Hello Everyone!
I hope everyone is doing well. I never know where to start when writing in my blog because I always have a million things that I could write about! I could write about my future breeding projects, holly's health problems, my trip last weekend to the SDNHM's exhibit Lizards & Snakes: ALIVE, etc, etc. However since it is so late tonight, I think this will be a short little blog :)
Tonight I was having edamame and peas for dinner so I shared some with the beardies. Tonight was the first time they have ever had soybeans. Holly went NUTS! I mean the girl was chowing down quicker than I have ever seen her eat! Either she was starving, or I found her new favorite veggie! Then again, she eats like a horse all the time so it is not anything new, haha. Frankie didn't touch his veggies tonight. He has refused almost all food the past few weeks, accepting only super worms. He won't even eat his favorite (blueberries) when I tried to hand feed him. He isn't really acting sick so I am not too worried just yet, however he has lost about 18 grams in the past few weeks so if he doesn't start eating again soon, I will be making an appointment with the vet. I am hoping it is just because the weather has been really crappy lately.
I am trying to grow a very large collection of herp books. My short-term goal is to begin a breeding project in my home and my long-term goal is to open my own retail store. I want to do everything right and so I have been spending many, many hours lately reading as much as I can and doing as much research as I humanly possible. I also happen to be a HUGE bookworm so naturally I am interested in growing a library of reptile/amphibian books. The Border's bookstore near my house is going out of business so I dropped in after work the other day. I got a good deal on a couple of snake books. Today my library grew by another book. I won a contest through Reptiles magazine Facebook page and I will be receiving the book "Monitors and Tegus". I am pretty excited because I don't know much at all about monitors or tegus yet. I can't wait to get the book in the mail and bury my nose in it! I will be impatiently waiting for it until it gets here! ;)
I am planning on purchasing a baby male corn snake to raise along with Snow White, my female corn snake in the hopes of breeding them. I do not plan on housing them together so I bought a second tank last weekend. I am very excited to get another gorgeous baby! I have been looking around but I have yet to fall in love with any little guys. Hopefully I will find one soon because I would like my male to be about the same age as my female so that they mature at the same time.
Well I think that is all for tonight. I will be writing another blog post soon so that I can tell you guys all about my trip to the SDNHM with my Dad last week. I fell head over heels in love with an Australian Water Dragon and I am going to start researching their care. I think I may add one to my collection next year! I have plenty of pictures of all the squamates from the museum, courtesy of my amazing photographer-father and I think you guys will enjoy them.
One last thing.....Please check out my Rin's Reptiles facebook page:
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The herps thank you for reading! I promise pictures in my next posting!
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