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probably an uncountable ammount??

the reptiles and fish,or the younger kids?Youngsters are good in that we were all one once and they are the future of the hobby.They are meant to know all about this modern technology and stuff.Why don`t someone teach them about pm`s??

the average twelve year old kid wants this and wants that.Some like yourself and the likes of herperjosh have a real passion for reptiles and their hobby.I would suggest you will find the $56 one way or another as I would have when I was your age(a long time ago)

cripes that was no flamin serpent,was adam`s one eyed trouser snake!

what about caroline?

the fancy colours will arrive as if by magic?????years of selective breeding will hapen overnight?

I can tell you what ever you want to hear?What I will say is once something is already here does not stop smuggling in fact the opposite may well occur.Want me to do some fortune telling?Leopard geckos.How long have we had them here?Back to the orana park days,at least 1980`s?all these were `wild type`normal colouring and have slowly dwindled away in terms of population and sucessfull breeding.got down to one male left if I am not mistaken?Now all of a sudden they are everywhere,sellers talking hi yellow,etc etc.smuggling is alive and well don`t you doubt it for a moment.

and as for your beardies,how did all the latest oranges,reds and yellows miraculously appear here in the last 5-6 years?Those colours were not even heard of when your "original" beardies arrived here???

maybe not to answer questions but I have it on good authority they definatley do read them??

yuck!!!I never actually saw it when i got it for him.just saw the web rumagging about and scooped the whole lot up a whacked the lid on!!

knew someone that did zoology at waikato,I seem to remember?

these had well developed eye ring you can even see it in the pics?

what you keep them for LA?beardy food???

nothing at all like the pekin robin I looked up on google?just a plain old waxeye.

here are a few pics I took on a recent 2 day stop over in hongkong.Spent most a day roaming around the mong kok fish and bird markets.Was really interesting and the prices and range of stuff available would make you cry,actually so would the conditions alot of the livestock was kept in!no spca over there!!!I seemed to be too early for the major reptile stores but what i could acertain was they opened later in the afternoons and went on into the evening as the people would call in after work etc?the fish were hardcase and they were busy bagging up stock into small individual bags and pegging them onto big boards out the front where you could pick the one you want.goldfish and koi were jam packed into long shallow tanks by the thousand(literally)There were heaps of different types of baby turtles from red ears @$2 nz to mata matas,reeves,diamond backs,cogwheels,twin hinged box....you name it would have been there somewhere.This all covered 3-4 blocks with shop after shop all the same intermingled with doors that led up dingy ,dark staircases to more shops upstairs.The bird markets were also an eye opener with heaps of live food forsale quite cheap.they had little mesh bags with a handfull of grass and locusts,trays full of writhing superworms??,asian crickets.There was one bloke sitting there and his job was cutting the legs and wings off locusts which were weighed and sold to people for bird food.Can anyone recognise the birds in the pic?looks like a waxeye to me??There were cages jam packed with spice finches forsale which we would never see here?

there are also alot more who also know alot but happy to do their own thing for fear of the obvious reprisals(theft etc)?

botfly larvae is the rattailed maggot/

it will never be cold enough in akld.thats why its your job to provide the correct conditions.if you don`t and just have him shut in a teachest,in the dark,too cold to eat but not cold enough to have him the right suspended state that hibernation provides he will be using up stored body reserves etc that he needs to kick the systems into action come spring,he could in theory run out of these before that happens and die!I know people that use `box` hibernation and have done for years.it still comes down to the fact that you need stable cool temps of the right levels(i think thats like a fridge??)even in the natural outdoors as mine are they come up and down to find the temperature they want.Older males aree always the last to go down and seem to get worse as they age,but mine ate all down now.

I thought you had a greek(spur thighed?),what ever,they are worse for this sort of thing.You will need to get a chiller or fridge setup with the right temps if you want him to have a proper hibernate which is part of being healthy.fertility rates of a few akld keepers are way low for this reason as well.Also this has been reversed with the use of a proper stable temperature controlled hibernating environment.You can get small wine chillers at a reasonable price which would be ideal for this.

me too,would you like to come and hold mine when I worm them next,Ira?

they let you out on that thing LA?

red moki?

still an ugly bugger??

this is a gisborne cockroach and a one dollar coin.

anything to do with drugs the firearms licence will be revoked straight away.don`t know much about diversion.have you heard of guilt by association?