Fort Serenity Meeroo Ranch has opened

We - Major McCaw and Molly Wellesley and me - have opened a store where we breed our Meeroos. We sell the pretty and natural habitats with waterfalls, and nice little huts to use as covers for the nests. Meeroos love to hide themselves and any treasures they find under the huts so we made them go up and down on a single left click.

The water and rock in the habitats texturechange so they fit in any landscape. They come in different versions and sizes too. Major has added demos with rings to show optimal placings if you want more than one stump, which of course I have ignored in favor of a  pleasant chaos. I do have to admit tho, his meeroos seems to hang out quite happily anyway and it is a lot easier to pet his meeroos than mine :o)

We sell nests too of course.

Everyone is of course welcome to visit us and the meeroos just to say hi or look around. We have lots of different coats and traits now. Reds, Autumn, Sierra and Molly even has an Amber now.

This is the link to visit us.

Nile Meeroo - new species is here!

The Nile Meeroo is here and it's gorgeous. The proud owner kindly tp'd us to see it. Felt like being part of a historical moment.

He did his best to hide in his stump, but then I suppose he got curious about us too, so he came out to take a look.

A Meeroo from a new species trying to make sense of all his admirers

Had to get two pictures so you can see the coat properly. If that was a cat I'd call it blue creme.

A really neat looking new coat

Will be real exciting to see what the next generations will look like.

Breeding Meeroos

A meeroo is infertile until it is 5 days old. So you will have to wait for both of them to reach that age. The text on the Status tab of the HUD will say IMMATURE.

They need to be in season. They go through Two Days Wait, 1 Days Wait,Raise, Peak and Fall. They will mate during Raise, Peak and Fall and it doesn't make any difference which one of them they are in.

All Meeroos all over the grid of the same personalities goes into season the same day, so when they are 5 days old they will slip into the schedule for their own personality.

Their personalities have to match:

They are a perfect match for the same personality + two more

If they are both the same personality it means they also match each others seasons best, which does make things easier.

When they are ready to mate the male will build a nest and wait for the female to come add a little Meeroo to it. There is love of course. In a cute PG way with hearts floating.

Once the nest has a Meeroo in it you can coax it or put it in your inventory. Unlike live Meeroos a nest can stay in inventory as long as you like.

Now begins a new wait. After they have made a nest they will both have to wait 5 days before they can breed again. The text on the Status tab will say TOO SOON until they are ready again. After 5 days they will enter the season schedule just like when they became mature.

A Masked Emperor Meeroo skips in the grass

An empress actually, a little Japanese Meeroo girl. Very sweet and happy. This is one of the new coats I really like. There are still some I haven't seen other than on pictures, like the Cinder coat. I'll keep looking for that :)

If you came here to see how it looks and want to see them all, the best place for that is at Mo's place in SL. I'm not sure Mo wants a link to her place published here, and she's not online for me to ask. But ask for a LM in the Wonderful World of Meeroos group and you'll get one (or many lol). She makes a chart (that you can buy for L$0) and updates it with the new coats as fast as she can. It would be great if everyone that finds a new coat in their nest sent a picture to Mo.

The cinder coat looks good too, but I still haven't been able to see any live to get a snapshot of my own.

I have so much I'd like to write about Meeroos, but between RL and taking care of those little angels there isn't much time for anything else.

A waterfall habitat for Meeroos

Look what was waiting for me when I woke up this morning. Major has built a brand new waterfall habitat for my little Meeroos, with a little lake in ground level so they can walk up to the water. Just large enough to have a couple of stumps set to 5 meter range like I do. And it texture changes so the Meeroos can pick different waters and rocks every day if they like. Naaa.... I think I'll choose textures, some of them are mischievous and we could end up with an iceberg in the park :o)

He's made a larger one too for more wide ranging Meeroos. They will show up in the Fort Serenity Waterfalls store soon so others can have one too.

The Meeroos liked it too, looked at it with that special curiosity they have. I swear my Meeroos are real little animals.

Btw, I've planted some Daisies in there. It's not really very smart since the Meeroos can get lost in it. But on the other hand searching for your Meeroo and finding him like this is just so awesum it's worth it.

Ghostie Meeroo sleeps in the daisies

I've seen a Koi Meeroo!

My wonderful, amazing, fantastic partner has given me the go ahead to do a little Meeroo breeding :)

So yesterday I went searching for nice ones with my experienced friend (she's been a breeder for almost two days). I'm not buying a Koi tho unless they become a LOT cheaper. One of them went for L$ 131 000 at an auction the other day. Nope, that is not a typo and I have had it confirmed. Took a snap of it of course:

Adorable, but a bit too expensive for me.

Mesh is on it's way!

Mesh will be rolled out on the main grid between July and August. And the timeline was published in May just as Tateru Nino reported it would be. Just the fact that we got a timeline and our need to plan ahead was considered is a good sign.

It should also mean 64x64 meter max primsize. That is great news for sure :o)