As promised..

Got some great photos of the froglets, toadlets, baby frogs, baby toads, tadpoles, and fish. Took video and everything. :) I hope you all enjoy. We did some more research, upon the lady next door telling us that Mammoth is NOT a bullfrog. She told us he is a speckled, but we researched those and, um.. no. He's not. So the search continued and we found him! He is (we believe) a southern leopard frog. We also believe some of the taddies are western and or southern chorus frogs.

The new home for the frogs/toads/froglets/toadlets.

We aren't even sure if our toads are toads anymore, as they have a green hint to them, once they become actual baby frog/toads. Once they lose their tails completely, they start to get a green tint, but dark green tint to their skin, with small dots patterened along their back. They are real cute. Kash things we accidently gave our tree frogs to the lady next door, or at least, his tree frog. I hope not. I'm hoping he's just hiding under the tree stump in the tank. :/


Watching you... (toad? blends in with the rock, no tail.)


Stop staring please... (toad? still has partial tail.)

I seez euu... (grey tree frog/hybrid? no tail.)


See, I kanz climb... (same frog as above.)

We're actually really thankful for the neighbor for just giving us that tank. It's helped ease our mind tremendously. She's also taken about 30 of our frogs/froglets/tadpoles (toadies likewise) off of our hands. She thinks they are adorable, and since she has three bullfrogs, plus firebelly toads, and loads of koi and turtles, not to mention the millions of fish and tanks... she was glad to have some more additions to her collection. Lol. She fell in love with them the moment we brought them over for her to see. :)


King of the hill, or in this case...rock.

For once, we actually got some decent pics of the goldfish and betta. I'm really happy. I just wish we had gotten some good pics of Rhett before he passed. Maybe when we get the next Rhett, we'll be able to get some pics of him. It's sad he passed, but I guess it was just meant to be. I effing hate Petsmart now, because it was their fault he died. He was sick when we got him, but we just couldn't take him back. They'd just let him die if we had. And we at least wanted to try and save his life.



Dhani: Silver with orange stripe/spots.
Emile: Pale pink with orange underbelly.


Lestat: Blue with aqua highlights.

Hopefully we can heal Lestat back to health. He's been battling a really bad case of fin rot. Nothing seems to work thus far. We are just going to have to keep changing the water regularly, and pray that it heals and new fins start to grow back. Now, on to the new tank addition. It came with rocks, and a deco rock/plant thing. Plus its own filter and everything. I couldn't be more thankful, honestly. I love it. It's perfect.


Front view, full shot of the tank with minnows and taddies.


Front view, close up of the minnows, enjoying the filter...don't ask..they're obsessed.


Last but not least, the side view of the new tank. That really big taddie, is Mammoth.

Here you guys go, it's the vids. Enjoy!


Dha, Em, and Les


Froggy land!


Taddies and Minnows

Until next time, be good!

Oh, and I absolutely LOVE how each of our tanks is uniquely awesome.

-Khai

Headache

Been waking up with massive tension head aches. Not fun, nope. But, I have some medicine for it, so hopefully it'll work. Since tylenol just doesn't seem to cut it. :/

We went next door and talked to the woman who has lots of frogs, and turtles, etc, and she asked to have some of our taddies and froggies. In exchange, she gave us a 5gal I believe tank and filter, with hood. It also had rocks and a nice deco rock thing. We drained the ten gal, and washed, it. Boy was it dirty, lol.

But that's cuz we've been putting the creek water in it, since we didn't have any dechlorinator. It worked suffice. The minnows didn't mind the water, probably enjoyed it a lot better than the crappy tap water. We have dechlorinator now though, which I'm hoping will help Lestat some.

We put both the small filters in with the goldfish and the betta (Emile, Dhani and Lestat) since the frogs don't need a filter. They have just a small pool of water, and the rest is rocks and things for them to chill on til they are big enough to be released. We will be taking pictures probably tomorrow, since today was a buy one.

