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No more snakes

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It's been a long while, I no longer do bias or bearded dragons and I still get calls even today from buyers I used to wholesale my normals too.

I got really sick and couldn't really out the time into my animals like I wanted,
After my prize make died I knew I had to shut down. It wasn't fair for the animals to suffer due to lack of attention.

I ended up getting better last year and every now and then I check on the site to see how things are going. I miss that rush when ball pythons became big and the market was banging.

Now a days I don't have so many animals,

1.0 sulcata tortoise "100 pounds"
1.4 cats
20-30 Dubai roaches "trying to breed"
3.3 Syrian hamsters "trying to breed"
10 Crystal red shrimp
30 Orange Sukura shrimp
20 cherry shrimp
3 blue bolt shrimp
25 blue velvets
10 snows

But not a single snake or lizard :(

In all I have to say that it was fun while it lasted and even though some may think other wise on here, I made lots of friends that I'll talk to for the rest of my life because of the hobby.

If there was a point to my rant I guess it would be to enjoy the animals all you can, because things can always change. God bless the one who can follow a breeding program all the way, nothing feels like it when you produce the colors you wanted or just having a 7 foot female albino sleeping on you legs at night for the heat. I remember I woke up with my wife once and the new baby dragon that I got got out the tank and was laying right on her finger as she slept. "Heat"
Man I'm going to miss all that type of stuff.
 
If you can get your dubia colony going why not get a gecko or two just to enjoy since you'll have feeders available anyway? I have snakes but don't breed more than a handful of females each year. I just like fooling with them.
 
I just don't have it in me anymore, having to watch all the animals leave took it out of me. I breed my little shrimp, Dubias and hamsters I guess because I just enjoy watching a colony grow.
 
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