Doggies in the Snow

More Fish, More Fish, More Fish

Things you dont expect to find in Baltimore City....

This little guy is an American Woodcock. He seems to

have bounced off a window in Downtown Baltimore.

I cought him around 9 am, and took it out to Baltimore

county where it was realesed later the same day.

Neat little bird, about the size of a wiffle ball. From what I've

been told its an upland game bird that is rarly seen.

New Fish, New Fish, New Fish

The are Black Royal Emperor Tetra's
This is a Whip Tail Cat (pleco)

My Torch Handle

Here are some images of my acetylene torch handle that I've added some mods to.

The handle material is a low temp jet set. You just soak the little platic beads

in hot water and form the peice into shape and let it cool or run cold water

over it. I've had it on my torch handle for about 2 or so years.

Fusing Fine Silver Rings Post #1

Here is a mostly assembled all fused bracelet,

just before the fusing of the next set of rings.

During the fusing of the next set of rings, the almost bright

orange color of the silver just before it melts.

This image is just after fusing the ring to the left, a nice bright

orange color....it even melted correctly.

This last image is the ring being streched, something that cannot be done with soldered rings, the solder joint will crack when streched.

Fusing Fine Silver post Number 2

This is how I lay out my rings before

fusing when I am doing a large batch.

The ring heating up before it melts.
Rings during fusing and just after fusing.

More rings being fused

Here are some images of Fusing Fine Silver!

Some for fish from my tank and some from my wifes 120 gallon.....

Here are some images of a few more fish in my tank and some from my wifes 120 gallon cichlid tank.

I got a new 40 gallon Breeder Fish Tank!

Not so great front veiw of the 40 gallon tank.

I'm pretty sure this is a Red Exclamation point

(some sort of very small Rasbora) .

And my last new fish: a Bumble Bee Goby.

I'm not sure how long it'll last since I can't make my water truely brackish...

I can hope though.

Over Thanks Giving week I purchased a 40 gallon breeder tank to replace my 20 gallon tank as my main playpen for a planted tank. It pretty much has all of the fish from the 20 gallon except for the blue ram who didn't survive the transition and one wee baby Endler.

It was Halloween......and the wee Devil dogs where let out........

Poor Thea, one of our welsh Corgies.....not a real devil dog, but she needed the horns.

The true devil dog, who thought 4.5 lbs could be full of such

a power full growl.....he should be waring this out fit all the time.

This time it's a walking stick.......

I walked out of the house and there is it was, hanging out on the shutter next to the door. Most of the time I find ones that are and inch or so long. This one was about 6 inches plus another 3 with its antenna.

New Fish Tank....

Endler's live bearers, Male; Black Neon; Cherry Barb
Blue Ram, Replaced the two Bolivian rams, much better collors +

a much calmer fish

The two male Endlers

Just about everyone else

So far these are the fish I've been able to take pictures of:

Rubber Lip Pleco

Bolivian Ram

Little Otocinclus (Small algae eatter)

This one is a Feather Fin Synodontis (?) and just about 4 inches long.