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thankyou for the list.

What the hell does "bump" mean? I keep seeing it in reply to classified ads. I cant work it out....someone help??????

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bump is what people do to push their threads back up to the top of the list - bump it up.

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bump is what people do to push their threads back up to the top of the list - bump it up.

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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
thanks for the info so my snake had an RI eventiually it stopped
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PNG - Papua New Guinea

That one bugged me for ages!
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as you probs can see with me being an lil egg...im new and all ths info is great...i mean i hear a lot of ppl talk about all this and never understood any of it!! thanks
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