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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.
My home is protected by ALI. Attack lizard incorporated. 3.0 normal leopard geckos 1.0 rainwater patternless leopard gecko 1.0 hypo-tangerine carrot tail baldy leopard gecko
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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
<ooooo)SNAKE CHARMER______________________:>~
OWNER OF
1.0.0 BALL PYTHON,salazar
1.0.0 COLOMBIAN RED-TAIL BOA,tarzan
0.1.0 PARTIAL STRIPED COLOMBIAN RED-TAIL BOAhet:albino & snow,jane
1.0.0 ANERY KENYEN SAND-boa,houdini
1.0.0 SAVANNHA MONITOR,Lewis
0.0.1 AFRICAN PYGMY HEDGEHOG,Static
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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. THE END (Now THERES a story that will make it to the New York times bestseller list!!!)
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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
_______________________________________________________________________________________Non-herp family:me-Marine 32, husband-Travis 35, 2 sons-Keith 11 & Seth 9. Our Herp family: 0.1 8ft Columbian Red-tail Boa Constrictor (Aphrodite), 1.0 2007 Albino Columbian Red-tail Boa Constrictor (Albee), 1.2 Dumeril’s Boa Constrictors (Sausage, Demi, & Bagheera), 1.1.2 2008 Kenyan Sand Boas (Sandy, Sage, Basil, & Clove), 1.0 2005 Ball Python (Neo), 0.0.1 2007 Jayapura Green Tree Python (Jaya), 0.1 2008 ¾ Burmese x ¼ Indian Python double het for albino & granite (Anna) arrived 5-1-09, 1.0 2008 Granite Burmese Python het albino (Indie) arrived today 5-7-09, 0.0.1 2008 Great Basin Gopher Snake (Spot), 0.0.1 2007 Aberrant California King Snake (Abby), 0.0.1 2007 Sinaloan Milk Snake (Coral), 0.0.1 Tangerine Honduran Milk Snake (Bandit), 2.0.3 2007 Crested Geckos (unnamed), 1.3 2006 Bearded Dragons (Pooh bear, Roo, Eeyore, & Piglet), 1.0 Irian Jaya Blue-Tongued Skink (George), 1.1 Mali Uromastyx lizards (Mali-man & Eloise), 0.0.1 2008 Argentine Black & White Tegu (T-Rex), 0.1 Leucistic Leopard Gecko (Hufflepuff), 0.0.1 Savanna Monitor (Georgia), 1.0 Red-eared Pond Slider (Big Red), 1.0 Yellow-bellied Pond Slider (Yellow Eyes), 0.0.1 Cherry head red-foot tortoise (Rosie), 0.0.1 2006 African Sulcata tortoise (Irwin), 1.0.4 Australian White’s Tree Frogs (unnamed), 1.2 Tiger Salamanders (The Three Musketeers), 1.0 Japanese Fire-bellied Newt (Tom-n-Jerry), 1.0.1 Oriental Fire-bellied Toads (Bugs & Daffy), & 1.1 Chilean Rose-hair Tarantula (Phoenix, & Firefox) http://myspace.com/coralmarine add me http://www.iherp.com/Marine
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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.
----------------------------------------------- Cause I got my own World to live through! And I ain't gonna copy you" ~ Jimi Hendrix "Do or die, you'll never make me! Because the World will never take my heart. Go on and try, you'll never break me!" ~ Gerard Way Arachnoboards I'mNotOkay.net
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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...
0.1 Eublepharis macularias
1.0.1 Rhacodactylus ciliatus
0.0.4 Terrapene carolina
0.0.1 Theloderma corticale
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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.
_____________________________________________Don't get "telling it how it is" and "mean" confused.They are two different things. I am in training as a veterinary technician for cats, dogs and exotics. Reptiles I own:
4.2.0 Green Iguanas (Godzilla, Charmilion, Larz, Esperonza,Izzy and Blaze.)
1.0.0 Cuban Rock Iguana (Socks)
1.0.0 Black Spiny-tailed Iguana (Sombra)
0.1.0 Rhinoceros Iguana (Molisha)
1.1.0 Desert Iguanas (No names)
0.0.2 New Caledonian Giant Gecko (Silver)
1.1.0 Electric Blue Geckos (No names)
1.1.0 Eastern Box Turtles (Speedy and Shelly)
0.2.1 Common Snapping Turtles (Miss.Snappy,Blade and Radaga)
0.1.1 Red-Eared Slider (Rae and Nieve)
1.0.0 Ball Python (Spikles)
0.2.0 Amazon Tree Boas (No names)
0.1.0 Hoggs Island Boa. (No name)
1.0.0 Borneo Short-Tailed Python (No name) 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)
1.1.0 Hidgehogs (Spike and Des'ree)
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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 done research for 2 months before i finally was ready to get my 2 new beardies. i had already chosen which 2 i wanted. there was one rather large one that had acted like a mime up against the glass any time i saw her, and then the cute, tiny one who was always basking on something. The mime was Twitchy, the the tiny one was Sleepy. Unfortunately, Sleepy died on Halloween due to the misadvise of the guy at the store, and its just been me and Twitchy since.
