close enough yet, still yes I know, to cast an opinion but I will in the next few weeks, fingers crossed.
Hopefully something happened on video, fingers crossed as I have not looked at it...
Sunday, 19 January 2014
RENEWED LEPTOPELIS VIVARIUM
Not quite finished this yet and I fully intend to make something of the same proportions only bigger for my Leptopelis uluguruensis in the coming weeks!
Jusy need to get this damned camera slingshot bag, another one, to house my camera bits and my Tablet PC! Oh and a large back up battery...ooh yeah and I broke my phone...
Ever get the feeling it is never ending?!
LMAO!
Jusy need to get this damned camera slingshot bag, another one, to house my camera bits and my Tablet PC! Oh and a large back up battery...ooh yeah and I broke my phone...
Ever get the feeling it is never ending?!
LMAO!
PARADISE FISH
Seems to have been a day for soft spot species!
The Paradise Fish and now wondering whether to have a go at these in my empty aquarium?! Cannot believe I have typed that! TWICE!!
This is a very cool to sub-tropical species though often sold as a tropical fish.
The Paradise Fish and now wondering whether to have a go at these in my empty aquarium?! Cannot believe I have typed that! TWICE!!
This is a very cool to sub-tropical species though often sold as a tropical fish.
WATER DRAGON
A nice your Water Dragon and for some reason I have a soft spot for these and Plumed Basilisks!
Oh and the Autralian Water Dragons too!
Oh and the Autralian Water Dragons too!
CHOCOLATE NYMPH GOLDFISH
Chocolate Nymph Goldfish at my friends store and I actually automatically REACHED for my camera when I saw these?! Now I think they are Nymphs when they have a normal tail as opposed to fan tails?!
LOL!
Not normally into some of thew goldfish, though I have a soft spot for Blue Shubunkins and Brsitol Blue Shubunkins in particular.
LOL!
Not normally into some of thew goldfish, though I have a soft spot for Blue Shubunkins and Brsitol Blue Shubunkins in particular.
FISCHER'S CHAMELEON - KINYONGIA FISCHERI - PAIR
In my friends store he has these Fischer's Chameleons and the male was displaying to the female with a bit f head bobbing.
Grabbed the camera and started filming but of course they go and stop dead in their tracks!
I will now keep a watch out for them to do it again and see if I can get it on film?! LOL!
Grabbed the camera and started filming but of course they go and stop dead in their tracks!
I will now keep a watch out for them to do it again and see if I can get it on film?! LOL!
Friday, 17 January 2014
THE NEW ROOM
I have moved some things around to make space which I have wanted to do since last year and still not gotten around to it until now.
I have also not finished the set of Vivariums but I am not far off, just need some glass and some sand, maybe a couple silly things besides.
I have also not finished the set of Vivariums but I am not far off, just need some glass and some sand, maybe a couple silly things besides.
GERRHOSAURUS VALIDUS - GIANT PLATED LIZARDS
Two large but not fully grown Giant Plated Lizards at my friends store in Baker Street in Enfield, called Petzotic.
There are two and he has a different species and cannot remember the other species but I think the latin is ... errr. ... ummm ... MAJOR!! I thought that is what it was, lol. Yes I think he has a couple of Gerrhosaurus major.
There are two and he has a different species and cannot remember the other species but I think the latin is ... errr. ... ummm ... MAJOR!! I thought that is what it was, lol. Yes I think he has a couple of Gerrhosaurus major.
ITALIAN ALPINE NEWTS - ICHTYOASAURA ALPESTRIS APUANUS
My Alpine Newts from North Italy, Icthyosaura alpestris apuanus, trying to sniff out some frozen bloodworm I have out in their aquarium.
HOG ISLAND x SUNSET BOA & ..ANOTHER BOA
These two are again in my friends shop in Baker Street in Enfield but you may be able to get the lighter male off him but he has not mated the female several times and I would bet my bottom dollar that he will not part with her.
Still no harm in trying, lol.
He has bred the Jaguar Carpet Pythins too so there will be some of those at some point and more pictures and videos too!
Oh and if eagle eyed viewers notice the name might be wrong, well shoot me. I do not normally like the colour morphs and as for the prices some of them ar going for, I have been shown ones that are £15,000 and it just looked like a uniform colured albino to me?! Lol!
In fact I have oinly now started to look at Boa constrictors and Pythin regius at all fo the first time! As a young lad my father was always importing them in and you just got bored of seeing the same things and wanted something different.
