I picked up this guy with another one last month from a guy who needed to get rid of his cricket-eaters. This one eats mealies, though and lots of them at that. He really is this orange.
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Rob Jenkins
http://herpcam.com
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Can you believe I got him for FREE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Rob Jenkins
May 17, 2003 05:20 PM
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SFgeckos
May 17, 2003 05:56 PM
hey rob- u sure got lucky!
i kind of miss my fattails. =(
unfortunately i don't have any old pics of my linebred "orange" fattails, but u can see some of the offspring from my nicest orange male fattail- he is now in the hands of Derek (check ks photo gallery). some of the offspring he produced are simply breathtaking.
ps- rob, correct me if i'm wrong, but are u located in japan? there's a herp show in japan coming up soon late this month (not sure where), but if u see a bunch of PAs for sale you can tell them u the guy know who produced them =P
-SFgeckos
Rob Jenkins
May 17, 2003 06:18 PM
I'll go check those out.
About Japan. We moved back in December and are now in Maryland. It's a really sore subject - japan and herps. We had to leave all our geckos there. We sold them to a pet store, which was extremely hard to do because I had some of the most beautiful fattail boys I've ever seen. You probably remember, but here's a pic.
Japan has a pretty cool herp trade. In fact, you can a ton of animals there that aren't available here. Many primates are sold at pet stores (I wouldn't do it for fear of ebola or other filovirus) and many other species that shouldn't be sold. From what I can gather in my magazines from Japan, because many people live in really small apartments, herps are a viable pet where they can't have a dog.
I wanted to work with some of the breeders in the States (notably Albey) to broker high end geckos there, where you can literally make a fortune, but I had a lot of trouble getting a reliable Japanese speaking person to help me out. I saw a Tremper albino leo back in Spring of 2000 for the equivalent of about $13-15,000 in a shop in Yokohama. Amazing. That was the first albino I saw in person.
I can't imagine what you got for your PAs. I hope well over $1,000 each.
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Rob Jenkins
http://herpcam.com
ZeR0
May 17, 2003 10:12 PM
