Just wanted to introduce myself

[shiftylarry]

Hi, my name is Chris, I just joined the forum. My hometown is San Francisco, but I'm going to school in Georgia. Like everyone here, I love monitors. I want to get some bigger ones in the future, probably V. Varius, but with all the travel, it doesn't make sense. Anyway, I am more than satisfied with Edgar, my rudicollis. He is the best pet I've ever owned:

I just built him a new cage. It's 4x2x2. Some would argue that that's sufficient considering that he's under 2 ft, but at home I have him in a 5x3x6 so I really feel sorry for him in there. I'm moving soon though, and I don't want to build anything I can't fit into my car. When I move into my new apartment, he's getting a 8x4x6n. Probably overkill for a juvi, but who cares?!

Here's the cage i hate:

Oh, and if anyone like the Ctenosaura genus, I just picked up this little champion:

Thanks for stopping by.

-Chris

 

[VARNYARD]

Welcome to the site Chris!! You have some nice looking animals. I am going to get me some of them Bananas this year I hope.

Glad you came and joined us!!

 

[shiftylarry]

Thanks Bobby!

I'm sure you know all about them, but they are just great animals. The vendor sent me a picture of a brown baby, and I open the box and he's yellow! I know he'll just get better with time. They are really calm animals. I think they have good potential as pets.

Honestly, the 6 ft green iguana thing is ridiculous, we need to find a new standard, even though it's hard to combat the price of bulk imported animals.

It's so nice to see this fresh interest in the sadly overlooked Ctenosaura genus. My next project is a trio of Melanosterna, but I want to make sure I will be able to set up incubators and so forth. That species is in serious trouble. I know they're a little more skittish than pectinata, but they're so beautiful. Hopefully serious breeders will take interest and save an endangered animal that was ignored by so many.

-Chris

 

[MMRR - jif]

Chris, glad you made it over here. Lots of nice folks with various interests.

Melanosterna, huh? Are you prepared to shell out a good chunk of change and be patient on a waiting list for a while? LOL I had the opportunity to acquire melanosterna this past fall but the person holding the 4 hatchlings accidently killed them by placing them on calci-sand. For now I'll be busy growing up the half dozen palearis hatchlings that I got last fall.

 

[PuffDragon]

Welcome to the forums!!!!!

 

[COWHER]

:welc Chris!!

 

[gebris353]

Nice to meet you Chris, you have some beautiful pets there, welcome! :-D

 

[boygenius]

welcome chris it's always nice to have someone around with different preferences as well

 

[shiftylarry]

Are you prepared to shell out a good chunk of change and be patient on a waiting list for a while?

Yeah, I know I need like 1500 dollars, which is why I'm not getting them now. It would be arrogant and foolish of me to get a trio of rare animals and not be set up to breed them properly. I know a guy who's breeding them and we've been in close conversation. I just can't get on a list for eggs that may or may not exist. This is a project at least 1 year away. I'm not in any rush.

I just feel like, because of their expense and rarity a bunch of idiots are gonna go out and buy males as showpieces with no intent on breeding :evil: I want to give it a shot.

Somehow you manage to get everything I've ever wanted Jif. Oh well, I still have Edgar to show off :-D

-Chris

 

[dorton]

Welcome to the board. Nice looking setup, and animals.

 

[MMRR - jif]

Chris, I currently don't have a rudi and it's high on my wish list.

 

[shiftylarry]

What about that Rudi in the classifieds? It said you found it a home?

 

[dicy]

nice rudi but may i ask why u use a viv that opens from the top and how the lil bugger reackts to that ? annyway good looking rudi

 

[shiftylarry]

I don't like it at all. Instead of seeing him face to face, I'm opening his cage and towering over him. It was originally going to be a snake cage, but I changed my mind and put him in there instead. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone

 

[Andrzej]

Welcome, im new as well so it should be fun, im most likely to spent most of my time here in the monitor fourm, and the snake fourm.......

 

[DZLife]

Welcome, im new as well so it should be fun, im most likely to spent most of my time here in the monitor fourm, and the snake fourm.......

lol....a little late....he joined almost 3 months ago XD

 

[Andrzej]

srry, i didnt know, i just join like a day ago or so....

 

[DZLife]

XD No problem. If you need to ask any questions about the site, feel free to ask. We're all here to help (especially the Staff and Mods.)

If you have a question about tegus, Bobby is one of the best people you could ask, althuogh there are many people on here who know alot about tegus.

I believe that we are all here for one or all of three reasons:


To help others
To Learn about tegus (and other reptiles)
To meet people who share your interest in reptiles of all kinds