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Old 31-07-2008, 01:02 PM
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Old 03-08-2008, 12:53 PM
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sorry got nothing to do with herps but what does lol mean. Prob being thick but never heard it before ah... hang on is it lots of love????
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what is a GAL i cant figure that one out firgured the other by myself but stuck on that one
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its gals

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hi guys - i remember when i first started i got confused by all the weird acronyms people kept posting on other forums, so i thought it may be useful to have a list available. feel free to add any i have forgotten

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arb - argentine rainboa boa
atb - amazon tree boa
bca - boa constrictor amarali
bcc - boa constrictor constrictor (red tail boa)
bci - boa constrictor imperator (common boa)
brb - brazilian rainbow boa
ccp - coastal carpet python
crb - columbian rainbow boa
etb - emerald tree boa
grb - guyanan rainbow boa
gtp - green tree python
jcp - jungle carpet python
prb - peruvian rainbow boa

other terms

cb - captive bred
cf - captive farmed
ltc - long term captive
wc - wild caught (or wild collected)

amel - amelanistic (i.e albino)
anery - anerytheristic
dh - double het
het - heterozygous -het - heterozygous - An organism is a heterozygote or is heterozygous at a locus or gene when it has different alleles occupying the gene's position in each of the homologous chromosomes
hypo - hypomelanistic

W.H.Y - what have you
1.2.3 - refers to sexed animals. in this example 1 male, 2 females and 3 unknown - male.female.unknown

pk - pre killed
fk - fresh killed
ft - frozen thawed

RI - respiratoy infection
forgot CCP man - coastal carpet python
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forgot CCP man - coastal carpet python
if you look 7th down snakes CCP
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if you look 7th down snakes CCP
oh yea. i guess my eyes are dying with age hgaha
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tar it ancronyms do get confusing
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went through all 6 pages and still don't know what viv means...
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