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I would like to take this time to ask everyone to post a short message describing what they do for a living, and why/what they are involved with herp wise.

Jeff Medley
29
Indiana

School teacher. Zoology, Genetics, Microbiology
1 wife, 2 kids, 2 dogs, and more animals in my class then you can shake a stick at. Most of them dont like sticks waved at them either.

Herps include

Leopard Geckos - My students favorites
A red tail Boa
Leopard Frogs
Anoles

This forum is an excellent chance for people to meet and learn from one another. Keep up the great work.

my name is robin , i live in texas. I am currently engaged to a wonderful man and one day hope to marry him (Monte?) LOL. we have 6 cats and 4 dogs. we keep
Leopard Geckos
Bearded Dragons
a few colubrids
Ball pythons and Green tree Pythons
but our main interest snake wise is locality boa constrictor
my fiance is a machinist of 16 years and i work for the worlds largest retailer (guess)
well that is me

p.s. here is a pic of one of our boas, this is a bolivian amarali

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-robin day
Geckoheads And Geeks

I'm a campus pastor/missionary at a mid-sized University in Minnnesota. At the ripe old age of 42, I have 2 children, age 15 and 9.

We raise leopard , Australian velvet geckos, crested and gargoyles. We also have 3 corn snakes and one black pine snake.

I love to fish, oh yeah, I play in a band (vocals, trumpet and guitar).

It's been very rewarding getting to know all you on the leo forum. It's a great hobby, isn't it.

By the way Robin - I'll come down and do your wedding, but I thought that down south you had to be cousins before you could get married? LOL!!!

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Monte Meyer
Powergeckos

Semper Ubi sub Ubi

LOL
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-robin day
Geckoheads And Geeks

But only if shes hot!!! LOL

J/K Lighten up.. Happy Herping

I thought we had it bad around here cops can't solve crimes with ferensic science cause there are no dental records and the DNA is all the same LOL.

>>Semper Ubi sub Ubi

Nice signature, Monte. Not your typical pastor, are ya? LOL

. . . actually, it's not correct latin, but it sounds good off the tongue.

That was a phrase we all used in college and seminary.

And no - I'm not your typical pastor, thank you very much
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Monte Meyer
Powergeckos
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Semper Ubi sub Ubi

Except in the shower, etc.......
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Sam
Gecko Den
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From mild to wild, specifically bred for the discriminating breeder or enthusiast looking for a beautiful gecko to add to their collection.

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Jessica
Denver, Co
24 yrs
Colledge student..attempting..major: Biology
Was laid off 2 days before x-mas, now am doing temp clarical work. BORING
Love photography, wish I could make a living off it..
Very very excited camping season is comming with NO fire bans!
Critters:
1 Leo
2 FBT
2 FBN
2 kitties
1 Kenya Sand Boa
and a high maintenance boyfriend...hee hee.. (just kidding babe)
Thank you for all the help you guys give!!

Hello'

Gary Mason Jr.
34
Northwest Ohio.

I am a foreman at an open pit limestone mine. I am not married but have a wonderfull girlfriend. I also have two great children from a past relationship. I have presently 5 dogs, 3 brittany spaniels(one with pups coming), a feist and a Omcba original bred mountain cur. A cat. Oh and I can't forget Tator my parrolet. I enjoy competition hunting my squirrel dogs and fishing and of course my herps. Which include. My male blizz and 3 hets. 2 baby blizz and 8 baby hets,11 eggs cookin. A rainwater and Albey stock 10% carrot tail reduced spoting. A juvie albino rainwater/tremper? An albino and snow cornsnake. A female pastel red tail boa 6.5 feet and still going. A male red tail boa 3.5 feet he is 100% het for albino 50% het for snow (want to get a female to match). A tokay gecko. A veiled chameleon. A matched pair of Brazillian Rainbow Boas. That about does it for my herps. I started with a pair trio of leopard geckos 4 years ago and that started the spark. I had reptiles when younger though. Had some beutifull saltwater aqauriums but after loosing about $5000 dollars worth of corals and fish by some messed up virus I got back into herps. Thanks Kingsnake and these forums they are a great help for people who love their animals. -Geeboo

Around here, they have granite mines, and their blowing up things all the time. I was wondering if they have to do the same with limestone.

