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I wanted to post some pictures.

Pretty tame blackthroat. He is very healthy and growing fast.

Same blackthroat eating

Hand feeding

These 2 are in a huge cage and are tolerating my face and camera a foot away

I think this is a pretty shot

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Ed

These heat lamps make my electric bill to high.

Nice pics. thanks for sharing. Is the albig from Robyn? I was looking at them myself, but I wanted a sure female.

Scott
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Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

When I got Apollo, he and 1 other were all thats available. Looks like you'll be waiting until this winter =P
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Not so fast Bucko, I caught my wife talking to Fluffy about if he really wants a girlfriend. I have a bday coming soon.
I hope I am not dissapointed.

Scott
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Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

Fluffy talks o_O
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Fluffy doesn't talk, my wife does. He just looks at her like, "if you don't have food, you can go away"

Scott
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Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

He tells me all kinds of things, I just have to figure out what he is saying.
I don't know how many times he told me he didn't like the dirt until I found some he did like. He told me he wanted a bigger, hotter basking site. He will tell me real fast I am getting to close.

Scott
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Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

Yeah, Apollo talks to me, but he's real monotone. And his vocab isn't really all that spectactular either. The only word he knows is "HHHIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSS!" and then he usually gets violent and trys to smote me on the hand for replacing his nasty, poop filled water with clean, crisp, fresh water.
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Unfortunatly the blackthroat is not one of Robyns. I got it from a guy locally in NC.
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Ed

These heat lamps make my electric bill to high.

Do you think this one looks female too? If so then I may be learning to sex them.

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Ed

These heat lamps make my electric bill to high.

From that picture yeah looks female.

Nice blackthroat looks like it might be a female.

Those niles look familiar haha. Can't wait to see if they turn out the same as mine did. They sure look alot alike.

I thought the blackthroat looked female too. I am bad at guessing the sex of monitors though. It is 26 inches now and it has grown 3 inches in the last 3 weeks. I am going to have to take out a second mortgage to keep it fed. I feed it off tongs every day. She has already learned that tongs mean food and runs up to me if I open the cage with tongs in my hand. It doesn't even tail whip or hiss when I reach in to change the water or clean the cage. If I touch it may hiss some, and do a half hearted tail whip. I hope it continues to be calm.

I had heard so many bad things about niles I was worried about keeping these little ones. They are not super shy and scary like I heard niles are. They are very cool. I can open the cage door and they don't usually run and hide. They seem to ignore me unless I have food. Then they go nuts. One of them is definitely the dominant one.
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Ed

These heat lamps make my electric bill to high.

Nice blackthroat looks like it might be a female.

Those niles look familiar haha. Can't wait to see if they turn out the same as mine did. They sure look alot alike.

seems I have developed a stutter. haha