A:  I switched ISPs at the end of June.  I was not educated enough to do the switch myself.  I had to bring in an IT expert from out of town, my son Robert in KC.  It took him about a day and a half to fix it.  LA

A:  We're up and swinging.  LA

A:  That is an excellent price.  Buy more.  Remember to treat him like the baby fish he is  LA

A:  I couldn't access it for two weeks.  It's up again.  LA

A:  I couldn't read the Arabic parts.  However, we do not ship fish.  LA

A:  When I order hi-fin, lyre-tail swordtails, my source sends me an assortment of colors.  I don't believe I've ever seen the color (or colour)you're looking for in real life.  I've seen close to your description in Atlas of Livebearers of the World by Lothar Wischnath.  In any event, we don't ship fish.  You might find it worthwhile to join the American Livebearer Association.  LA

A:  It's up again.  LA

Kathy Welsher, Des Moines, IA, July 10, 2007
Is something wrong with the Aqualand website? For the past 2 days, I've tried to go there (homepage) to get the infusoria article for someone and it won't work. It just comes up with a total blank page that says "New Page 1" as the title.

A:  There was.  It works fine now.  Call me if you want to get some hours the next ten days.  LA

BOB, Virginia, July 10, 2007
Yayyyy!!! Your web site is back!!!!! Well, almost.  Some links aren't working yet but then again, you do have a huge amount of information and progress is being made.

The speed with your new server is FAST!!!! It's way faster than the old one. Those guys were getting pokey.

Thanks for keeping this site on the WWW and if you need small donations to help keep this going then I'm first in line!

A:  For about 10 days I thought I'd lost the whole thing.  It came up faster for you than it did for me.  I couldn't input anything past Oddballs, Moray Eels.  But my son cured it.  The new site is not only faster, it's also cheaper (by a lot).  Robert's working on making it even faster -- especially in the creation of new pages.  LA

Frank X. Casavant II, Heidenheimer, TX, July 10, 2007
Hi there, was a doing a search on gold mystery snails laying eggs and came across your site. Nice content, did you write all these articles and content yourself or are you doing some rss to blog feeds. Reason I am asking as I am in the process of starting up a blog for woodworking and I am looking for ideas to get it kick started. Thank You,

A:  I wrote all of them except for three or four.  I have no clue as to what "rrs to blog feeds" means.  LA
 

A:  I'm happy to report that everything is now unimploded.  LA

A:  Nice pics and setup.  Adding the hint "South Africa (Southern tip of African continent)" on your email was funny.  I even remember when it was called Suid Afrika.
PS  We're in the Midwest -- quite a ways from the Mid East.  More specifically, we're 330 miles west of Chicago.
PPS  It was a pleasure to get a message from Africa which was not from Nigeria or the Ivory Coast.

A:  I might be able to send you a moss ball or two.  Things are a bit hectic right now (not just the website catch-up), so send me a follow up in three or four weeks.  LA

A:  That's Frankenstein (pronounced steen only by Gene wilder).  Our guppy page actually says cull out the runts.  Bigger females have larger stomachs and thus larger appetites.  They don't get the idea not to eat them, they get full.  You need larger tanks to rear guppies in quantity (and quality).  Put some gups in a child's wading pool and you'll see the difference quick.  Three newborns means you're having a 10% survival rate.  In the wading pool, you'll get 30 to 50 survivors per litter.  LA

A:  Of course, if this is the same Marcia I used to live with.  LA

A:  Happy snailing.  LA

A:  Go with the rams.  And add more info sources.  LA

BOB, Virginia, July 12, 2007
Glad U worked out the bugs! You have a talented son there, that's for sure. My page downloads are fast because of my broadband connection, but even with that the pages used to load kinda slow towards the end. This new deal for you is much faster (cheaper too?)

Wow! It's well worth the money! Glad you didn't lose your site. You should be able to back up the whole thing on your computer. When you upload, it should be just a copy with stuff remaining on your computer. I remember you saying that you have a hard drive now with a huge amount of storage. Consider buying another (either internal or external) for a backup. You can use it for just raw storage or make it a bootable hard drive with XP or Ubuntu on it. http://www.ubuntu.com/

Nice tomato garden you have posted on you site. Here's mine.

BOB

Corn is on the left and tomatoes on the right. This area used to be a swimming pool and we filled it in. Too much insurance liability.

A:  I put the bugs in.  Robert took them out.  I'm more used to seeing corn by the square mile.  LA

A:  The availability of aquatic U.S. salamanders (at least the ones you mentioned) is hugely less than it was decades ago.  Around here their habitat has crappy looking three-story town houses built upon it.  It's hard to find a good swamp in our environs.  Probably the same has happened around the country.  LA

Pic from Chuck Holliday

A:  In our neck of the woods, we have the similar "cicada killer wasps" -- probably because we have lots of cicadas (which we call locusts) and zero tarantulas.  Those and bumblebees at one time or another have populated my front yard.  A little bit of gasoline from the lawn mower gas can (applied at night) will eradicate them.  Thus ends my knowledge of the tarantula hawk wasps.  But I really doubt a tarantula could recover from the sting -- especially if the wasp inserts her egg.  LA

A:  Add a teaspoon of salt per gallon.  They should all do fine.  LA

A:  Sorry but we do not ship.  Very few places will ship aquariums.  LA

A:  "Certified state record fish must be legally caught using an active hook-and-line method (including a proper license or exemption) by sport fishing methods, identified by a Commission biologist and weighed on a certified scale. Uncertified state records (indicated below by an asterisk) are believed accurate based on reliable witnesses and other evidence but are not certifiable, or they were caught by other than legal sport fishing methods. To set a new record, you just need to exceed the certified records; the uncertified records are provided just for information."
Now that you know what you desire will not count, here's how to make your bullhead grow larger.  Feed lightly five times per day.  Vary his diet.  Change half his water twice a week.  LA
PS  It would be quicker to go down to Florida and seine some out.  Bullheads grow larger down south.