Thanks everyone for the input. I have been off the grid for a couple days with a "flare up" of whatever is wrong with me. Finally got to a point where the PA that saw me and who had seen me in 08 when I was truly truly sick, went through all my info and after drawing many cultures and vials of blood put me on the stupid simple doxy that saved me last time. I love doxy....within 6 hrs I stopped aching and could sleep, go figure. Now of course, they want to run more tests. Still have the sinus, ear infection that triggered it too.
Anyway....I too have several aquariums, breed a few simple freshwater fish...barbs mostly and have a marine tank with a pair of Ocellaris clowns that would have babies were it not for tankmates. Such is life.
I have kept and bred beardies, leopard gex, veiled chams, several snakes species from balls, corns, rats, children's pythons.And I have just kept, without breeding them...savannah monitors, igs, crested gex, several more snake species, turtles, ...anyway. I am a fairly experienced keeper...been working in the pet trade all my life. I wanted the frogs or the mossy leaftails because basically I am not sick of them. And while I had a mixed treefrog tank for some time I am not sick of looking at RETF...they are just too cool. I like the idea of the leaftails because I could make a breeding project out of it.
I have a friend who jokes that if you want something to breed you send it to Sonyas house.
So I have to get healthy and catch up my work work (had to reschedule some grooming over this weekend due to feeling like I was being torn apart by horses) and my teens are helping with the bath and brush work today since standing is my task for the day. Then I need to decide how much I want to invest in this. Treefrogs are $20 each while the gex are nearly $100. Sigh. Some people play golf, bowl, fish.....
BTW Jennifer Treefrogs can call, if you have a male, at night, during breeding season. Some species are more annoying than beautiful so it is sorta a personal preference. We had greys that were fun to listen to. If you had only girls you wouldn't have any noise.....but not like you could sex them ahead.
I'm sorry you weren't feeling well.
Sounds like you have tons of experience.
We are thinking about various reptiles for the kids.....just read about Children's pythons today.
What are they like...good for supervised kids?
I like the idea of the leaf tails. Fun to find, and then fun to watch.
They look really cool.....and there is the bonus of the breeding project.
For your skeevy clients..they won't be likely to notice the leaf tails either.
I LOVE my Childrens. They are a PITA to start as hatchlings 'cause they are tiny...smaller than corns. But once they get started they eat like gang busters and they are active and fun. Mine are not even 2 1/2 ft....28" I think. They are as easy to keep as cornsnakes. The downside is that they can be a bit "nippy" (I prefer assertively optimistic) when young or first getting them out. Once out for handling they are checking out stuff and active.
Someone told me they thought they were boring looking. To me they make up for it in personality and curiousity.
I admit, I love snakes. Simple, non demanding. Beautiful.Like fish without the daily care and water changes. And they keep the riff raff out of your house... I have about 30-40. (most are not evident as they live in "the dungeon")I vary with selling and getting. I got given back some I have rehomed so I recently got 5 more. So I think I am at 35. If the Boa is gravid (bred) that may lead to several more in a few months. If I can stay healthy and simplify I will breed some of my ratsnakes, western hognosed and childrens pythons next spring. Couple years away from a mature male for the carpet pythons. And as I said, then there are the boa constrictors. Friend wanted them, set them up to bred, likely bred them, then ran out of room and gave them back....so the girl may be dropping a clutch in a couple months. We'll see.
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