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Greetings fellow gecko fiends, I was thinking (yes it happens every now and then) anyway I was thinking of how little we all know about one another. I know, I know sounds cheesy but bear with me. Tell everyone a little about yourself. Here I'll go first.

Name: Eli
Age:21

Interests: Herpetology, abstract and surreal art, philosophy, sociology, microbiology, political conspiracy theories,

Hobbies/ Habits: Guitar, breeding, body building, martial arts, Goth industrial bars, Concerts,

Musical taste: Mainly BlackMetal, DoomMetal, DarkMetal, Industrial, DarkWave, Gothrock, etc.

Favorite Morph: Creamsicle, Halloween pinstriped Harley’s

Favorite reptiles: Ornate uro's, Philippine sailfins, Toad headed agamas, Cresteds, Bush Vipers, Rough scaled Vipers, Rhino Vipers, etc.

Disposition: docile until provoked

Please don't let me be the only loser who posts!
pics also welcome, I'm scanning mine in today.

Name: Monte
Age:43

Interests: Herps, music, fishing, hunting, the downfall of liberalism, funding my children's hobbies/interests

Hobbies/ Habits: musician (brass and guitar),

Musical taste: Jazz, classical rock (pre 1976), Christian Praise and Worship, Funk, Maynard Ferguson, TOP, Doobies, MWSmith, . . . .eclectic ain't it . . .

Favorite Morph: Creamsicle, and that KILLER MUSTARD YELLOW jobbie. Ooooh Weeee.

Favorite reptiles: besides, rhacs, Oedura Monilis & Castlenaui, corn snakes, leopard geckos.

Disposition: happy and laid back
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Monte Meyer
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i thought i would add a location field so people can also get an idea where everyone is from!

Name: Mike
Age:22
Location: raleigh, NC (school), charlotte, NC (home)

Interests: herpetology, zoology senior at north carolina state university (go wolfpack!!!)

Hobbies/ Habits: building naturalistic viviaria, breeding, backyard herping (get to go herping for a week soon with the herpetology club in key west!!!)

Musical taste: primarily IDM (weird electronic music, but not dance), instrumental rock, a little spacy hip-hop

Favorite Morph: harlies and bright oranges

Favorite reptiles: Uroplatus of any kind (particularly fond of phantasticus and pietschmanni), crested geckos

Disposition: very peaceful and friendly

name:andrew gilpin

age:20

location: iowa city, iowa

interests: reptiles, cars, currently a student at kirkwood taking parks and natural resources classes.
hobbies: breeding mainly crested geckos. unicycling... yeah that's right. the one wheel bike thing. aggressive skating ( as in rollerblading. www.iowa-connection.com)

musical taste: pretty much anything but pop music that is played on most radio stations. rock, rap, a little country. pretty much anything. classical/jazz if i'm in the mood or trying to fall asleep.

favorite morph: creamsicle and anything with a lot of pinstripping.

favorite reptiles. anything rhac. or uroplatus. specifically phantasticus and sikorae. lineatus are cool too.

Disposition: friendly, quite often very sarcastic.

currently keeping:
11 cresties, 3 uroplatus sikorae, 3 uroplatus lineatus, 2 white lined geckos, 1 veiled, 1 blue tegu, 1 frilled dragon, 1 eastern collared lizard, 1 bibron's gecko. 4 crested eggs ( with many more on the way!!)

desired animals: group of albino blue tegus. panther chameleons ( pretty much any locale) any cb uroplatus ( anymore uroplatus for that matter)

heres my pets & projects

3.1.3 uroplatus phantasticus (got a new female coming in tuesday and an egg incubating)
1.1 uroplatus henkeli
1.2 uroplatus pietschmanni
2.3.1 rhacodactylus ciliatus (my females should be laying soon)
1.0 red eared slider

1.1 anolis carolinensis

Name: Rochell
Age:21! nah not really...I am 35

Interests: Herps, whitewater rafting, Tae kwon do, attempting to cook.

Hobbies/ Habits: See above!

Musical taste: Techno, some pop stuff and every now and then I listen to 50's and 60's (my dirty little secret!)

Favorite Morph: for rhac's - dalmations; for leos, normals & jungles/stripes

Favorite reptiles: Leos, rhacs, ball pythons, sinaloans and red eyed tree frogs (yeah I know they are amphibians but I like them anyway!)

Disposition: Can make you laugh and spurt milk out of your nose or can tick you off enough to cuss and scream, depends on my mood!
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Name: Noel

Wenatchee Wa.

Age: 43 1/2

Hobbies: Herps, Photography, Fish (keeping and catching)

Favorite morph: Harley,Dalmation,Fire,Bicolor,Pins,Tigers,solids did I miss any?

Music: Rock 70s 80s 90s 00s

Favorite Herps: Rhacs, Bearded Dragon, Keynan sand boas

Disposition: Laid back, fun loving, Smart a**

Name: Dennis

Age: 23, from Cincinnati, Ohio

Hobbies: Herping, fishing, basketball, weightlifting

Musical Taste: Rap, R&B, Classical, some country

Favorite Morph: don't really have one, I think they are all neat in some weird way(all 17 I have)!

