finally, pictures

well, i received my female in last Tuesday  she was a little concerning. noumerious bumps over her body, dark coloration down her spine, but other than her lack of lushes green and the bumps she is well. my male Aru

 had a vet appointment yesterday. it was the fallow up appointment to receive more medicine for his internal parasites  i also took Luna, my female, to have her checked out also. she had the same internal parasites as my male, and the same treatment was administered. my vet, Dr. Shannon McGee said she was a little on the thin side, and the bumps, we are pretty sure they are some sort of paradisaical worm. im not sure what i am going to do about them yet, but the vet doesn't seem worried about it. its bothering me however and i need to do something. there is a fallow up appointment in 2 weeks for more medicine for Luna, and also to check my male's fecal to make sure he is parasite free. which he should be at that time. here are a few pictures of

Luna

on the prowl!

just for giggles, here is 2 shots of my man Gorgeous George on the hunt for dinner!

until next time..

nothing new

nothing new going on. just felt like posting something. i have a beautiful Aru type female coming in this upcoming Tuesday. she is a high white/ high blue. truly a beautiful animal im pretty excited about her arrival. she is going to be such a nice addition to my meager collection. i have 6 animals now. ha ha last year about this time i was at Repticon Memphis and didn't have a single animal.. that's where it all started. i saw a vendor with 3 bright yellow neonates in a ExoTerra display and i had to have one. but i didn't purchase one of them.. i did my home work, lots of home work before getting my 1st one. doing your home work is extreamly important before bringing home any animal. too often people impulse buy with out knowledge of  proper care or housing. boo..

anyway, now almost a year later i have 6 animals! ha ha ha i have 3 in my care currently, 1 on breeding loan, i should receive him soon actually. 1 in Florida with those cages i will eventually go get. and the Aru type female that i will get on Tuesday. i will post pictures of the new arrival at that time. i look forward to breeding them at the appropriate time. breeding these animals is a long term goal of mine. hopefully i will get there one day :)

until Tuesday..

brandon

been a minute

well its been a minute or two things have been a little busy so i thought i would take a minute and update all my loverly fans on whats going on..

above is the Aru type male i purchased. he has been healthy and great for me. i took him to the vet to be probed and tested for internal parasites. he showed sign of good health. no external parasites to speak of but a few internal ones. i expected him to have a few. the doc gave him some medicine and he has a follow up appointment on the 26th.  it was a good visit. i am expecting another Aru type female from the same gentleman i got this male from. i should be looking forward to her arrival next Tuesday  :) she should be an amazing animal. I CANT WAIT!!

as always the shy but most beautiful Gorgeous George. 

so this was the Aru type male's tub. the dome light over screen mesh didn't help mush with humidity but it did help with the ventilation issue. infact it was the ventilation issue!  i had to come up with another plan, but i couldnt afford cages and the like.. so i bought these..

 these are 2 radiant heat panels, kinda like whats in Gorgeous George's cage, but cheaper. i spent 100 bucks for 2 instead of the 109 i spent for Gorgeous George's heat panel. i figured they would be perfect to attatch to the inside of the tub lid. and i was correct! muha ha ha..

 alwayse read the directions.

 panel attached.. :)

see the differance? hells yeah, that should help with the ventilation issue. :) help regulate the heat better also.

this is the female's tub, Aru type that i should be receiving next week.. i still have to go get those cages in Florida and among many other things that are on my to do list.. stay tuned.

good morning all.

its Thursday morning, April 4th. i have a tattoo appointment tonight and I'm super stoked about it! anyway my Aru type male is settled in i suppose. when i put him in the tub he crawled right up to the perch seen in the previous pictures and hasn't moved. i have attempted to feed him twice and he hasn't been interested but thats not really a surprise. he was eating live mice, and I'm offering F/T wet rat pups. I'm going to try with a live mouse this weekend and see what happens. his tub isn't very good. i like my set up but the bulb is too small and the screened port by which the heat passes through is too large and thus, creates too much ventilation. I'm having trouble with maintaining any humidity and its deff too cold. a solution would be get a bigger bulb to pump more heat but i would still have the ventilation issue. so instead i found a new radiant heat panel from R.B.I. (Reptile Basics Inc.) these heat panels are 40 watt and 12" x 12" square and 2" thick. they are relatively cheap and lots of people are using them in their chondro cages so i figured they would be great for my quarantine tubs. i have bought 2 and when they arrive i will fasten them to the underside of uncut lids. this should maintain much greater heat and in turn will help with the lack of ventilation. plus more heat means more water vapor in the air. i look forward to the solution for sure. i also scheduled an appointment with Dr. Shannon B. McGee to look over my newly acquired male. Dr. McGee is the top reptile vet in the mid south. Memphis is very fortunate to have him so close. i take my male, whom i still haven't named, to his appointment on Friday 12th., next Friday.. a general checkup and check for external parasites, as well as a fecal exam to look for internal parasites, and a sex prob to insure that he is indeed a male. i also look forward to this.

in another note. Jim with Tracy Reptile co., the same gentleman from whom i just purchased my male, informed me he had some nice looking females in stock. both high white, and one of them was a high white/ high blue. he gave me first dibs on one, or both. so naturally i jumped on the high white/blue animal. she is beautiful from her pictures and will no doubt be even more so in person. i am suppose to pay for her on Friday the 12th also. i look forward to her arrival as well! :) i will go through the same routine vett visit with her and then i should have a nice pair of Aru Type animals!! i cant wait. next season maybe i could start my own breeding project? this upcoming season is too early, also i doubt my female will be mature enough. :( but still, I'm very excited about having a pair. this female will make 6 animals! muha ha ha ha, and  my collection is ever growing!

