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Glenn Bartley
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My femle BD just laid her first 13 eggs. I got them from a reputable source a while back, bought ten and sold eight to pay for the two I kept. I tried to check on their lineage again to see what to expect but my old pc went kerplunk and until I pull the data off the hard drive, oh well. I do know most were a combo of yellowxhypo or something or other (LOL). I did not buy em to breed anything special, but always figured if they had babies I could sell them to fund the hobby; I would of course sell them as nice BDs and not as any particular morph, unless I can recall what in heck they are. I am pretty sure the Dad was a German Giant x Yellow Head, or was that the mom - oh well. The other was a hypoxsomething but I'll be darned if I can remember now almost 2 years later. They are about 22 months old.
I am pretty sure getting them out in the real sunshine helped them to get into breeding mode. I started putting them out now and again when there were warmer days earlier this spring. Time will tell if the egg are good. It would be quite interesting to see the BDs hatch out. Hopefully all will go well.
I am also hopeful my Desert Iguanas will breed but no activity noted yet. Oh well, next year maybe if not this year - they did not arrive in as good a condition as they had been advertised to have been...
Now they seem in fine health after a lot of TLC.
Best regards,
Glenn B
I am pretty sure getting them out in the real sunshine helped them to get into breeding mode. I started putting them out now and again when there were warmer days earlier this spring. Time will tell if the egg are good. It would be quite interesting to see the BDs hatch out. Hopefully all will go well.
I am also hopeful my Desert Iguanas will breed but no activity noted yet. Oh well, next year maybe if not this year - they did not arrive in as good a condition as they had been advertised to have been...
Now they seem in fine health after a lot of TLC. Best regards,
Glenn B
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I don't have any projects going unless you count collecting reps. I have a Savannah monitor who is about 91/2 months. My little man Ra who is 4 months. and the newest to the collection a Columbian Boa who is about 6 months. Thats all about me. No real fun or cool stuff like breeding.
I don't have any projects going unless you count collecting reps. I have a Savannah monitor who is about 91/2 months. My little man Ra who is 4 months. and the newest to the collection a Columbian Boa who is about 6 months. Thats all about me. No real fun or cool stuff like breeding.
Blazin
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Thats cool. Just having and keeping herps is FUN ! I want boas and don't have any yet Jen! Don't downplay your stuff. If breeding is a goal. Just work to get there. Sounds to me like you have some cool animals and that starting a collection. I want to get some boa's myself. Keep us posted and don't be a stranger. Thanks for sharing!
Thats cool. Just having and keeping herps is FUN ! I want boas and don't have any yet Jen! Don't downplay your stuff. If breeding is a goal. Just work to get there. Sounds to me like you have some cool animals and that starting a collection. I want to get some boa's myself. Keep us posted and don't be a stranger. Thanks for sharing!
Glenn Bartley
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Jenn,
I have been breeding them for quite awhile now about 18 years or so, but heck I don't think I started breeding herps until I was at least 30. Oh man that makes me feel old. The thing is I was keeping them since I have been about 8 (with lots of help back then from my Uncle and a bit from my mom), started keeping them without help by the time I was about 11 or 12 (maybe as young as 10), and started getting help again (this time from my kids) quite a few years ago. So I had them for many years without breeding projects and it was still COOL. Don't ever downplay JUST keeping them, I mean why shortchange yourself on the fun and learning experience that you are having. My daughter who is going to be in her third year of college just told me she wants to get into herps and wants some sort of a gecko for her dorm room! Now that IS cool as it gets. So cool it almost made me fall over when I heard her say so. My son has a nice Standings Day Gecko. in is room in a nice planted vivarium. He knows how to care for the lizard (with prodding from me to remember to feed it) and has a green thumb too I guess because the plants look great.
We have all the other herps in the basement. Nothing fancy, just in plain old tanks but they are well cared for. All in all we have:
1.1 Bearded Dragons
1.1 Desert Iguanas
0.1 Eastern Fence Lizard (I think)
0.0.3 Fire Bellied Toads
0.0.2 Herman's Tortoises
1.0 Stinkpot (Musk Turtle)
1.1.1 Desert Kingsnakes (splendida)
1.1 Western Hognose Snakes
1.1 Ball Pythons
0.0.1 Rubber Boa (and one missing hopefully still in the basement)
1.1 Baird's Rat Snakes
We also have a small mouse colony, two dogs and a cat. Our collection is down from the days when I was regularly keeping up to 40 snakes. Yet, even if I had only one herp, it would be pretty cool. I used to keep a Savannah Monitor, but only had him for about a year or maybe a bit less. I bought it on an impulse (not a good idea but it happens). I gave him away or sold him to someone at my herp society years ago. They are neat lizards but I sure hope you have room for it when it grows.
