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>>5133302The company listed that sized tank for 950 dollars. I assume they would charge more for an alteration even though it would use less glass.
>>5133304Alternate shapes are usually multiple times as expensive. Look at other sizes and the difference between thr standard vs shallow, rimless, etc
>>5133311I think next time I go by the fish store affiliated with them I'll ask if they have a sample tank in the warehouse and if I can get a quote on what I want (even though I can't buy it because I have nowhere to put another tank)buy some frozen bloodworms to make it worth their while.
>>5133318To be clear, I want to move to be closer to family and if I do, I'd get a big tank then and move it in when the place is totally empty.
>>5133319Yeah at 12 inches high it would be like 5' by 3'. Definitely have to plan around it. Even moving and setting it I'd prefer to have 2 helpers.
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>>5133037>>5133039These idiots are doing it wrong
I think vultures are my favorite animal
>>5132054The government doesn't want you to know this but vultures are free. You can just walk out in the woods and take one.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOeJwwREDfg
>>5132218I have some in my back shed. They come out to stare at me whenever I go into the garden. There are shitstains everywhere though so I would never want to keep them.
>>5124338Vultures eat carrion. Jeets literally pollute everything with plastic, mineral waste, feces and christ knows what else. Killing off all of them across the globe would just be a net positive for the wildlife there and humanity.
>>5132054why not?
Deep sea creatures are harmless. The only aspects of the ocean rational to be afraid of are: drowning/storms, sharks, and venomous jellyfish/conches/whatever, which are all shallow water concerns anyways.People piss their pants at images of ugly deep sea fish because they're ignorant and don't know they're almost all a foot or less in length; you could crush them with your bare hands. Take the infamous Bigfin squids for example: their body from mantle tip to arms is a foot or so in length. How could one possibly hurt you? Its tentacles are wire thin and its beak is probably less than an inch wide.The ONLY deep sea creature I could fathom being a rational concern is the Humboldt squid, but even then it has no confirmed kills and you could easily stab it to death with a dive knife if you have no other choice.
>>5131166he'd have to contort his right arm in some real unnatural fashion, no?
>>5125697Combination of gigantism and nutrients deprived environment. They literally can't calorically afford to not grasp whatever is in their tentacles reach.Regarding so called "deep sea gigantism" where the fuck did that conclusion came from? Almost all obligate bathypelagic fish are from small to tiny and the only prominent "examples" are the colossal squid, giant squid and "giant" isopod, THREE species under the mesopelagic zone just happened to be gigantic and suddenly we make it a teleonomic trend when there's tens if not hundreds of larger species on the euphotic.
>>5132838>They literally can't calorically afford to not grasp whatever is in their tentacles reach.This is part of why deep sea gigantism is a thing. Larger bodies means they have more space to store the little nutrients they have and larger animals typically have lower metabolic rates than smaller ones. Also not having to deal with as many predators is a nice feature. I have also heard that larger bodies can preserve their body temperature better thhan smaller ones so cold enviroments, which is where most examples of this phenomena are found, arent as big of a deal for them>THREE speciesThere's plenty of large crustaceans like spider crabs, overly enlarged shrimp and so on in the deep that are far larger than their shallower counterparts. It's just that deep sea gigantism is about as much of an online meme as the megalodon still being alive so people immediatly associate it with unrealistically large leviathans instead of moderatly oversized shrimps and big jellyfish
>>5133022Lion's manes are not even truly "deep sea" they are borderline euphotic higher mesopelagics.
>>5116435The fear isn't the weird fish, it is the enormous vastness of the ocean. I think this River Monsters video does a good job capturing that fear when Jeremy Wade is in the middle of the ocean by a buoy: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pfzrD4akqxQ&pp=ygUVamVyZW15IHdhZGUgKyBvYXJmaXNo
He turns 100 years old today! There may come a time when will have a RIP sticky so until then let this be a joyous occasion and celebrate!Wish him an happy birthday /an/
>>5130708Nobody knows
>>5122866I loved his narration of Codex Pajeet II. Shine on you crazy diamond.
>>5130738never heard of it, details?
>>5130708it's better than Walking With Dinosaurs
>>5123295No, their overpopulation will tank when the water scarcity starts. They won't have a chance to become as advanced as the West. As of right now though there is an overpopulation problem in parts of the world.
Does /an/ like penguins?
>>5128816something about the head/eyes of Adelies makes them especially cute
>>5127102forever togetherlove is eternal
>>5097745he was 21 years old and died the same year he started doing thisYou could probably just say Grape was extremely unwell.
How did this thread become even stranger than the secretary bird thread?
Moss & Lichen Editionpreviously on /herp/: >>5093568This thread is dedicated to all animals of the Reptilia and Amphibia classes. Topics include, but are not limited to: geckos, snakes of all kinds, frogs, salamanders, newts, turtles, tortoises, and much more. Before asking a question, do a search on the internet to see if it has been answeredClassifieds for finding breeders and products:>morphmarket.com>kingsnake.com>faunaclassifieds.com>caudata.orgMost forums will have a "for sale" section on them, so look for that, especially if you have a specific herp you want. Craigslist can also be a good source for cheap aquariums, and make sure to check for any reptile expos that occur in your area.When asking a question, make sure to include these details:>Type and size of animal>Enclosure dimensionsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
I just ordered a CB juvie of these guys for 1400€ now I'm broke over what is essentially a pet water rock that eats worms.
