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Subject: Re: [RML] Re: Mystery/Apple Snails/quarantine
Author: MIME:atappin at ecn.net.au at INTERNET-MAIL
Date: 12/9/97 8:46 AM
At 09:09 8/12/97 +1100, Greg wrote:
>i have lived much of my time in the tropics (darwin and png) and, living
>here in subtropical brisbane i really miss the little barking geckoes that
>i am accustomed to sharing my house with. recently a friend told me that
>his house, here in brisbane, is full of barkng geckoes. it didn't used to
>be, in fact their arrival in the house followed a holiday in bali. my
>friend is convinced that she inadvertantly brought a gravid female home in
>her luggage.
I have a house full of barking geckoes. Actually they have been in Brisbane
for a few years now and are very plentiful in the eastern suburbs (wynnum,
manly, lota, lindum, hemmant, murarrie, lytton etc) I think they arrived not
long after Fisherman Island became the major seaport and they have spread out
from there. They certainly keep the cockroach population in check. I remember
hearing their barking noise for some time before I found out what they were
but now am quiet use to it. We have little ones that run around the ceiling
inside the house at night time while we watch TV.
Personally, I wouldn't be without them ;-)
Adrian.
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Adrian R. Tappin
"Home of the Rainbowfish"
http://www.ecn.net.au/~atappin/home.htm
http://www.angfa.org/rainbowfish/home.htm
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