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All the animals running around the zoo of my home:
• One nutty, loud-mouthed anatolian shepherd mix of a dog named Irwin
• Two cats, Snickers and Barney, who do nothing but run around madly, meow 24/7 for attention, run headfirst into things and kidnap scrunches.
• My first, one, and only herp, Twitchy, a beardie, whom I dearly love.
Who says humans are superior? They're the ones messing up the world. Animals have the right idea.
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My first reptile ever was a box turtle name Shelly. I was 4 and just barely remember. We also had a two baby sliders named Water Baby & Swimmer, all 3 were saved from the golf course we lived next to (the golfers didn't like herps on the property and were known for running them over with their golf carts.) We only had them for about a year then we had to move and we released them back into the wild.
Now it's 20 years later and I started reading all the books I could find at he local library that any info on toads, not a lot. But I decided I wanted one but couldn't figure out what type so got an African Square Marked Toad and an Egyptian Green Toad from Reptilecity.com named A & E. Unfortunately A passed away after getting an infection, the medicine from the vet seemed to be working then she just got a lot worse and passed on. I still have E and just found another Bufo Viridis that I picked up at my local pet store, E2 is still in quarantine but appears to be healthy as a horse. Can't wait to put them together!
I'd love to eventually get a White's Tree Frog, a Tomato Frog and some Mossy Frogs. Unfortunately I don't have the room for that many terrariums. But I'm hoping to get 2 Mossy Frogs at NARBC in November.
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1.0.0 Egyptian Green Toad (E)
0.1.0 European Green Toad (E2)
0.0.1 Tomato Frog (Potato)
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My first cold-blooded animals were two fire-belly toads when I was about 6. The only thing I remember about them is that they got out alot and when they did, they always were found somewhere in my moms room, I think they had secret crushes on her or something 
Next-when I was 7/8/9- was Toby, a red-eared slider. We used to have a pool with water in it (once upon a time) and Toby lived next door in our VERY rude neighbor's yard. I do believe our neighbor abused them or something, but whatever the case, we had Toby. Toby lived in our backyard, came in and out of the pool as he pleased(it wasnt cloranated ((sp)). We fed him, bought him basking rocks, etc, etc. Then, my father and his girlfriend wanted to empty the pool to start remodling (its been about 5 years and its still being remodled, blah) and so we bought a small pond for toby. He didnt like it and returned to the neighbors pond, and that was the end of him :'(
About once a year, my mom and I go to China Town. Dont ask me how or why, but I always find two of those baby red eared slider turtles, either in the trash, left on the sidewalk, or given to me by someone who doesnt want it. I try so hard to help them, I give them heat lamps and keep them inside but they will never eat, no matter how hard I try. Even after vet visits, they have almost always died. The exception was two I had a few years back. But, my friend and I were outside and I made her watch them while I went back inside to get something and I come back and she had lost one  . We tore up the whole yard and I put out live traps but I never did find him. The other one suddenly stopped eating after his/her friend disapeared, so I gave him to another friend who already had 3, 2 large ones and 1 small one like mine. She still has him.
Ok, so then came my first captive reptiles . When I was about 9-10 someone at school found a bearded dragon baby outside. It was almost dead, but I took it home and bought a tank and yada yada. We made an app. for the vet the next day, but he didnt survive the night :'(. So, I did a bit more research and found out what would be a good pet for me-leopard geckos. So came Fred and Annie-my female ad male leopard geckos.I still have and breed them. I love them to death, Im constantly getting them new stuff, frantically buying reptile magazine.
The last reptile I found was an unnamed turtle, I had NO idea what species. What happened was, the gardener was digging up the front yard and found a turtle-the same turtle the neighbors found 5 years ago when I got my rabbit. He said it disapeared and viola! I found it. I think he was a box turtle, because he closed up that way. BUT, he looked NOTHING like one. I tried my best to make him happy, but one day he disapeared. I was very sad because he went outside in a pen during the day and inside at night. Once again, the gardeners screwed things up for him. He left. I searched for him and tried my hardest to find him, but no luck. Then, two months later, I found him. I thought he was dead, so I headed off over to take him and bury him. but...he moved! So, once again I kept him. But, we were moving at the time and the day we came back to get him, my landlord had angrily put all our animals outside. Luckily no one was hurt or stolen...except my turtle. He was dead, ran over by...guess who, the gardener.
MY ANIMALS:
1.2.1 leopard geckos (Annie and Fred)
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1 female hotot dwarf rabbit mix(Diva)
1 male rex rabbit and PEW rabbit mix (Rockstar)
1 male Syrian hamster (Oswego)
1 female mouse (Minnie Mouse)
1 male betta (Fishie)
1 female cockatiel (Birdie)
3 dogs, all female:
golden retriver/cocker spaniel mix (Sandy)
border collie/australian shepherd mix (Ripley)
lab/ something else mix (Loretta)
1 male nubian goat (Buddy)
1 rhode island red rooster (Mcnugget)
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