Mike: Ya know, I have no idea what happened to the frog. There were actually a few of them but none of them made it here. Someone took them, I hope.

Tina: In unrelated excitement earlier in the week I ended up helping find homes for 223 dyed (jellybean) parrot fish that a pet store ordered for easter, that didn't sell and ended up getting shipped back to the guys I know at the fish farm. I think there's maybe a dozen left here since I let the kids keep a few each. On the plus side they mostly picked ones that aren't dyed we think. There are two yellow ones that none of us know if it's a natural color or not.

Mark: The foam thing is a good idea. We were trying to sex everyone before we sent them out on their way. We actually had a tube that fit it's head but it did *NOT* like the tube at all and with as small as it's body was to it's head we didn't want it to either get loose or have anyone (including the snake) get hurt. Is it common for them to really really not like being picked up?

You'll get a kick out of this too. I'm not sure if it's still alive but they had someone helping out from the estate a month or so back come in and had managed to set free a boomslang and a small handful of (Tokay I think) geckos.

Poor Parrot fish. I feel so bad for them when I see them stuck in those little ten gallon tanks at W**-M***. I can't have one but they sure are cuties. I don't believe I have ever seen yellow ones.

Pancake tortoises and Red (or possibly Yellow) foot torts. The reds/yellows in general are great, and these are no exception. The pancakes (Malacochersus tornieri) bastards can *climb* I had two escape on me before I had to go build a big netted lid for the pond liner they're in. They climbed up 18 inches of hard plastic.

The dyed Parrots suck, but in general they have enough personality that they've grown on me. In a big enough group they act like frat boy severums, or mildly retarded severums. Not sure if there's a difference.