I like different reps for different reasons, love royals for being cute and friendly and rattlers for being insanely deadly
Ben

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My Reps!1.1.0Corns1.1Royals1.0JCP1.1Beardies0.1Salmon Common Boa0.0.1 B&W Tegu0.1 Normal phase Common Boa
Dream list!:
Asian Water Monitor, Burm, Retic, Copperhead!

Was born into a house with animals reptile included so I could say it was bred into me.

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I have Gambian Pouched rats available soon please PM me for more details

When i was 16 i joined the Merchant Navy and spent the best part of 3 yrs in the Far East.
I had only been there a day or two and went for a meal in a Tiwanese resturant and saw Geckos running over the walls and celing catching moths and bugs. The resturant owner encoraged them, and God help you if you tried to touch them

So from that day on i have been fasinated by them, and the same for snakes, frogs, spiders etc.

If i was anywhere on land i would be looking at the local wildlife.

Why did you become interested in reptiles?
My uncle had various reptiles when i was younger. i loved dinosaurs and my grandad told me they was like mini-dinosaurs lol. all my family love animals

What made you buy your first one?
i remember when i was young looking through books and deciding a leo was for me ...

What was it, hobby, gift, passion, what?
i was planning on buying my first one, and my gf suprised me for our one year anniversary. she didnt expect me to buy anymore

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2.4.0 Leopard geckos
0.1.0 bearded dragon r.i.p Akasha
1.0.0 Royal Python
0.1.0 Corn snake

R.i.p Dad x x

gecko-girl@hotmail.co.uk

WOW id love to be the iggy who lives in there , he has got his very own palace!

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Steve Irwin RIP



My Beasties!1.0.0 Royal Python
0.1.0 Jungle Carpet Python
0.1.0 Tokay Gecko0.1.0 Mexican red knee0.1.0 Salmon Pink0.1.0 Curly Hair0.1.0 Cobalt Blue (pet hole) Currently saving up for1.1.0 Angolan Pythons Fergus R.I.P

I had always been interested in animals of all sorts - but that day in the forest in South Shropshire when I saw my first snake.... well it changed my entire life.

I do know that whatever it is that makes some people terrified of snakes manifests itself in an unexpainable fascination in people such as myself.

Dogs, cats, cagebirds.... yawn

Reptiles & Amphibians......

I used to catch common lizards in my back garden as a5yr old and keep them for a time before they'd disappear and that amazed me and got the ball rolling, since found out my mother used to let them go when i was sleeping. by that time i was in neck deep.
went to college got alittle education on animals, got fulltime work with animals. then realised there wasnt great cash to be earnt, so got a so called professionals job earning good cash to spend on reptile, as i think its more about the lifestyle i lead whilst keeping my various reps, and the creativity that comes through in building enclosures, working out the best husbandry, keeping and breeding-taking it to the next stage rather than keeping single animals,WOW!
We can all do that and do away with Captive Farmed animals and the associated issues.
All reptiles facinate me, to study/observe/handle/breed/preserve!
Ive met some brilliant people along the way too, People who share the same passion for reptiles who have have acheived amazing results with some rare species as wellas the so called common species.

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I held my first snake when I was very young at a wildlife park (it was a corn snake) and loved it!

I got my first exotic for my 12th birthday- A plains garter snake that I named Smaug. The next day we went back and got him a friend- a chequered garter snake, Falcor.

Smaug was so much fun. Ok so maybe you can't play fetch with a snake, but little Smaug would chase a finger around his viv!

With my Leopard Geckos, I loved the way their front feet were like tiny little hands, they that they sleep like little people, with one arm up next to their head and one down by their side, the way when they are feeding they wiggle the tip of their tails just before they grab the cricket.
I had one Leo, Whoops (so named because she never lost her purple stripes and only grew to about 5" and her jaw looked undershot[it wasn't though]), she would curl up and go to sleep every time I had her out.

When my boa was a baby he used to go to sleep on my tum if I made him a cave out of my hands. Occasionally he still will go to sleep on me, though I don't handle him much.

And it always used to crack me up with the nocturnal arboreal geckos, as soon as the lights went out all you'd hear all night was 'THUD!' 'THUD!' 'THUDTHUD!' of little sticky pads bouncing all over the place.

(it is sad thinking of all the pets I've lost. I had Smaug for seven years, came home from work one day to find him lying on his side, he died later that night in my hands)