That Boa sounds nice too. I had a few of these over the years but again only for a year or less each time. I knew they would get too big for me. I kept them, let them grow awhile, then traded them or sold them so I could get other herps. All part of the fun of the hobby. I of course, knew beforehand to whom I could trade or sell them. I made sure of that because I did not want to get stuck with a double digit, in feet, long snake.
Learn all you can from the herps you have. If you ever want o get into breeding, I suggest African House Snakes. Easy to care for, and they breed like rabbits.
Chad,
You must have brought me some luck. When I replied to this thread the first time, it made me think of going to check on my critters to see if any more had laid any eggs. Sure enough I found 9 Hognose eggs, and 8 Desert Kingsnake Eggs. My BD eggs look none to great, but have not gone bad yet, although my guess from past experience with snake eggs is that they are doomed. I am thinking the female had them in her too long before I gave her a laying box. She had been showing digging on and off for over a month. I put her in a deep sand box to no avail. Then I had her out in a pen in the back yard thinking she would dig out there, I figured this way I did not need a large amount of deep sand as she could use the soil in the yard. That may have been a blunder on my part. I don’t know , I mean she just as easily could have dug in the yard and the so was warm and easy to dig in, I mixed in some sand last year in the spot where I have the pen. Of course it could just be that her first batch would have been slugs regardless. But I am still somewhat hopeful.
Best regards,
Glenn B
I have been breeding them for quite awhile now about 18 years or so, but heck I don't think I started breeding herps until I was at least 30. Oh man that makes me feel old. The thing is I was keeping them since I have been about 8 (with lots of help back then from my Uncle and a bit from my mom), started keeping them without help by the time I was about 11 or 12 (maybe as young as 10), and started getting help again (this time from my kids) quite a few years ago. So I had them for many years without breeding projects and it was still COOL. Don't ever downplay JUST keeping them, I mean why shortchange yourself on the fun and learning experience that you are having. My daughter who is going to be in her third year of college just told me she wants to get into herps and wants some sort of a gecko for her dorm room! Now that IS cool as it gets. So cool it almost made me fall over when I heard her say so. My son has a nice Standings Day Gecko. in is room in a nice planted vivarium. He knows how to care for the lizard (with prodding from me to remember to feed it) and has a green thumb too I guess because the plants look great.
We have all the other herps in the basement. Nothing fancy, just in plain old tanks but they are well cared for. All in all we have:
1.1 Bearded Dragons
1.1 Desert Iguanas
0.1 Eastern Fence Lizard (I think)
0.0.3 Fire Bellied Toads
0.0.2 Herman's Tortoises
1.0 Stinkpot (Musk Turtle)
1.1.1 Desert Kingsnakes (splendida)
1.1 Western Hognose Snakes
1.1 Ball Pythons
0.0.1 Rubber Boa (and one missing hopefully still in the basement)
1.1 Baird's Rat Snakes
We also have a small mouse colony, two dogs and a cat. Our collection is down from the days when I was regularly keeping up to 40 snakes. Yet, even if I had only one herp, it would be pretty cool. I used to keep a Savannah Monitor, but only had him for about a year or maybe a bit less. I bought it on an impulse (not a good idea but it happens). I gave him away or sold him to someone at my herp society years ago. They are neat lizards but I sure hope you have room for it when it grows.
That Boa sounds nice too. I had a few of these over the years but again only for a year or less each time. I knew they would get too big for me. I kept them, let them grow awhile, then traded them or sold them so I could get other herps. All part of the fun of the hobby. I of course, knew beforehand to whom I could trade or sell them. I made sure of that because I did not want to get stuck with a double digit, in feet, long snake.
Learn all you can from the herps you have. If you ever want o get into breeding, I suggest African House Snakes. Easy to care for, and they breed like rabbits.
Chad,
You must have brought me some luck. When I replied to this thread the first time, it made me think of going to check on my critters to see if any more had laid any eggs. Sure enough I found 9 Hognose eggs, and 8 Desert Kingsnake Eggs. My BD eggs look none to great, but have not gone bad yet, although my guess from past experience with snake eggs is that they are doomed. I am thinking the female had them in her too long before I gave her a laying box. She had been showing digging on and off for over a month. I put her in a deep sand box to no avail. Then I had her out in a pen in the back yard thinking she would dig out there, I figured this way I did not need a large amount of deep sand as she could use the soil in the yard. That may have been a blunder on my part. I don’t know , I mean she just as easily could have dug in the yard and the so was warm and easy to dig in, I mixed in some sand last year in the spot where I have the pen. Of course it could just be that her first batch would have been slugs regardless. But I am still somewhat hopeful.
Best regards,
Glenn B
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Thanks you guys for me making me feel welcome! I love my keeping my reps. Sometimes I think they are more intresting then my 3 cats. lol
Glenn,
On a side note i do have the room for both. MY sav has a 6ft cage and Princess(my boa) has a nice big cage coming from Jungle Habitats. Thats why I have to put a hold on my collection. I need a bigger house. lol
Again thanks you two for making me feel welcome.