I worked summers running heavy equipment, (cats, payloaders, scrapers) during my college years. Like giant toys!!!
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Monte Meyer
Powergeckos

Semper Ubi sub Ubi

Yep, we blast the pit walls down with Anfo. Is pretty cool. We don't get to set it ourselves anymore because of federal laws but I still watch them blow it. I get to run all those life size tonka machines too, LOL. I mostly just run the processing plant now though.

Kristofer Shawn Goldsmith
The longest- easy to spell name for little kids ever. (Spell it out as it sounds)
Age: 17 (18 in August)
School/Location: Mepham High School, Bellmore NY, on Long Island.

I'm also attending East Meadow Highschool for Cabinetry class. Yeah, its nice... Senior year, take cabinetry class for the first 3 periods... show up and leave whenever I choose, which is sweet now that I have a car. Then off to Mepham for Social Studies, English... then go home. Works out to about 3 hours of school a day. I work as much as possible, basically a handyman/carpenter/electrician or what ever else is asked of me. Furture plans? Going to Long Island Drafting and Technology in Ammityville, Suffolk, like 10 to 20 minute drive from home. Drafting as in Architecture or designing... not military like most people think. Then I'm hopefully getting my way into an Electricians union right after school ends in Manhattan or L.I. and eventullay become self employed.

Animals have always ruled the house... I can't begin to list all the animals I've kept and bred in the past.
For now, I have this:
2 cats
2 love birds (a breeding pair eventually)
1 other bird... not canary, the other cheap one (it's my sisters)
1 female sunburst veiled chameleon
1 Super-hypo-super-tang, Golith (can be seen as #1 on Albey's best of 2000 page
2 hypo tang females, possibly gravid (4 eggs cookin from them now, only two look healthy... )
1 40% carrot tail female
2 60% carrot tail females (gravid)

I've had... probably over 1000 animals in my house in the past 10 years if you count all of the hampsters/rats/mice that I've bred, plus the pregnant w/c garter snake and the dozons of w/c frogs and newts. Now that I think of it... There have probably been well over a thousand animals in my house since I was little. But, my favorite herps are definately leos. So, I'll stick to them for a while. Insanly long post.... thanks for reading.

I am 26 yr old
Work with a caseload of 12 emotionally and behaviorally challenged kids (9-17) and their families...

my critters....

2 red eared sliders, Sam and Sal
5 leopard geckos (3 normals(1 gravid)Claudia, Lestat, and Ocho, 1 patternless, Louie, 1 jungle(gravid)Wizard)
2 cats, AKA my fuzzy kids, Jane and Kylie
1 hedgehog, tamarack
1 wonderful fiance that i am rapidly corrupting into a reptile lover....he's the one that twisted my arm to get another one this past April...hehe!

picture of our newbie......Wizard...gravid and waiting

Dove

Hey, I'm shannon - a middle school science teacher this year, who knows after June. Ideally I would like to go back into zoo/nature center outreach work and manage an animal collection. As for our own, at school I have my leos in rotation: Ceaser, our stud, Blancita , a juvie Tremper albino, Rosie, a breeding normal, and Prima, our first baby. I also have Ranger, an adult orange male BD, and Ani, a new baby female snow BD. Hannah, our Florida KIngsnake, and the mice, including the hairless ones, also inhabit the classroom. At home we have a Jackson's Cham., Rescued Male Veiled cham, and the rest of the food I breed: mealworms, superworms, and hissers. My current challenges are trying to get Rosie healthy - she is chronically ill - and getting adequate heat into Ranger's new large tank. Of course, looking for a new job is the biggest challenge!

Man, that is one goofy looking animal. Sorry about the shot, I was just kidding around. Cool!!!
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Monte Meyer
Powergeckos
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Semper Ubi sub Ubi

Hi!
My name is Melissa and I am from Michigan.
19 yrs old.
College student at Michigan State, will be a junior in fall- Major: Art Education. I want to be a high school art teacher.