>>5132695milksnake, just one with lower red expression?
Encountered near trent river, Ontario Canada
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>>5133323glorious creature, thanks for sharing
Otters are in vogue this life cycle
>>5131376live action was much better, especially the live action otter
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>>5133183decadent
Post animals you don't normally see making an angry face
>>5132223Why did he do it?
>>5132067As usual, catposts are the most average in a thread
>>5131386Why is he like that?
>>5132694He wanted more seeds
>>5132067You'd be angry too if you got pepper sprayed
How did this even happen?
>>5132331>>5132683
It's like slipping on top of the stairs, you just fall down like 50 steps
>>5132262
Because budgies are superior
>do nothing>get labeled as the epitome of evil and deception by some random race of primates
>>5130186>>5130192Why do people antagonize reptiles so much? Outside extremely venomous snakes and the crocs, the vast majority of them are totally harmless. And even infamous ones like gila monsters or snapping turtles requires you to be a total retard to actually get bit by either one of them.
>>5132700>>5133131Fear of spiders isn’t instinctual. There are exactly zero dangerous spiders where our primate ancestors evolved
>>5133145>There are exactly zero dangerous spiders where our primate ancestors evolvedA very cursory search suggests that is wrong, there are Latrodectus indistinctus at least. It doesn't need to be fatal, if the bite is consistently very unpleasant.
>>5133218Latrodectus aren’t particularly dangerous even on an individual basis, let alone in terms of presenting an evolutionary pressure to avoid spiders. Only Phoneutria sp and Atracids are anywhere close to that sort of threat
>>5132428Crows are associated with death because they are scavengers. After a battle crows would show up and get busy with the bodies. So its less that they are harbingers of death and more that they come to places where a lot of death just happened. But when billy the medieval spearman sees a crow under normal circumstances he thinks of the time he saw all those crows after a bloody battle and associates it with death.
Post wolves.>Information. >Images. >Stories. >Art. >News.>Previous thread: >>5093726
>>5132859The pack
>watch movie>wolves attack people on sight >watch TV show>wolves attack people on sight>play video game>wolves attack you on sightI think the misrepresentation of wolves in media has done real and sizable damage to their populations. Why wouldn't an ignorant city dweller vote to allow more hunting when all they see on TV is a vicious killer?
>>5133181
We still talk about you.
>>5132909Colossal will gene edit a poodle and call it the revived thylacine
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>>5133247>>5133245I've noticed only degenerate woman-fucking rightoids hate Colossal, why is it?
>>5133247>marketing could be changed>marketing
>>5133270Anyone with a brain recognises that they’re grifters making big promises and delivering very little. They even tried to invent a new definition for species to justify calling their GMO wolves “dire wolves”
What is it about these lazy slugs that has every southerner convinced that they will chase you down and murder your family
>>5133024mixture of general inexperience with snakes and the fine tradition of redneck anti-intellectualism leading them to trust uncle scooter's story about how a 20 foot long water moccasin chased him up a waterfall in a rowboat than anything they can find out themselves.
>that dang cotton head rattle moccasin chased me a half mile down the river
>>5133024What's that little guy so mad about?
>>5133176snakes are like slightly more autistic scaly legless opossums, their primary defense mechanism is going "fuck off I'm scary" despite being relatively weak.
>>5133176Cletus falsely accused him of attempted assault
I fucking despise armchair paleontologists. I wouldn’t even care about their ramblings if it wasn’t for the fact that every time a new paper drops, they make a shitty idea off of it. And whether it’s by video, blog or Twitter post, if it picks up traction it somehow ends up being seen as fact by the general paleo community. Actual literal headcanons being made up with zero professional research or backing behind them. >Nanotyrannus being dubious even though we already knew about its tooth count and fore arm difference a decade before the 2025 paper.>Dakotaraptor being dubious because of some guy pointing out its sickle claw had a vague resemblance to a Nanotyrannus claw. (Yeah no shit they’re both theropods) It’s like they needed a new target to point the dubious finger at after the Nano paper dropped.>Nanaimoteuthis being a shellfish specialist despite the very paper describing it pointing out wear patterns on its beak that prove the contrary.>Carnotaurus being the “Cretaceous cheetah” because it ran fast, ignoring literally every other aspect of its anatomy.>The average Edmontosaurus being a 15 ton monster that regularly raped Rex, because of a paper describing a superadult specimen that represented the smallest top percent of adults lucky enough to live that long.>Titanoboa being an obligate piscivore because it had adaptations for hunting the most common prey source in its environment.For years I have watched this endless cycle and it’s god damn exhausting. If you want your thought experiments to be seen as scientific, go get a degree, start researching, and publish an actual paper about it. You can't just make a hypothesis, stop there, and assume you're correct, it doesn't fucking work like that. Why does the science community that prides themselves on "Realistic portrayals" not know how to fully read through a published paper?
>>5133034>>5133122They even did it that exact thing for the nat geo exhibit that went along with Sereno’s ridiculous PR-hype machine.
>>5133123Not a very good replica i have to say. The cracks don't look very natural
>>5133034I will never forgive the kikes for this!
>>5133125In that particular case they’re probably sculptures rather than casts.See pic related for something truly monstrous
>>5133130But Auschwitz has a souvenir shop. Sorry, a "memorial store" or whatever they call it.
