I own a very large reptile collection in an equally large private facility, however until a few years ago my favourite reptile room was my quarantine station, this was not used to quarantine reptiles but for sick and dieing imports that belonged to dealers.

I started doing this when I was 13 old, being from a poor family I could not afford buying reptiles, so I would take donation of dieing animals from the dealer, of course they all died on me back then, my mother must have felt sorry to see how devastated I was every time I lost a reptile. But still I kept trying and with time was les affected by there lost, I improved very slowly, eventually in my mid 20s dealers would let me take more and more of there week animals in hope to salvage some, eventually in my late 20s I was starting to be pretty good at salvaging them, it got to the point that I kept improving and lost very few animals even when dealing large numbers. My best results have been achieved these past 6-7 years, ever sins I stop using drugs to cure PARASITISM a husbandry disease.

I strongly advise you to set up a 20-30gal cage, well hydrated and heated with only a single 25w bulb with reflector, get a dieing crappie parasite infested lizard from any dealer willing to give you the poor thing, simply hydrate him and if he is to week to feed on his own, blend a few bugs and liquefy with water, then tub feed him a few meals, you will be amazed on how reptiles can recover when they have the tools to do so.

Do this over and over again, with all kinds of reptiles, theirs nothing that can bring you more rewording experience in herpetoculture.

Ps. I will be 43 old next week, this post just made me realise that I have been a herper 30 years now, sure hope we can exchange for 30 more.

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