• In case most of you have not noticed, I made changes to the donation amounts as well as the durations for all of the paid membership levels. Things are winding down here, and this seems to be the most prudent way to deal with the "end of life" period of this site.

    Contributor level members - $10 per 30 days
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    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

Terry Vendeventer

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Anybody know if Terry is still in the reptile business and if so have his contact information? Any help would be appreciated.
 
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Terry can be reached via e-mail @ [email protected]
I give this gentleman my full recommendation. He is very knowledgeable, professional and just an all around great guy. His animals definitely reflect that.

-Paul Bollinger
 
We have to concur with Paul on this one Matt. Charlotte and I, along with a friend. picked up one of Terrys first litters of bcc since he's started breeding again and with the idea of adding 1 or possibly 2 of them to our own group as potential future breeder animals. These Surinames are so nice that we've only released 2 out of the entire group so far and have really enjoyed watching them develope and grow. An outstanding breeding with gorgeous neonates and we're quite happy with the entire transaction.

Thumbs up to Terry and we're glad to see he's back in business.
Kevin
 
Thanks guys!

I appreciate the fine comments. Having been an avid breeder for over 30 years, I got fed up with the business as a whole (especially with all of the "experts" who suddenly sprung up over the last few years). Guiding GREENTRACKS expeditions in Amazonian Peru, speaking engagements, working on a Mississippi herp book, and my bladesmithing (a true passion) has kept me very busy. The actual reptile breeding/selling was cut back considerably.

Recently I re-married and my wife is very enthusiastic about getting ARCO IRIS HERPETOCULTURE rolling again. I've had my known shipper status with Delta Airlines reinstated and as of the 2002 breeding season we started putting our breeders back together again. Had great year and good things are still happening.

So, that's the news. Again, thanks for the support! Terry
 
What Terry didn't talk about was...

His leucistic cottonmouth project (I stole one of the pictures from your ad and it now resides on my desktop *WOW*), and the fact that he has always been willing to give honest, accurate and good advice about the hobby. I doubt he'd remember me, but several years ago he gave me great advice when I started presenting reptiles to school kids. The best advice I have found that you can give to kids when they discover a snake is something Terry told me to tell 'em, "Take two steps back and go play someplace else." It's something they ALL remember when you're done with the presentation, and hopefully they'll remember to do it when they encounter a snake in the wild.... unless they're my kids LOL... in which case, they run for a snake hook and a bag....

I'm glad ARCO IRIS HERPETOCULTURE is back....
 
Terry's knowledge and experience are unequaled, and you would be hard pressed to find a nicer individual to do business with. He is well known for his commitment to quality, both in the field of reptiles & hand crafting knives.

Highly recommended!
 
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