I got into herps about 3 years ago and I have three leopard geckos, and a bearded dragon. I also have two african clawed frogs, a chinchilla, a sun conure, and a goldfish. I live with my boyfriend who has a baby oketee corn snake and 2 firebelly toads. although we are not allowed to have pets in our apartment,we've got 5 different animal tanks and cages in it, lol. My sun conure, frogs, and fish are all at my house back in sterling heights, and my chinchilla, geckos, and beardie are up here with me in east lansing. =)
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~Melissa~

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haha, yeah and its not like we try to hide it much either. my 50 gallon breeder tank on its huge stand is right out in the living room and so are the toads =) and our other roomate moved out so the chinchilla has the entire room to herself, hehe.
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~Melissa~

My names Josh, I circulated the kingsnake forums frequently until a year ago when the economy took a dive and I had to work constantly (well it seems so) to make ends meet. So I'm back after a brief vacation. I am a Gekko breeder, mainly Tokays & Green Eyed (G. Smithi). I do love my leos though and tend to breed them occasionally. I am 24, married to someone who could possibly be the greatest woman on earth . I also live in IN. Looking forward and not back to getting to know all the people in here that have started visiting while I was gone.

Gecko Gecko -tokaygeckos.com-

Careful with the tokays, mean little buggers.

LOL I've handled them for 7 years now. Nothing that intimidates me anymore. I'm on the south side of Indianapolis. Where in Indiana are you located?
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Joshua Fast
Gecko Gecko -tokaygeckos.com-
info@tokaygeckos.com

West side . Near Brownsburg

Wow we don't live too far from each other then. I actually live in Camby which is in between Mooresville and Plainfield. Most people don't know where that is though so its easier to say a general direction. I'm in Avon all the time though.
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Joshua Fast
Gecko Gecko -tokaygeckos.com-
info@tokaygeckos.com

Jess
17 years old
cold wet oregon

I first got interested in leopard geckos when I was 14 on a Spring break trip to California, we stayed with my friends aunt and she had a leopard gecko. I loved it. (new nothing about them though at the time)

I have:
1 parakeet (mine)Kittie
2 cats (one is mine one is my brothers) Baby-Kitty, and Posse
2 Russian Tortoises (my moms) Donna and Darla (donna-male, Darla- female, my mom thought that Donna was a female box turtle until she did research(neighbor kids werent feeding it so their mom gave her to my and I begged my mom and she adopted her as her own and soon bought another one once she knew more about them.
2 Leopard Geckos (male and female, mine)
3 leo eggs in the incubator
8 freshwater fish (9 guppies, 1 Beta)
and my sister is getting a guinea pig for her birthday.
My leos are my babies especially my female Cesar. I hope her calmness genes are passed to her babies.

I had a hi-yellow female leo but my brothers cat got into the cage and scratched her and she went to the vet a couple weeks later (came home with no tail) the vet was unexperienced with herps and my leo died of blood poisoning/infections.

I plan on keeping 1 or all of the babies that hatch, if they all do.

In the picture is a picture of my male leo, Diego.

Link

np

cesar gravid

Sammy

My name is Jeanne, 28 years old, I live in Mass.
My pets include:
1 Musk Turtle
6 Goldfish
1.1 Tremper Albino Leos
1 Male Het Tremper Albino (Hatched by me)
1 Female Carrot Tail (Hatched by me)
1.1 High Yellow Leos
2 Female Hypo Tangerine Leos
2 Female Jungle Leos
2 Baby Leos that I hatched recently
7 Leo eggs in the incubator
2 Female Albino Fat Tails
1 Male Het Albino Fat Tail
1 unsexed baby Albino Fat Tail (Hopefully Male)
2 Male Striped Fat Tail
1 Female Striped Fat Tail

