koods said:

Baby dinosaur

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If that is this (minus the worm)



Or this



Then I used to have these guys as tadpoles, they were pretty rad.




And saw a scorpion in Missouri, guessing semi rare


and here is the copperhead and king snake battle



And here is a lightning bug larvae

dodgem said:

koods said:

Baby dinosaur

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If that is this (minus the worm)



Or this



Then I used to have these guys as tadpoles, they were pretty rad.




And saw a scorpion in Missouri, guessing semi rare


and here is the copperhead and king snake battle



And here is a lightning bug larvae

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It's this


Spotted salamander, and very not rare

That copperhead is losing an epic battle.

koods said:

It's this


Spotted salamander, and very not rare

That copperhead is losing an epic battle.

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budbud420 said:

- platypus
- lyer birds
- whales
- dolphins
- seals
- owls
- geckos
- goanna (lace moniter)
- tassie tiger

I have also taken marine life from the wild.. pretty illegal but its all good including
- seahorses
- corals
- crabs
- various small native fish

but the one that stands out above all is a saltwater fish that i recieved from a friend who has been commercial fishing offshore for 10  years and has only seen less than 5.

i wish i had a pic because there is none on the internet (have looked for hours) which leads me to believe its unidentified.

it looks like a goby, bright orange with transparent holes in its fins and uses its 2 front fins to walk around the bottom on the ocean/tank its very dainty and looks like seaweed alomst.. its a very beautiful creature.

unfortunately mine died a couple years ago.

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I don't really agree with that because it's been drilled into my head that you don't take animals or coral with you, but at the same time if you bought a fish then it honestly probably would've been poached from the wild anyway and the transition would've been a bit rougher because it would have to be shipped to you and whatnot.

I miss scuba diving in the ocean. All I've got is cold quarry diving now, for the most part .

budbud420 said:

- tassie tiger

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budbud420 said:

its a very touchy subject for some..

dont get me wrong im no mad poacher just like to get to know animals better lol

i havnt done it since i was a teen and they all went into a controlled environment with water parameters that matched the local waterways

the goby i was talking about looks similar to cryptocentrus cinctus although it had white vertical bands down its side..

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yeah I honestly take less issue with people who are taking a one or two to personally keep as pets than I do with companies poaching a shitload of them and selling them for profit.
I think it's important that the law is in place. Seems like you probably have a stunning aquarium, I know next to nothing about keeping a saltwater aquarium.


when I was 13 I had a summer project(I was in an environmental program instead of real school) and I had to create an insect display so when we went on vacation that summer I collected a lot of really large scary awesome bugs that I wanted to bring back with me. If my dad hadn't found me out then US customs would've taken up issue with me trying to bring those insects back into the country and I could've gotten in a lot of trouble

budbud420 said:

it looks like a goby, bright orange with transparent holes in its fins and uses its 2 front fins to walk around the bottom on the ocean/tank its very dainty and looks like seaweed alomst.. its a very beautiful creature.

unfortunately mine died a couple years ago.

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frogfish?




There is a bunch of different colored ones.

pirate-blues said:

or just format it [image] urlhere [/image] but without spaces.

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