Koledar, kače 2011 in kuščarji 2011

Na voljo sta koledarja s kačami in kuščarji za 2011. cena je 7€ za koledar. naročila na ckzks.center ( a t) g m a i l . c o m

Putting together Terrarium

In one of previous posts I described how I changed my Malawi aquarium to terrarium. After month of great life with bearded dragon I found out that not only fish but also reptiles can be fun (in fact much greater fun). So I decided to carry on with bigger terrarium. Idea was to out in something bigger and interesting. I was choosing between Green Iguana and Chinese water dragon (both need tropical arrangement with intense humidity). On the other hand I was dreaming about more interesting reptiles like Thorny devil (living only on thousands of ants on daily basis) Frilled lizard, or African Red headed dragon. There was also option for bunch of small collared iguanas. I started browsing on possibilities to get something interesting and calculating appropriate dimensions, including prices. Last possibility were wooden plates (plastic glass was too expensive), and most appropriate dimensions were 180x100 x 60 cm And here we go:

First: put together, bottom rear and both side walls: I used metal corner plates and screws - If I need to move box I will have easy work with possibility to put it together again anywhere else without harming structure.


On front side: adding additional small front wall where channels (see them on picture below)for plastic glass doors will be added later on. In the middle there is support for roof, preventing any possibility to have middle part lover than both ends.
Master of electricity. It was real mess until i did not completely finish with all wires. Don't panic and be careful how to place electricity in order to preserve cables form heat. Lamps are classical daylight reptile light and UVB12% lamp. From side there is heating lamp 100W. On floor there is layer of ceramics, heating cable, double layer of ceramics, thick PVC layer to prevent possible leaking form terrain towards heating cable and wooden bottom and finally there is half send half wood ground.


I added branch (one more should be added as it seems form today), waterfall, some rocks. And few cactus (real ones without serious thorns).

And here is his majesty Chlamidosaurus kingii ariving to new home and using my boots for throne :-)

Kuščarji

Razlicno velika, relativno okretna in grozljiva bitja iz pradavnine, ki se svoji prilagodljivosti zahvaljujejo za obstoj skozi obdobje, ki presega obstoj človeka. Do nedavnega sem čutil odpor do teh grozodejtev, zadnjič sem se pa pod pritiskom razmer odločil enega izmed akvarijev spremeniti v nekaj okolju bolj prijaznega. In želja po novem je prevladala nad željo pod znano puhasto kepico imenovano hrček. Tako je nastal terarij (o nastanku tukaj). Poleg tehničnih zadev sem moral ugotoviti, če sem sposoben rokovanja s temi dinozavri. Prvi stik je bil dovolj ugoden, da se mi je zdelo vredno poskusiti. Posledice so predstavljene v nadaljevanju.

Stanje terarija: mrzli del 21 stopinj, vroči del 30 stopinj, na vroči točki pa 35-38 stopinj. Vlaga 35%.
Stanovalci: Pogona vitticeps - po domače Bradata agama in nekaj čričkov - odvisno od lakote glavne zvezde. Starost okrog pol leta, trenutna dolžina 26 cm (tehtanje še sledi). Slike so pa spodaj.

Terarij

Po dolgem času ena prijetna zadeva. V policijski državi kjer se policija skriva v civilne avtomobile nam ostajajo zgolj male osebne radosti. Zaradi odsotnosti pokrova na enem izmed akvarijev sem se odločil tega sprazniti oziroma preseliti v škatlo s pokrovom. Migracijo rob ni preživel samo en upornik, ki se je namesto selitve odločil za samomor s skokom na tla. Po tem dogodku je ostal prazen in smrdeč 200 l velik akvarij, za katerega nebi vrjetno dobil 20 Evrov in ga je bilo zato smotrneje obdržati. Po krajšem razmisleku sem se odločil, da je čiščenje za kuščarjem verjetno bolj enostavno kot za hrčkom (kače nekako ne prenesem v rokah, tako da kak kraljevi piton odpade tako zaradi premajhne posode kot zaradi dejstva, da nimam hude želje po tej zadevi).

Postopek priprave:

14 dni "luftanja" akvarija - gnila mivka smrdi za popizdit + odstranjevanje vodnega kamna - užitek za gospodinje.

