what was it and how old was you?

i got my first leo when i was 18 (almost 3 years ago) it was a present from my gf for our first year anniversary

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1.5.0 Leopard geckos
1.2.0 bearded dragons
1.0.0 Royal Python
1.1.0 Corn snakes

R.i.p Dad x x

Corn snake, I was 12.. and I annoyed my mother until she gave in

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Also available right now for rehoming: 1 x Juvenile Male Bearded Dragon, 1 x Adult Female Curlytail Lizard

mine was a corn snake, guss, still ogt him. I was 13 and i got him on the day of my birthday

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My first "herp" was a Tiger Salamander, WC where my dad worked, brought home to live in our garden - I must have been two or three at the time.

My first indoor herps were a WC Collared Lizard, Charlie Joe (I was three, and he stayed with us for a month or so before being returned to his locality) and a tank with a Rough-Skinned Newt and a Firebelly Newt. I think we may have had another rough-skinned (The one I remember was "Itch" but I'm sure there was a "Scratch") - the firebelly was a female called Lava, and we later got a male who was called Fireball (and they bred, though we didn't manage to raise any of the babies).

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Lizards: 2.1 E. macularius2.4 H. caudicinctus1.0 R. ciliatus0.0.2 T. gigas0.1 T. scincoides0.1 T. merianae0.1 Tupinambis hybrid1.0 V. niloticus0.0.3 V. acanthurus Colubrids: 14.12 P. guttattus1.0 P. o. rossalini1.0 P. o. lindheimeri1.1 P. slowinskii2.0 C. radiatus0.1 Lamprophis sp1.0 L. g. nigritus0.1 L. alterna1.0 H. n. nasicus1.0 P. m. melanoleucus2.1 T. s. infernalis Boids: 1.1 E. c. maurus 0.1 E. conicus8.14 P. regius1.0 A. dumerilli
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I was 10 and I got a cornsnake

I was 14 [12 years ago] and bought a green anole, a brown anole and what i was told was a nocturnal anole..which im 100% sure now was in fact a gecko lol.. have none of them now as my mother had enough of the crickets jumpin around the house and i gave them back to the shop a little later.

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DEAN IS BACK.
Currently maintaining a small collection.

1.1 beardies
1.1 berber skinks
1.1 rankins dragons
1.1 Fiji banded iguanas
5.6.4 leopard geckos



Also helping in the keeping of my Mothers..
1.1 shetland pony's
3 Aylesbury Ducks
1.4 Chickens [erm 4 hens and 1 very pretty Cock]
[sorry dogs and cats get no mention]

i think 11 or 12. a garter snake i caught. fed it and still have the skin. (SHED!)

I was 16, boyfriend got ripped off buying me an ill baby waterdragon for xmas from a pet shop i eventually ended up working at an helping them out. Waterdragon died, I cried, buried him in my front garden.
I dont work at the shop now though, I got made redundant, made a few changes to their husbandry at least though but they still make mistakes that annoy me so i dont go in anymore.

When i was either 9 or 10 i got a pair of leos They were wiggle and spot. They turned out both to be male so i swapped spot at the shop for a female who i called spotty She had 5 babys in her first year then stopped breeding. I never knew why. She died last year tho Now have a new female called amber

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GECKO CRAZY
2.2.0 leo's - Wiggle, Amber, Sunny, Tango
1.1.0 Giant day geckos - Lara and Ernie
0.1.0 Black labrador - Onyx
0.2.0 Guinea pigs - Pheobe, Smudge
0.1.0 Budgie - Tango
3 tropical fish tanks

Hehe me too! Corn snake at 16. I asked my mum every day for a couple of years, started off once a day and moved up to often as I could. In the end my dad said "bloody hell just let him have one". Persistance always pays off!