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eCard Contest

ReptileChannel Moderator — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:52:12 GMT

Hey herpkeepers,

Make sure to check out our eCard contest. Enter your most creative eCard, or just vote on others.

http://www.reptilechannel.com/reptile-magazines/reptiles-magazine/ReptileChannel_eCard_contest.aspx

R.M.

Site and Forum Maintenance

ReptileChannel Moderator — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:24:07 GMT

Notice: ReptileChannel will be temporarily unavailable for several hours, Thursday/Friday, starting at 1 am Eastern Standard Time (10 pm Pacific Standard Time). We will be updating our system and appreciate your patience.

R.M.

New Categories

ReptileChannel Moderator — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:53:13 GMT

Hi herpkeepers,

We are in the early stages of developing our new website ReptileChannel.com and we would like some input from you.

When we migrate the message boards to the new site, we will have the ability to add new forum categories. So we can add categories like "Introductions" where new people can introduce themselves, etc.

We will probably have general category heads for Snakes, lizards, turtles/torts, and amphibians; but what specific areas would you like in each? Health, care, lighting, feeding, general, etc?

Let us know by posting on this topic.

Thanks,

R.M.

Happy B-day to me!!

Reptile Maniac — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:58:48 GMT

i know this dosen't really matter to most, but a star tortoise would be a nice gift if anybody has one

Tact

ReptileChannel Moderator — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:47:45 GMT

Tact (n): delicate perception of the right thing to say or do without offending; skill in dealing with people.

I'm not sure what it is about online forums that seems to bring the worst out in people (nor will I ever). I'd just like to ask that everyone treats each other with respect. No one likes to be on the receiving end of a joke. What may be a light-hearted joke to you, may be taken as a piercing insult by someone else.

It is up to all of you here if you want this forum to grow and be a great place for the herp world to congregate and share, it is also up to you if you want it to slide into a abyss of hostility and hypocrisy.

This forum is what you make it and I sincerely hope that your love for reptiles and amphibians shines brightly on the forums and everything else is ignored.

R.M.

Points Problem

BlackStego — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:59:36 GMT

I wasn't sure where to put this so I put it here. I used 20,000 of my points on the Ghann's crickets about 2-3 months ago and still haven't recieved them. Will I ever get my crickets?

People keep bringing up dead topics.

Crested Man — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:00:04 GMT

Somebody brought up a topic that was before I was on the channel. It is annoying. If you want to post on it. Make the same topic again.

Happy Birthday Kathy Love! 4/9

jcapicy — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:08:03 GMT

Happy Birthday Kathy!

Happy Mother's Day

ReptileChannel Moderator — Thu, 08 May 2008 10:15:22 GMT

New Reptile Mother's Day eCards are up and ready to be sent.

You can check them out here:

http://www.reptilechannel.com/reptile-community/reptile-ecards.aspx

Happy Mother's Day!

R.M.

USFWS Notice of Inquiry

ReptileChannel Moderator — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:52:17 GMT

Hi Everyone,

We have a great new video on the ReptileChannel.com homepage discussing the USFWS Notice of Inquiry. Take a look now, the deadline is April 30th. One last push!

http://www.reptilechannel.com/reptile-news/conservation-and-legal/notice-of-inquiry-video.aspx

R.M.

Error Message

ReptileChannel Moderator — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:58:12 GMT

If any of you ever receive a message that says, "out of memory at line 2," all you have to do is to clear your cache, cookies, history, temp files, etc.

Thanks,

R.M.

Pinned Topics

ReptileChannel Moderator — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:22:23 GMT

Welcome to the ReptileChannel Forums! Below you will find links to Frequently Asked Questions and important topics from the ReptileChannel Forums. Before asking a question on the forums, first make sure you look at the list below to see if it has already been covered. Please read the following links below: Official Rules and Regulations, and Important Information other members need to know to answer your questions.

If you have you see a topic that you think should appear on this list, please let the ReptileChannel Moderator know, via PM or by posting the URL for the topic in the Suggestions Forum.

Official Rules and Regulations

Important Information other members need to know to answer your questions

Abusing Privating Messaging

Calcium Sand

What reptile is the best pet?

Starting a Reptile Business

Best Beginner Amphibian

What is best beginner snake?

