Home Alone

So, Pa's gone for a few days, and man does it feel weird to be in this house, knowing he's not coming home any time soon. I've lived alone many times before, but every time I live with other people (aside from S/O's) I always feel weird when I know they aren't coming home for a few days. It's not bad, it's not good, it just is.

Mammoth died. He grew his front legs, lost his tail, but then just died. He hadn't completely lost his tail though, before we started noticing he was acting a bit off. Couldn't swim, and he was bleeding internally at one point, and he couldn't move half his body at another. We think he had a stroke, and was then paralyzed.

Of course, we were all sad for this loss, as we worked so hard keeping him alive. He was the reason we kept on doing what we were with the tadpoles. Out of 75 tadpoles, he was the only one like that. Now, we have 10 more tadpoles, that aren't what he was, which was in fact a southern leopard frog, but they are similar.

Pickerel frogs. None have their front legs yet, but most have their back full grown. Kash wants to try and keep one, but I'm not so sure. We have them for now, but I don't think we are keeping them. I'm worried they too will stroke, and die, and that's not something I want to put them, nor us through again.

We literally watched one of the slugs lay eggs, that was kind of disgusting. Got rid of the two slugs, but we still have the snails. Despite at one point, we were going to get rid of them. As Kash was getting ready to do so, I told him no. That I wanted to keep them. We had them outside for a night, and apparently raccoons like them?

I don't know, what I do know is that something literally came by and took the screen off, and all but the little snails escaped. We were able to find three of the big ones immediately, or rather, Kash and Pa found them, around the front deck where the cage box was at. Nathanial, was no where to be found.

I said, of course, the one that I named, would be the one to be missing. However, today, a full 36 hours later, I was outside and I saw him, yes it is him because they all have unique markings, and in this case, chippings in his shell, not to mention, a hole in his slimy skin.

I was like, look who I found. He was on the deck as well, but on the outside and far down it. I think Kash said Pascha was clear down the other side of the house by our bedroom window. That, I thought was awesome. Anyhoo, we still have them, and as long as they are kept outside, I'm cool with keeping them. We did, keep the eggs though, despite getting rid of the slugs.

Lol, so we're expecting to see some baby slugs soon. Only to get rid of them however, because...ew. I don't like the slugs. Their damn slime takes forever to get off, and I scrubbed my hands good with dish soap, hand soap, all kinds of soaps, but the stupid shit did NOT want to come off. Nasty. *Shudders*

Been playing a lot on free online rpg sites. Not RP guys, but RPG. Though, I am trying to get back into RP, but only on Daydream, and with Kash, as I'm just a little iffy right now with RP in general. Yes, I did find myself through RP, however, I also got lost, and it took a long time to find myself again.

Don't want to have that happen. Not something I want to repeat. I have the links to the left guys, if you want to check them out. Also, click on my dragon eggs! Lol, I want to have them hatch. I have yet to have any hatch, they always die, because no one clicks on them. I want a dragon! Lol. :P I'm saving up for a draik, on neo, but that'll take forever.

Newaz, I hope all reading this is having a good day.

Peace,

-Khai

Argghh..

So, I've been feeling like blogging lately, but I've not been wanting to, because I haven't taken any pics of what I want to put up... but right now, I'm like 'fuck it.' I'll just link to Kash's pics from his blog or something. I mean, why should I only put pics that I took? It's not like I'm saying 'hey, this is mine.' when its obviously Kash's. If I don't take the pic, I will give proper credit. Deal? Deal.

Moving on, I have a head ache right now, but I imagine thats from being tired. Despite I am the one that woke our asses up. I honestly don't even know why I wanted to get up right then, I just know something was telling me to wake up. So, that's what I did. Sat up in bed, and proceeded to wake Kash. He finally sat up and we were sharing our dreams, as we usually do in the mornings when he noticed Mnoti literally squeeze her fat ass out the side of the mice cage!

He jumped up immediately and grabbed her. We were both shocked she had managed to get out. I guess it was only a matter of time til they learned that they could, and once learned, they'd be doing it again, trying to break free, only to be killed by the rat poison lying around the floor of the house in various rooms. So, we had to take our newest mouse edition, a Mr. Cinead Brudair Fionntan out of his cage (the critter trail two) and put them back in.

