u/joshlikesbettafish

My stepdaughter just went back to another state to live with her mother for the school year. Our boy bear is distraught, panting at her bedroom door and whining . Its been 4 days and he won't let up. He has also fallen back into his demand barking, destroying things and resource guarding behaviors he had been getting better at. Just yesterday I walked by him and he bit me for seemingly no reason. (I said "not nice" and sent him to his place for 5 min but maybe I might of pressed a boundary I wast aware of) I let him into her room a couple times and hed pace around sniffing but ultimately leave again and keep looking through the house for her. Is there a way I could aid him while he recovers? I tried giving him one of her dirty blankets but he started eating it. Should I work extra on training the resource guarding or just let it go for a week or so? He also started burying all his toys and has never done so before, would it be mean to unearth them ? (Btw its 68 in here the panting is anxiety) thank you in advance I know this is kinda a book.

Chubby grub that bites? Found in a hole my dog was digging. Pa

I moved my lepord slug from their 15 litter tub (3rd picture) to a 20 gallon (1st two) hopefully he will be happier. There is a network of pvc under the substrate beginning beneath the skull. (Will he eat the strawberry plant?)

(Was deceased upon discovery)

I found an invasive lepord slug in my backyard maybe 20 min ago. I know im supposed to euth them but I cant kill anything, I threw this together verry fast after 5 min of reaserch. I plan to do alot more in the morning. Is there anything wrong with this overnight enclosure that could be immediately dangerous in the next coming days before he can get a bigger bin? Thank you, I dont know if this is the right thing to do but I cant bear to harm the little guy.

Found outside the middle school. Both numbers on the back are inactive, if this is your tag and you want me to mail it to you please reach out. If you lost your dog i can tell you what street it dropped off at

Partner and I are disagreeing. I say its too wobbly, they think its sturdy enough. Need an experts input on if ittl hold 100 pounds well enough. Im 150 and it holds me but will wobble if hit with enoughforce. The 10 gallon tank is full of aquatic isopods.

My boy loves to eat anything that fits in his mouth. He especially likes to take bites out of the ground while running and eat chunks of soil. Today he was digging in a puddle and dunking his head in the muddy water to eat mouthfuls of the mud at the bottom. I asked his vet about this previously and they shrugged and said "eeehhh I mean its not...dangerous, but im not really sure if its okay. I havent heard of that one" im not socially fluent but what does this mean? Discourage it, only allow small amounts occasionally, let him? Im to nervous to call back and ask for clarification.

Thank you for any input.

Im trying to mesure him for his muzzle and have taken over 100 videos trying to pause and get a good image. Ive tried desensitizing him for the past 3 days with treats but now he is just more hyper to see it and makes it more difficult. For those of you with dogs who think everything is a snack, how did you distract them to get mesurments? I tried a lick mat and he resource gaurded it so I couldn't approach his face. Also will his scavange gaurd make him unable to sniff things?

My plants have been experiencing alot of etiolation and lower leaf loss, especially the succulents . Ive been using the same 15 watt grow lights the past 10 years and the one finaly burnt out. What grow light do you guys recommend/ use?

Im having a hard time doing all the comparisons when one measures in lumens, the next ppf, and then the heat of the red and blue wavelengths. Im just looking for something useful for succulent plants as a hobby not a career or anything crazy, preferably energy efficient. Covers about a 4 feet wide range , My budget is capped at roughly 150. Any recommendations or advice is appreciated

I found this nest while cave diving , it was maybe 500 ft from the entrance crack under some stalagmites. The nest was mainly composed of moss and cobwebs, and there was no light that far back. Found in Pennsylvania. I understand if id is not possible at this age im just curious. (I left them be of corse)

In terms of food cultures for my puffers the snails, blackworms, isopods, scuds, and shrimp are doing well but I just cant get the daphnia to reproduce. I have 4 cultures going that I feed with the greenwater culture. I do regular water changes . One has a bubler without a stone, 3 dont. They live but their population won't grow. And tips on getting the population to grow? I keep them in slightly hard water with a few plants and no substrate. The cultures are each 1-3 gallons. Any advice is appreciated.

My boy has a iguana like neak with extra floppy bits at the top. All collars i put on him slide down even when tight due to his neak being bigger near his head and getting smaller as it goes down. When im trying to mesure for a standard size its not adding up being that his nose to the base of his ear is 9.75 and his nose to neak flaps is 3.25 in. Should I count his neak folds when sizing or go to where i can feel his trachea and tuck the neak folds into the basket or stop measuring where his neak begins to slope down from his jaw? Green is where his neak skin starts green is where I can feel muscle . Thank you in advance.

These aquatic larvae appeared in my scud culture last month and seem to be rapidly multiplying. Im trying to get an id to see if i can feed them to my pufferfish. Thank you for any suggestions. I will likley comment more photos beacuse I do not know how to add a video and a photograph.

Ive been using hot water, a sponge, dawn and a bottle brush but it seems there is always little bits in the corners . How do you all clean your slow feeders/lickmats? Thank you in advance for any awnsers.

One of my little dudes has some new darkening on the sides of his exoskeliton along his gills but the gills themselves look normal. Before I move forward with treatment can anyone confirm, is this rust spot disease? All the reaserch points to it i just want to be sure. Thank you in advance