What are the pets you would like to keep

• elindra

  16 Apr 06, 11:39

  Originally posted by av98m:

  the pinky bear sure has a thing for weird/creepy creatures.

  
  Ya, an ideal saltwater fish I wanna keep if I have a marine tank is an octopus and moray eel
• av98m

  16 Apr 06, 11:40

  Originally posted by elindra:

  
  Ya, an ideal saltwater fish I wanna keep if I have a marine tank is an octopus and moray eel

  They could use your home for the set of a james bond movie. The villian's lair. Where Bond will be threatened and maybe thrown into one of the tanks.
• elindra

  16 Apr 06, 11:46

  Originally posted by av98m:

  They could use your home for the set of a james bond movie. The villian's lair. Where Bond will be threatened and maybe thrown into one of the tanks.

  Erhmm wouldn't it be more effective if I had a hungry great white as a pet?
• av98m

  16 Apr 06, 11:50

  Originally posted by elindra:

  Erhmm wouldn't it be more effective if I had a hungry great white as a pet?

  Great white is sooo.....common. Snapping turtles, octopus and other assorted creatures will be so much more fun.
• elindra

  16 Apr 06, 11:55

  Originally posted by av98m:

  Great white is sooo.....common. Snapping turtles, octopus and other assorted creatures will be so much more fun.

  Erhmmm maybe a few portuguese man-o-war might be a better idea
• av98m

  16 Apr 06, 11:56

  Originally posted by elindra:

  Erhmmm maybe a few portuguese man-o-war might be a better idea

  Great idea!!! Then you can see the hero's face swell up like crazy.
• elindra

  16 Apr 06, 17:39

  Originally posted by av98m:

  Great idea!!! Then you can see the hero's face swell up like crazy.

  
  Trust you to think of that!
• the Bear

  16 Apr 06, 17:54

  why can't the villian just shoot Bond and be done with it?
  
  anyway, if can get a large enough tank, blue-ringed octopus would be a cool pet.. except if you get bitten, you're dead
  
  maybe cuttlefish... coz baby cuttlefish are sooooo cute!
• leo-kun

  16 Apr 06, 18:01

  i want a mini zoo in my house
• applesweetgirl

  16 Apr 06, 18:29

  i want to keep lobster! my fren's house got two lobsters! so cute de!!!! they like to wave at you with their feelers. and they get scared sometimes when you scare them...they will move backwards in shock and raise their pincers. kawaii yo! i love lobsters! muacks! ^^
• stellazio

  16 Apr 06, 19:59

  just a monkey..or maybe a chim..heck they're fun and smart..
• stellazio

  16 Apr 06, 20:01

  i would like to keep mistresses as my pet..
• the Bear

  16 Apr 06, 20:07

  i think they more likely keep you as a pet "little white face"
  
  

  Originally posted by stellazio:

  i would like to keep mistresses as my pet..

• cornyfish2000

  16 Apr 06, 20:14

  Originally posted by elindra:

  Maybe if you can wait for mine to mature and if they breed I'll let you know
  
  

  Great! I'll be waiting for your good news...
• cornyfish2000

  16 Apr 06, 20:39

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  why can't the villian just shoot Bond and be done with it?
  
  anyway, if can get a large enough tank, blue-ringed octopus would be a cool pet.. except if you get bitten, you're dead
  
  maybe cuttlefish... coz baby cuttlefish are sooooo cute!

  Yes, i wanna blue-ring octopus too! Quite cheap too (last time i saw they were selling for $20)! But dun dare...
  
  Actually i don't think a big tank is needed for a blue ring, cos they remain quite small... a regular 3 feet is probably enough. The blue ring colouration appears only when it's frightened/stressed..
  
  Someone in a local marine fish forum once bought a blue-ring thinking it was a bargain for such a beautiful creature, not knowing that beneath its beauty lies its deadly side. After reading up more on his new pet, he freaked out but had trouble getting rid of it as no one dared to take over from him. Haven't heard from him for a long while, hope he didn't release it into Siloso Beach or something.
  
