Re: How have your reptile interests changed over the years?
Mine went from "Rosy" to "Red". ;)
Re: How have your reptile interests changed over the years?
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Originally Posted by jim020cricket
Mine went from "Rosy" to "Red". ;)
LMAO....it sure did :)
Re: How have your reptile interests changed over the years?
When I was younger I was fearless... I used to catch garter snakes in my back yard, get bit and musked and then I'd let them go. I had a red eared slider for approximately 6 years while growing up until it got too big for me to care for and I gave it away to someone with a large aquatic turt enclosure. I've also cared for many toads and frogs, salamanders. I've always loved frogs and had aspirations to keep RETFs and MLFs while growing up.
My next step with herps didn't come until a year ago when I started looking for leopard geckos...I initially purchased a pair. Got hooked to those, rescued three females (two of which were beyond emaciated and died), purchased a 1.1 pair of DH LV Albino/BB, and 0.1 Tremper albino female. I've since bred a few of my top notch females to produce several clutches of eggs, hatched out three babies with more on the way! In the next year I want to pick up some hybinos, sunglow, het aptors, tang tornados, etc!
With snakes however, to be honest since childhood I had become fearful of many snakes, one due to an encounter with a native rattler (something eerie about that rattle when you're hiking) so I never really thought twice about keeping snakes...that was until my co-worker invited me over to see some of his boas and ball pythons, I hesitantly held a ball python, and then a red-tailed boa (~5 ft. mind you!). There was something so majestic about them...so I went out and purchased a 2 year old pair of BPs, a few months later picked up a CH baby, then a month later a 50% Het Albino female, and then a 100% het hypo at a show. Now I'm truly addicted.
Eventually I would love to work with dwarf retics (when the price comes down a bit), carpet pythons, burmese, green trees, and my dream is for a pair of black heads. I'll eventually work my way to boas, I'm curious to see what happens with some of the "dwarf boas". For now I'm keeping busy with my ball pythons and they are my first goal (don't want too much on my plate to work with).
I'd love to start working with frogs again. Poison Arrows, RETFs, etc...
:rockon: I'm a herp addict.
-Jason
Re: How have your reptile interests changed over the years?
Reptiles... Pashaw I don't even like em...lol
I grew up with rats as pets and my first job after being emancipated was at a mom & pop petstore. Rescue just seemed logical after that...
Winslow (my husband) grew up around many animals as his mom was a wildlife rehabber.
Through the years I have gone from the small stuff to the bigger guys once I learned how to properly care for them. Of course the monitors are always going to be my favorite, but when you rescue you don't really get to keep pets I guess.
We have done alot more wildlife rehab in the last few years, And I am very fond of field herping. One of our favorite things to do as a family is our field work.
In the future our main goal is to have a nice big educational facility that is open to the public. Education is our main goal.
Rusty
