Other Pets??

What other pets do you guys have?

Haha, I'll start first.

Personally I just have my bird right now. It's a budgie haha. Cool little bird. In the family we have a Cockatiel, dog, and horse. We travel to much though so it's hard to have to many animals haha.

What I want is a ferret lol.

I have scorpion, chickens, god, cat, hedgehog, and a snake. It get hectic around here. Along with the 4 fish tanks.

Pictures of hedgehog and scorpion!

A dog and a firebellied newt.

Also getting a reptile of some sort soon... Not too sure on species, likely arboreal, probably fairly small. I'd really like a frilled, but they need so much space! x.x

I just have a cat and my 5 1/5 tanks.

Brent, look at getting a skink. They are great reptiles. Many sizes and shapes. I had a "yellow sided skink" and a much smaller one.

there was a skink on my back porch that was over a foot long. It was HUGE!

Mine was only 8 in.

I saw a big pink skink in Cuba a few years ago. This dude caught it with his pool net and ran off. Haha

I looked at skinks, but I don't know. My favorite list is already quite large.

When I was at my Costa Rica house we caught this twelve inch long juvenile green iguana .

Go for a snake. I would.

A snake is off limits according to mom. Gotta be a lizard.

Here's what I've been looking at (I know, some pretty different care requirements...):

Lygodactylus Williamsi
Gekko Vittatus
Gerrhosaurus Major
Chlamydosaurus Kingii (who the hell deemed it that?)
Rhampholeon spp.

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I'm also interested in vampire crabs. (:

Get the frilled neck or the chameleon.

Only problem w/ the frilled is that it needs a 2x2x4 viv and I'd rather give it even more space. I'll probably end up with either Lygos or Rhamphos.

Hard choice. The chameleon is small and awesome looking, the gecko is a cool neon blue.

Indeed.

I guess it will all come down to availability...

Diet requirements are also a deciding option.

Yes.

But it isn't hard to accomodate for feeding. I just need to find somewhere to buy the proper calcium.

I wouldn't think that to be very hard

I haven't searched around yet. I guess I'll know soon enough how hard it is.

Lol good luck!

Haha, thanks! :}

I used to have a soft shelled turtle but it died.

I've had an armadillo lizard, leopard gecko, and the occasional western fence lizard that I would catch and keep for a day or two. My brother has had two Russian tortoises as well as a red eared slider. Oh, I've also had two firebellies.

nice. those stupid softshelled things wouldn't eat the shrimp.

Nice.

I have a single firebellied now that his companion is deceased. :\

Yes, what is it with pets these days, Ocean?