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Hey ya'll...

I was cruising the general snake forums and noticed that a few folks would [bleep] out all the g's in their words. What's up with that?? It sure makes reading them somewhat annoying!

Judy
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1.0 red cape gopher (Caesar)
0.1 gerbil (Whiskers)

That actually happened one day to all the forums. The problem came and went. If you go back far enough in this thread, you'll find a post or two that was "bleeped".

Really?? How odd is that? *LOL* I wonder if some jokester got into the website code or something?

>>Hey ya'll...
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>>I was cruising the general snake forums and noticed that a few folks would [bleep] out all the g's in their words. What's up with that?? It sure makes reading them somewhat annoying!
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>>Judy

It was a temporary glitch relating to the site's word filter. For some odd reason the filter interpreted a recently added entry in a totally unexpected manner. The glitch was fixed within an hour of it having occurred. Nearly all members posting to the forums during that time frame found their postings affected.

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PHWyvern

Thanks! I was really curious. It looked like some sort of on-line drinking game where you had to take a shot for every "g" you forgot to [bleep] out!

That could be fun...*LOL*

>>Thanks! I was really curious. It looked like some sort of on-line drinking game where you had to take a shot for every "g" you forgot to [bleep] out!
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>>That could be fun...*LOL*

Actually the folks on the bearded dragon forum seemed to be the ones that enjoyed the 'glitch' the most.

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PHWyvern

I just found that thread on the Bearded Dragon forum. It's pretty funny. It's on page four already. That forum really moves. I didn't realize how popular Beardies are.

I think the dragons are SO cool! I'd love to have a couple of those. But when they're babies, you have to feed them their live crickets twice a day, every day. (Or so I've read.) And that just seems a bit too complicated for me. My days are busy enough as it is!

They are really cool though......maybe someday...

They are neat little critters. Some of the shows I attend have a table where the Beardeds are just sitting on the table "chillin" and watching people walk by. It's as if they're posing. Once the guy had one on his head for most of the show. It was so still I think he forgot it was there.

*LMAO* That's funny! (The lizard on his head...)

I wonder how much trouble it is to keep crickets around for feeding?

My daughter and I are going to our first show this Saturday. I can hardly wait. It'll be a bit of a drive though, over in Maryland. Should be a lot of fun.

Crickets aren't difficult, just smelly and messy if you don't keep up on them. When my niece collected Geckos, I just bought thje crickets at pet shops and shows. What show is in Maryland this weekend? Is it Havre de Grace?

Yep...that's the one. Is it any good, do ya know?

Buying from the petstore sounds like a good plan...but how often do you have to go there to feed a baby dragon or two? (I'd want to raise them from babies, if I went that direction.)

I know I can ask these on the dragon forum, but this is fun.

Eh. It's so-so. I wouldn't compare it to Hamburg. I go to the Maryland show just to get feeders from my favorite feeder dude. I'll be there Saturday. I'm usually really early and I'm only there for an hour or two. Anyway, I'm not really experienced with Beardeds. You could buy enough crickets to last a week or a month. It just depends on whether or not you want to spend the time to keep the putrid, noisy little hoppers of Satan alive. If they escape, they'll keep you up all night unless you find their chirping peaceful. I personally liken their chirping to that of a dagger being jammed in my ear.

Hehehe...you and I feel the same way about crickets. I don't mind using them as food, but the thought of having lose ones in the house is just....yick. I was poking around a good looking breedersite for beardeds and they mentioned frozen crickets. That sounds like the way to go!

Anyhow...it'll be a long time before we could actually think about getting any. I just think they're really cool. We spent all our surplus $$ on a relatively (for us) expensive snake and a nice setup for him. I'm thinking when he outgrows his current tank, I'll move him into a bigger one and use this one for something new. My hubby's much more inclined toward lizard species than any more snakes.

Maybe we'll see ya at the show. Not that I'd know it was you...*LOL*

Judy
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1.0 red cape gopher (Caesar)
0.1 gerbil (Whiskers)

Just look for a guy close to six foot three, handsome, debonair, classy...well, I am close to six-three anyway, lol. I usually hook my shades onto the front of my shirt. I'll be holding a huge sign that says "Judy, where the hell are ya'". I'm joking of course. I wouldn't embarrass anyone like that.