My fiance keeps snakes, but I would be here all day trying to name them off,

Take care!!!!
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Jeanne
www.USAGeckos.com
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Matt
22 years old
outside of Hartford, CT
Web Designer/Developer

i have 3 herps:
2 leopard geckos - one normal (F - "Owen" ), one patternless (too young to sex - no name)

1 ball python - 34", 500g normal (F - "Monty" )

i used to have a ball python when i was about 10, but it died when my mom was pregnant for my younger sister. so i got a new python last October. Monty is my baby. the love of her sparked my interest in leopard geckos, so i got Owen in February, and the No Name at this past NY Expo.

the geckos are amazing creatures, but my first love is my ball python. when my girl is of breeding weight, i hope to mate her with a lucky male (hopefully albino).

i haven't decided how far i want to go with my geckos, but time will tell!

this forum is the best thing any herp lover could ever participate in. i've learned more here that i thought i could ever know, and i still am learning every single day. thanks to everyone who has helped me (directly or indirectly).

also, if anyone is looking for a new website (or re-design), feel free to contact me with any questions.

-Matt

Josh Zalabak
16
Florida

I have leos, a ball python, and a baby beardie. I wanna get a borneo short-tailed python. I also have 3 dogs(labrador retrievers)

Josh
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Josh

My name is Michael and am a leo addict!! Admiting you have a problem is the first step!!
25 years old ,married and a computer engineer. I double majored in Computer Science and Biology and plan to become a doctor.

I have lot of leos.

When all my orders come in I will about 15 leos.
I also have a ball python and a rosy boa.

I had a mean stamp collection but my computer went on the break and I had to mail out out my bills.

I planning on using my knowledge of genetics to break into leos genetics and maybe create some interesting morphs.

But for know I will enjoy my reptile friends and try to create some nice leos for the world to enjoy like I do.

My name is Bradley Baquial, I'm 14 years old and live in San Diego, CA. I enjoy skateboarding, snowboarding and riding motorcycles but I really enjoy breeding leopard geckos. I got interested in reptiles when I was 8 years old, but soon got out of them after about a year. Then about 2 1/2 years ago a friend got a fattail gecko and that sparked my obsession again. This time I'm into them for good.
I currently have 11 adult leopard geckos, and 8 hatchlings from this year as well as about half a dozen eggs in the incubator. I also have a fattail gecko, a texas banded gecko and 3 rosy boas consisting of 2 males and 1 female. I like everyone else here really enjoy the forums and talking about the reptiles we love.

Kristofer Shawn Goldsmith
The longest- easy to spell name for little kids ever. (Spell it out as it sounds)
Age: 17 (18 in August)
School/Location: Mepham High School, Bellmore NY, on Long Island.

I'm also attending East Meadow Highschool for Cabinetry class. Yeah, its nice... Senior year, take cabinetry class for the first 3 periods... show up and leave whenever I choose, which is sweet now that I have a car. Then off to Mepham for Social Studies, English... then go home. Works out to about 3 hours of school a day. I work as much as possible, basically a handyman/carpenter/electrician or what ever else is asked of me. Furture plans? Going to Long Island Drafting and Technology in Ammityville, Suffolk, like 10 to 20 minute drive from home. Drafting as in Architecture or designing... not military like most people think. Then I'm hopefully getting my way into an Electricians union right after school ends in Manhattan or L.I. and eventullay become self employed.

Animals have always ruled the house... I can't begin to list all the animals I've kept and bred in the past.
For now, I have this:
2 cats
2 love birds (a breeding pair eventually)
1 other bird... not canary, the other cheap one (it's my sisters)
1 female sunburst veiled chameleon
1 Super-hypo-super-tang, Golith (can be seen as #1 on Albey's best of 2000 page
2 hypo tang females, possibly gravid (4 eggs cookin from them now, only two look healthy... )
1 40% carrot tail female
2 60% carrot tail females (gravid)

I've had... probably over 1000 animals in my house in the past 10 years if you count all of the hampsters/rats/mice that I've bred, plus the pregnant w/c garter snake and the dozons of w/c frogs and newts. Now that I think of it... There have probably been well over a thousand animals in my house since I was little. But, my favorite herps are definately leos. So, I'll stick to them for a while. Insanly long post.... thanks for reading.