Good beginner snake

Is an iguana a good choice as a pet?

How do I convince my parents to allow me to get a snake?

What's an easy beginner aquatic turtle?

Spring/Easter eCards

ReptileChannel Moderator — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:32:23 GMT

Happy Spring!

The new Spring/Easter Reptile eCards are now available. Send one to your friends and loved ones now!

Remember, sending eCards earn you points for your Club Reptile account!

R.M.

NEW MEMBERS...PLEASE READ!

MDC_Ophiuchus — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:43:21 GMT

As a pseudo-veteran to this site and other forums as well, I would like to encourage everyone to review the following points

1.) If you haven't already, introduce yourself. Let everyone know you're a new member and maybe share a few things about yourself and this hobby we all love.

BEFORE POSTING...keep these things in mind.

2.) Try to read through all the pages of an entire thread/topic before making a post. In many cases, new members join the site, see a topic that piques their interest, and immediately go to the last page and post whatever thought pops into their head about the subject. And in most of these cases, the post ends up being entirely irrelevant to the topic or it virtually repeats something that has already been said. There's nothing wrong with sharing one's own experiences about the topic at hand, but its somewhat annoying to have someone rehashing old material, as well as possibly embarassing for the new member doing so. So make sure you'e aware of whats been discussed so far before joining in.

3.) Look at post dates! Going hand in hand with #2, another common problem is new users posting on threads that have not been active for several months and in some cases, years! Again, there's nothing wrong with sharing your own experiences about a topic, but in many cases, if the last post in a particular thread is more than a month or so, the topic has either been thoroughly discussed to exhaustion, any solution has been resolved, and/or the parties involved have not posted since. Once again, this also goes back and reading the entire thread before posting.

If you're wondering where to find the date of a post, it is listed right above each post. Also, if you're ever wondering about another member's post history, you can click on their name, and go view their member profile. In that, you can find all their posts, all topics they started, as well as when they joined the site and when they posted last. Very handy information to be aware of before you start posting on an old topic.

4.) Keep in mind that no one knows everything...yourself included. There's many regular members here that are very knowledgeable in some areas while very ignorant in others. My advise is to take everything with a grain of salt, and always do research outside of this site. Also, if you hang around long enough and "lurk" in a lot of threads, you'll get a pretty decent idea of who the real "experts" are and who the "noobs" are. This is a community, we're all here to help each other and talk herps, after all.

5.) Your post count doesn't mean anything. All it does is indicate how active of a member you are. It doesn't make you any more knowledgeable or an expert. A member can make 1000 posts saying "I love leopard geckos, too! They're so cool!" and not be anymore credible than the day they joined. However, someone may only post once a week and answer dozens of questions in one blow. Quality over quantity, folks. Make your posts count; don't count your posts.

6.) Post pics!!! Everyone loves to see pics of others' pets. So show off your animals so we can all enjoy them.

Message Board Will Be Offline

Rep Mod — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:21:43 GMT

Hi everyone,

The message board will be offline for routine maintenance tonight, 2/13, from 9 PM PST to 10 PM PST. Thanks for your cooperation and patience!

Rep Mod

Valentine's Reptile eCards

ReptileChannel Moderator — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:45:36 GMT

Happy Valentine's Day!

Don't forget to send your FREE Valentine's Day Reptile eCards.

R.M.

Hello!

Aquatic13 — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:28:11 GMT

I'm new! I mostly have fish as pets but, I do have a snake.

Happy Holidays

ReptileChannel Moderator — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:45:43 GMT

Happy Holidays Everyone,

Don't forget to send a FREE Reptile Holiday eCard to all of your family and friends.

Enjoy,

R.M.

New to ReptileChannel.com, but not to REPTILES.....

Bill Love — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:42:25 GMT

Hello to all with just a quick intro. I’ve been monitoring the progress of the REPTILECHANNEL.com forums for a few months now and have finally logged on as a participant. I’ve been the HERPETOLOGICAL QUERIES columnist with REPTILES MAGAZINE since it started back in October 1993, so it only seems natural to drop in here too now and then to help out. Plus, I hope to learn from everyone here about what the hot topics are on the cutting edge of herpetoculture, which new species are being incorporated into the trade, hear about new problems arising, etc. This seems like the perfect complement to what I already do monthly in REPTILES. As with HERPETOLOGICAL QUERIES, I won’t be able to address everything that comes along, but I’ll try to be a regular visitor and contributor across the various forums.

