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I am new to this forum and plan on being an active contributor, so I thought I would give everyone some backgroung info.

I have been working with reptiles and amphibians professionally and personally for six or seven years. I work as an exotic animal veterinary technician and husbandry coordinator for a large university research center in Boston Massachusetts. I primarily work with amhibians(Xenopus) professianally and lizards (bearded dragons, shield tailed agamas, various geckos, and uros) privately. I have a pair of Mali's and will be receiving my first pair of ornate uromastyx soon from Audrey Vanderlinden (who by the way is a very nice person and offered to sign up for and accept paypal upon my request).

I have learned alot from reading everyone's posts about uromastyx over the last few months and hope to contribute where I can. I have had great recent success in breeding and raising shield tailed agamas (sometimes called false uromastyx) recently and can offer advice on this species in this forum, since there is no forum for them and they are related to uromastyx, as long as nobody objects.

Thanks

Welcome Brian

It is always great to see new members with some experience under their belt.

Yankees fans only here....

J/K
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Mark Martinez
University of Florida

hey,
good to have you. glad to have another person here with experience to gather information from.

it would be great to hear some of your info about the shield tail agamas...funny looking little things. i might even get a pair some time after learning about them, they've always looked interesting. you said you've had some recent success with breeding and raising them....why? is there not alot of information or a low success rate for doing so? i don't know hardly anything about them, as you can probably tell.

trevor

I will post some info next week.
I say recent success because I was having difficulty before getting the females to lay their eggs. They were becoming egg bound. Also, when I got them around 8 months ago it was impossible to find any captive bred animals only wild caught imports. So I didn't believe many people were working with them. After figuring out proper nesting conditions, they have been pretty easy to breed and are really cool. Now captive breds are popping up in a few places.
Glades Herp website has a pretty acurate care sheet on them.

Brian

cool, sounds like that was a great breakthrough....looking forward to hearing a little about em.

trevor

It's great to have your valuable veterinary experience available to us.Welcome

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Mike
1.3 mali
1.3 central banded gecko
1.1 veiled chameleon

Glad you found us. It's alway nice to have a clinical take on topics here. Have you had an opportunity to visit the Herp Health & breeding forum? I find it has some fascinating cases to follow.
PS. RedSox fans are ok....as long as they keep Uros. Just another Yankee fan.....oh yeah....a FSU fan too!
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Jason
Blackdog Uromastyx Pics