From 3-11 I owned a myriad of Herps most of them my mother got me a few african clawed frogs a few greentree frogs a garter snake and a ton of frogs of which I don't know what they were (got them as tadpoles from an abandoned bathtub) a couple Ballpythons most of the herps either escaped were sold or some died horrible deaths (the garter snake and one ball)

I felt terrible for not knowing as much as I should have about them But there were mostly success stories afterwords I kept a trio of green turtles in Malaysia for three months till I gave them to friend who kept other turtles and I had to leave Malaysia (only stayed there for a year and a half) I returned to my homecity of San Jose and I stopped keeping herps till I was 12 when I had been researching a savannah monitor for 3 months I bought one at the sacramento reptile show and I was dedicated to him he was so cool but then when it was time to move him to a new cage substrate was a problem I wanted a sand/soil mix or even cage carpet but my grandfather said I didn't need it and against my will we bought carefresh which was a fatal mistake

He died of an impaction at night I took him to the vet only to spend $250 on emergency medicine $100 was my own money and the rest had to be earned. (I don't reccommend carefresh for anything except worms and mammals) Afterwords I felt I had to start at the beginning with a cute snow corn which I suprisingly traded away quickly for a HY Lavender female leo Gecko with a 10 gln long cage now 10 months later and only 2 days ago I bought myself a leopard colony of A male rainwater albino 2 het for patternless females and another HY Lavender female they came with a 10 gln for all of them but i'm moving them as soon as I can.



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1.4 Leo Geckos

0.1 Cal King

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