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[9darlingcalvi]

Cool!  I made quick friends with several biology profs and grad students when I arrived on campus with a monitor and tegu that I couldn't keep in my dorm.  They gave me space for my lizard cage in one of the Bio-Sci lab areas, in exchange for helping care for some other research animals, which i loved doing anyway.  They were glad to see a new Biology undergrad who was ecology-oriented, not just another Pre-Med student (the bulk of Bio majors). That was 40 years ago.  I hope you find others there who share your passion.

The professor said I could use any of the 40+ tanks or one of the 5 green plastic 4' tanks if I clean them up and notify him!

[PBK]

I recently had a Johnny darter sharing a tank with another Johnny and 4 Orangethroats. This Johnny bullied all of the other darter so bad that I put him in another tank with some big rainbow darters. He’s behaving now.....