Good Morning TM, well I've had terrariums and we have aquariums. At present a 50 gal and a 75 gal fresh water, used to have a 100 gal salt water aquarium loaded with live rock and all the trimmings but never heard of a ranarium. I'm afraid I need clues for this one, the only thing that's floating though my mind are UGGHHH!!! reptiles.

Annette

Remember the movie, 'Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou'?
You might find Pete and Delmar and George Clooney and some insects.

Nell

Never saw that movie Nell, it just came to me snakes and lizards and such yuckies I think are kept in vivariums (sp) so I'm still clueless.

Annette

My DH who USED to be a runner (now he's a ran-er?)?

No clue on this one, but I'm betting is isn't anything I want around! Teehee.

We used to have lots of aquariums, as we raised fish. It was very interesting.
Hey Annette remember those little four legged friends that you used to have around the water.
Will get back to you later.

Sue

now he's a ran-er?

Groan. :-)

TM

Thanks Sue I got it, that's what the - - - - lady came and picked up and that's no - - - - :o).

Annette

I'm very confused!!!!

Good morning!

I think you're right, TM, that having an aquarium can be a passion that fades away, but also, think of all the boas and alligators that people raise--they're trying to sell the smaller aquarium to afford a bigger one! And to save up for the trip to Florida to dump the animal...

I think a lot of aquaria are bought to house kids' pets, and as they die off (the pets, not the kids, I hope!) or the kids grow up, the aquaria become superfluous.

I have goldfish in my big rain barrels every summer to eat the mosquito eggs and larvae, so I take them inside for the winter. I just get feeder goldfish, which can come in very koi-looking splotches.

I know what a ranarium is, because I know a little latin and spanish.

Oh, jeepers, my memory of first and second year Latin doesn't help at all! I am still stumped.

BTW-sorry about ran-er-very lame and I knew it when I wrote it-oh well..;)

Stage rat - my Latin and Greek are not helping me, so it must be the Spanish!! lol. We had an aquarium in almost every room when I was a kid - anything worth doing is worth overdoing!! Mum and I made terrariums, when they leaked. I also kept turtles. Hmmm...
Aqua = water
Terr = earth
Ran = ???
Not spiders, not lizards...crimeny. I do not know!! You got me. Sue and Annette - you are NO help!!!!

Nancy.

My latin is long lost, but my Spanish vocab is still pretty darn good . . . doesn't help me a bit. No clue.

We had a large aquarium when I was a kid.
I remember the fights about who was going to clean it more vividly
than any of the inhabitants, but my general recollection is that it was pretty cool.

Patti

Evening
It is the four legged friends that like to hang out around water and are mostly green in color...and are also called tree ....?

Sue

Again, I have no idea. I am becoming quite melancholy, not knowing so much, so often! LOL

frogs, grenouilles. What am I missing?? Another language??

Not chicken from the sea but possibly chicken from the pond :o).
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Well, their legs taste like chicken.

Annette

Love that picture, Annette, and the clues. Now I know (maybe, kinda, sorta), but I sure can't make the language connection-except for grenouilles-lol.

Bull Frogs have become a real problem here on Vancouver Island, they are wiping out all our native frogs as well as eating everything else they can fit in their mouths including birds.
We have a gal locally who hunts and collects them, she sends the bigger ones to universities, schools etc. Hence she has earned the name the FROG lady, if you end up with BULL frogs in your pool she will come and collect them.
As cute as they are when they're small they become a real problem when they grow up.

Annette

It is a home for rearing all kinds of frogs.

Sue

Maybe I can remember so many Spanish nouns because none of the verb conjugation takes up space in my brain? :)

According to a few different sources, rana is latin for frog. (Rana pipiens is the leopard frog, for example.) Maybe you folks that know some latin were thinking of only the ran part?

That makes a ranarium a place to house frogs.

for Annette, Stagerat, Sue, and Cynthia.

For a while, I thought this was going to be a stumper, but then you all leaped into action. (Did anyone notice my too-subtle jump start hint?)

Good job.

TM

Oops, five stars for Nell, too. I loved that movie, Nell. What a hoot, and the music was great.

TM

Missed that hint, TM, but you are being way too generous with your stars. I don't deserve any!

"I missed the clever hint too, my eyes leapt right over it," she said toadyingly.

The critter in the movie was a frog, but Delmar referred to him as a toad: "Pete, we thought you was a TOAD."

I named the toads in my garden Pete, Delmar and George Clooney because I can never remember Clooney's character name.

Nell