Thanks you guys for me making me feel welcome! I love my keeping my reps. Sometimes I think they are more intresting then my 3 cats. lol
Glenn,
On a side note i do have the room for both. MY sav has a 6ft cage and Princess(my boa) has a nice big cage coming from Jungle Habitats. Thats why I have to put a hold on my collection. I need a bigger house. lol
Again thanks you two for making me feel welcome.
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By the way congrats on the eggs!!!!!!!!!! I hope the bd ones aren't all bad.
ok now i'm done
By the way congrats on the eggs!!!!!!!!!! I hope the bd ones aren't all bad.
ok now i'm done
Glenn Bartley
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A 6 foot cage wow, hope he does not out grow that one or the whole house may become a cage...
SarlinaToorima
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Hey people,
I don't have any specific projects going right now, basically due to a relationship going sour. Right now I'm just trying to nurse my animals back to health after they were left with my ex. I have three leos, two boys and a girl. One boy is great, the other two are really bad but getting better every day. I also have a 4 year old female beardie and a 3 year old male. Kojo and Leviathan. They produced a clutch for me two years ago. Kojo is a bit skinny but eating like a pig. I have a uromastyx who is the most skitzoid devil I've ever seen but he's prolly my favorite lizard. I also have a 2 year old red tail boa and a 10 month old puppy who has been taking devil lessons for the uro.
Sarlina
I don't have any specific projects going right now, basically due to a relationship going sour. Right now I'm just trying to nurse my animals back to health after they were left with my ex. I have three leos, two boys and a girl. One boy is great, the other two are really bad but getting better every day. I also have a 4 year old female beardie and a 3 year old male. Kojo and Leviathan. They produced a clutch for me two years ago. Kojo is a bit skinny but eating like a pig. I have a uromastyx who is the most skitzoid devil I've ever seen but he's prolly my favorite lizard. I also have a 2 year old red tail boa and a 10 month old puppy who has been taking devil lessons for the uro.
Sarlina
My 2 biggest projects are educating reptile and amphibian owners/prospective owners and rescuing and caring for unwanted reptiles and amphibians. I rescue most of my animals from our local Petco 
and the vet hospital I worked for. The herps I rescue from Petco are usually shoved in the back room being ignored and are in need of some serious vet attention. The herps I rescue from the vet hospital are usually neglected and knocking on deaths door. I rescued this one beardie who was dehydrated, starved, had horrible bone density (lack of calcium), had seizures (lack of calcium and dehydration) and hated humans. After 4 months of love and intense calcium therapy he has learned to trust humans and is growing stronger every day. He is still having seizures but not nearly as often or severe as they used to be.
As of today my family consists of:
2 male water dragons (1 baby, 1 teenager)
3 beardies all teenagers (1 female, 2 males)
3 leopard frogs
4 big eye tree frogs
2 whites tree frogs
10 green tree frogs
10 grey tree frogs
and the vet hospital I worked for. The herps I rescue from Petco are usually shoved in the back room being ignored and are in need of some serious vet attention. The herps I rescue from the vet hospital are usually neglected and knocking on deaths door. I rescued this one beardie who was dehydrated, starved, had horrible bone density (lack of calcium), had seizures (lack of calcium and dehydration) and hated humans. After 4 months of love and intense calcium therapy he has learned to trust humans and is growing stronger every day. He is still having seizures but not nearly as often or severe as they used to be.As of today my family consists of:
2 male water dragons (1 baby, 1 teenager)
3 beardies all teenagers (1 female, 2 males)
3 leopard frogs
4 big eye tree frogs
2 whites tree frogs
10 green tree frogs
10 grey tree frogs
JeffD
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I currently have 7 adults, that would be 5 females and 2 males. Believe it or not, they all get along. I also have about 50 babies and another 22 in incubation. I started with one male, then family bought me two females for my birthday. Trust me. Before I bought one, I researched my brains out on everything from habitat to feeding to breeding. I made my own incubation chamber and have been successful over and over again. I currently suppy 4 pet store with in my area. I will not ship at all. I only deliver for the dragons sake. I too rescue dragons that have fallen in bad care or neglect. I recoup them and then give them to someone that can care for them or sell them to a pet store. If I find that a pet store does not have the proper equiptment, and they are out there, I will take my dragons else where. I have three daughters that love them to death, they hold them and do not even flinch when picking them up. Olderst daughter is 14 and the youngest is 3. The three year old really likes them. What freaked me out is that my wife has grown attached and when I am on the road working, she fills in for me. She has even handled a female laying her eggs, she took care of the eggs after and put them in the incubator. Shocked me. Me personally, I am a Mechanical engineer that travels around the world fixing cnc lasers and other cnc machines that originate from Finland. So I am busy, I always take care of my dragons. I am trying to post a picture of my adults habitat but am having issues with size of file. I am working on it though. If I can help, I will.