Chris

*LOL* You're funny.

I'll just wander around accosting all the tall guys with shades. "Are you poosphere?"

I'll be there with my 10 year old daughter. I don't know if the guys (my hubby and two sons) will want to come or not.

LMAO! If I see a woman doing that at the show, I'll get a hernia from laughing so hard! And don't think I'll come runnin' if you have "poosphere" paged over the loudspeaker.

*wicked little laugh...rubbing palms together in anticipation*

Seriously...how far do you have to drive to the show? And...we're filling up the forum with our conversation. *LOL* e-mail me if you want.

meriweather_bg@yahoo.com

LOL, Okay.

>>*LMAO* That's funny! (The lizard on his head...)
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>>I wonder how much trouble it is to keep crickets around for feeding?
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>>My daughter and I are going to our first show this Saturday. I can hardly wait. It'll be a bit of a drive though, over in Maryland. Should be a lot of fun.

They are basically couch potatoes when not eating. It's not too much trouble really ...you go through the weekly shipment of crickets so fast when they are babies they don't stay around long enough to worry about later. I had 2 I hatched from eggs...was going through roughly a thousand 1/8 inch crickets a week for the first 2 months (& that was in addition to several vials of fruit flies I was culturing). Then cut that amount almost by half once they got up to 1/4" since as the size of the crix got bigger the amount needed to stuff their bellies got smaller. Also, usually by the time they are 3 months old they have started reguarly eating greens and veggies which cuts a lot of the cricket need down. Now they only get about a dozen adult crickets a week....the rest is vegetarian. (Their parents get maybe a dozen crickets every other week). The high amount of food a baby beardie needs is one reason why beginners are often recommended to not start out with one that is younger than 3-4 months <g>....expensive as hell otherwise.
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PHWyvern

Once they're on veggies, do they really need crickets?

>>Once they're on veggies, do they really need crickets?

During the first year of life, they really need a diet that is 50-80% insects. A baby beardie goes through a huge amount of growth in the early months and needs that protein. Once they are past the 9-12 month mark, the amount of insects they need in their diet may vary by individual personalities. For the most part an adult bearded dragon can live on a diet that is almost 100% vegetarian like an iguana would as long as the mixture of veggies and greens was a high quality one and supplemented properly.

My youngest dragon, he insists on his 'cricket fix' or he sulks. His parents like a good cricket chase once in a while but seem happy enough if I don't remember to give them any for weeks on end. I have a friend who has had his beardie 10 years now. Back when he got his baby beardie people were just coming around to the idea that beardie diets needed a big overhaul due to short 5-7 year lifespans mainly from obesity in the animals. Back then people would feed adults much like babies - 80% insect 20% veggie and veterinarians were trying to get people to switch the ratios in the other direction and were aiming towards a 50-60% veggie 40-50% insects. I convinced my friend early on to go with that shift some herp vets were pushing once the baby was through the bulk of the 'growth' period where they really needed the high protein of the insects. A couple of years later, I found my friend actually has his dragon on a more extreme shift of 90-95% veggie and 5-10% insect (sometimes he only gets a couple mealworms a week). The animal is alive and doing very well and already showing a nice long lifespan that a beardie is actually capable of.
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PHWyvern

>>I just found that thread on the Bearded Dragon forum. It's pretty funny. It's on page four already. That forum really moves. I didn't realize how popular Beardies are.

Actually you would probably be more surprised to know that the Beardie forum is custom set to scroll posts off after only 15 days...all those pages you see there...that's just 15 short days worth of chatter.
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PHWyvern

Wow, I just looked to see where that forum ranks. Number two! Leopard Geckos is one. I'm suprised because when I walk around the shows it always seems as though the Bearded and Leopard tables are the least busy or frequented. Maybe the lizard people show up later when I'm long gone.

np

Maybe it was one of president Bush's double secret covert operations. Perhaps this is just a small part of the bigger picture. First, the Gs, then the whole alphabet, then the world, mmmuuuaaaaahahahahahahaha!!!!

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