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BillMcgElaphe
at Mon Oct 11 09:53:08 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by BillMcgElaphe ]
Thanks Mike; … So glad the Eastern Foxes are doing well.
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"I like your use of things like the old watering can for hides. Creative."
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I've been trying to keep the cages simple for cleaning, but like to put a few safe, simple pieces of decor that imply habitat, or places I've observed, or even caught, the wild ones:
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West TX Emorys – Rock pile
(One of these Emory’s was coaxed from a rock grevice with the tip of a 5 wt flyrod!)
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Everglades – A Swamp Fern, sometimes called a Toothed Mid-sorus Fern - A common everglades’ plant where this large male was found.
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Texans - The water can and a broken spade, implying they’re in a barn.
The father of these Texans was under AC next to an east Texas barn.
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Corns – just an old gnarly stump
(Common in the pines of the panhandle of Florida where this variation of corn was found)
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Trans-pecos Rats – Mostly limestone rocks from west Texas, and a lava hide (I don’t like it black, but I couldn’t find a better color with similar functionality.)
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Baird’s – Rock Ledge and dead tree
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Deckert’s – pseudo Cyprus branches
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Gulf Hammocks – synthetic palmetto or cabbage palm with a touch of synthetic Spanish Moss
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And this old Yellow Rat pic with Palmetto.
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PS
I find that chain craft stores are carrying more and more synthetic native plants.
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Regards, Bill McGighan
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RE: A couple random shots of some NA Rats - BillMcgElaphe, Mon Oct 11 09:53:08 2010