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Posted 9/16/2008 5:03:46 PM


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My first pet reptile was a leopard gecko named Jasmine. I wasn't quite sure if she was male or female but I was just to excited about my lizard to really care that much. I spent every spare moment cleaning her tank, earning money to decorate her tank and all the books and magazines I could get, and most of all taking her out to hold her and to cuddle her.Later on I though she was a he and changed her name to Jazz. It turned she was female but the name Jazz stuck. She is the sweetest baby. I love her very much. I'm not going to say she loves being held. But she will sit on my hand or my arm and sometimes fall asleep. If she is capable of loving me, I'm sure she does. I raised from a tiny baby, and now she is a full grown and is turning four soon.

I transferred schools in the sixth grade. The one I transferred too had five science class pets. Two white dumpy's tree frogs, two leopard geckoes, and a bearded dragon. I fell in love at first sight. I would come in from lunch and recess early just to look at them. As the end of the year approached I had to have a lizard. I read up on bearded dragons and they sounded like too much work and money for an eleven year old too handle. So I settled on a leopard gecko.I now own five of the beautiful animals and love them all. I also have nine birds, and two dogs.

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Posted 9/16/2008 5:45:02 PM


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for some reason i came out of the whom with a love of snakes

my first herp was my ball python salazar

i want to start a breeding project with my favorite snake colombian red-tail boas i'm hopefully getting a female for christmas

thats my story

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1.0.0 BALL PYTHON(Python regius),salazar
1.0.0 COLOMBIAN RED-TAIL BOA(B.C imperator),tarzan
1.0.0 KENYEN SAND-BOA(Gongylophis colubrinus loveridgei),houdini
1.0.0 SAVANNHA MONITOR(Varanus exanthematicus),lois

hopefully coming soon female colombian red-tail boa or a hedge hog whatever my grandma decides

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Posted 9/16/2008 6:55:30 PM


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Once apon a time, in a mystical land called, uh, Minnesota, I was born. I always loved herps, mainly from the show "The Crocedile Hunter".

My first reptile was a bearded dragon (who I still have and who is now a whoppin' 11 years old!!!). I later got a pair of leopard geckos, a corn snake and a ball python.

I intend to breed ball pythong in the near future, along with my leos.

Also, I intend to keep, and possibly breed, Ackie Monitors sometime soon.

And I hope that I will live happily ever after.

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Posted 9/17/2008 1:46:03 PM


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My first reptile was actually an amphibian. I had Japanese fire-belly newts since I was around 8 or 9 years old (I'm 32 now). And currently have several other species of reptiles & amphibians. I want an African Dwarf Crocodile in the future!    Marine

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Non-herp family:me-Marine 32, husband-Travis 35, 2 sons-Keith 11 & Seth 9. Our Herp family:

3 Ball Pythons(Stitch, Chocolate, Neo)     2 Amazon Tree Boas     2 Common Redtail Boas(Aphrodite, Shere Khan)     1 Pastel Columbian X Hogg Island Red-tail Boa(Lady Lyoness)     1 Albino Columbian Red-tail Boa(Albee)     3 Dumeril's Boas(Demi, Bagheera, Sausage)     4 Kenya Sand Boas(Sandy)     2 Great Basin Gopher Snakes     1 California Aberrant King Snake(Aberrant)     1 Sinaloan Milk Snake(Coral)     4 Bearded Dragons(Pooh Bear, Roo, Piglet, Eeyore)     1 Argentine Black & White Tegu     3 Uromastyx Lizards (Mali-man, Eloise)     2 Irian Jaya BlueTongue Skinks(George)     1 Savannah Monitor(Georgia)     2 Albino Leopard Geckos(Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw)     5 Crested Geckos     2 Oriental Firebelly Toads(Bugs & Daffy)     3 Texas Tiger Salamanders     2 Japanese Giant Firebelly Newts(Tom & Jerry)     5 Australian White's Tree frogs     1 Red-eared Pond Slider(Big Red)     1 Yellow-Belly Pond Slider(Yellow Eyes)     1 African Sulcata Tortoise(Steve "Irwin")     1 Cherry-head Redfoot Tortoise(Rosie)     1.1 Chilean Rose-hair Tarantula (Phoenix, Fox)

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Posted 9/17/2008 3:22:00 PM


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Its difficult to say, I have three answers, you'll have to decide which fits the question:

1.) For as long as I can remember I've been catching frogs toads and if I was really lucky turtles and snakes up north. A number of these were brought home and kept in containers and soon expired

2.) On one trip for crickets (to feed the captive frogs) I saw a set up for sale at the petstore that included two anoles and one tree frog. This was all I thought about and thus recieved it for my birthday

3.) The new herps hardly lasted the summer, but by then my interest was really inflamed. I can remember putting down a computer game and buying a reptile book at a store at this time. After researching a bit, my optained a baby chinese waterdragon, who became my beloved pet for many years.

