SHARK MARCH! June 1st!

FIN FREE MELBOURNE HAVE ORGANISED A MARCH WHERE YOU CAN COME SHOW YOUR SUPPORT AND VOICE FOR THE SHARKS!

June 1st, meeting at 11:45  Parliment Station, a March will occur through the city from 12 onwards.
Be a voice for the sharks.
Help spread the fin free word to passers by.
Get creative; WE NEED TO MAKE AN IMPACT. We need:
Signs.
Banners.
Posters.
Shirts.
Shark Costumes.
ANYTHING that shows love and support for our sharks and says NO to shark fin soup, flake and supplements!!!!

Protein!

Fur Free Australia

Black Rhino- Extinct!

I found out today we have lost another animal to extinction, the black Rhino.
These species have been declared critically extinct since 2006 & yet we have not done enough to save them from their impending doom.

Whats the difference between Black& White Rhinos?
Black rhinos developed a pointed lip which they use to pick fruit from branches and select leaves from twigs; white rhinos have a flat, wide lip to graze on grasses. So why call them white or black?  In Afrikaans and in English – “weid” or “wide” lipped rhino was mistakenly understood to be white rhino.

Their  extinction comes through a lack of properly funded governed conservation of the species and the high priced horns have lured poachers to slaughter every single one. Though poaching is a problem, more conservation areas should have been put in place with proper authority figures. I do not blame poaching as much as for those poor Africans, imagine being told for one horn of a rhino you will be able to feed your family for the week , even a month. No argument there. Proper authority figures & regulations should have been put in place.

To protect further species from extinction some world governing body should put in places for conservation and employ the local people (sustainability there)  to run the area and have a proper regulation of these standards& practices whilst also having an authority figure to properly safeguard these areas and future endangered species.

*source
http://blog.thomsonsafaris.com/safari/difference-between-black-and-white-rhinos

Now to introduce a new blog for you music fans! My great mate has a passion for music like no one else I know and now he has dedicated some his own personal time to making a blog where he shall review albums of the great metal & rock bands of all time!
INTRODUCING ....
http://liveanddieforthemusic.blogspot.co.uk/

We Love Life Festival -Stalls!

Running week long will be the We Love Life Festival.
St Kilda Botanical Gardens will hold place this festival which is to promote ;
- Love and compassion
- Sustainable and healthy living
- Good food and nutrition
- Fitness and well being
- Beauty and fashion
- Music, film and art

The festival will also have activities running all day from 9am-4pm!
These include seminars,meditiation & fashion shows!

As well as all these fun activities there will be stalls from various animal rights & welfare running all day. This is an important day for them to get their name out to people and to raise money for their organisation to continue to help animals.
Come down to the stalls and support these organisations as the smallest purchase can mean the biggest difference.

I shall be working at Fin Free Melbourne Stall on the 27^th, come say hi!
http://www.facebook.com/FinFreeMelbourne?fref=ts
Fin Free Melbourne, mission is to create a ban on all shark fin products in Melbourne in hopes of decreasing the world wide demand for shark fin products.
Save The Oceans! Save Sharks!

For more information about the festival click below!

http://www.facebook.com/events/165883733568607/?ref=2

Exotic Pets Enclosure

When purchasing an exotic pet such as a reptile, whether it be a small snake, lizard, turtle or even a giant python  , what is going to cost more than the pet is the enclosure.

I am picking up my blue tongue lizard tomorrow and I was told that they would make a me a deal with the lizard for it’s “artificial environment” by selling me the enclosure and all the components with that for $698. As a student, that is just NOT happening, I can not afford that.

My father is a builder whom runs his own business and leftover supplies from work and are dumped around the house. As I have stated before, Scream (my southern rock scorpion) has found a home in an old fish tank which I recycled into an artificial environment for him.
http://vegeway.blogspot.com.au/2013/02/scorpion.html
http://vegeway.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/basic-care-of-southern-black-rock.html

I first found old shelving which I then cut down too make a frame for the enclosure.
Bottom & Top 2 foot by 2 foot
Sides 2 foot w X 1.5 foot
I then drilled this all shut together. This is only a temporary move as he will grow bigger in the future and I will need to get or make a 3 foot wide enclosure.
The top however got cut down too 2 foot w to 1.4 foot long which is then replaced by mesh. I hav’t found a proper way to attach itself together and removable yet but for now, my blue tongue lizard barley the size of my hand is incapable of escaping.

I then attached fiberglass to the front of it by hammering it and reinforcing that with some timber pieces over the top to make sure it holds sturdy for years to come.

I then have put some padding I found inside the enclosure and will put some tarp down over that to keep it from sliding. Substrate will then go in and when I am cleaning that , I can just grab the tarp , lift it up and put it in the bin and replacing it more more tarp.

Of course when the blue tongue lizard goes in there I will put enrichments around and the monitor and heat lamp shall go in through the role in the roof  .

Hope this all helped,  it saves considerable amount of money if you just research the type of enclosures used for these animals and then do your best with what you already have if its suitable. I can now save up for a much bigger proper enclosure but for now I saved over $400 . 

Basic Care Of Southern Black Rock Scorpion

I have posted about my scorpion before but I thought I’d make a quick wrap up video on the basic care of my scorpion.

Unfortunately the original footage has been lost so here's a draft until I can get another.