Vmes iskanje informacij o čudu, ki se imenuje plazilec, o biotopih in podobno. Odločil sem se za avstralsko puščavo notri bo pa ena bradata agama. Ponovno hvala ekipi na Akva-teraristiki v Mr. Petu v BTC Ljubljana.

Sedaj pa akcija. Prva plast keramičnih ploščic, potem pa po polovici površine grelni kabel in nato pokrovna plast ploščic (paket 25 komadov je cca 10 evrov.
Sledi 5x4 kg peska - v poljubni barvi - za avstralsko puščavo bo oranžno rdeč nekako najprimernješi (cena je malo bogastvo).
Potem se pa za nekaj časa posvetimo estetiki - primerni posodici za hrano in vodo (tudi nista ravno poceni) in nekaj dekoracije, kaktusi so živi, izogniti se je potrebno preveč bodicam, da se novi prebivalec ne bo nataknil že prvi dan. Moj izobraževalni center v Mr. Petu mi lepo sporoči da imam dve možnosti, dati notri kaktuse z bodicami, kar je nevarno in odsvetujejo ali pa dati notri kaktuse brez bodic kar je ogroženo ker jih mali stvor lahko v želji po sveži zelenjavi pomalica. K temu nasvetu dodajam lastno izkušnjo - ne dajte notri kake Opuntie - ker tisto bo dejansko kuščar lahko zagrabil in glede na to da tam bodice točno samo čakajo da se kaj gor nalepi bo ne samo na zunaj našpikan temveč bo imel bodice v gobčku - kar bo precej bolj nevarno kot pa če jih faše v nos.

Ja- bradata agama rabi svoje skrivališče
seveda zadeva v tej obliki ni najbolj estetska zato gremo še malo v potok po lepše ploščate kamne, ki potrebujejjo pred uporabo nekaj krtače in termične obdelave (pod geslom "ne rabimo bakterij"). K temu pa dodamo še kako korenino za izležavanje - v trgovini po nekaj evrov v gozdu zastonj, vendar pa jih je ponovno potrebno ustrezno preparirati (moji živci so vredni več kot 6 evrov tako, da sem zavil v trgovino). Glede na to, da so plazilci precej smotana bitja rabijo dva termometra (en je skrit za kaktusom, drugi pa nekoliko višje nad kamni. Desna stran je neogrevana in bi morala držati temperaturo nekje okrog 23-24 stopinj leva stran spodaj okorg 30 na kamnih pa se bi morala temperatura razviti do 40 stopinj.
Ker je je terarij v tej podobi vse prej kot privlačen potrebuje neko primerno dekorativno ozadje
Sedaj pa še projekt osvetlitev - prvi napotek - v kolikor imate že okvir za luč preverite dolžino neonke. Sem falil za 30 cm :D Kuščarji = UV svetloba (A in B). V Mr. Petu so rekli, da lahko ena žarnica ostane (od prejšnjega akvarija namreč), akvarijsko pa zamenja terarijska UVB 10%.
Manjka še - Grelna luč, ki bo dodatno grela kamnito podlago na levi za potrebnih 38 stopinj. Sistem je trenutno v fazi segrevanja - tisti grelni kabel rabi cca 12 ur da skozi plast keramičnih ploščic in nekaj cm peska segreje do 30 stopinj. Manjka še mrežni pokrov (steklo ali plastika odbijata UV žarke zaradi česar bi bila tista terarijska žarnica brez učinka. Manjka zaloga čričkov in seveda prebivalec. Ampak o tem drugič.

Novoletna darila - ideje

1.12. Dan boja proti AIDS-u
1.12 začetek prvega zimskega meseca
1.12. Samo še pet dni do prve radosti obdarovanja (ali pa muke) in potem cel december po istem načelu.

Včasih se sposobi, da obdarujete tudi nekoga, ki ni več otrok, ki ima čut za lepo, .... ima prazno steno?

Nerad delam reklame še posebno ne vsakomur, pa vendar sem na nekaj dobrih stvari v življenju naletel. Ena izmed tovrstnih zadev so slike g. Jevnikarja. Če želite nekomu podariti unikatno darilo, ki bo krasilo pisarno, dnevno sobo ali kak drug prostor potem ga priporočam, pe posebno če niste pristaš visoke umetnosti odkrivanja smisla v medsebojno povezanih črtah.
O njem vem malo, razen tega da izdeluje stvari, k so mi všečne in katere z veseljem priporočam.

