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Ok,,you all know I am a kingsnake and snake guy,,but am thinking of getting a lizard. Just wanted to see who of my fellow kingsnake keepers have any and their thoughts? I was thinking a Tegu.
Kingsnakes will always be my fave,,,I mean it is not like I am buying a super-flame-pinstripe-granite-ghost-piebald ball,,,lol

Thanks
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Ball Python
Jungle Carpet Python 1.0
Eastern King 0.1
Mexican Black King
Great Basin Gopher
Hypo Brooks 1.0
White Sided Bull 1.0 (Envy)
Striped Pacific Gopher (Envy)
Axanthic Brooksi 0.1 (Mark Kenderdine)
Goini King 1.0 (Mark Kenderdine)
Northern Pine 1.0 (Nick Puder)
Arizona Mtn. King 1.0 (AAM Snakes)
1.0 Pastel Red Tail Boa
0.1 Okeetee Corn (Abbott line)

I love the smell of aspen shavings in the morning...lol

"To serve man..it's...it's a cookbook!"

I have a mali uromastyx and two crested geckos. Love my uro

I've been tempted to breed Green Basilisks again! There like small Dinosaurs complete with attitude! I've often thought about tegus but never made the jump.

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King Snakes! Who can make a better mouse trap?
J Sierra

Nothing wrong with variety.

Tegus are COOL ive had the Blue Tegus and were calm doscile,though i have seen an Argentine snap like a bear trap on a stick,And the stick Failed,but i believe it was a wc from here in Fl.
The Argentine is a Great animal closely related to the blues if cb and hand raised from juvi.
And the Southern range animals Brumate just fine which i find a plus. unlike the more flighty Columbian tegu Just my opinion.C Reds are cool too

I see the tortoise prefers the "long cut" that better mimics his natural choice of grassy vegetation.....

~Doug

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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

I dont care who Y'are THATS FUNNY,Doug were you at Orlando show last weekend? C

Well, I would have probably gone and set up a table with my buddy that went there this weekend, but there is a girl coming over in a couple more days to pickup a HUGE number of snakes she gave me a good deposit on last month, so I probably wouldn't have had enough snakes to make the show worth worth the while to sell just a few here and there. So I will just see what I have left after she takes home what she already bought, and what new stuff I have that she wants to buy, and advertise the rest of them.

It's the same girl I told you about when we talked there that bought something like 17 snakes from my table last year at Orlando..LOL!.......boy, that was great!

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

My exotic sceloporus! LOL!
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Bob/Chris
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire

And some of my rare Bufo boreas halophilus!
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Bob/Chris
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire

i have had a iguana and a bearded dragon before,,,so i know the space they take up. i think getting a baby tegu and raising it to be tame would be very cool....i would go with the blue cuase they are alittle smaller,,,,
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Ball Python
Jungle Carpet Python 1.0
Eastern King 0.1
Mexican Black King
Great Basin Gopher
Hypo Brooks 1.0
White Sided Bull 1.0 (Envy)
Striped Pacific Gopher (Envy)
Axanthic Brooksi 0.1 (Mark Kenderdine)
Goini King 1.0 (Mark Kenderdine)
Northern Pine 1.0 (Nick Puder)
Arizona Mtn. King 1.0 (AAM Snakes)
1.0 Pastel Red Tail Boa
0.1 Okeetee Corn (Abbott line)

I love the smell of aspen shavings in the morning...lol

"To serve man..it's...it's a cookbook!"

Two Words:

Abronia Graminea!
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...
www.coastalbendcaptivebreeding.com

>>Two Words:
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>>Abronia Graminea!

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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...
www.coastalbendcaptivebreeding.com

We have a couple of dragons, several leos, banded uromastyx and a black and white tegu. Not looking forward to a full size tegu though (rescued animal).
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Nick Puder
www.rnpreptiles.com

Tegu's are awesome. I got a chance to handle a real tame adult recently and he was impressive. Wouldn't want to take a bite, tame as he was I have to admit I was a little intimidated LOL.
Someday I'll get a Tegu or Monitor. BTW we have a bearded dragon, and those lizards get beyond tame!

If you want intimidating try handling a 5' Asian water monitor,truly awesome. I've had bites from several monitors when I had my pet shop. The worst was a 2' Savannah on my thumb. I learned to keep peroxide and a syringe handy. It's harmless to them but they let go real quick.

Currently the wife has beardies, leopard gex and green iggies. I have a trio of Western Plated lizards.

They're not snakes but lizards are cool.
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BigT
There is a difference between ignorance and stupidity. The ignorant can be taught, stupidity is beyond our control.
1.2 P. m. melanoleucus B/W N. J. Northern Pines
1.2 P. d. deppei Mexican Pines
2.2 P. l. lineaticollis Linis or Lined Pines
1.2 P. m. lodingi Black Pines
1.1 Drymarchon melenurus Blacktail Cribo
1.2 M. s. cheynei Jungle Carpet
2.6 L. p. pyromelana Arizona Mt. Kings
1.1 L. g. californiae B/W Cali kings

Is the stringe and peroxide the key to lizard lock jaw or immediate first aid cleaning for a wound

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Lindsay Pike
Urotopia Uromastyx

This is nothing like a tegu, but I think many of the day geckos are gorgeous.
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1.2 Peruvian rainbow boas (Amaru, Asiru, Kulipsa)
2.0 Brazilian rainbow boas (Arco, Olho)
1.3.1 Honduran milksnakes (Chicchan, Chanir, Chakar, Hari, Saksak)
1.0 Thayeri kingsnake (Coatl)
0.0.1 Mexican black kingsnake (Mora)
2.4.4 corns (Cetto, Tolosa, Uce, TBA)
1,000,000.1,000,000 other critters

It would be really cool if day Geckos knew how to use windex and a sqeegee instead of their idea of glass cleaning excrement,You all with Crested Geckos also know what im talkin about! Phelsuma are Pretty

>>... use windex and a sqeegee... >>

I guess it's not a necessary skill when you can clean your own eye with your tongue

"I guess it's not a necessary skill when you can clean your own eye with your tongue"

The "Gene Simmons" of the lizard world!

too funny!!

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

LOL!

Thanks to the OP I started looking at lizards last night....and now I'm lusting over the Ornate Uromastyx. Beautiful animals!
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1.2 Peruvian rainbow boas (Amaru, Asiru, Kulipsa)
2.0 Brazilian rainbow boas (Arco, Olho)
1.3.1 Honduran milksnakes (Chicchan, Chanir, Chakar, Hari, Saksak)
1.0 Thayeri kingsnake (Coatl)
0.0.1 Mexican black kingsnake (Mora)
2.4.4 corns (Cetto, Tolosa, Uce, TBA)
1,000,000.1,000,000 other critters

Ornate Uros are an eye catcher! Lindsey is the best Uropean i know and sometimes has Ornates