My name is Jason, I am 22 years old and attending Ohio University. I am originally from the Cleveland area and that is my home base. I have kept a few leopard geckos in the past, however I got out of it several years ago.
Recently, I bought two juvenile leos. One tangerine jungle male het for albino and a tremper albino female, but I will probably get a few more this weekend at the All Ohio Reptile Show in Columbus. I can't forget to mention my Springer Spaniel, Bailey that I have down here at school and another one, Riley, at home. Anyway, take it easy

HI.My name is Carolyn and I am 34 an live in Toledo Ohio.
I am a stay at home mom of 2 boys and I have a zoo!
3 dogs (2 labs and a Min.Pin.)
5 cats
2 newts
2 Fire belly toads
1 Pacman frog
1 Amel. cornsnake
1 Tang. leopad gecko named Tango!
How my Husband puts up with me I will never know!

If you are interested in some albino leos check out the Pet Supplies Plus out on Airport Highway east of 475 they had some for $24.99. I got one about a month ago and he is healthy as can be.

I just got my first Leo, a Tang from Petco (next to Kohl's) and he was also $24.99.I know some people really don't like that chain store but I think the one we have does a nice and clean job with there animals.I do like that pet supply plus but I am closer to the Franklin park mall.It is funny how differant they keep there stores from one to the next.
What did you name your new baby?I just figured out a name last night,Tango (my husband really thought of it,he is so good at naming all are babies)!

Tango is a cool name. It is amazing how differnt their stores are across Toledo. I know the PetCo in the east side of town I can't think of where exactly I only been their once is horrible. That is where I rescued my Tokay gecko from death. They would tease it with a stick daily just to watch it get mad. I was in there when they were doing it that is how I got her. I have not really thought of a good name for him/her yet I wait till they do something that gives them a name usually. Happy Herping

Anywhere else, I'd say I'm an aspiring reptile breeder and that would impress people.

I'm 21 years old, philosophy major (for now). Some pre-vet studies, but I have decided against that field.

My other interests include Diesel engines and a large variety of music. I play the Cello and Guitar.

In the past I have been the cofacilitator to a youth group for practitioners of minority religions.
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Steven Beckerman
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Ashley Bradley
18
Minnesota
.live with my grandparents and i have 2.1 siblings
im a senior at apple valley high, soon to leave that school for a zoology major (or at least an attempt to be one). i have a dog, 4 cats, a clownfish, and some betas
as far as herps go i have....
3.0.1 albino leogexs the 001 being a rainwater
1.1.0 normal leogex
0.2.0 jungle/abberent leogex
0.1.0 hypotang (friday my male from kellyh will come in)
0.1.0 patternless
1.2.0 green anoles
0.0.1 pacman frog
0.1.0 ball python
1.0.0 western painted turtle
1.2.0 Alanis tincs
1.0.0 green tree frog

ashley

Erin
Preschool teacher
Illinois

Herps:
4 adult albino Leopard geckos
11 Hatchling Albino Leopard geckos
1 Hatchling Albino Patternless Leopard Gecko
(It was a suprise, I didn't know it's parents were Hets!)

My husband's Herps:
3 hatchling boas he's selling this weekend
2 Rosy Boas he's selling this weekend
And at least 2 Womas on the way(He's going into womas)

I got into herps b/c I always loved them since I was a child and when I married a herp lover I finally had a chance to get some. I'd really love an albino Ball Python when they go down in price!

Hi Jeff,
You can find my profile in the Leopard Gecko Forum Family Album link at the top of this page. Not many of us still around in that link but some of us pop in occasionally. I'ts just hard to get any spare time with kids' baseball and judo not to mention the breeding season frenzy.
It's still early to expect you to have eggs yet, but they must have bred by now. Hey, can you email me a picture of your class for my album? I'd love to see you guys in action!
Rick
Geckoland USA

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Hi Rick,

Thanks so much for your donation. Everyone here at Speedway is so excited. I took one home for the night a while back to show my 2 year old son, he loved the "lizzurd" as he calls it. Future leo lover I think.