Za moje potrebe je izdelal dva lepa motiva pri čemer en krasi moje prostore drugi pa je darilce mojima prijateljema ob pomembni prelomnici.

Slike prilagam ostale njegove umetnine (v boljši predstavitvi) pa najdete na njegovi spletni strani.

my new addiction

After elections in Slovenia and US things are getting normal again - including economic crisis - which draw some attention again. I certainly hope that it won't be too hard, despite some predictions are quite depressing. However, I have new pet - Siberian chipmunk - some kind of funny squirrel. I even managed to prepare his home on my own and it is 90x90x150 cm nice green cage. That is 3x as big as it was recommended in local pet-shop. And we were even able to do our first photo-session. Here we go:

changes in my water world

Sometimes writing in English is just too time consuming to do it, for a non-native speaker. And most of last topics are concerned with Situation in Slovenia that is going completely off the control before the parliamentarian elections that will took place in autumn. However, important part of the story is connected to the democracy question but still today I prefer to introduce another, much more pleasant change - my new 230l aquarium.
My Amazon world in 80l become too small so I upgraded it to 230 - It should be enough for some time.

So, what we have - two angle fish form previous 80l tank (another two died for no reason), 3 bronze Cories (Coridoras aeneus), 2 ancistrus, one pimelodus pictus, one mystus vittatus, one Platydoras Costatus (this fucker is guilty of reducing 10 neon fish to 3), 1 red ram (anotherone had also enough of me). This bunch of characters I lately accompanied with 4 Congo tetras (they do not belong in this tank but at least they are big enough that it will not be so easy to platydoras to have nice dinner of them) Ant there are another two fresh newcomers - discus. System works fine at the moment and it seems that they are happy in general for now.

Nabiranje političnih točk na truplih - morala slovenske politike

Mrzlica na Savi se je polegla. In šele sedaj se vidi kako slabo gre slovenski politiki, da mora celo na truplih nabirati politične točke. OK, OK umrlo je 13 ljudi, bila je največja vodna nesreča v Sloveniji v zelo dolgem časovnem razponu. Fino sami smrtni rekordi. Morda se je pa pokojni poslanec naveličal svojih kolegov in je po navadi slovenskega nacionalnega značaja šel po principu manjšega zla za več ljudi ter se posledično odločil za spektakularen samomor namesto da bi enako spektakularno s kakim primernim sredstvom v zrak pognal parlament.
Ampak dajmo resno. Se še spomnete, ko je nekje med Trebnjem in Novim mestom zgorelo osem mater, ki so se vračale z dela. Zaslužile so dva dni pozornosti in kamen na mestu dogodka. Se še spomnete nekaj mesecev nazaj, ko je na avtocestnem gradbišču umrlo 7 tujih (večinoma romunskih) državljanov - nimajo niti znamenja pa še policija je skupaj z DARS-om na vse kriplje poskušala (precej uspešno) prikazati poteg dogodkov v nasprotju s tem kar so trdile priče. Nesrečo se je sistematično poskušalo pomesti pod prag, enako kot se je to naredilo s tujo ekspertizo, ki je govorila, da so slovenska avtocestna gradbišča ena najslabše zavarovanih v Evropi. Velja tudi za ostala cestna dela. Če je na odstavnem pasu kamion bodo postavili opozorilne znake že 2km prej, ponekod pa dejansko padeš na zaprt pas, ker se jim ne da postaviti opozorila, da po pomoti kosijo travo v vmesnem pasu na avtocesti.
Minister žerjav je nezadovoljen s težavami v Šentviškem predoru - jaz sem pa nezadovoljen z njegovo obljubo, da vsaj v poletni sezno ne bodo potekala dela na avtocestnih odsekih - še vedno je namreč močno zmanjšana pretočnost dolenjske avtoceste v obe smeri. Res je, da sicer skoraj nihče tam nič ne dela (vsaj ne v obsegu da je potrebno zapreti del voznega pasu in zmanjšati hitrost na 60km/h), še vedno pa je promet precej oviran. Gospod Žerjav, niste izpolnili svoje obljube - na volitvah letite.
Janša lovi Zidarja in Penka, grozi Šrotu in kali vodo. Zato, da imamo mi kaj počet in da ima Bajuk mir pred vprašanji o naraščajoči inflaciji, zato da ima sam mir pred tem kam je šla v zadnjih štirih letih socialna država in da bo še zadnjič poskusil izsiliti sprejetje pokrajinske zakonodaje. Šrot je zelo dobro opisal njegov stil vodenja, sam pa prilagam zgovorno sliko, ki govori o ideologiji, ki je vedno bolj vidna v vodenju države pod Janševo taktirko. Seveda je mogoče fotografijo razlagati kot veličino Janševistične vladavine - ampak v svetovni zgodovini obstajajo tudi veliki voditelji, ki jim zgodovina in prostor ne odrekata pozitivne vloge za sodobno družbo.

