For all the African Cichlids I have had over the years, I am really down to mainly Clown Loach, Silver Dollars, and various catfish/Pleco's. This tank was once an active Malawi colony of hundreds of fish, with a few Tangyanika. I really like the Compressiceps family of fish also. For awhile it seemed like they were all breeding like crazy.. When I quit selling/trading to a local aquarium shop, I cut way back on my aquariums.. This tank was also a C. Frontosa colony, with the Burundi type, and even some Zaire Blue for awhile. I am tempted to go back to Malawi Cichlids, they are so active and colorful.

More like plant killer than a helper! I can only imagine what my yard would like like without him...yet, I can't imagine my life with out him! He's my partner in crime! This is Jasper. I adopted him from the Humane Society at the age of 1.5 & he will be 5 in Dec. He is a mix of White German Shepherd & Pointer. I've gotten really good at throwing the frisbee so he doesn't end up in my garden. The neighborhood kids is another story. He is really good at keeping ALL varmints out & 90% of the time misses every plant on his way to them. My most ironic story is before I got him I never had an issue with rabbits. One fall he caught 1 & killed it. Horrifying listening to that squeal & bones crunching. I couldn't get it away from him & like an idiot called him in the house. He comes in WITH the dead rabbit & plops up on my bed! EEEWWWW! I got him locked up & had to deal with the warm & very flippy floppy rabbit. Ever since, the rabbits have taken revenge on my yard! He WAS trained to stay out of everything that was mulched & that got kaboshed when I realized he needed some shade in the heat of summer. I redesigned a corner of my yard to lead a path under the Japanese Maple to give him some shade. Just recently he has acquired a secret admirer that lives on the other side of that fence...a female Yorkie name Nala that tries to escape to be by him. ="" ="" PS: What size should these pics be so they don't appear so big?

Let's not move this off page one quite yet. Hoping more people see it and decide to post their pet pictures on the Conversation page post. New to the forum and can't find the Conversation page? You are on Discussions now but if you go back to the list of posts and look towards the top in the middle of the page you'll see that you can switch to Exchanges or Conversations. Off topic posts, like pet pictures, are done on Conversations.

Oh my animals are characters and it is amazing to see the different personalities each have. I have 6 cats all are rescues. I have one that steals pot holders and plays with them. I put them away in the drawer and she will pull the drawer open and steal the pot holders out and throw them up in the air chase them around, stalks them. It is so funny to watch her. She also takes her toys looks at me swats them under the stove or the fridge so I have to use a clothes hander and a flash light to fish them out. She knows too when I get the flash light and hanger because she cries and runs to where she stashed her toy. Oh another thing she does. She growls when strangers come up to the house. The UPS man, friends she has never seen, Oil man. One time I was sitting in my livingroom and she started growling and running to different windows in my house going around to the back side of my house. I knew someone was out there because she never does this otherwise. When I went to the back french doors she had ran too growling there was a man there trying to pull on my doors, Thank goodness they were locked! He saw me and ran off and I called the police. The police couldn't believe that my cat had let me know he was there. I have 2 cats that eat mashed potatoes with their paws like the earlier poster who has the cat that eats sour cream with his paw. They will not eat it any other way. I am sure I can think of more things but my oven just dinged so I will write more later when I have some more time.