Saturday 22 April 2023

We did it! 100 species in the mini-zoo

It's harder than it sounds! Trying to keep 100 different species of pet alive and well all at the same time is quite an involved exercise. However today with the acquisition of an Emperor Scorpion and a Jasmine and Duncan coral we hit our target of 100 species.

Well done team which is basically Jacob. me and our suppliers at Exotics at Heart (thanks Kevin) and Fish n Finns (thanks Kieran and Liam) and also well done to Holly for tolerating all this and also for reluctantly agreeing to take significant payments to look after all these creatures when I'm away. 

Emperor Scorpion- species number 100. 050623 Update- actually not this species, its a Malay Forest Scorpion
The mini-zoo is comprised of four different tanks (micro-environments); a Paludarium (above rear and below) with both a tropical freshwater and tropical arboreal component, a Reef tank (saltwater tropical coral reef), an arid Leopard Gecko tank (above) and an Invertebrate tank. 

Reef tank (above) and Invertebrate tank (below) 

Our Panther Chameleon called Davina (or Dave) is the Queen of the zoo here pictured with a Giant Atlas Moth
There's the odd other species dotted around the house and garden including the chickens (above) and the dog

Click on the facebook post to view videos of the different tanks and some of the species 

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