Stanje mojih akvarijev.

Ljudje me že nekaj časa sprašujejo, kako je z mojimi akvariji in glede na to, da mineva nekako 3 mesece od kar je celoten projekt stekel podajam ustrezno poročilo :D Še vedno ostajam zvest Mr. Pet trgovini, ki me zalaga predvsem z znanjem in uporabnimi nasveti (lahko je prodat ribe za dober nasvet je pa potrebno nekaj znanja - zato se mi zdi primerno izpostaviti predvsem trgovino, kjer sem dobil tudi znanje ne samo materiale. Glede na to, da sem v osnovi čisti začetnik, pomemben delež uspeha pri preživetju ribje populacije pripisujem njim. Torej obstajata dva akvarija, Eden se je iz rubrike malo mešano preselil v poskus Amazonka, drugi je bil pa že v osnovi zamišljen kot Malawi. Oba sta v preteklosti že bila predstavljena. Še vedno si štejem v čast, da je razmerje med poginulimi in požrtimi ribami takšno, da napeljuje na požrešnost določenih prebivalcev in ne na slabo stanje v akvarijih. V Amazonki so v dveh rundah čudežno izginile štiri neonke (dežurni krivec je v dnevnem času skriva pod neko korenino kjer se je po vsej verjetnosti bolj ali manj zagozdil - ponoči pa naredi red med rastlinjem in ribami - Ta pošast se imenuje trnasti somič ali nekaj podobnega - zabavna zadeva, ki jo ne vidim zunaj razen kadar se prenežre in gre potem začasno umirat za grelec (ko pride k sebi ponovno spremeni svoje bivališče in zgine z dnevne svetlobe pod svojo korenino). Drugače se je V tem času pridružil še pikčasti som nitkar, ki je za spoznanje bolj opazen. Diskus se z izjemo slabih prebavnih navad počuti odlično za moje pojme - vsekakor z malo sreče ga ne bo na hitro pobralo pa še res lep primerek sem dobil (glej video). Skalarke pa rastejo kot nore - na žalost nič ne kaže na kak parček zaenkrat.

Malawi - jah ta največja pošast mi je zjagala lastno partnerko - dokaz, da velika želja po spolni aktivnosti in glavobol lahko pripeljeta do smrti :D. Splošno počutje zadovoljivo, včasih zvije rumene ustonoše ampak so še vedno vse štiri zelo med živimi. Bo pa potrebno poiskat kako učinkovito rešitev proti algam - trenutno sem zmanjšal čas osvetlitve in malo podrgnil po šipah.
Ugotavljam da bi potreboval dva ogromna in ne zgolj velika akvarija in nekoga ki bi zadevo vzdrževal, kadar se meni nebi dalo.
Drugače pa je največja zabava urejanje Amazonke - ker skalarke pogosto delujejo bolj kot piranje. Takoj ko namočim roko napadejo in me cukajo - tak bedno zabaven občutek. Drug štos je prehranjevanje - predvsem v Malawiju - stvar spominja na krdelo psov. Vsi se nabijejo tik pod površje in se prerivajo ter poskakujejo, če bo kaj hrane. Potem ko kaj pade v vodo je pa masaker. Dobivam občutek, da te ribe dejansko niso tako zelo glupe - vsaj za hrano fehtat so se zelo dobro naučile. Posledično sem vsake 14 dni v trgovini in kupujem novih 500 ml zaloge. O tem da je posrano dno akvarija pač stranski produkt pa tako ali tako ni vredno razpravljat.