Favorite Reptile: Cresteds, since I started getting these guys 4 years ago, I feel in love with them!

Disposition: Laid back, easy to get along with, until you piss me off, then we have a whole other story: )

Name: Dave
Age:24

Interests: Herps, music, fishing, Camping,Horses,Dogs

Hobbies/ Habits: just learning guitar. Browseing pet stores and the net. Playing cards.

My Favorite things in the world is baseball, Red Sox fan. we finally got one!

Musical taste: Country Music, and Light rock

Favorite Morph: Pied Ball python,

Favorite reptiles: Someday I swear when i get rich i will own a CROC MONITOR!

Disposition: im the one that keeps every one else laughing, even when the jokes on me

Do you realize that under your "hobies" section you put breeding. You should have mentioned what animal(s) you liked to breed, because it looks kind of funny on it's own.

haha, i was thinking the exact same thing when i read that.

The gutter is a beautiful place to be

Name: John
Age:16.......wow, not a lot of other young-in's here.

Interests: Animals-Repiles and birds(parrots), MUSIC
Hope to become a ZOOLOGIST, i've known since i was like 5. I was one of the few 5 year old who knew exactly what they wanted to be.....and stuck with it for over 10 years lol.

Hobbies/ Habits: Instruments- Cello, guitar, bass, violin, and learning french horn. My animalz are a hobby.

Musical taste: The music I like to listen to- Rock, Punk, Ska, non-heavy metal. A lil' classical now and then. I LOVE to play music the most.....mostly on cello.

Favorite Morph: hmm...... As RED as RED can get. Yellows are awesome too.....im into the solid colors.

Favorite reptiles: TEGUS, for personality/size factor; Geckos, for diversity and ease of care factor. I know this wasnt asked, but birds are awesome.

Disposition: Im fairly quite/laid back

John

Name: Tiffany
Age: 24
Interests: Herps, sculpting, drawing, karate, philosophy
Hobbies/ Habits: Taking care of my lizards , video games (gamecube), reading the Rhac forum
Musical taste: classic rock, techno, industrial, new-age, electronic
Favorite morph: yellow( crested)
Fave reptiles: Giant Day Geckos and New Caledonian Giant Gecko
Disposition: quiet and easy going
Reptiles I own: 2 tokays, 1 cuban knight anole, 1 leachie, 4 giant day geckos, 4 crested geckos, 1 big green iguana, 1 russian tortise, 1 chondro

Name: Courtney

Age: 19

Location: Tampa, FL (school), Panama City, FL (home)

Interests: Herps, and I attend the University of South Florida (Go Bulls! lol!) and am majoring in Elementary Education

Hobbies/Habits: My herps, gonna attempt to breed leopard geckos this coming breeding season (wish me luck!), reptile forums, playing PS2 and PC games, movies

Musical Taste: Country, rock, and rap

Favorite morph: Yellows and Reds

Favorite Reptiles: Leopard Geckos and Crested Geckos

Disposition: Fun-loving and love to laugh
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1.2.0 Leopard Geckos
0.1.0 Crested Gecko
1.0.0 Minature Chihuahua
1.0.0 Cat
0.2.0 Gerbils

Name:Stephanie
26 Portland, Oregon

Interests: hiking, breeding(hehe), coffee drinking, rafting, art, sick sad world.

Hobbies/ Habits: cresteds, reading, driving

Musical taste: reggae, pink floyd, sublime, BEP, old school

Favorite Morph: don't really have one yet.

Favorite reptiles: cresteds, ball pythons, (I don't really like reptiles...but I respect all of them.)

Disposition: laid back and sarcastic...unless someone makes me mad.

Name: Terri
Age: in years, 55, but I never learned how to act my age, so I haven't come close to catching up yet.

Location: near Madison, Wisconsin

Interests: gardening, cooking/baking/experimenting, and of course my cresteds

Hobbies: belong to an assortment of clubs including daylily, hosta, hardy plant, master gardeners and local and statewide Herp society, dabble in landscaping. In real life, I am a real estate appraisal secretary/office manager.

Musical taste: I enjoyed the music I grew up with during the 60's and 70's, but the oldie stations here play the same 100 "hits" ad nauseum, so I listen to BOOKS ON TAPE.

Favorite morph: My ideal would be the harlequin on Emerson Sy's "crested gecko international" website, but I actually love them all.

Pets: 2 cats, neither of which is ever permitted anywhere near the geckos, 3 rabbits and 15 chickens, hens, who believe that I am their mama.

Personality/dispositon: can be intense, but also have a very playful side.
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Terri
4:8:7 crested geckos: Popcorn, Goldfish, Harley, Bear, Big Red, Olive, Smudge, Blackie, Belle, Brilliant, Tina, Brick, Toni(y), Kermit, ChiliPepper, Spot, WildFire, WildTiger & Randy(i)