This was their original home, so they weren't to like 'err, wtf?' with it. Despite obviously we had rearranged a lot for him, but they had been in it a couple days ago after we did so for him. We let them all play together, just have to watch them, and make sure the girls aren't in heat. Since, it's apparently fairly easy to tell, once you know what to look for. We put him in one of the travel critter trail cages, since he's just one, and the thing is big enough to house one hamster/mouse easily and comfortably.

So yeah, he's one of the things I wanted to blog about. He's a cute little mousey, but like the girls, skittish. Half the time though, not as skittish. However, he bites if provoked. And to him, provoking is something as simple as not letting him out of your hand when he wants to run around. His fur is a shiny pearl color. Not neccessarily the white pearl, but that greyish/bronzish pearl, off white color. It's gorgeous.

When we're able, we want to breed him with Shemeit. Originally we wanted to breed Mnoti, but now we've decided against that, since he has the shiny coat, as does Shemeit, and we want to continue to have the shiny coats. Mnoti has just a regular coat, that is white with cinnamon marbled onto it. As you've all seen. Also, as Kash has blogged before, we think that Mnoti either is a male (whos balls did not descend) or she's a lesbian.

She has been humping the other girls, and she absolutely HATES Cinaed. He gets close to the other girls and she is there, and she gets super pissed and starts squeaking real loud at him as if saying 'these my bitches, bitch. Back off.' So yeah, we're slightly amused there. I will probably be taking pictures though, because I want to put them all four in the doll house, lol. I don't know why, but I think that's hilarious. OOooh, maybe I can make that net go around it and like.. they can live in the doll house now.

Ahahaha, err, yeah. Kay. :P /amusement. Moving on, yet same(ish) topic: Mammoth has all four legs, again as per Kash's statement and pictures in his blog. Shameless PLUG. Along with a few of the other big tadpoles getting their back legs. I'll try and get some pics of them as well today and tomorrow. Pa brought in another big ass snail thing for Kash. He was really excited (Kash) because he thinks the things are cute.

Do I? Not particular. I'm pretty indifferent really when it comes to them. I'm just like 'eh'. However, since there were now then four snails, well three and one slug, Kash was like 'we really need to make them a habitat.' Blah. Lol. So, we went out side after he arranged all the river rock to cover the bottom appropriately and cut up some moss off the ground from by the side of the house.

Placed it over the river rock in their little box (that was originally from a refridgerator.. that has since expired..) to give the snails a place to crawl. Added a couple earth worms since the things apparently were living in the moss.. Made it all nice for them, added a couple weeds lmao, maybe they'll continue to grow? Since we got everythings roots.. who knows. We mist the tank daily, as per the directions on how to house a snail Kash found while googling how to's on the subject.

Then we took some plastic screen Pa gave us to use to cover the frog tank when ever we get around to doing so and cut it some and then taped it around their little habitat. Maybe I can get a pic of that? Who knows. I'll go try though before I send this, just in case I can. I saw a baby skink and was like 'mine' but I didn't catch it. >.< :( However, I saw a NOTHER snail on the side of the house, and brought it to Kash to see if he wanted it. Of course he did. So now we have like err... 4 snails and 1 slug. 3 Snails are big though, and one is small, and the slug is just a slug. :P He didn't know what to name it, so I named it Nathanial. Again, LMAO. Anyway. Now its Ksenia, Pascha, Mikhail and Nathanial. Oh and Nikolai the slug. Who, names, a slug? Err, and snails? Seriously? :P Anyway. I love Kash, so in a way, I think its cute. Well, he's cute, again, not the snails/slugs. On to him now.. I find myself loving him more and every day. I love every moment we spend together. He is just too cute/amazing for words. I find myself just admiring him at times, and he's like 'what?' and I just smile and shake my head, telling him I love him. We have our tiffs, but it's usually just stupid shit and we're over it with in minutes. So things are good there. Life: Is good. -Khai *Taken by Kash, linked to from his blog*
Mammoth: All 4 legs.

