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<blockquote data-quote="Pulp" data-source="post: 1751849" data-attributes="member: 14195"><p>I haven't in a long time, don't have room in my house for a set-up, but when I was teaching science I always kept several 10 gallon tanks going, with one big difference from y'alls. I never had tropicals, just local fish and critters. Blue-gill, sunfish, catfish, crawdads, anything the kids could bring in. I even had a mussel. It is fascinating to watch a mussel crawl across the bottom of a tank. One year a kid brought in an amphiuma ( <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphiuma" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphiuma</a> ). It lived the rest of the school year and one of the kids took it home for the summer. We had a very big crawdad that learned to take food from forceps. The kids loved it. I also had a few terrariums set up for small snakes, lizards, salamanders, tarantulas, etc. Be careful with these, critters are excellent escape artists. One morning I picked up my typewriter(remember those?) off the floor to type a test. I started typing and the typewriter started hissing at me. Do you have any idea how hard it is to get a hog-nosed snake out of the innards of a typewriter?</p><p></p><p>The catfish in one tank could sense a grasshopper on top in just a second or so, and just like that, no more grasshopper.</p><p></p><p>Edit: I know this has nothing to do with answering your questions, but just throwing it out as a different, easier, and cheaper alternative.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pulp, post: 1751849, member: 14195"] I haven't in a long time, don't have room in my house for a set-up, but when I was teaching science I always kept several 10 gallon tanks going, with one big difference from y'alls. I never had tropicals, just local fish and critters. Blue-gill, sunfish, catfish, crawdads, anything the kids could bring in. I even had a mussel. It is fascinating to watch a mussel crawl across the bottom of a tank. One year a kid brought in an amphiuma ( [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphiuma[/url] ). It lived the rest of the school year and one of the kids took it home for the summer. We had a very big crawdad that learned to take food from forceps. The kids loved it. I also had a few terrariums set up for small snakes, lizards, salamanders, tarantulas, etc. Be careful with these, critters are excellent escape artists. One morning I picked up my typewriter(remember those?) off the floor to type a test. I started typing and the typewriter started hissing at me. Do you have any idea how hard it is to get a hog-nosed snake out of the innards of a typewriter? The catfish in one tank could sense a grasshopper on top in just a second or so, and just like that, no more grasshopper. Edit: I know this has nothing to do with answering your questions, but just throwing it out as a different, easier, and cheaper alternative. [/QUOTE]
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