Cannot wait, me personally.
Still no harm in trying, lol.
He has bred the Jaguar Carpet Pythins too so there will be some of those at some point and more pictures and videos too!
Oh and if eagle eyed viewers notice the name might be wrong, well shoot me. I do not normally like the colour morphs and as for the prices some of them ar going for, I have been shown ones that are £15,000 and it just looked like a uniform colured albino to me?! Lol!
In fact I have oinly now started to look at Boa constrictors and Pythin regius at all fo the first time! As a young lad my father was always importing them in and you just got bored of seeing the same things and wanted something different.
Cannot wait, me personally.
FLOAT LIKE A BUTTERFLY STING LIKE A STINGER BEE ROYAL PYTHON
Here are a coupld videos of a Stinger Bee Royal Python in my friends shop in Baker Street in Enfield.
Not normally into the colour types, or Royal Pythons for that matter, but I have to admit to this one being particularly nice, lol.
Not normally into the colour types, or Royal Pythons for that matter, but I have to admit to this one being particularly nice, lol.
Tuesday, 14 January 2014
VIDEO of LEPTOPELIS ULUGURUENSIS - RUBY EYED TREE FROG
Here are my new additions which are four Ruby Eyed Tree Frogs, sometimes called Bug Eyed Tree Frogs and in the past Cameroon Tree Frogs.
Now I wrongly thought these were Heleophryne or Boophis when I saw them in their tub! Completely threw me and even when I was told they were Ruby Eyed Tree Frogs I thought, well they are NOT Agalychnis which was the first genus name to spring to mind when hearing the common name!
These are a light green with yellow blotches scattered about on their backs with a seemingly bluish colour to their flanks and with deep ruby coloured eyes. Very interesting indeed.
I did a search on my phone, though already decided these were coming home with me and all of them, and was totally shocked to find these belonged to a family I was already familiar withoooor THOUGHT I was!
I have seen Leptopelis many times in the past and I recall three now that you used to see with one being all green, one being all brown and one marbled green and brown. These all had an absolutely identical shape to these guys but the eyes of the other three were all light gold. Whereas mine are a dark Ruby Red, literally a Ruby colour!
To give you an idea of the contrasting colours between the two groups when it comes to eyes someone I knew years ago had been telling me that someone he knew had a Yellow Eyed Tree Frog, Agalychnis annae. I had already started to take photpgraphs on animals on a semi regular basis and one day was told he wanted to sell the frog. I normally do not entertain buying just one of an animals, unless it happens to be a female, but wanting a series of photos I said I would give him the fifty quid he wanted.
We arranged to meet in a friends store and I walked in their was someone I know who used to work for my Dad and I said 'Hi Jamie, how you doing?' to which I then spotted a glass vivarium and I said 'Wait?! Your NOT the guy with the Yellow Eyed Tree Frog?!' to which he said yes and I said 'Uh-oh! OK lets see it then?!' and I knew immediately it was not what he said it was. I knew him well and he was not knowledgable enough on this family of frogs nor did he have the contacts to get ahold of this species. There was a rule that if someone claimed to have something I was very interested in and yet had never seen nor never heard of being owned in the UK then it was normally not here and utter eyewash.
I looked into the glass cage before turning around and saying 'Bloody Yellow Eyed Tree Frogs indeed?! That is a Cameroon Bug Eyed Tree Frog and the Cameroons are in Africa which is several thousand miles away from the Amazon where the Yellow Eyed Tree Frogs come from!
Here is a video and I will do better ones in time and apologies for the lack of light, I will work on that pretty soon.
There should also be a couple of other things arriving soon say in the next month, fingers crossed. PLus I am going to renew my passport soon and have a few little ideas and plans up my sleeve?! ;)
Now I wrongly thought these were Heleophryne or Boophis when I saw them in their tub! Completely threw me and even when I was told they were Ruby Eyed Tree Frogs I thought, well they are NOT Agalychnis which was the first genus name to spring to mind when hearing the common name!
These are a light green with yellow blotches scattered about on their backs with a seemingly bluish colour to their flanks and with deep ruby coloured eyes. Very interesting indeed.
I did a search on my phone, though already decided these were coming home with me and all of them, and was totally shocked to find these belonged to a family I was already familiar withoooor THOUGHT I was!
I have seen Leptopelis many times in the past and I recall three now that you used to see with one being all green, one being all brown and one marbled green and brown. These all had an absolutely identical shape to these guys but the eyes of the other three were all light gold. Whereas mine are a dark Ruby Red, literally a Ruby colour!