anyway later,
Brandon

new arrival!!

well good morning all.. i am still waiting for my damn income tax return to come in so i can go get those cages, but in the mean time i was paying on this little guy. he is an ary type animal, high white flowers, and i think he looks stunning.

this is a make shift tub i threw together real quick to house him in. its working out pretty well, but i think the bulb is too low wattage, and the ventilation is too much. im sure with  a little tweaking i will figure it out. im going to get another bulb later on in the week. i purchased him from Tracy Reptile Co. they Jim claims to have been in business for 45 years. and that may be the case, but im not impressed. however the animal was beautiful, im sure its imported. claims of "farm bred" have been thrown about but i find them un documented and thus not true in my opinion. its my 1st buy off of an Internet classified add. im happy with my purchase, and i love the new addition, but i was concerned about his health. upon arrival i inspected him and noticed struck shed around his eye, and raised scales through out his body. i don't have any experience with snake mites but that's what it looked like to me..

i am going to have him checked out by the local reptile vet which is the best in the south.. Jim also claimed he was probed as a male, but im going to have the animal re probed just to make sure. im sure he is fine, but a fecal exam and over all check up is going to go a long way. with any luck he wont have too many parasites. here are a few pictures of my new animal.

 as you can see from the above pictures, the packaging job was well done. it was below 40* that night the animal was in transit, and it arrived very warm, the snake was very active and alert. :)

 classic blue Aru head, STUNNING!

and lastly here is a poor picture of the animal perched. im going to let him get acclimated a while before trying to do a photo shoot or trying to feed him.

all in all, i plan on buying more high whites from Tracy Reptile Co. i have told them i am looking for females, so hopefully they will come up with a few stunners for me.

more updates and things coming soon!!

another road trip!? Hells yeah!

whats up everybody!? in the above pictures you will notice 4 very nice Greg Maxwell designed cages. these cages are what i was trying to attempt to build with my 1st cage, only these were built by a professional and not some jack ass like me. as you can see one cage comes with a nest box, and the other three (may or may not see) come with Pro-Products radiant heat panels. those heat panels costs 100 buck each, and as a show of appreciation the owner of these cages is going to throw in the helix control thermostat for free if all 4 cages are bought, oh and they come complete with perches, but no animals :( ha ha

the guy i'm purchasing these cages from is Kris from Wolf & Rhine Herp. the same guy that breeds Aru local animals, and from whom i recently purchased that tiny yellow Aru neo. these cages are only 900 bucks! i was super stoked to work out a deal with Kris who, thus far, has shown himself to be a super nice guy. unfortunately he lives in Tampa Fl. and these cages are too heavy to ship.. so it seems my brother and i are headed for Tampa in my truck. the 13 hour drive (one way) should be atrocious! but its going to be similar to the Rico trip we took in December. since we are driving down in a few weeks he isn't going to ship the neo i just bought, i am going to pick up the little one when i pick the cages up. we plan to drive down to Tampa, spend some time with Kris, check out his operation, take a bunch of pictures, load up some cages collect my animal and head home.. maybe even buy something else while i there! ha ha pretty much just like the SignalHerp trip. should be a good time. these cages are really going to be awesome. its an awesome deal i cant wait to get them set up and fill them with beautiful animals!!!

until next time.

update.. finaly

well good morning all. when last i posted i had 38 page views. today i have 51! woo hoo!! ha ha so there is a few things to talk about. firstly, both of my animals are doing really great. Gorgeous George is healthy and active at night. feeding well and looks as beautiful as ever!! my little one RD12129 is also doing well, eating well and looks great. he has grown a lot too since i got him. i will probably weigh him i June and see how much he has grown. i purchased another animal that has been on breeding loan with Arboreal Enthusiast. i talked to them last of January. no updates since then. shouldn't be too much longer and he should get sent to me. that's an exciting thought. now just yesterday i put 100 dollars down on a High White male Aru type imported animal. he was too beautiful to pass up. only 438 shipped so i threw 100 bucks to hold him till later next week when i could afford him. aside from that i also purchased another neonate. :) this one is an Aru animal, with full pedigree information. I'm very excited about this one. i picked this little one from Kristopher from wrherpetology.com. he breeds strictly Aru animals and emerald tree boas. he has some amazing pairings in the works and will produce some great offspring, of course i will be purchasing 1 from the 2 clutches i am interested in. here are some pictures of the little one i just bought from him.

the above picture is the Dam. she is too beautiful!

this handsome male is Clyde. equally as stunning as his mate.

and this little one is my new addition. I'm very excited about his potential. I'm sure he will look very much like his parents. :)

now, on to some despairing news. a great man in the Herp field and community Rico Walder has come down with an aggressive form of brain cancer. you may remember that name from earlier posts as he was the great host from Chattanooga that my brother and i went to go visit with, and purchase my little one RD12129. that was on Dec. 22nd. later on in February he was diagnosed with stage 4 Glioblastoma, and 2 toumers were found. he has had to undergo surgeries and kemo, and is indeed doing better but is not out of the woods yet.  many many people have come to gather to help Rico by trying to rais moneys for his Dr. bills. he needs to raise 150,000 bucks! but since February his loyal friends, family, and fans, as well as devoted Herps in the community have helped to raise over 30,000 bucks! isn't that GREAT!?? another website IHERP.com has set an auction page (found here http://www.iherp.com/Reptiles/Auction/ ) to help raise moneys for Rico. all proceeds go to the Rico Relief fund. there are many things to bid on. please check it out and perhaps make a purchase. it will go to a great cause.

thanks all for today however. we hope Rico gets well soon. 

~brandon