Sincerely, Bill Love

Happy 2008 to everyone!

Happy Thanksgiving

ReptileChannel Moderator — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:50:12 GMT

Happy Thanksgiving everyone,

Don't forget to send one of our free Reptile eCards to your friends and family for Thanksgiving.

Have a Safe and Happy Thanksgiving!

R.M.

Mystery Skull Challenge

ReptileChannel Moderator — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:04:01 GMT

Hey herpkeepers!

ReptileChannel has a really fun ongoing contest called the "Mystery Skull Challenge." Check out the amazing picture of a herps skull, read the clue, and send in your guess. We reward 10 people with the right answer, Club Reptile points each month.

Click here to check it out!

Thanks,

R.M.

ReptileChannel

ReptileChannel Moderator — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 12:05:59 GMT

Hello herpkeepers,

ReptileChannel is now up and running! Make sure to change all of your old bookmarks from www.reptilesmagazine.com to www.reptilechannel.com

Head on over to ReptileChannel and set up your own webpage to show off your pet herps at Club Reptile. You earn points for everything you do on ReptileChannel. The points can then be redeemed for great prizes. Check out the Rewards Catalog now.

ReptileChannel has hundreds of Species Profiles, Updated Reptile News, Reptile Health Section as well as lots of great articles, all brought to you by the editors of REPTILES Magazine.

Don't forget to check out the Humor & Games section too. You can play the highly addictive "Feed the Beardie" game create your own REPTILES magazine cover, or lots of other fun activities.

Remember to change those bookmarks! http://board.reptilesmagazine.com is now http://board.reptilechannel.com

Enjoy,

R.M.

Reptilesmagazine.com to become ReptileChannel.com

ReptileChannel Moderator — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:06:45 GMT

Hello herpkeepers,

We are finishing up the new Reptiles magazine website (ReptileChannel.com) and will be moving over soon. Your username and password will be moved over and all of your posts will stay. The only difference for the forums will be the look and URL. When you see the new site up, please go ahead and change your bookmarks and favorites to the new URL. The old site will redirect, but we encourage you to use the new URL.

As far as reptilesmagazine.com goes the new ReptileChannel.com will have some of the same information available, along with many new features, games, species profiles and constantly updated news. You can create your own webpages showing off all your herp pets. The new site www.reptilechannel.com, will have many new features and lots of herp related information and fun.

This message is just a heads up so it's not a surprise when we move over to the new site.

Thanks,

R.M.

Possible Board Downtime

ReptileChannel Moderator — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:02:58 GMT

Hi everyone,

We will be moving the message boards to a new server on Tuesday 7/24. This may cause some downtime when you won't be able to login to the boards. We hope that the move will speed up load times.

Thanks for your patience in advance,

R.M.

Official Rules and Regulations

Admin — Tue, 01 May 2007 14:52:04 GMT

Rule and Guidelines for Participation

When participating in our community, there are a few simple rules we ask each member to follow:

1. Communicate in a friendly and respectful manner.
It's OK to share your opinions and to disagree, we simply ask that you do so without attacking another member in the process.

If you feel you have been personally attacked in our community, don't respond with an attack of your own. Instead, e-mail the Moderator to alert us of the problem.

2. Keep it clean.
Profanity and obscenities will not be tolerated. This includes masked profanity where letters are substituted with special characters.

3. Don't instigate arguments.
Content intended to inflame or disrupt the community is not allowed. This includes harassment of fellow members, links to inappropriate content, racial, ethnic, religious, or other slurs as well as any name-calling.

4. No solicitations.
No unsolicited or unauthorized advertising. This includes promotion of items for personal financial gain, as well as promotion of an item or issue for the purpose of mass communication. Further, mass posting or "spamming" the message boards is not allowed. Soliciting through the private messaging system is also not allowed. If you receive a solicitation in a private message, please forward the message to the moderator. We must have proof to stop future abuse. Soliciting means that you are persuading other members to buy something, try a new service, or visit another website, etc., where the members may or may not have any interest in doing so.