To give you an idea of the contrasting colours between the two groups when it comes to eyes someone I knew years ago had been telling me that someone he knew had a Yellow Eyed Tree Frog, Agalychnis annae. I had already started to take photpgraphs on animals on a semi regular basis and one day was told he wanted to sell the frog. I normally do not entertain buying just one of an animals, unless it happens to be a female, but wanting a series of photos I said I would give him the fifty quid he wanted.
We arranged to meet in a friends store and I walked in their was someone I know who used to work for my Dad and I said 'Hi Jamie, how you doing?' to which I then spotted a glass vivarium and I said 'Wait?! Your NOT the guy with the Yellow Eyed Tree Frog?!' to which he said yes and I said 'Uh-oh! OK lets see it then?!' and I knew immediately it was not what he said it was. I knew him well and he was not knowledgable enough on this family of frogs nor did he have the contacts to get ahold of this species. There was a rule that if someone claimed to have something I was very interested in and yet had never seen nor never heard of being owned in the UK then it was normally not here and utter eyewash.
I looked into the glass cage before turning around and saying 'Bloody Yellow Eyed Tree Frogs indeed?! That is a Cameroon Bug Eyed Tree Frog and the Cameroons are in Africa which is several thousand miles away from the Amazon where the Yellow Eyed Tree Frogs come from!
Here is a video and I will do better ones in time and apologies for the lack of light, I will work on that pretty soon.
There should also be a couple of other things arriving soon say in the next month, fingers crossed. PLus I am going to renew my passport soon and have a few little ideas and plans up my sleeve?! ;)
Wednesday, 1 January 2014
NEW ADDITIONS OF RUBY EYED TREE FROGS - LEPTOPELIS ULUGURUENSIS
I have had some new additions to my extremely short list of amphibians in my collection.
Now there were a bit of a surprise but before I tell you why I will post in some photographs. I will actually state that some people that know me will see the genus name and say 'Well I don't believe it?!' but there is a perfectly good explanation.
They are gorgeous, lol....you will need to wait for better pictures as I have been inundated and these giuys needed to be settled in too.
Thers is also a bloody funny story to that...
Leptopelis uluguruensis or Ruby Eyed Tree Frogs
The Leptopelis cage is one on right in picture, Phalaenopsis species Orchids in one on left...
Yes some may be surprised I bouth some Leptopelis but I had never seen this tyope before. Without bothering to look up the names as I cannot remember the only two I ever saw were brownish gold and a green and brownish gold marbled. Nice as they were I never kept them as there were far more interesting things out there I wanted.
I initially thouight these were maybe Boophis or even Heleophryne and was surprised when a quick Google search reveled them instead to belong to the Cameroon Bug Eye Tree Frogs, yes I know a terrible name, lol.
There is more work to be done as this cage has four cages built into it. Need to change lighting a little too and need to get some glass bu the damn glass man is obviously making far too much cash. I went there few days back and he is closed from the 21st December until the 6th January?! Damn it!!
Now there were a bit of a surprise but before I tell you why I will post in some photographs. I will actually state that some people that know me will see the genus name and say 'Well I don't believe it?!' but there is a perfectly good explanation.
They are gorgeous, lol....you will need to wait for better pictures as I have been inundated and these giuys needed to be settled in too.
Thers is also a bloody funny story to that...
Leptopelis uluguruensis or Ruby Eyed Tree Frogs
The Leptopelis cage is one on right in picture, Phalaenopsis species Orchids in one on left...
Yes some may be surprised I bouth some Leptopelis but I had never seen this tyope before. Without bothering to look up the names as I cannot remember the only two I ever saw were brownish gold and a green and brownish gold marbled. Nice as they were I never kept them as there were far more interesting things out there I wanted.
I initially thouight these were maybe Boophis or even Heleophryne and was surprised when a quick Google search reveled them instead to belong to the Cameroon Bug Eye Tree Frogs, yes I know a terrible name, lol.
There is more work to be done as this cage has four cages built into it. Need to change lighting a little too and need to get some glass bu the damn glass man is obviously making far too much cash. I went there few days back and he is closed from the 21st December until the 6th January?! Damn it!!
One night I am sitting on my bed upstairs likely typping out a blog post for my corruption blog when I hear a thump downstairs. I raise me head and listen intently but hear no more sounds. It is odd as it is extremely quiet here at all times unless there is a raging storn goin on. It is late and I have been unable to get to sleep and I hear another thump and then a bang. It is now around 2.30am and I decide to go down and investigate.