Jeff
I currently have 7 adults, that would be 5 females and 2 males. Believe it or not, they all get along. I also have about 50 babies and another 22 in incubation. I started with one male, then family bought me two females for my birthday. Trust me. Before I bought one, I researched my brains out on everything from habitat to feeding to breeding. I made my own incubation chamber and have been successful over and over again. I currently suppy 4 pet store with in my area. I will not ship at all. I only deliver for the dragons sake. I too rescue dragons that have fallen in bad care or neglect. I recoup them and then give them to someone that can care for them or sell them to a pet store. If I find that a pet store does not have the proper equiptment, and they are out there, I will take my dragons else where. I have three daughters that love them to death, they hold them and do not even flinch when picking them up. Olderst daughter is 14 and the youngest is 3. The three year old really likes them. What freaked me out is that my wife has grown attached and when I am on the road working, she fills in for me. She has even handled a female laying her eggs, she took care of the eggs after and put them in the incubator. Shocked me. Me personally, I am a Mechanical engineer that travels around the world fixing cnc lasers and other cnc machines that originate from Finland. So I am busy, I always take care of my dragons. I am trying to post a picture of my adults habitat but am having issues with size of file. I am working on it though. If I can help, I will.
Jeff
JeffD
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Blazin,
CNC laser is a machine that has a laser beam on it that cuts metal of all gauges (thickness). CNC makes it computer controlled with parameters or X and Y qaurdinates. That is the easiest way to explain it. You have any idea that could help me get by the size of pictures I want to post. Just regular digital pictures of my habitates. To big to post.
Blazin,
CNC laser is a machine that has a laser beam on it that cuts metal of all gauges (thickness). CNC makes it computer controlled with parameters or X and Y qaurdinates. That is the easiest way to explain it. You have any idea that could help me get by the size of pictures I want to post. Just regular digital pictures of my habitates. To big to post.
JeffD
New member
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Excuse my spelling also. Not checking what I write until after posting. Looks bad, you get the idea though.
Jeff
Excuse my spelling also. Not checking what I write until after posting. Looks bad, you get the idea though.
Jeff
Blazin
Blazin Reptiles
Jeff use the software that came with your camera. Should have something that allows you to resize. I upload my pics to SmugMug and then link them here. Works well and I am pleased with their service. If you like them put in my email if you sign up for an account. Oh and with regards to the CNC machine. That sounds very cool. I do some welding and metal work on the side so I would like to hear more.
JeffD
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Blazin,
I weld as well. I started out running a cnc punch press. Actually it was two. When the machines were running, the company let me learn to weld on my own by practicing. Now I weld aluminum using tig or mig, as well as welding steel. My job does not require it as much, but I have friend that owns a sheet metal shop of his own, so I weld for him. Go to finnpower.com and you will see what I work on. It is easier to explain that way. I will try the pictures and see what I can get on here. It will be this weekend though. I am busy with work and when I get home, you got it, I clean the dragons dens and the relax. Take care,
Jeff
Blazin,
I weld as well. I started out running a cnc punch press. Actually it was two. When the machines were running, the company let me learn to weld on my own by practicing. Now I weld aluminum using tig or mig, as well as welding steel. My job does not require it as much, but I have friend that owns a sheet metal shop of his own, so I weld for him. Go to finnpower.com and you will see what I work on. It is easier to explain that way. I will try the pictures and see what I can get on here. It will be this weekend though. I am busy with work and when I get home, you got it, I clean the dragons dens and the relax. Take care,
Jeff
Blazin
Blazin Reptiles
Thats cool Jeff
I just recently bought a Lincoln Pro-Mig 135. Have done some wrought iron work and some other stuff. Thinking about building some of my own design freedom breeder type racks. Thanks for the site I am going to check it out.
I just recently bought a Lincoln Pro-Mig 135. Have done some wrought iron work and some other stuff. Thinking about building some of my own design freedom breeder type racks. Thanks for the site I am going to check it out.
unicorn37757
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Hi, I'm Penny & I live in East Tennessee. I just got my 2 baby bearded dragons on Wednesday; they're so adorable. I haven't quite figured out yet what I want to name them. I was a little worried about them not eating right but this morning one ate some green from me & they both started eating their crickets. Guess they just needed to get use to their new environment. We also have an iguana (Rex) that we got from my sons girlfriend as she was afraid of him (?) He's probably about 1 1/2 years old, not really sure. We're his 4th owner so he's a bit aggressive & is going to take some time to get use to people period. We also have goats, dogs, cats, fish, & a tarantula (not mine!!!)
Penny
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