What with cleaning all the tanks, running to Wally World, and then building the tanks, redecorating, and filling them. We're just now sitting down to eat. (Chinese, yum) and we're just gonna chill the rest of the night ourselves. Took my excedrin, drinking me some D.P. and getting back on Neo, to earn me some NP. Rawrs, bitches.

-Khai

Alright..

so I've been sleeping...really weird. Not physically either, I mean.. when I sleep, it's just weird. The dreams I have. Whether I remember them or not, are just way different than what I am used to. Got me thinking though, this last one. I'm looking forward to the future (and no I'm not referring to my future with Kash, etc, though obviously, I am looking forward to that separately).

Basically, I think things are going to be okay, and things will finally start to fall into their respective places, because damn it, I'm sick of this already. Sick of the looks, the confusion, the ignorance. *kicks the ignorant people* <.< Heh. Sorry, they piss me off. But basically, from the dream, I have a new hope things will finally be right. Of course there will be roadblocks, but that's only in the beginning.

So, I'm happy about what the future will bring. However, it will be a long time I am sure before I will even get there. Too many other things going on right now, that need my attn. Ann was supposed to send money.. but alas, she has not. Girls, I'm sorry.. but grr. Ann is your typical girl, and despite I love her,s he drives me insane.

She asks the weirdest of fucking questions to me, and I'm like 'uhhh...huh?' then gets upset I don't understand her. Whatever. She hasn't messaged me in three days. I think she's mad at me. (Most likely is..) but I don't know what to do to change it. There is nothing I can say more on the situation of her moving back in with her mother.

OH! On to her mother, right.. okay. So her mom was in a car accident, a while back. Well a few weeks back. I blogged about it, but not in much detail. Why? Because I didn't have much details, heh. Anyway, it turns out that her mom is partially paralyzed. Which means that she 'can' move, but isn't allowed to, or it will paralyze her.

Her lower vertibre was crushed and on a few of the nerves, making it too dangerous for her to move. So her mom is basically bedridden, and she bitches 24/7 because she's bored. Well naturally a woman who has spent the last 20 years working outside the house 16+hours a day, would be bored.

Whatever, give her a computer and tell her to shut up, ha!. Not really, but yes, along those lines. Ann has/had to move back home to help take care of her mother. Kash and I are figuring this means she will never be moving home here to Georgia with us. I'm sure Kash is more relieved than anything, but me.. I'm not sure how I feel about it.

Ann needs to get away from her mother, not be that much closer. The woman is a crazy bitch, and I can't stand even being in the same house, let alone same room as her. She just gives off those vibes that make you cringe. She is very *cringes and shivers* Bleh. Don't even want to write about her anymore, it's that bad.

So yeah. Aiden did eventually die, like I said he would. He was the next to die, then Nadalia died. Then all the sudden Viktorae's eyes were like.. bulging and shit. I was like, um.. I have no idea what was causing them to die. We bought the medication for them, it just wasn't working. I'm going to just have to blame the filter. It's a 2-10 gal filter, which.. just can't accommodate a full ten gal aquarium and it's fish. We need a new filter.

Totally got sidetracked by someone's blog post. Had to read and respond before I could finish this one. *CoughsMelscoughcoughsneeze* So, we noticed that Jevin was about to die.. and so we took him out, Vik out and flushed them. Hopefully tthey died quickly, rather the long painful process they were endearing with in the aquarium. I didn't want them to suffer any more than they had to.

The minnows are still alive, as well as the goldfish. We put the goldfish back in the tank, with the minnows.. after completely cleaning it, AGAIN and adding new water. The water was sooo clean and pretty.. then 24 hours later, it was cloudy as fuck again. We dont have any more waterconditioner, so I'm not sure what to do really.. I've changed the water twice now, half way each time.

They are still alive, but the water is still cloudy. MUST GET BIGGER FILTER! The bettas are alive, but barely. This is horrible, first our mice were crazy, and not used to being handled, then all the fish we bought, minus the damn gold fish, are dying/have died. And the goldfish are barely hanging in it seems. Rhett has ich, and despite the MANY ich treatments we've given, he isn't getting rid of it.