I have no lights on and am looking around and everything seems normal. Due to the huge number of symptoms that make up my health condition the kitchen is in a messy mode. Still on the floor behind my oild heatr in the dark I see a shape and think 'why does that figure look like a Tree-Frog, realise immediately rach down and grab it! I glance over the their cage and realise thay have opened it and out loud I say 'OH WHAT THE FECK!! YOU IDIOT MARTIN!!' I put the Tree-Frog back in its cage and them woried about the other three and I see now they have all got out! I go to run upsi=stairs to get a torch as putting the light on will only make then freeze and sit still. AS I run up the stors about half way up and I see one sitting on a step!!
I thin oh that is good but I still have another two to go. I then walk up the stairs after attempting to run and hurting my back come back down and before even switching it on I spot another frog like figure in the far corner of my kitched sitting on my wok?! Good job for him I was not an oreintal that likes to eat everything!! Lol.
The very last one took awhile to find but find him I did. I have a computer table which is not much good to me but has a slide out keyboard rest. This was in its IN position and yet I managed to spot that sitting next to my new printer ink cartridges was another tell-tale frog outline! Without even checking my right hand fired into the gap between grey surfaces and I felt that familiar squidgy skin I know so well.
Damn lucky I was and had I falled asleep I my not have found them.
I have now placed rubber wedges between the doors and must be more careful in future. Especially as these came all the way from Holland and in a few weeks time there will be more things to add to my list and in the Spring of 2014 many more things will happen.
Well I DO HAVE a passport application form sitting here!! LMAO!
APOLOGIES OF THE PAUSING
Sorry for the gaps from time to time. I have had a battle with both my health and the NHS for over twelve years now. My health driving me nuts and the NHS constantly refusing to admit that I have one and telling me repeatedly that there is no such condition that matches my symptoms.
Now due to the fact that Doctors and Hospitals all like to deal with one thing at a time, oddly the same as the government and the DWP so your getting knowingly screwed, this has caused me considerable grief, pain, problems financially as well as he fact that dozens of realtionships broke down over the years.
Indeed it may be surprised to know that everything I state that I have achieved both on this blog and my others, the one on corruption will hurt your eyes that is for sure, I achoieved while suffering from this condition, including my degree!
I wrongly self diagnosed myself with something called Charcot Marie Tooth Syndrome and not only was this entertained by thge NHS, as they sent me for tests that were nagative and basically said 'oh well there is nothing else out there it can be' I then ran across the correct condition. AT the same time I was prescribed two drugs consecutively that in over 15 years were the first drugs to ever work on any of my pains. They were not non-steroidal ab=nti-inflammatories either and were Gabapentin and Amitriptyline. After a failed effor to say I was mad I was then kicked off my last GP surgery for insinating violent conduct. Bullshit basically and am now on my fourth GP with the same catchment area.
For the first time ever since I have liobved in this area my NEW and FOURTH GP offered an aover forties halth test to which I agreed. Just as well becuase I not only failed everything miserbale but they discovered an infection and a possible peoblem with my kidneys. I have had to have further blood tests amd now have to have an ultrasound on my kidneys in a few weeks, wonder if they will lie about this ultrasound like they did the last one?!
There is also an official complaint and as I had the excuse and have a blog about corruption in the UK government and public offices I approached the GMC expecting them to nothing, which is what I had hoped as it goes along with everything else I say about the UK. They did better than this and helped the GP kick off the register by showing him a letter saying that he was so rude, arrogant and lying to my face I wanted to break his jaw and likely will so if I was put through that again. Bein responsible I was not planning to return to such an imcompatent and arrogant twat who was really merely just a nobody dickhead, lol.
Ss as well as all this I have had to find a new GP, and then I was frefused my repeat prescriptions, which have all been wrong and screwing up my kidneys for years it seems now, to which it was hinted at bh NHS England that I would get my pills if I dropped my official complaint.
I said NO of course and unlucky for them I had already charged into the surgery and obtained the prescription, lol. I did wonder why they seem to have difficulty finding it and were holding back to giving it to me? I think they held the NHS to ransom because whatever my problem is they do not deem it their fault.