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Posted 9/18/2008 5:29:50 AM


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1. My first pet reptile that I did not catch was an evil baby Leopard Gecko named Princess.  I bought her from Petco and she was tiny.  A week later I returned her and got my new Leopard Gecko, Oz.  Oz is way nicer.  I now also have a Crested Gecko named Chaos.  I also have a Chinese Hamster, 2 Bettas, and a ton of tropical fish.

2. Right now I think I want a Chinese Water Dragon.  They are so beautiful and friendly.  I wanted a larger lizard this time, and one that swims and eats fish, too.  And a Chinese Water Dragon is just perfect.  I wanted a Mountain Horned Dragon but there is not much known information about them in captivity and they are almost always wild caught.  I plan on either buying a large, custom-built cage on Craigslist or building my own.

3. I was always into reptiles since I was born.  But when I was 2 I starting catching bugs with  my best friend.  Once we got too good for bugs (around 6 years old) we starting going for bigger things to catch... reptiles.  We caught Blue Tailed Skinks, Garter Snakes, Pine Snakes, Green Anoles, Brown Anoles, Golden Skinks, and Eastern Box Turtles.  My dream as a little kid was to have a frog as a pet, but I have lizards now.  I may get a frog sometime soon though...

0.2.0 Leopard Geckos
1.0.0 Crested Gecko
1.0.0 Chinese Hamster
2.0.0 Betta Fish
 
Coming soon:
0.2.0 Pictus Geckos (Aug. 1)
1.0.0 Bearded Dragon (Jan. 10)
0.1.0 Indonesian White's Treefrog (Jan. 10)

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Posted 9/18/2008 9:49:27 AM
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My first reptile was my two eastern box turtles when I was like seven years old.I been catching and releasing reptiles sence I was like four or five.

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I am training as a veterinary technician for cats, dogs and exotics. To me every animal needs a little help from a vet.

Cuban Rock Iguana and Rhinoceros Iguana

Reptiles I own:

3.2.1 Green Iguanas (Godzilla, Charmilion, Larz, Esperonza,Izzy and Blaze.)
1.0.0 Black Spiny-tailed Iguana (Sombra)
1.1.0 Eastern Box Turtles (Speedy and Shelly)
0.2.0 Common Snapping Turtles (Miss.Snappy and Radaga)
0.1.0 Red-Eared Slider (Rae)
1.0.0 Ball Python (Spikles)
0.0.1 New Caledonian Giant Gecko (Silver)

Other animals I want to Own: Hyacinth Macaw and a Savannah Cat

Animals I own:

0.1.0 Maine Coon (Kova)
0.1.0 Yellow Lab (Mia)
1.2.0 Sugar Gliders (Tejano,Blanca and Larissa)

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Posted 9/19/2008 1:33:31 PM


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I always loved herps, but not always to this extent. I was absolutely nutso about dinos (not that i'm not now) from at least when i was 2 (its hard to remember that early, but many baby toys were stuffed dinos) and dad showed me jurassic park (yeah, he showed it to me when i was 2 and laughed my head off through the hole thing). Herps were the closest that i could get to jurassic park and the real, live living dinos. around 6-8 any time i went to the zoo, there was only one, small, simple demand: we must go to the komodo dragon enclosures. THey might have been asleep most of the time, but i could find my way there with my eyes closed. i've always been fascinated by them, and i would often do reports on them in school. now, my mom has always loved turts/torts, esp. the giant Galapagos ones. so, when my 11th bday came round, and i didnt know what i wanted as a present, she offered to get me a turtle. one of my sisters friends had one, and she was going on vacation for 2 weeks and let us take care of it. it only had a makeshift tank, a big plastic tub, and no filter, and it stank to high heaven even though we cleaned it out each day. were we grateful when she got back! we fed it a bunch of those little tiny fish that the guy at the store said it would like, so it would reek for her when it got home (we fed them to it a few hours before she picked it up) it was for sure-not turtles. we settled to try for lizards. the man at the store said that beardies or leopard geckos were good for beginners. the brother of one of my friends was a big jerk and owned one, so i went for beardies. i must have