What pets/animals do you currently have?

Now I have

One female dachshund “Velvet” and one female mutt “Clementine”

One female tabby cat “Axel”

30 gallon tank:
7 neon tetras
1 mystery snail
5 guppies
1 Siamese algae eater
4 zebra danios
Uncountable amounts of bladder and ramshorn snails

10 gallon tank:
5 White Cloud minnows ( planning to buy these)
2 Japanese trapdoor snails
A few small snails

 

Pets:
Cat (species idk) - Tigger

“Working” Animals
12 chickens (Rhode island reds and some other species)

Former Pets (deceased):
Beagle - Mannie (May 2005-August 2022), Mama (unknown)
Mutt - Sid (unknown again)
Various goldfish and betta
Flora (unknown breed of cat) ran away May 2013

 

Male Cavalier King Charles Spaniel - Jerry

0.1 Common leopard gecko (Eublepharis macularius)
1.1 Lined gecko (Gekko vittatus)
0.0.2 Goniurosaurus hainanensis
1.1 Painted ground gecko (Paroedura picta)
1.1 Crocodile skink (Tribolonotus gracilis)

 

That is amazing!! I always thought Java sparrows were rare in the trade due to their inclusion on the Lacey act. Are they at least not rare in the trade?

They are one of the smartest passerines in my opinion and I hop I can keep one in the future.

 

They're harder to find than a lot of other finches but they are not unattainable. Mostly they are unpopular in the US which is unfortunate - they are one of the best pet birds and can be very friendly even when you have a group if you socialize them well as chicks. They are one of the most popular and adored pets in Japan where a huge amount of merchandise featuring them is available.

I have a pair, both are tame, and currently they have six fledgelings.

 

In addition to the Lacey Act they are actually illegal in several states (primarily ones where climate is on the milder side and grain is grown in reasonable quantity). Given they are known to be one of the cold-hardier estrildids, besides already proved itself as invasive, the caution is probably fair. Though as @Sheather has already mentioned they are around in small numbers, and indeed a few AZA actually have them I think. Personally I'm surprised they aren't more popular in spite of the regulations, the wild form in particular is a striking bird and they're pretty straightforward keeping so I've read.

 

They are a joke to be on the lacey act. Their only naturalized location in the United States is non-continental on the Hawaiian Islands where the climate mirrors Indonesia, despite being imported by the tens of thousands through the 1900's, and they are a tropical bird - even in Hawaii they have an urban distribution and nest in gardens and house eaves. The Java sparrow is a true domesticated species at least in Japan, where it has been selectively bred for color in small cages for centuries. The western population comprises a mix of wild caught stock and domesticated import birds but today in the pet trade mutations are more common than wild-types and the temperaments are usually calm. I don't think these lines of birds have enough instinct to survive out of human care any longer. Some of the states banning the species (Wyoming??) clearly have no idea what the animal even is to think it could survive in these climates let alone threaten agriculture. Florida banned the bird a few years ago, leading to releases of captive birds (which is always the result of these bans). They did not establish free-living populations even there.

With only one partial exception I am aware of, cage bird escapes resulting in naturalized populations involve wild-caught imports rather than captive bred stock, as these birds have to learn how to forage for wild food sources. The exception is Arizona's introduced lovebirds, which show some captive color morphs and have some domestic ancestry as pets may have survived escape after finding the wild flock.

 

Current menagerie:

Border Collie

Tabby Cat

African Dwarf Frogs

Neon Tetras
Cardinal Tetras
Buenos Aires Tetras
Diamond Tetras
Flame Tetras

Goldfish (Shubunkin, Ryukin, Veiltail)
Gudgeon
Bandula Barbs*
Black Ruby Barbs
Tiger Barbs*
Filamentous Barbs
Denison's Barbs
Melon Barbs
Rosy Barbs
Lambchop Rasboras
Harlequin Rasboras
Brilliant Rasboras
Chilli Rasboras
Half-banded Loaches
Purple Eel Loaches
Clown Loaches
Weatherfish
Siamese Flying Fox
Fishnet Flying Fox
White Cloud Mountain Minnows
Vietnamese Cardinal Minnows
Rainbow Shiners
Blue Dace
Zebra Danios
Leopard Danios
Glowlight Danios
Kyathit Danios

