Happy New Year Repto ( and belated Merry Christmas ).

The scientific research permit is $50 for 3 years and allows collection, but does not allow propagation. Two letters of recommendation are required from appropriate authorities in a biology/wildlife field, as well as a Memorandum of Understanding with TPWD. You have to submit reports as well as statements of the scope of your research.
The endangered species propagation permits are $300 the first year with a $50 application fee, and $550 for the following 3 years. The propagation permit does not allow collection.
No permit is required for modestum as long as you have 10 or less in your possession. Any more than that, or 25 total of any non-game species, and you need a non-game collection permit.

I'm working on some real good stuff right now that hopefully I can release soon. It's more on Pogo's, formic acid, and metabolism. Got a couple of people with biology/microbiology backgrounds helping out. One studying to be a USAF pathologist. I'm going to try to do an "energy balance" on the makeup of Pogo's, hopefully with some university assistance, to ascertain caloric intake from ants and where formic acid may fit in as a very simple "fatty acid" or building block to provide caloric energy. I'm looking now towards the fact that it may indeed be a primary nutrient rather than just beneficial to gut flora and an antiparasitic.

My girl got me some succulents to put in the tanks for decoration. I've just noticed that the two that are in with the solare that are still up, has been shredded. Don't know whether they were climbed on or chewed on as I haven't looked closely yet.

Head Bobs!
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"A man that should call everything by it's right name, would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy." The Complete Works of George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax 1912,246

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