No, no one was disected.
But it is bad. Here's what happened:
For those of you who dont know, i use too keep 2 anoles in a ten gallon tank. This is now the home for my fish; ie first in sig. This was my first pet that actually required my direct interpherance to survive. So naturally, i was forced to do a massive deal of research on them first by my mother. Unfourtunately, i also listened to my local LFS.....(fine for fish, but i'd sooner trust petco *gasp* than them as far as anoles are concerned) and i ended up putting the poor creatures in the entirely wrong biotope (desert) and they died shortly thereafter.
ANYway, the point of this tale is that i came out of this expeience w/ a much better understanding of anole care, and since then, my eye has always been open for them. In that time, i've also learned a great deal about fish of course (THANKS GUYS!!!).
So as i happened to saunter into my Spanish two class the other day, low and behold, guess what was sitting on the front desk of one student? You guessed it, an anole. the poor creature (petco purchase) was inside a plastic container that looked to be a mere gallon or so (the cage shorter than your size 11 shoe) with an inch or so of some sort of bark for substrate topped off w/ a small container of frozen meal worms IN THE CAGE!!!!!!! When asked about it, the student replied, "Oh, its for my Biology class; our teacher wanted us to bring in one reptile and one invertebrate (hermit crab)" Out rage! Scandal! But wait, it gets worse:
Then, today, while walking in the hallway, i spotted the farmiliar hint of green and carefully positioned movements of an anole-bearing person. Along with a betta...... :mad2: :thud: First off, genius here most likely thought that the betta was an invertebrate. Second, I was dismayed (but not surprised; given the level of intelligence at our school) to find the poor fish crammed into one of the typical "betta-perfect" cup (the ones barely big enough to hold a full cup of water) along with the typical blue solvent (assumedly anti-fungal, but correct me if i'm wrong) that showed the water had not even been changed or filtered.
AND THE ANOLE WAS SITTING RIGHT ABOVE HIM, CRAMMED IN THE SAME CONTAINER!!!!!!!!!
This is an outrage and seeing as most of the students got theirs from the chain stores,Petco etc; i fear thiswill lead to a downscaled version of what the SW world experienced with the "Finding Nemo (and finding out that this fish also costs more than i thought)" epic.
Any thoughts?
But it is bad. Here's what happened:
For those of you who dont know, i use too keep 2 anoles in a ten gallon tank. This is now the home for my fish; ie first in sig. This was my first pet that actually required my direct interpherance to survive. So naturally, i was forced to do a massive deal of research on them first by my mother. Unfourtunately, i also listened to my local LFS.....(fine for fish, but i'd sooner trust petco *gasp* than them as far as anoles are concerned) and i ended up putting the poor creatures in the entirely wrong biotope (desert) and they died shortly thereafter.
ANYway, the point of this tale is that i came out of this expeience w/ a much better understanding of anole care, and since then, my eye has always been open for them. In that time, i've also learned a great deal about fish of course (THANKS GUYS!!!).
So as i happened to saunter into my Spanish two class the other day, low and behold, guess what was sitting on the front desk of one student? You guessed it, an anole. the poor creature (petco purchase) was inside a plastic container that looked to be a mere gallon or so (the cage shorter than your size 11 shoe) with an inch or so of some sort of bark for substrate topped off w/ a small container of frozen meal worms IN THE CAGE!!!!!!! When asked about it, the student replied, "Oh, its for my Biology class; our teacher wanted us to bring in one reptile and one invertebrate (hermit crab)" Out rage! Scandal! But wait, it gets worse:
Then, today, while walking in the hallway, i spotted the farmiliar hint of green and carefully positioned movements of an anole-bearing person. Along with a betta...... :mad2: :thud: First off, genius here most likely thought that the betta was an invertebrate. Second, I was dismayed (but not surprised; given the level of intelligence at our school) to find the poor fish crammed into one of the typical "betta-perfect" cup (the ones barely big enough to hold a full cup of water) along with the typical blue solvent (assumedly anti-fungal, but correct me if i'm wrong) that showed the water had not even been changed or filtered.
AND THE ANOLE WAS SITTING RIGHT ABOVE HIM, CRAMMED IN THE SAME CONTAINER!!!!!!!!!
This is an outrage and seeing as most of the students got theirs from the chain stores,Petco etc; i fear thiswill lead to a downscaled version of what the SW world experienced with the "Finding Nemo (and finding out that this fish also costs more than i thought)" epic.
Any thoughts?