5. Don't share personally identifiable information.
To protect your privacy and to ensure your online safety, we ask that you do not post personally identifiable information. This includes phone numbers, address, instant messaging screen names (AOL, ICQ, Yahoo, MSN, etc,) or web address leading to such information. Further, we ask that you do not share someone else's personally identifiable information.

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We ask that you do not post any copyrighted or trademarked material unless you have the express written consent of the owner to do so. The Animal Network is not responsible for any posts that infringe on copyright laws. If a copyright has been broken, you may be held legally responsible.

7. Respect our Community Team
The Animal Network community team includes employees and volunteers who do their best to maintain the integrity and standards of our community areas. Should a problem arise on a message board, we ask that you assist the community team by paying attention to their posts and following any directions they may provide. Please do not post attacks or insults against the moderators. It is your choice to continue to visit the forums. You will be banned from the forum if you post attacks or insults aimed at the moderators.

Forum moderators have the right to reprimand and/or ban members who break the rules.

8. Keep on topic
Please keep all postings and subject matter relevant to the thread topics. This is a forum where members share and give advice and information, not a place to gossip, rant, or rave about subject matters not pertaining to the discussion.

9. Abusing private messaging and message board
The message and private messaging system are for you to exchange advice, learn and have fun. Using the private messaging system and message board as a means of mass communication for solicitation is strictly prohibited. Report abuse to the Moderator by forwarding the private communication. We must have proof to stop future abuse.

This entails using the message board and private messaging system to recruit people for a community or cause. Deliberately using the board for this purpose calls for a warning. If this offense is repeated after being warned, the member will be banned.

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Your total signature images must be less than 100K in size as well. Signatures must also follow the above rules as well. Failure to do so will result in the removal of your signature. If you replace you signature after it has been modified by a staff member to something that breaks the rules again, you will possibly be banned.

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If you signed up and are found to be underage, you will have your ACCOUNT AND IP ADDRESS IMMEDIATELY BANNED until you can provide a COPPA form. This is not to be mean, this is the law and our policy.

These rules are here for your protection. They ensure we maintain a fun, safe and supportive environment where members can talk about the animals they adore. Members who continually break these rules are subject to account suspension and are no longer eligible for participation in our community.

Now that you know the rules, we invite you to join in our community and look forward to your participation. Welcome!

Thank you - AnimalNetwork.com Forum Administrator

WHY WAS MY POST ERASED?

snakechain — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 13:37:26 GMT

Why did u erase my post "CHECK IT OUT" in General discussion??????!!!!!

my 4 year old iguana shaking

kathyd231 — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 10:53:37 GMT

I have a 4 year old iguana i recently moved him into new cage and new room in my home he was fine first 2 wks the other day i noticed his front paws shaking he seems to be fine still eating and climbing just nervous about the shake please help if you can he is far too beautiful thank you very much

black mexican kingsnake

squidge_is_mine — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 04:34:27 GMT

i have a 3 year old black mexican kingsnake, he has not fed for over a month. the last time he fed he regurgitated. his temperature is ok, he is fit and well and very active . iff someone can help me i would be very gratefull. thank you.

We Need A Little Help

HELLOYELLOJELLO — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 17:29:42 GMT

HI every body! Well, now what i need help with is my buddy and I are trying to get a captive breed reptile store started. We will be running it out of my home to begin with and hopefully get a shop one of these days. We are having some big trouble getting stuff like incubators and rack systems ect. , Because we cannot afford anything. So I was wondering if anyone had any used equipment or anything that is just sitting and collecting dust that they could sell for a reasonable price or just want to give away. [xx(]

Thanks, Daniel (and David where ever he is on this site)

Abusing Privating Messaging

Suprafa — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 00:00:27 GMT

We've receive a few reports of several people using the private messaging system to recruit members to another forum. This is strictly prohibited and those caught doing this will be BANNED.

Because of private privacy laws, messages sent through the private messaging system cannot be tracked. To help crack down on those abusing the message board, we're asking that if you receive a private message that solicits another message board or website, please report this to us.

You can contact tech support through sitesupport@bowtieinc.com. You can also use the report button located on each post to alert the moderators. We want everyone to have an enjoyable experience here and those abusing the forum only hinder on your positive experience.

Thanks for your support!