But it was and it is, though the NHS headquerters are much more to blame too. But to understand how that all works and how I provied it you would have to read my asaintcalledallnights.blogspot.com blog. It is all there too just so no one can get into any doubts or post any comments on there, despite one air-head doing that, lol. Hours of recorded audio of Doctors lying, most I prove by other means and one Doctor at Chase Farm Hospital being pulled to acount by me and admitting it on a recording. So arrogant and confident that he did not send the amended letter to my GP and sent the first one with lies?!
There are a great many Doctors and specialists with heads of departments that I have on tape and documents for and it is bo no means all, not even half of it, not even close. I have Police and Detectives doing the exact same thing along with Local Government and almost all Ombudsman.
Due to all this and the very recent fiascoes with people with public offices I have been a little rushed around. I also have held back from admitting for years that I am forgetful as many Doctors just roll their eyes at you and you just end up wanting to punch their over arrogant faces that suffer with deluisions of grandeur. This is because when you tryo to explain their errors and that tiy are just as intellgigent than they are they just shut you off mid sentence, which is of course RUDE. So they have brought much of this on themselves both what I have done and what I will do throught 2014.
As for this condition that causes me in the region of 110 symptoms, give or take 10, that I have Doctors repeatedly stating on tape does not exist?!
Oh well that would ne FIBROMYALGIA and for those that know me or used to know me it causes all my problems in all four limbs, feet, knees, shoulder and back/neck and is also behiond my skin conditions, night blindness and also even my heartburn. Which means I have only ever had ONE corrupt diagnosis off the NHS in 26 years and have been given the wrong pills all this time which is why the new GP looks concerned!
Oh yes and it causes short term memory problems too! Oh yes and it causes short term memory problems too?! Sorry...I just could not resist that one. But it does though so every GP I wanted to punch for roling theor eyes was in the wrong and I habe now proved myself correct as I stated all along for over 13 years.
Hemce all this has had a negative effect on anything I tried to start, c reate for myself or startung any careers. Just so that you know that when I disappear for a bit there is normally some good reason behind it. I apologise fore my absences nevertheless.
Rest assured though that this condition that they have repeatedly told me does not exist does do and I have now found it. I also found that there is a large department for it at one of the most famous hospitals in the country, being Guy's Hospital, fancy that?
You may now be wondering the same things I have been asking myself since I found out...how the hell can so many GPs, Orthopaedics, Podiatrists, Rheumatologists, Physiotherapists, Head of Departments, Nurses, Back Specialists and Pain Consultants all not know about Fibromyalgia and what is catered for at Guy's Hospital?! HOW?!?!
Well they all do have one thing in common...
...they are ALL NHS and as I long stated on my corruption blog, the NHS is corrupt and has been lying to patients for bloody years.
By the way do not try to defend them if you was diagnosed with a condition that they cannot possibly state does not exist. Becuase that simply is not fair in all honesty. I cannot say that my living room is painted black because people will see when they come around that it is painted white.
But rest assured if you feel that you are being messed about then you are and I am living proof, as is all my proof, as to how and why they are doing it.
I am on the verge now of being referred to Guy's Hospital...so bloody well hopefully this blog and all my other blogs can resume to normal speed and if the NHS, the DWP and Enfield COuncil do as they are fecking saupposed to do the amount of work I will put into these blogs will grow expomnnentially, of that I assure you.
Now due to the fact that Doctors and Hospitals all like to deal with one thing at a time, oddly the same as the government and the DWP so your getting knowingly screwed, this has caused me considerable grief, pain, problems financially as well as he fact that dozens of realtionships broke down over the years.
Indeed it may be surprised to know that everything I state that I have achieved both on this blog and my others, the one on corruption will hurt your eyes that is for sure, I achoieved while suffering from this condition, including my degree!
I wrongly self diagnosed myself with something called Charcot Marie Tooth Syndrome and not only was this entertained by thge NHS, as they sent me for tests that were nagative and basically said 'oh well there is nothing else out there it can be' I then ran across the correct condition. AT the same time I was prescribed two drugs consecutively that in over 15 years were the first drugs to ever work on any of my pains. They were not non-steroidal ab=nti-inflammatories either and were Gabapentin and Amitriptyline. After a failed effor to say I was mad I was then kicked off my last GP surgery for insinating violent conduct. Bullshit basically and am now on my fourth GP with the same catchment area.
For the first time ever since I have liobved in this area my NEW and FOURTH GP offered an aover forties halth test to which I agreed. Just as well becuase I not only failed everything miserbale but they discovered an infection and a possible peoblem with my kidneys. I have had to have further blood tests amd now have to have an ultrasound on my kidneys in a few weeks, wonder if they will lie about this ultrasound like they did the last one?!
