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Well today i picked up 3 spider balls! All were 08 males. Buddytokerman bought one of them, and i am still trying to figure out if i am going to keep the other 2, or keep just one and sell the 3rd. Hmmm, what to do :) Also today i found out some awesome news i am sooooooooooooo excited...though i have to wait to tell everyone. I know y'all will all find out soon though :)

Hey, just wanted to share my upcoming news..... Friday Nov 21st Amber and i will be getting married! I am so excited, i never thought i would get married again but she has grabbed ahold of my heart and ran with it :)

We are having a baby. Dont know the sex yet, but we will soon. He/she is due May 2nd

Hey, tomorrow i am picking up a wine cooler that doesnt work (looks like a mini fridge except has a glass door) I will be turning it into an incubator. I will use heat tape, computer fans and a thermostat to regulate temps. Does any one have any plans they could share or how to steps. I am pretty confident i can figure it out on my own, but i was wondering if anyone had done this recently. If so, send me a note as to how it was done or any pics you have of the building process. Thanks :)

Rare, prehistoric-age reptile found nesting in NZ Tuatara Lizard WELLINGTON, New Zealand – A rare reptile with lineage dating back to the dinosaur age has been found nesting on the New Zealand mainland for the first time in about 200 years, officials said Friday. Four leathery, white eggs from an indigenous tuatara were found by staff at the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary in the capital, Wellington, during routine maintenance work Friday, conservation manager Rouen Epson said. "The nest was uncovered by accident and is the first concrete proof we have that our tuatara are breeding," Epson said. "It suggests that there may be other nests in the sanctuary we don't know of." Tuatara, dragon-like reptiles that grow to up to 32 inches, are the last descendants of a species that walked the earth with the dinosaurs 225 million years ago, zoologists say. They have unique characteristics, such as two rows of top teeth closing over one row at the bottom. They also have a pronounced parietal eye, a light-sensitive pineal gland on the top of the skull. This white patch of skin — called its "third eye" — slowly disappears as they mature. A native species to New Zealand, tuatara were nearly extinct on the country's three main islands by the late 1700s due to the introduction of predators such as rats. They still live in the wild on 32 small offshore islands cleared of predators. A population of 70 tuatara was established at the Karori Sanctuary in 2005. Another 130 were released in the sanctuary in 2007. The sanctuary, a 620-acre wilderness minutes from downtown Wellington, was established to breed native birds, insects and other creatures securely behind a predator-proof fence. Empson said that the four eggs — the size of pingpong balls — were unearthed Friday but that there were likely more because the average nest contains around ten eggs. The eggs were immediately covered up again to avoid disturbing incubation. If all goes well, juvenile tuatara could hatch any time between now and March, she said. --Taken from Yahoo news

A lady alot of us know passed away on Tuesday and i will leave out her name in respect for her family. She was trying to give her 13 foot tiger retic some medication. The medical examiner's reports show the woman died from (suffocation) caused by neck compression. Police believe the snake may have caused that asphyxiation. The woman was reportedly trying to give medication to the 13-foot-long tiger python. Investigators are still awaiting the final results of the autopsy. Animal Control Officers say the snake was found in the same room as the deceased female. They say the python was extremely agitated, and required the force of two Animal Control Officers to restrain it. The snake was taken the Bureau of Animal Control where it is currently being held pending the result of the investigation. This is a sad day in our lives, for we have lost a wonderful lady who loved her reptiles. My thoughts go out to her family and friends in their time of mourning. VIIPER will be sending the family flowers in respect. Please put her family in your prayers.

New iguana species found in Fiji A new iguana has been discovered on Fiji, adding to the mystery about how these colourful lizards ended up in the South Pacific, zoologists said. Brachylophus bulabula -- a doubling of "bula", the Fijian word for hello -- has a stripey pistachio-green back and a greyish-green belly. It is one of only three species of Pacific iguanas that have withstood the onslaught of humans and invasive predators. "The distinctive Fijian iguanas are famous for their beauty and also their unusual occurrence in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, because all of their closest relatives are in the Americas," said Australian National University professor Scott Keogh in a press release on Thurdsay. The reptilian discovery is reported in a British journal, the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. "Our new understanding of the species diversity in this group is a first step in identifying conservation targets," said Robert Fisher, a researcher at the US Geological Survey in San Diego, California, who helped identify B. bulabula. Of the two other known Pacific species, the Fiji crested iguana (Brachylophus vitiensis) is listed as "critically endangered" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Fisher said the other species, the Fiji banded iguana (Brachylophus fasciatus), is probably critically endangered too. The three surviving species face continuing threats from habitat loss and degradation, as well as wild cats, mongooses and goats which have developed a taste for iguana meat. Two other species have already been eaten or hounded into extinction after humans arrived on the scene some 3,000 years ago. Iguanas' closest relatives are more than 8,000 kilometers (5,000 miles) away in Latin America. How they arrived on the shores of Fiji and other Pacific islands has long been a puzzle. One theory is that they hitched a ride across the ocean on floating debris some 13 million years ago. --yahoo news.

So today i dropped by Pet Paradise (which, in my opinion, is one of the top pet stores in Hampton Roads) and picked up by new baby girl. Well she isnt quiet a baby, probably almost a year old. She is in shed right now so the pics i took dont do her justice. I will post new pics when she sheds. I named her Mai Tai. Fits with my name Theme. I got her cage set up and she is ready to go. I will add more pictures after she sheds, so for now these will have to do :) UPDATE: so this morning when i was leaving for work, i noticed Mai Tai was shedding, so when i get home and clean out all my cages, i will have to take some more pics that showcase her beauty!

SO tonight at about 8 pm, i get a phone call from someone. They told me they got my phone number from the viiper group (which is why we are here) and said they had some kind of water monitor in their backyard and needed it removed. They didnt know who it belonged to, so since VIIPER offers free removal of unwanted reptiles, i got my tools, got in my truck and was on my way! He (i think) is a gorgeous lil guy. He is about 26-30 inches long and weighs about 3 pounds. But i am not sure exactly what kind he is. If any one knows, send me a message so i will know. Thanks and i am really excited!

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