Brazilian Pearlfish
Japanese Ricefish

Butterfly Splitfins*
Limia perugiae*
Montezuma Swordtails
Singapore Feral Guppies*
Gold Dragon Endlers*

Corydoras paleatus*
Corydoras punctatus
Corydoras splendens
Hoplos
L50 Clown Plec
Bulldog Plecs
Ancistrus cf. cirrhosus
Rinelocari L010A
Synodontis petricola

Lamprologous multifasciatus*
Labidochromis caeruleus*
Haplochromis obliquidens*
Scalare Angels
Keyhole Cichlids
Kribs

Sparkiling Gouramis*
Chocolate Gouramis
Pearl Gouramis
Dwarf Gourami
Vietnamese Black Paradise Fish*

Bosemani Rainbowfish
Lake Kutubu Rainbowfish

Cherry shrimp*

*Successfully bred this year.

Too much? Just say.

 

Java finch are popular in the UK and very easy to get a hold of most pet shops selling birds have them

 

Definitely not too much, I would love to have a collection this extensive!

 

Oh, and Narayan Barbs. I forgot about the Narayan Barbs.

 

That’s quite the list. Not too much. Very extensive.

 

A few more taxa added over the weekend:

L066 Tiger Plec
Goyder River Rainbowfish
Pangio anguillaris

 

Current home zoo:

Burmese Star tortoise (female)

Argentine Red tegu (7y.o. male)

2 Prehensile-tailed skinks (both female, I'm fairly sure)

Kalatoa Island locale Super Dwarf reticulated python (female)

Ball pythons:
Mojave male
Pastave female
BEL female

Clown female
Pastel Clown female
Fire Clown female
Yellowbelly Clown female
Batgirl (Spotnose Leopard Clown) female, of course.

One more clown girl and my project is ready. Sold my ETB to a breeder in October to focus more on the ball pythons. Also gave my savannah monitor to a friend in RI that wanted her for his shop display.

Still have a male border-Aussie, a giant and mean black cat (my wife's), wife also has a tank with turquoise rainbows, black neons, various corydoras, and a pair of black knight Ramirezi. Couple of huge snails in there, too.

 

Two black cats (Pikachu and Lina) and two siberian huskies (Weeza and Taiga)

 

1 black Labrador retriever
1 mix dog

1 Hysterocrates gigas (Cameroon red baboon spider)
1 Tliltocatl albopilosus (Honduran curly hair tarantula)
1 Pandinus Dictator (Dictator scorpion)

1 Herman's tortoise

 

I have never heard of this species before. How similar are they to emperor and asian forest scorpions?

 

Very similar, and very difficult to tell apart. Care is pretty much the same.

 

Addition to current - Chihuahua named Georgie

 

I have...
Dogs
Chocolate Labrador (Jaffa)
Cocker Spaniel (Luna)
Birds
Barbary Dove (Hoo-Hoo)
2 Budgerigars (Stormy & Violet)
2 Rainbow Lorikeets (Pancake & Waffle)
Reptiles/Amphibians
Children's Python (Basilisk)
2 Common Blue-Tongue Skinks
1 Dainty Green Tree-Frog
2 Murray River-Turtles (Turtellini & Urkle)
3 Red-Eyed Tree-Frogs
Saw-Shelled Turtle
Woma Python (Wilbur)
Fish
2 Cherry Barb
Chocolate Gourami
2 Congo Tetra
2 Crimson-Spotted Rainbowfish
lots of Eastern Mosquitofish, Firetail Gudgeon & Mozambique Tilapia
2 Empire Gudgeon
2 Freshwater Angelfish
Green Swordtail
3 Harlequin Rasbora
2 Kuhli Loach
Neon Rainbowfish
Platinum Gourami
Rainbow Kribs
Silver Perch
Invertebrates
lots of Ghost Shrimp & Mystery Snails
30ish Rainforest Scorpions
Wolf Spider