Lestat, though in the same fucking aquarium, doesn't have ich, but has fin rot, really bad. He had it when we brought him home, but it's just got worse, despite I've been keeping the water clean and making sure it's okay for him to be able to kick the shit. But, it must have been bad enough that it just isn't going away.

Fucking A. I will never buy shit from PetSmart again. This is ridiculous now. Only I will buy mice cages from them, because I like their cages, vs the others ones else where. Anyway, I don't have any pics really to put up, despite I got some of Rasui in Kash's hair the other night. It was hilarious. She was all burried in his hair. Right now, we have Shemeit and Mnoti in Rasui's cage, all chillin, visiting each other.

It's cute how they react when they first see each other, after a few days. They are like, 'omg, who the fuck are you?! Oh, it's just you, cool. What's up?' Ha. I love it.

Right, so I'mma get going now. I'll have those pics for the next blog. Just been playing Harvest Moon with Kash, and messing around on Neopets, despite they are horribly neglected right now. Good thing for NP and the Cockroach motel! Rawrs, baby!

Peace,
Khai

Same ol' Same ol' really..

Okay, so not really. Yes, but no. Few things are different. One of our guppy females died.. :/ We have the big female in the fry net, because she's about to pop. Took Emile and Dhani out of the beta tank, and put them in a goldfish bowl. Lestat kept trying to kill them, where as Rhett wasn't too bothered by them. I will try and take good pics of them, it's just really hard getting good pics with the glare off the aquarium.

We separated all the mice! Put momma (Isis) our Russian Dwarf Hammie, in the big cage. Mnoti in the pyramid cage, all by herself, and Rasui and Shemeit in their own cages. The travel Critter Trails. Why did we do this you ask? Well, because we were tired of them all RUNNING from us when ever we walked by the cage, and or tried to take them out to play. They refuse to take food from us, and never eat in front of us.

They are scared of human contact! Who wants that in a pet?! Stupid petsmart. So, in an effort to make them less scared of us, and in turn, actually want us, we've separated them from their littermates, and put them each in their own cages. Rasui is usually pretty good when I take her out, UNLESS we have Mnoti out at the same time, who is a BIG scaredy pants, and then Rasui starts getting skittish too as a result. We are having to work on them one at a time, individually.

So far, it's working out pretty nicely. They don't run or hide as much when we try to take them out. They are more likely to venture out on their own too, when we open up the side of their cages. We aren't working on Mnoti as of yet, but we do take her out when we take the other two out and let them all play together for some time. We don't want them to forget each other, as they might wind up being in a cage to share again.

We were talking, and we've decided we want to breed mice. As well as our betas and guppies/minnows. We can breed the minnows for bait, but all our minnows are babies still. Wont even know what sex they are for another 4-5 months. O.O So, in the mean time, we have the guppies. We'll see if we can't get some buyers for the babies, and save that money and get a female crown tail beta, to mate with Lestat and Rhett, our veil tail betas.

We have no idea what we are going to do with Dhani and Emile, our goldfish. Ha. We need to save up for some more tanks, so we can put the goldies in one. I'd love to have a in ground pond out back some day. Maybe put the goldies in there, with the minnows, and have bunches of babies to sell, lol. Who knows. Never know what tomorrow will bring. Could win the lottery.

Anyway, the pics and video are from yesterday, when we took all the mice outside with us. We were on the trampoline out back, just chilling. We didn't have Mnoti out at first, but we eventually brought her out and connected Rasui and Shemeit's cages so they could run around, in and out. Which they all, but Mnoti, did. Rasui and Shemeit kept leaving the cages to run around, to us, and then back into the cages. Mnoti, as expected, stayed in side the cages.



(First pic is Shemeit, eating a pringle, lol. Second is Mnoti, sticking her nose out the tube. Rasui is behind her..because like I said, when Ras gets near Mnoti, she too decides to become skittish, or more skittish than usual. Didn't get a pic of Rasui, unfortunately. I'll take some today, as well as try and get some of the fish.)