Varanophile

Have you got a gannet?

Actually, that raises an interesting point. I can understand why the day geckos are zoo only- they have always been zoo. What about the lady that donated her Leopard Tortoise male to Akl Zoo. She emigrated from Zimbabwe (former bread basket of Africa) in the 1960's and bought the animal with her legally. Akl Zoo had some females that were seized i believe at Wellington, so they used the male to breed. There are now large numbers being bred and I beleive excess eggs are still being frozen. Why are these animals not available to the public? They are large, tropical, herbiverous animals. Not as if they will outcompete any native reptiles or chase down and maul kiwis. Stop smuggling- make animals that are kosher available to the trade!!! Interesting.......

depends who is asking....

I'll take 4. Put them in with my Veiled Chameleons.

looks like they could do with a feed or three.....

I used to sell a few turtles myself when I was in retail. Had a lot of chinese people buy them without needing any accessories......on the bright side a turtle that old will be very chewy...

watercress is good too, esp. as it can be used in biofilter sumps- just add a tube- to remove nitrates from fish tanks....

true, the first and only official ones in the usa did come from akl zoo.

why not do the same with reptiles, have an amnesty, dna test the animals, and if new ones show up then prosecute. simple, com'on maf dudes, i know you surf this site- wish i was paid to surf this site

1)ex auckland zoo nsw form and 2)cross akl zoo nsw and queensland male see the w/d add on trade me for pic. diff colour-less red, but larger crest.

oh gee shucks i try to make enough money to cover the costs of buying new stuff and cover my power bill from breeding, worked with the dragons and should do with the leps too, guess i should not complain about the frogs. Will put up an add in the comm. for sale section for the albino aurea in 2 weeks. $200 each and will be selling 50 ish. Originally i thought i would get rich of this hobby but you learn as you go on. don't think i will ever have that ferrari... ...but then i'd rather have a bunch of cool critters any day

that was sarcasm......

oh well, not as if i paid thousands for mine.......

mine look diff to that...not sure, i thought both species were in waikato? any frog experts out there able to tell? living art? repto?

stripe thru the eye

nope, but if in the non pressurized hold they are screwed- -50C and no air...prob a rare occurence, but it happened

' fout????

classed as indigenous to make things simple for the simple lads at doc.

those are raniformis, i have the aurea. cool man.

had some go on airnz to invercargill and they did not go in pressurized hold. dead. they were labelled....buyers risk.

maybe......please...you would prob. make the news....woman sells cockroaches and spreads them round the country...MAF investigates....

anyone in akl got these? had some from living art (cheers mark) and they escaped....no doubt they will surface again.....in mass. They were a great food, lizards seem to love the way they scuttle- 'crunch' or if someone can post me some pm me and i'll direct credit your bank account

free is best. you can not beat puha(sp?) thay love it, esp the flowers. did I mention free is best......

I don't but it is hard to sex w/ds using this method, esp at the moment as there are two different lines in NZ and pores differ between the two, let alone male and female... I have huge difficulty in sexing them when young, even harder than beardies.

not sure, but Berend at Lynfield Vet in AKL would know. He is the reptile vet for Akl Zoo.......