They are doing great. We finished our reptile unit last week, and the kids were so excited with your animals. I have kids coming in everyday to look at them. And yes they are always hiding, but the kids still like to look.

The project is going good. I've had 3 eggs laid, all infertile. But two of the geckoes are definately gravid, and one is probably gravid. I'm hoping they lay before the end of this semester. The summer school biology students are excited and hope to see some babies. I'm looking to buy a 1.1 blizzar, 1.1 albino, and a 1.1 paternless to breed with my genetics class. We've made contact with the elementary schools and I have 3 teachers set up for the fall, my honors students are going to take my animals there and do a mini zoo/demo with the little urchins.

I have several pics and I will email them to you. I will post one on here as soon as find out how. I may have a students show me. Rule #1 Need computer help.... ask a kid.

Good luck with your kids sports. I coach 3 sports, I know how busy it can be.

Thanks Rick, and God Bless

Jeff Medley
Speedway HS

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Madison
i am 13 and live in Michigan, attend a charter school, and my prncpal really thinks that we are part of a thing called the how did he say it ''charter school movement'' lol any way i got into herps when as about 3 my frst leo was when i was in 3rd grade, after about a year of writing reports and showing them to my parents proving that i knew how to take care of them, he got out last year when i was n a hotel, beleve me i hardly ever cry, but when it comes to pets i am like niagra falls... i am in 7th grade and a okay student, at least i get straight a's, my teacher has to deal with me loging on to kingsnake at lunch...now to my pets
1 hypo tang /unknown sex/ cyrus
1 albino leo /female/ dunno her name i just got her yesterday.
1 afrcan fat tail /male/ touloose, who is recovering from beng terrbly ill, and puttng a huge hole in my savings for crix 4 doz. in the last week.
1 brittany spaniel
1 tabby cat he ran away denial is the first step to acceptance
1 mallard /i lost 2 over the winter/
2 guinea pigs lost 1 over the winter
1 hamster
1 guppie
and i think that that raps it up, but in case you are womdering all the anmals lost over the winter were mine, and it isn;t my fault they all had dieseases, i was a niagra for about a month.
olol
g2g
madison the absent minded 1

My name is Amy Reynolds, I am 15 years old(16 in 12 days!!!!)I have no job yet but plan to get a herp or other animal related one in the summer. I am loacated in Faifax VA but are trying to move back to Alaska where i will be able to expand my herp collection tremendously! As far as herps i stick mainly to Corn Snakes and Leopard Geckos. I like Garters too but i don't think i'll ever go with them as a major project. I might get a fat tail pair(stripes) down the road a bit too.

my pets
1.0 Sunglow Moltey Corn
1.0 Hypomelanistic Corn
1.0 Ghost Corn
1.0 Caramel/Amber Corn
0.1 Caramel het butter Corn(possibly gravid)
0.1 Snow Corn (gravid)
0.1 Charcoal Corn
0.0.1 Butter Corn(i'll know the sex once and for all when the female caramel het butter proves if she is gravid or not)
1.0 Reduced pattern(hypo?)Tang Leo
0.1 "Normal" Leo
1.1 Dachshunds(weenie dogs)
1.0 Cat
2.6 breeder mice(20.24 babies)Way too many LOL

not to mention my mealworm colony and variuos insects and other pets that share my home off and on(garters, brown snakes, wolf spiders, etc...) BTW the pic is of my male leo

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~~~Amy~~~
my zoo LOL
corns
1.0 amber(?)-Phoenix 1.0 sunglow motley-Eli 1.0 hypomelanistic-Tadrith 1.0 ghost-Alex(kinked) 0.1 charcoal-Siva 0.1 caramel het butter-Kilowea 0.1 snow-Zhaneel 0.0.1 butter-Xanthe
leopard geckos
1.0 hypo tang-Pablo 0.1 normal-Valentine
others
1.1 dauchshunds 1.0 cat 0.1 wolf spider 2many.2many mice