But I do not like some peoples one right way attitude as that can hurt dragons just as much as anything else. I do not know to me breeding dragons in this date and age is not rocket science. Much credit is due to the people that first started out keeping and breeding dragons, and have produced the excelent morphs that we have today. I am sure that back then it was rocket science. I keep in my home 12 adult/subadult dragons, my adopted iguanna, adopted water dragon, white's tree frogs, russian tortoises, bell's hingeback tortoise, 8 balls, 2 bcis, 1 brb, and a few other odds and ends plus my almost 60 baby dragons right now. I got into reptiles a little over 3 years ago when I met my wife who had a dragon and 2 white's tree frogs when we met. We are both animal lovers. To date I have lost one white's tree frog, 1 dragon, and 1 boa. I think I am doing pretty well. I do understand the hard work that it is to care for and breed these animals. Am I perfect, heck no not even close. I try to provide the best care that I can to all of my animals. Do I do it for the money, no I do it because it is fun. I enjoy and just want my animals to pay for themselves, that is it. I think that breeding dragons is kind of straight forward, as is caring for the babies. It just takes TIME. But the time it takes to me is worth it because it is fun. I try to share my experiences in my short time keeping reptiles, and my experiences are not always what is the status quo, but the status quo is always changing, as we become more knowledgeable. My whole rant on breeding age being 18 months got started because I feel that this is misinformation. As published in books, and stated by many big breeders. The point I was trying to get accross is that by KNOWING everything that you can about dragons, and their behavior should be the guideline to when a dragon should be breed, not some generic age. Generic time does not allow for variability which is very large in living organisms. I tried to get this point accross and next thing I know I am telling everyone to breed their dragons whenever, or that is what people are saying. And people are shooting down books because in the infancy of iguana husbandry it was said that high protien was good. Or other stupid comparisons which were meant to discredit my opinion. Keeping of reptiles is in its infant stages, and is a constantly changing field. Black and white does not work in keeping reptiles. Black and white doesn't work in biology for the most part. Things are very unpredictable, as is life. Just my thoughts.
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Derek Affonce

DeKeAff Exotics

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