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Well its so slow even a snail would be frustrated with this site! So I decided to wish all of you a Great New Year, I hope that you will all be richly blessed beyond measure this year.
I am thinking this spring that we could start some colaborative and serious experiements with a lot of the issues we discussed. I think February would be a good time to discuss this. Perhaps rkhome might consider putting togehter the basis for a non-ant experiement with several species. And some of the other issues discussed could be done as well. I am going to take up a study on the round tail horned lizards as there has been a lot of input but I notice they often do not do well in captivity over a long period. I also am intersted in studying Hernendezi as well, but I may have to get a permit to do this.

Anybody intersted in this? I understand that Jeff has verified that what me and my son observed for years in California with Pacific HL's is that from babies to adults they eat small amounts of vegetation as a dietary intake. Apparently a well known has also observed this as well. So how many other species will occasionally take in vegetation we don't know, but high on the list is green leaf lettuce, danilion, sweet alysum flowers, and bok choy are the plants I have observed them eating.......

Well - have a great new year and lets see what goes in the next month or so........Cheers all!!!
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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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