There is also an official complaint and as I had the excuse and have a blog about corruption in the UK government and public offices I approached the GMC expecting them to nothing, which is what I had hoped as it goes along with everything else I say about the UK. They did better than this and helped the GP kick off the register by showing him a letter saying that he was so rude, arrogant and lying to my face I wanted to break his jaw and likely will so if I was put through that again. Bein responsible I was not planning to return to such an imcompatent and arrogant twat who was really merely just a nobody dickhead, lol.
Ss as well as all this I have had to find a new GP, and then I was frefused my repeat prescriptions, which have all been wrong and screwing up my kidneys for years it seems now, to which it was hinted at bh NHS England that I would get my pills if I dropped my official complaint.
I said NO of course and unlucky for them I had already charged into the surgery and obtained the prescription, lol. I did wonder why they seem to have difficulty finding it and were holding back to giving it to me? I think they held the NHS to ransom because whatever my problem is they do not deem it their fault.
But it was and it is, though the NHS headquerters are much more to blame too. But to understand how that all works and how I provied it you would have to read my asaintcalledallnights.blogspot.com blog. It is all there too just so no one can get into any doubts or post any comments on there, despite one air-head doing that, lol. Hours of recorded audio of Doctors lying, most I prove by other means and one Doctor at Chase Farm Hospital being pulled to acount by me and admitting it on a recording. So arrogant and confident that he did not send the amended letter to my GP and sent the first one with lies?!
There are a great many Doctors and specialists with heads of departments that I have on tape and documents for and it is bo no means all, not even half of it, not even close. I have Police and Detectives doing the exact same thing along with Local Government and almost all Ombudsman.
Due to all this and the very recent fiascoes with people with public offices I have been a little rushed around. I also have held back from admitting for years that I am forgetful as many Doctors just roll their eyes at you and you just end up wanting to punch their over arrogant faces that suffer with deluisions of grandeur. This is because when you tryo to explain their errors and that tiy are just as intellgigent than they are they just shut you off mid sentence, which is of course RUDE. So they have brought much of this on themselves both what I have done and what I will do throught 2014.
As for this condition that causes me in the region of 110 symptoms, give or take 10, that I have Doctors repeatedly stating on tape does not exist?!
Oh well that would ne FIBROMYALGIA and for those that know me or used to know me it causes all my problems in all four limbs, feet, knees, shoulder and back/neck and is also behiond my skin conditions, night blindness and also even my heartburn. Which means I have only ever had ONE corrupt diagnosis off the NHS in 26 years and have been given the wrong pills all this time which is why the new GP looks concerned!
Oh yes and it causes short term memory problems too! Oh yes and it causes short term memory problems too?! Sorry...I just could not resist that one. But it does though so every GP I wanted to punch for roling theor eyes was in the wrong and I habe now proved myself correct as I stated all along for over 13 years.
Hemce all this has had a negative effect on anything I tried to start, c reate for myself or startung any careers. Just so that you know that when I disappear for a bit there is normally some good reason behind it. I apologise fore my absences nevertheless.
Rest assured though that this condition that they have repeatedly told me does not exist does do and I have now found it. I also found that there is a large department for it at one of the most famous hospitals in the country, being Guy's Hospital, fancy that?
You may now be wondering the same things I have been asking myself since I found out...how the hell can so many GPs, Orthopaedics, Podiatrists, Rheumatologists, Physiotherapists, Head of Departments, Nurses, Back Specialists and Pain Consultants all not know about Fibromyalgia and what is catered for at Guy's Hospital?! HOW?!?!
Well they all do have one thing in common...
...they are ALL NHS and as I long stated on my corruption blog, the NHS is corrupt and has been lying to patients for bloody years.
By the way do not try to defend them if you was diagnosed with a condition that they cannot possibly state does not exist. Becuase that simply is not fair in all honesty. I cannot say that my living room is painted black because people will see when they come around that it is painted white.
But rest assured if you feel that you are being messed about then you are and I am living proof, as is all my proof, as to how and why they are doing it.
I am on the verge now of being referred to Guy's Hospital...so bloody well hopefully this blog and all my other blogs can resume to normal speed and if the NHS, the DWP and Enfield COuncil do as they are fecking saupposed to do the amount of work I will put into these blogs will grow expomnnentially, of that I assure you.
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