My first aquarium

Since I was a kid I dreamed about having fish in aquarium. First I wanted me a big aquarium (50x50 x 50 cm what is far from big, but for 8-year-old boy it was great. And parents said no way. OK. Than I wanted me a bowl with small fish (I even bought me a bowl but I never have balls to go and buy fish - thanks God for this). Than I forgot about aquarium and I was riding horses for a long while (more than a decade). However, I got that crazy idea back when I saw that I have nothing to do and almost no time for anything. And one day I saw nice aquarium full of fish and I got that childish look on my face and I started "Daddy I want my aquarium too, I want, want want". Ant that want was strong enough to search "Bolha" (Slovenian version of E-bay) portal and Find me nice middle-sized aquarium (80x40x50 cm). And then I started. I rearranged room, I bought all necessary stuff (I was listening and reading carefully before for a week or two to get at least basic information) I paid fucking lot of money. And then I started. I washed sand, I measured quality of water, I put first plants and decorations inside and almost broke Outside filter on first run (strange smell came out, because I wanted to run it dry. And then I finally managed to run it for first few days controlling water conditions and so on. Water was good and stable, first plants were fine and I added some more. And they are also good.
Then I added first two Ancistrus. They were doing fine (and still are), so I added also additional three Corydoras and they are preforming also great. Than I needed additional decoration and hiding place so I added nice root and some stone. things were doing just great but water was still empty. Aquarium was running for 14 days now - I is not much but I risked according to the fact that I had almost perfect water conditions. And here we go again. I started new cycle of developing my mixed area. I got me Platydoras (I am crazy about cat-fish), than I got me four scalares (Angelfish) - two classic white and black and two dark. I also got me also two Electric yellow cichlids and than I found out that my aquarium is almost perfect.

But only Almost so I added additional two plants and artificial cave for yellows.
For all professional attitude and good advices I am mostly indebted and grateful to Mr Pet zoo center in Ljubljana BTC. They provided me with most of what you can find in my aquarium or around it. But most important, they provided me constant monitoring of my aquarium and great new knowledge that helped that none of my fish died and none of my plants rotted so far.And here is my first aquarium in final version. It is not meant to be some natural habitat but it is my first attempt in aqaristics, where I want some of most interesting fish to live in the most optimal conditions I can gave to them.

My old love - some faded memories.

No, I will not write about women - it is not worthy to bother. This part of me is mostly mine and I will not share it here. Today I am again thinking about one of my oldest loves. It is much more than recreation, sport, hobby or anything. I spent about 12 years with horses. I went to school because I had to, I did many other things for the same reasons. However, I spend all my free time in the saddle or only working with horses, because I love them (still, despite I was not in the saddle for 2 yeas and more).

Few days ago I met by chance one of my girls that I taught to ride. I was maybe 18 and she was still in primary school, afraid of horse and with strong will to learn how to stay in the saddle. In the stable I put her on the bare horseback to show her how horse is calm and worthy to be trusted. She was improving very much, she even felt to the ground latter but she climbed up and we rode further. She gave me some picture of me riding on my horse (still have it) and some nice county CD by Garth Brooks (still in my CD player and playing sometimes).
Now she is young lady, studying veterinary medicine and I am nostalgic and missing times when I rode my Bonita and leading that girl around the woods. If she will be reading this, she will know.
Oh and by the way, when I just started to dream about my LIFE (it was life written with caps - I know it now), in the first half of November I was at Verona horse fair and here are some pictures just for example.

First 2007 Autumn PHOTOS from Slovenia

It seems that we have "Indian Summer". However, These photos below are first 2007 Autumn photos form Slovenian woods, for my international friends. Slovenians are welcome too see photos also :)

Next morning - photos

As you could notice, we had quite huge flood last week - I made some pictures here and here. In my town it was still within the limites, while in some other cases it was pretty harsh. Even six people were killed.

However next morning we woke up into this.

Narasla Pšata v Mengšu - FOTO - zjutraj

Večerno zalivanje se je končalo za las - voda je v kanalu dosegla cca pol metra do razlitja, danes ob 6.15 pa je bila že meter in pol nižje od najvišje točke. Pa še malo slikc - z aparatom še vedno nisva prijatelja.