What Reptiles You've Had, Have, And Want...

Longhorns1187

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Location (City and/or State)
Omaha, NE
Have had:
Diamondback terrapins
Razorback musk turtles
African helmeted turtle

Currently have:
Egyptian tortoise
Northern blue tongue skink
3 Crested geckos
2 Leachianus geckos
Pink tongue skink
5 Cuban false chameleons
Gargoyle gecko
2 Monkey tailed skinks
2 True berber skinks
3 Gidgee skinks
2 Abronia graminea
Ball python
Boa constrictor
Trans pecos ratsnake
Western hognose snake
Fly river turtle
2 Caiman lizards
 

nicoleann2214

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Location (City and/or State)
NY
Have had;
Leopard gecko
Painted turtles
Green tree frog
Water frogs (not sure the name)

Have;
Bearded dragon
Ball python
Sulcata tortoise

Want;
Albino ball python
Banana ball python
Tegu
Russian tortoise
Caiman lizard
Leopard Tortoise
 

bouaboua

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Dec 7, 2013
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Location (City and/or State)
San Jose CA
Currently have:
Sulcad Tortoise.
Leopard Tortoise
Eastern Hermanns Tortoise
Radiated Tortoise
Burmese star Tortoise.
Texas gopher Tortoise

Wish list...

Egyptian tortoise.
Spider Tortoise.
Western Hermenns Tortoise.
Eastern Box Turtles.
Marginated Tortoise.
Rose ring Parakeet.
Sun Parakeet.
Lovebirds.

For now.
 

Srmcclure

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Location (City and/or State)
Oklahoma city
Had:

Multiple green iguanas
Lots of red eared sliders
Crested gecko
Florida soft shell turtle
Box turtle
Various little lizards
Salamander
Tree frog
Giant centipede
SA Leopard


Want:

Argentina black and white tegu
Another soft shell turtle (I miss her dearly)
Axolotl
Box turtle
Gharial (that would be bad a**)

Idk if I could even have that last one but I would be so excited!!
 

OkAdiza

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Location (City and/or State)
Virginia
I’ve had:
Guinea pig
Dwarf Rabbit
RES

currently have:
Eastern Hermann’s
Leopard tortoise
RES

Would love to have:
Western Hermann’s (Apulia)
Indian Star
 
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LasTortugasNinja

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Species I’ve had or have that I can remember off the top of my head... savannah monitors, blue mangrove monitor, water monitor, freckled monitor, tokay geckos, ball pythons, iguana, water dragon, corn snakes, king snakes, rosy boa, eastern box turtles, sidewinder rattler (rehabbed a baby in a neighbor’s bushes), leopard geckos, crested geckos, tegu, and now a Russian tortoise.
 

VegasJeff

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Jan 23, 2020
Messages
95
Location (City and/or State)
Las Vegas, NV
Currently have:
Sonoran Desert Tortoise hatchling
Adopted Longhair Cat (not sure of breed)
3 Kittens (will be looking for home soon!)
Golden Doodle Dog
Shrimp

Would like to have:
Chameleon

I've been interested in a Chameleon. They seem kind of expensive though if they cost around $200 and live only 2 years?
 

Maggie3fan

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Location (City and/or State)
PacificNorthWest
Currently have:
Sonoran Desert Tortoise hatchling
Adopted Longhair Cat (not sure of breed)
3 Kittens (will be looking for home soon!)
Golden Doodle Dog
Shrimp

Would like to have:
Chameleon

I've been interested in a Chameleon. They seem kind of expensive though if they cost around $200 and live only 2 years?
How about a photo of the cat?...my son has a double doodle...fun crazy dogs....
 

Maggie3fan

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I have kept...Gopherus agassizii...RES...Diamond-backed terrapins...Western Painteds...Sulcata...many species of box turtles...Ornata are my favorite...Sidenecks...Russian torts...Hermanni...Pacific Coast Pond turtles...18 parakeets...cats...Pit Bull...

I want...Star torts...ball python...Aldab...more Sulcata...Chaco torts...chameleon...more Sulcata...Matamata...
Graptemys n. nigrinoda...more Sulcata...Asian black breasted leaf turtle...more Sulcata...another Pit bull...and more Sulcata...?
 

Yvonne G

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Location (City and/or State)
Clovis, CA
Hey Maggie: How about another sulcata? Would you like to have another sulcata?
 

Maggie3fan

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@VegasJeff the cat is an AHC...American house cat...but...that Doodle does not look very big...my son's Doodle is 80 lbs and extremely active...both your pets are very pretty...thanks for the photo...
 

Maggie3fan

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The Chameleon trio.
Male Veileds
I think they are very cool...there's been one for sale at Petsmart for months...He's blue and just beautiful...the Mom and Pop pet store that buys my baby birds, has Bearded Dragons for $60 and they are just something else. I have all the stuff to set one up...but not the knowledge needed for a new species to me...Maybe still gonna buy one...IDK just yet...
 

Relic

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This whole thread reminds me of the old yarn:

Bill: "I wish I had enough money to buy a herd of elephants."

Mack: "My gosh, Bill! What on Earth would you do with a herd of elephants? Where would you keep them? How would you feed them? Are you nuts?"

Bill: "I never said I wanted any elephants - just enough money to buy them."
 
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LasTortugasNinja

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Chameleons are a LOT of work for very little payoff, IMHO. You can hit ALL of their physical needs, and they still just spontaneously expire with no indication on WHY it happened and nowhere near old age. A friend I knew used to breed Panthers. BEAUTIFUL animals, but he got out of it after a few years because the animals were so time consuming and difficult to maintain. He tried to do Veiled, but they are among the hardest of chameleons to get to a thriving condition.

Definitely recommend finding a local solid breeder (they don't handle shipping stress at all), and absorbing as much pre-acquisition knowledge as possible.

As for lifespans, my friend had two of his Panthers last 8 or 9 years.
 

ZEROPILOT

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I think they are very cool...there's been one for sale at Petsmart for months...He's blue and just beautiful...the Mom and Pop pet store that buys my baby birds, has Bearded Dragons for $60 and they are just something else. I have all the stuff to set one up...but not the knowledge needed for a new species to me...Maybe still gonna buy one...IDK just yet...
Chameleon care is very specific. But not any more than tortoise keeping.
I'm on the CHAMELEONFORUM.COM
Also as ZEROPILOT
 
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