im new introducing my animals

[TheReptileben]

hey guys im ben i live in palmerston (1/2 hour out of Darwin) and i currently own 1 bredli python, 2 helmet geckos (one is gravid) and one hopping mouse. (sorry for bad quality pics)

 

[Icarus]

welcome to APS! you've got some great animals there

 

[CaptainRatbag]

Ditto, welcome. Nice bredli and geckos.... what is the story on hopping mice? Very cute

 

[TheReptileben]

not really a story but i just saw him in the shop today and just had to have him

 

[Jason.s]

Welcome mate nice animals.

 

[Grogshla]

lovely animals mate

 

[TheReptileben]

thank you all i really like this site you might read a bit more from me

 

[Nick-G]

Wow!! I was just watching a YouTube video today on extinct animals of the 20th century and one of them was the hopping mouse! Pfft proved them wrong! What a cute little fella!

 

[TheReptileben]

Wow!! I was just watching a YouTube video today on extinct animals of the 20th century and one of them was the hopping mouse! Pfft proved them wrong! What a cute little fella!

yep he is definitely still alive lol goes to show not to believe everything you see

 

[MathewB]

What's the hopping mouse like? Is he awesome? How big is he? What does he eat?
SO MANY QUESTIONS!

 

[CaptainRatbag]

What's the hopping mouse like? Is he awesome? How big is he? What does he eat?
SO MANY QUESTIONS!

I'm with you :lol: I want one..... or better, a hopping rat

 

[MathewB]

I'm with you :lol: I want one..... or better, a hopping rat

Can we even keep them in QLD?

 

[TheReptileben]

he hops around a bit like a kangaroo , yes he is awesome ,he is about 20cm long from tip of nose to tip of tail but about 2 thirds of his size it tail, he eats roots,fruits,veggies and small invertebrates

 

[Skeptic]

Hi and welcome I've always been curious about hopping mice too. You need a licence to keep them in NSW. I was reading up on them and apparently they can go for ages without water and their kidneys are so efficient their urine is solid!! Maybe one day... Got enough mouths to feed at the moment

 

[TheReptileben]

urine is very much like jelly

 

[vampstorso]

Is it a Mitchell's hoping mouse?
There's more than one species which is were the extinct thing comes in,
Plains rats are adorable too and not doing great number wise.
The best thing about Native mice and rats is they don't smell like regular rodents.

Very cute lil thing

 

[TheReptileben]

not sure on species, im getting the details tomorrow

 

[xJACKx]

Welcome Ben

 

[moussaka]

Wow!! I was just watching a YouTube video today on extinct animals of the 20th century and one of them was the hopping mouse! Pfft proved them wrong! What a cute little fella!

There used to be ten species of Australian hopping mouse - five of them are extinct. This one looks like it could be a spinifex hopping mouse or northern hopping mouse, maybe? Actually scrap that, it's too hard to tell without better quality pictures. It's very cute, though!

The spinifex hopping mouse is the world's best at concentrating its urine - it can generate a urine as concentrated as 10000 mosm/L. For comparison, we can get to 1200 mosm/L. And yeah, for that reason it can fulfill much of its water requirements from metabolic water alone. SO. DAMN. COOL.

 

[BredliChick]

Nice animals I'm new here too but will still say 'welcome' lol