Oh, like the "fine print"! Safety door, last chance exit, if it doesn't happen you are covered!

I realize that you can't just promise to send dragons out. Hey, if it could happen that would be wonderful. There are also the issues of shipping across the border. I would love to work with some of the less common species. But you also have to understand that I waited 8 years just to find out my capra probably aren't capra! And waited 5 years to have my first armata just to watch them fail in my care. Then another small group that I lost, a bunch of money down the drain, and finally this beautiful group that I have now after 6 years of working with MHDs. I didn't have my coronata variants until 5 years into my work either.

I give you a lot of credit for my armata looking so great too. The really turned around when I added the light inside the viv.

I have been patient in aquiring the 3 species that I have now. I have to admit that I am quite envious of your ability to work with so many wonderful species but have to be realistic in that I am working outside of my home 6 days a week and 8 hours a day. If I get the lease on the building I am looking at I will have double the space and will have to be open 7 days a week. On the plus side I may have a room at the shop where I can have my reptiles there with me! I would love to be able to check on them while I am at work. Then I might be able to manage more cages.

By the way, I put the second basking light in with the gravid armata last night and low and behold, the more gravid female, the one where you can see such defined lumps in her sides, was soaking again this morning and this evening she was on the ground under the edge of the lower light. The other gravid female was under the light that is over the branch on the other side midway up. Previously she had been up in the top. So, they are really using those lights now!

I am just hoping that she isn't past her due date. It is so hard to know. I have no vets so I am, as always, on my own here. I have seen no digging activity so I am trying my darndest to be patient. She does return to the branches at night to roost. She looks good, color is good. In fact she is the most beautiful I have ever seen her. She has beautiful rose colored patches scattered over her and on her face. She has the dark squiggles below her eyes almost like the markings on the coronata but not all the way to the mouth. She has never been that colorful but is almost regal looking right now. Must be the maternal glow!

I will try to post pictures soon.
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Marcia - FroggieB Dragons
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