  A pic of the blue ring that he bought... the deadly beauty:
  
  
• the Bear

  16 Apr 06, 20:43

  my room is pretty small.. a 3ft tank to me is pretty big
  
  a small tank to me is a 1 foot tank which i can put on the top of my desk, way too small for proper marine creatures...
  
  i like the baby cuttlefish.. i think i posted before.. they look so cute
• cornyfish2000

  16 Apr 06, 20:45

  Originally posted by applesweetgirl:

  i want to keep lobster! my fren's house got two lobsters! so cute de!!!! they like to wave at you with their feelers. and they get scared sometimes when you scare them...they will move backwards in shock and raise their pincers. kawaii yo! i love lobsters! muacks! ^^

  I'm keeping a spiny blue lobster, the edible type without claws that's served in restauarants...
  
  A pic of my lobster coming out from his lair:
  
• cornyfish2000

  16 Apr 06, 20:47

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  my room is pretty small.. a 3ft tank to me is pretty big
  
  a small tank to me is a 1 foot tank which i can put on the top of my desk, way too small for proper marine creatures...
  
  i like the baby cuttlefish.. i think i posted before.. they look so cute

  I've kept a baby cuttlefish before too, but its long gone now.
  Lemme hunt for his pic... hidden somewhere in one of the folders in my comp..
  
  Ah, here he is!
  
  
  
  I'm ashamed to say he was the result of my impulse purchase when i was just starting to keep marine creatures.. i saw it in a fish farm, thought it was very cute, and bought it even though i had not done any research on it. For that matter, i did not even have a proper tank for him (as he turned out to be too predatory to house with any other marine creature), and hence had to house him in the quarantine tank (which is on the floor as you can see from the pic).
  
  Real fascinating fellow who exhibits a dazzling colour change whenever he is excited (on spotting his dinner of live shrimps or feeder fishes or when i go too near his tank). Interesting to watch him stalk his prey then suck them up by shooting out 2 long tentacles at lightning speed.
  
  Not sure what killed him eventually as water parameters were stable... it just went off-feed for several days, inked in his tank several times and died. When i came home that day, the tank stank of fishy sotong.
  
  
• the Bear

  16 Apr 06, 20:52

  ahh.. maybe a 1-foot tank can keep 2 yabbies
• the Bear

  16 Apr 06, 21:06

  poor little fella
  
  sometimes, they just fall ill and die.. happens in the wild too
• cornyfish2000

  16 Apr 06, 21:07

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  ahh.. maybe a 1-foot tank can keep 2 yabbies

  What's a yabbie? A type of lobster?
• the Bear

  16 Apr 06, 21:12

  they're small freshwater crayfish indigeous to Australia...
  
  the blue ones like these, are usually sold as pets
  
  
  
  but they're usually green and they grow up to about a foot long.. and they're delicious
  
  
  
  

  Originally posted by cornyfish2000:

  What's a yabbie? A type of lobster?

• cornyfish2000

  16 Apr 06, 21:20

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  they're small freshwater crayfish indigeous to Australia...
  
  the blue ones like these, are usually sold as pets
  
  
  
  but they're usually green and they grow up to about a foot long.. and they're delicious
  
  
  
  

  Ah ok... then i've kept a dark red one before.. just didn't know they are called yabbies.
  
  Yes, they do look delicious...
  
• the Bear

  16 Apr 06, 21:29

  they're pretty vicious tho'
  
  sneaky too...
  
  they co-existed peacefully with a tank full of goldfish and tetras for 4 months.. then one day i came back and ALL the goldfish were eaten by the pair... the tetras were just too quick to be caught
• av98m

  16 Apr 06, 22:12

  Originally posted by elindra:

  
  Trust you to think of that!

  I constantly think of new ways to hurt people.