Riding the Current

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

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Saturday, December 29, 2007

This an unkown organism that I found on the beach and thought it was an anemone. I am now attempting to find out what it is.

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Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Update on.....

Moray Eel!

I have found ( after a lot of digging) that my eel is in fact a Fimbriated Moray (Gymnothorax Fimbriatus). This gets 9 feet long and can get 5" in diameter! It is now about 12" long and has a HUGE appetite. He gets fed shrimp and other meaty foods. He had some sardine once and went CRAZY! I am trying to move it into my 55. I just need the substrate and salt and I'm ready (Will post when happens). I also found a sea anemone on the beach. As soon as I can, I'll try and get a picture of it out here. Right now he is digesting a large piece of shrimp and is just about done. He looks really bad at the moment. Although, he came out almost fully today which is great. We named him Roger. The Pinfish is now fully healed after being hooked.

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posted by Jessica's DS at 12/11/2007 09:20:00 PM 0 comments

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

MORAY EEL!

Yesterday I got a Yellow-head Moray Eel (Gymnothorax ruepillii). This eel gets approxomately 36" long and has a diameter of about 3"-4". My specimen is approx. 10". It is an escape artist and I had to make some mods to the lid. It has a wild-caught Pinfish as a tankmate. I will be feeding it shrimp and other meaty foods. Here it is in all its glory!

Labels: Moray Eel

posted by Jessica's DS at 9/19/2007 04:00:00 PM 0 comments

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

The Florida Aquarium

On June 8th-9th, we went down to Tampa, Florida for my birthday and we were going to stay at the Marriot Waterside. We got the 12th floor with a balcony overlooking The Channel. We were able to see a Sulfur Ship come through. That occured as soon as we arrived. For dinner we went to the Spaghetti Warehouse in Ybor city. We took a trolley there, as they have 3 entire trolley systems in Tampa. The one we chose eventually wound up in Ybor city. On the way via trolley, we got stopped by a freight train. The best part was that the train had a caboose on the end of it! After dinner, we went to a huge arcade and played for nearly 2 hours! We went to sleep with an amazing view of The Channel.
The next day, we went to the Florida Aquarium located ALMOST next door! I'll explain with the pictures when they come. We also got to view a Cruise Ship set-sail AND the U.S.S American Victory!

This is a Farowella Catfish that is similar to a Plecostomus. Sadly though, I don't know anything about them.

This is a one of many Albino Bristlenose Plecostomus in their 2,000 some-odd gallon aquarium!

This is a close-up of the bristles on their nose. Only the males have them. They had only one female in the aquarium.

This is looking down the length of the aquarium.

This is a clown loach that was about 4 inches long. They get MUCH larger than that though.

This is a Gold Nugget Plecostomus, they are very cool looking and I'm looking to get one when I complete my species in the Loricariidae family show-aquarium.

This is the Carnival Inspiration setting sail. She was 855ft long with a crew of 920 and was able to hold 2,520 people! It was an AMAZING ship. I will make another post pertaing to nothing but the Carnival Inspiration!

posted by Jessica's DS at 6/19/2007 07:28:00 PM 4 comments

Thursday, May 24, 2007

Update!

FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

School is OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I now hope that I can catch up the last 4 months.

I will go into detail with individual posts on these topics:

Our new kittens

Our new boat

Ornamental Horticultural Demonstrations

Cactus Grafting

Will post soon!

posted by Jessica's DS at 5/24/2007 06:31:00 PM 1 comments

Thursday, January 18, 2007

Update!!!

Hi everybody! It has been really hectic with school and things. I just have not had the chance to post. >:-( In October, I got a 55 Gallon Aquarium!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yesterday I recieved my 74$ Moonlight! It is 48" long! More information is on my second blog http://my55gallon.blogspot.com/. My tank contains:

1 Albino Channel Catfish
1 Albino Rainbow Shark
1 Hoplosternum Littorale
1 Syncrossus helodes
2 Blue Gouramis
1 Spotted Pictus Catfish
2 Hypostomus Plecostomus
2 Botia Striata
7 Zebra Danios
1 Batrochoglanis raninus
Coming Soon 1 Khuli Loach

I now have sand in my tank. I used to have gravel, but since I have many fish with barbels, I made the switch to sand.

posted by Jessica's DS at 1/18/2007 08:08:00 PM 3 comments

Saturday, October 28, 2006

Silver Springs and Hannah Montana's dad

Today we went to Silver Springs.