*Taken by Kash, linked to from his blog*

Cinaed Brudair Fionntan; Handsome bugger.

P.S. Tried to get pics of the snails thing, but it just wont work with the current lighting. It'll have to wait until it's actually sunny out and we can go outside to get the pics. It's over cast right now and will be all day. Boo.

When Boredom Strikes...Good-bye means Hello

So, after having gotten rid of all but maybe ten of the baby frogs, we, well mainly Kash.. was really upset. I guess I'm more used to this? I don't know.. but he was upset that we had had to get rid of them, but like he posted.. we needed to due to the fact we just COULDN'T handle that many.

Even though we wanted to. So, that was pretty sad. Said our good byes and what not. Then today we went outside with Pa and I was walking down the steps and I saw something hop.. just next to the bottom step. I thought 'hmm..' and low and behold it was a toad! Though, of course not one of ours, as he is much bigger, but still a baby yet. Kash thinks it's a girl, I, really wouldn't know either way.

However, we picked him up and Kash immediately said "I wanna keep him, he shall be mine. Okay little froggy, you are mine. Now what shall I name you..hmm..." Okay, maybe not that last part, but I could tell he was thinking it. :P I mentioned the others.. and that we just have the one tank free, well it wasn't so free at the time, since it had a few of the baby frogs in it still.

We decided to get rid of them, since they weren't doing too well anyways.. and were just kind of dying off. Felt bad for the babies, tbh. They just didn't want to eat the buggies we brought for them. :/ So, we took the other froggies outta the tank and let them go where the other frogs were happily hopping around out front. Yes, they are still there. Well, some of them.

I cleaned the tank up while Kash did that, and then fixed the tank back up real quick for this new older, yet still young toad. It's not really a frog, huh, lol. Oh well. Anyway, did that, got him settled.. Kash took a pic.. yada yada. Now onto the first part of my title! Are you ready?!?!? Oh well if you aren't, because I'mma get to splaining anyways! DUN DUN DUN!



We were bored... and didn't feel like finishing up with our blog crap.. because yes, as you can see, it's very different! And he (Kash) needed to use the nebulizer, since his asthma was acting up. Turned the thing on, he did it.. and not really sure why, but when he was done, I decided to put the tube in my mouth, with it still turned on! OMG, did you know how much fun that is?!

We laughed so hard, playing with it, taking turns back and forth, seeing what kind of sounds we could make.. I mooed once like a cow, Kash tried to quack. It didn't turn out as well as he'd liked, but eh. I knew what he was doing. I even managed to say 'I love you' with this cool vibrating sound resonating from my mouth, lol. got some of it on vid for you all! Yay! :P



Other than all that, not much is going on. Kash got his second Cybunny, I opted not to get one. Instead, I morphed a pet into a Koi, and I have a Kiko Trans ready for the first.. Saving up for Li's Krawk.. since we were able to get the draik. Woot. I want a Maraquan Draik, but eh. The draik alone, is worth over 10mil, the maraquan PB is like 4mil. Crazy!

Trying to turn Lucky into a Lutari. So far, no luck. He's a brown moehog though, cuz I morphed him for the avvie, lol. So now, I have two moehogs. >.< Ugh. Yuck. Oh well. Lol. I guess this is all for now.

Peace peeps, and much love.
-Kai

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

Hoppers Galore

Two days ago, we noticed that two of our grey tree frogs have their front legs too! Oy vey. Lol. We had to drain over half the water from the tank, so the frogs that will all soon have their front legs will have a place to sit, above the water. And soon after that, the toads will follow suit, seeing as how they are about 5 days behind the others. Give or take a few days per each actual tadpole.


Note: these are not the same frog, it is one of each of our frogs that have their legs.

We decided to put the ones we wanted, or were considering, in our fish bowl, so we could tell them apart. This includes the two that have their front legs already. One of those that we also chose, has his front legs ALMOST out. From what we can tell, the ones in the tank aren't quite there, but getting there. :) They LOVE the algae discs that we have for placos. They attack the damn things the moment we put one in.



We're beginning to wonder how these guys are gonna survive in the wild, because there is NO way we can keep that many frogs and toads.