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Hey,

I know Ive had this explained to me before, but I forgot. So, what do the 1.2.1 type numbers mean in regards to species that an owner has. I know many people post it below their names and I just dont remember what it means in terms of quanity, age, etc.

Thanks,

Grape

The first number is Males, the second is females and the third is sex unknown this usually applies to babies or offspring. Best wishes Douglas Beard / Flora & Fauna

Hay Doug,dont forget B.I.E.S, best i've ever seen! on the price list of old. VM

LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!! Interesting when you go to the facility to see them and they were all shipped out yesterday Or the old what sex is that one? Reply "which one do you need?" "it's your lucky day" ROTFLMAO remember how sexing snakes was done behind ones back, because they did not want to give up the "trade secrets" Oh the good old days! Thanks for the laugh, I have not thought about that stuff in a while. Douglas

Yep,If all the new young fokes only new,How we waited for the next African Shippment to get in ,so we bought heavy just to be undercut by the next weeks shipment for half and the next for...well...sobs.Watch out picking up that big Leopard tortoise,you might hit yourself in the face with it.Ahhh, but you gotta admitt,spitters,kings,pissof retics,the first albino burms,Mexico was open, the good the bad and the outstanding.I wouldnt of wanted it to have happened any other way.Trail & error the rule of the day.Will have a beer at the Daytona Expo.Do you think they know who Archy Carr was!Anyone else a reptile frontearsman,with a tortoise tail? Vic M

Hey, Vic and Doug. I have been around for a little while myself, though not in FL which is apparently where some of the things you guys are talking about happened. We had our share of semi-reputable reptile people up north, but most of the guys I recall were honest and pretty darn sharp for those old days.

I remember waiting with extremely high anticipation for each and every price list from Larry Lantz of the fabled old "Midwest Reptile Exchange". He had some really good and very rare stuff back in the day. It wasn't cheap, but it was healthy.

Bill Z

Bill,Can't say I remember them.I had mixed feeling about these guys.They took huge risk back then,as weather they would even get the shipment.Some good some bad.Some...well,all that Ausy stuff! Heres one for herp history book."The Atlanta Reptile Exchange" early 80's.Vic