These shots were taken from a glass bottom boat. The boat tour took us over many springs. This is a shot that you can see of a gar. It is just one of many many large ones we saw.

This little alligator was right before we even entered the park! There were also a LOT of very, very big turtles.

My sisters got to feed the giraffes. Look how long its tongue is and it is a purple tongue!

These are Kodiak bears They were both laying in the water and they were both drinking the water!

This funny looking thing is a sleepy Portugese Pot Bellied Pig. It was huge!

AND THEN! Hannah Montana's dad in real life was in concert. We love to all watch Hannah Montana on TV and this is really her dad, Billy Ray Cyrus. My mom and dad took us to our first concert. It was outside, right at Silver Springs. He sang lots of really great songs. My sister and me got a chance to go up really close and take pictures and we had good seats too. Oh, Hannah Montana (really Miley Cyrus) was not there.

posted by Jessica's DS at 10/28/2006 07:46:00 PM 4 comments

Monday, October 23, 2006

Life as a Cat

Life as Jasmine must be very tough. She was on my bed all day sleeping in the oddest positions. It was very cute. I managed to get these shots without disturbing her.

posted by Jessica's DS at 10/23/2006 08:22:00 PM 2 comments

Sunday, October 22, 2006

The answer to yesterday's question was actually a zoomed up picture of a knot in a piece of ply-w00d.

posted by Jessica's DS at 10/22/2006 02:19:00 PM 2 comments

Saturday, October 21, 2006

Now let's see if you can guess what this is! The answer will be up tommorrow!

posted by Jessica's DS at 10/21/2006 06:09:00 AM 1 comments

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

The Answer

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A Unicorn's hoofprint! They had a whole trail of them leading to the Flying Unicorn ride placed out like this.

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I might do a thing like this each week. One more may be coming this week either tommorrow or Friday. ;)

The entrance to this "island". See the Caro-Seuss-ell in the background! Instead of horses, we rode Dr. Seuss creatures. It was fun.

One more question. Who is your favorite of these:

1. Woody Woodpecker

2. The Cat in the Hat

3. Sam I Am

4. The Grinch

posted by Jessica's DS at 10/18/2006 07:41:00 PM 2 comments

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure

Monday we went to Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure. My mom and dad got us all 2 yr passes to both parks for our early Christmas. We have never been before. We chose the perfect day to go on Monday. The park was so empty as the first picture demonstrates. We had many experiences with the Dr. Seuss characters in Suess Landing. More pictures on that tommorrow. The picture of concrete with something engraved in it was at a ride called the Flying Unicorn. More details on Jurassic Park tommorrow.

Look how empty it is!

Guess what this is! (guess and find out tommorrow!)

We are entering the land of Jurassic Park.

posted by Jessica's DS at 10/17/2006 08:37:00 PM 2 comments

Monday, October 16, 2006

More Tomorrow!!!

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Sunday, October 15, 2006

Tay's Favorite Movies!!!

Here are my Top 6 favorite movies.

#6 is Over the Hedge
#5 is Elf
#4 is Spirited Away
#3 is High School Musical
#2 is Stick It
#1 is Nausica of the Valley of the Wind

I used my mom's Olympus camera to take this good picture myself. It is our Appaloosa horse named Dusty. I know he doesn't look like an Appaloosa but he is. We have another horse and that is Dusty's mom. Dusty's mom's name is Koty.

posted by Jessica's DS at 10/15/2006 10:23:00 AM 2 comments

Saturday, October 14, 2006

Special Guest Blogger!

My sister wants to post something so here she is!

Hello I am Taylor and I am Jessica's DD1. The picture is from gymnastics last night. Me and my sister and brother all do gymnastics.

SOME FAVORITE BOOKS I HAVE READ:
#2 Nancy Drew - the Hidden Staircase
#1 Nancy Drew - Secret of the Old Clock
#3 Nancy Drew - the Bugalow mystery

There's a Boy in the Girls Bathroom

I am reading two books now. One is called Kidnapped and one is called Kingdom Keepers about some kids at Disney World but I keep getting hooked with others books.

posted by Jessica's DS at 10/14/2006 10:08:00 AM 1 comments