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Chance
at Sun Jan 16 12:05:22 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Chance ]
Hey Matt. Thanks for the welcome. I don't think I'll be acquiring any more cribos until I get this one and keep it for a while. I guess I'm sort of getting my 'feet wet' with this guy, which is why I wanted to get one with size, not a baby, and one that had a good attitude. As far as the one in the ad you mentioned, to this Dry layperson's eyes, it appears to be a melanurus. However, it could also be an intergrade or even a unicolor, but I'm thinking it is probably labeled correctly. And at that price, I'm sure it is wild caught, and would need to be treated accordingly. He looks good though, you should go for him yourself  The unicolor I'm getting was w.c. as a juvenile and raised for a couple years in captivity, so I'm not too worried about what his insides look like. Even at that though, he will be getting a fecal done upon arrival with my herp vet, just to make sure everything is in okay. I know Ben has had him for at least 2 months, but there's really no telling if the story given to him was accurate or not, so it's better to be safe than sorry. I once had a w.c. adult Oxyuranus s. canni (PNG taipan) that arrived in pristine condition, no scars, nicks, noose marks, mites, anything. And he was fresh. I decided I didn't want to treat him yet and stress his system needlessly (much less put myself and my herp vet at more risk than necessary...lol) unless he started acting like he was under the weather, and so I left him alone. A month later, that $500 beauty, in the period of 1 day, went from fine, to dead. I will not be making that same mistake again. Anyway, I'm babbling, so I'll go now 
-Chance
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Chance Duncan
2.2 Retics (1.0 Tiger Het, 1.0 Lavender, 0.1 Dark Lavender, 0.1 Normal Het)
1.1 Olive Pythons
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RE: Finally taking the plunge... - Chance, Sun Jan 16 12:05:22 2005