Last month on my work trip, I managed to pick up some really cool critters as a side quest to my actual job. This was the highlight and a first for me...a Jerusalem cricket! Chonky little tank was plowing through spider webs and literally marched right past me in the hanger so I put him outside.

Lol I basically spent a chunk of this year designing CAD and doing test renderings before picking up ~7000 bricks to build a 30k Salamanders battle barge, which will close out my 2025 rando project. Just a few more revisions and tweaks to the support stand and slab armor.

Look at this really pretty wild sailfin molly from a local creek!

Radiodont head

P. hoffmannseggii getting her exercise. They get substantially larger than this and always have resting angry face. I need to do a vid of the males with their long uropods :)

(My hands always look like they belong to a lich in handling vids as I don't want lotions or oils to hurt the critters)

A hardshell taco turns into a soft bean burrito.

G. portentosa, Madagascar hissing roach.

Trilobite reconstruction work in progress: Bellacartwrightia whiteleyi, with legs, gills, and antennae.

These sweethearts are Simandoa conserfariam and discovered only 20 years ago in a single cave system in Guinea.

Their habitat was destroyed by a mining company shortly thereafter and rendered extinct in the wild, save for some specimens saved by biologists. They can get the zoomies and squeak!

I have been pretty inactive the last few years with people I call friends and acquaintances due to inability to maintain connections with others and within myself, and hope to rekindle those connections, if people will are open to it :3

My old ass car is old enough to buy alcohol now, crazy. How long can I keep it running?

Idk what I'm doing so here is a clip of my dirt shrimp babies.

Cubaris sp 'rubber ducky'