Lets get to know each other

[Gary Orner]

Ok I know there are threads that people keep adding too. But we all know that members change and what not. So I want to know who is here. Let us know about yourself and your leos.

Well My name is Gary(go figure lol) and I have been in the reptile trade for sometime. My love for geckos came in 2007. I have about 200 geckos right now and that is always growing with the season already kicking off for me. YEP the 2014 season has started for me I already have eggs. And still have eggs from the 2013 season(2 to be exact)

My favorite Morph is the Simple Bell Albino
Favorite Combo Super Snow W/Y Bell Albino
My favorite Leopard i produced in 2014 Super Snow W/Y Bell Albino

 

[GexPex]

My name's Monica, and I've had herps for over 10 years. I got into leopard geckos about 4 years ago, and have finished my 2nd breeding season. This past year, I got a couple of Bells in a group sale and have now gotten the urge to get some Super Radars in my home. lol I still have a long way to go, though. This coming season, I'll be sticking to mack snows and super snows. Currently have just over 30 geckos, with too many of them being males. Will hope to get some Bell/Radar females either for Christmas or after.

My favorite morph- I love so many, but Super snows always have a special spot.
Favorite combo- Super Radars or almost any W/Y combos (just plain W/Ys just don't cut it for me most of the time)
My favorite gecko produced- Well, since it's only been 2 seasons, it's a toss up between my very first, a Super hypo with bold spots (and a heart) on her head....or my only holdback for this season, a Mack snow that hatched with a dark muted yellow (sire was super snow, so no doubt he's a Mack snow) His yellow has brightened up some, but he still looks quite different than his siblings.

 

[DarkNTwisty]

I'm Aimee, and ive owned multiple reptiles for a few years now, but have just gotten into Leos in the last year. Ive wanted them for a lot longer, but knew nothing about them and was told they were hard to care for. After doing extensive research and realizing they are not as hard to care for as I was told, I am now the proud owner of 4. 3 female (Tremper, Blizzard, and Mack Snow Bold Banded) and one male (Hypo Tang).

My favorite morphs, which I would love to get some day are Red Stripes, Mack Super Snows, and Diablo Blanco.

I do plan on breeding my Mack Snow girl this season, and it will be my first season breeding. The rest will probably have to wait until next season to breed because they are still young. And the Blizzard I wont be breeding at all because she has what appears to be MBD.

 

[Eyaliss]

I'm Steph and I've only been in reptiles for about a year now. It's all Anthrax (ball python) and Balios' (leo) fault. They both belong to my daughter, lol.

Currently my leos include 3 males and 4 females
Balios - Hypo tangerine M
Eyaliss - Raptor (snake eyed) F
Acheron - High Yellow M
Styx - Super snow Blizzard F
Kokytos - Hypo tangerine F
Lethe - oopsie offspring of Balios and Eyaliss. I still want to say Hypo Jungle Tangerine, but he still has these faint green spots on his back so I'm thinking that there might be Emerine in there somewhere, lol M
Charon - Tremper Sunglow F

My favorite morph so far has to be the Sunglow and I have been contemplating breeding for them. I haven't decided yet since right now a lot of mine and my daughter's time is spent putting together educational programs for kids at our local shelter. The geckos are always a hit when I bring them in

(Lethe is my current avatar)

 

[LIZARDLOVER]

My name's Joey, and I've had the reptile bug since... well, since I could walk and stick my hand in rocky crevices that I shouldn't be sticking hands into. I started with a pair of fire belly toads and a house gecko, which quickly passed away (vacation, neighbors didn't care for them right in my absence). Then, 7 years ago I picked up Gobi my amazing Murphy's Patternless Leopard Gecko. From there it all went down hill. Since then I've dabled in leos, cresties, beardies, bull snakes, milk snakes, garter snakes, pictus/panther geckos, banded geckos, toads, fence lizards, and a few others. Reptiles are my passion. I've had a facebook page (facebook.com/rockinsaurians) for a while with the desire of becoming a small scale breeder, but the pictus clutch I had passed out from an electrical issue with the incubator and my female leos are too young (one being old enough but too small). Hopefully I can get started back up in 2014! Feel free to drop me a like or message on facebook, I love talking everything herp.

Favorite morph? Probably Snows, I find them gorgeous.
Biggest reptile achievement? Field Herping turned up an adult Prairie Rattler (C. v. viridis)... Most intense and jumpy hour of my life while I handled him (with a hook of course)
Favorite Gecko? Gobi.... My first and oldest friend

 

[acpart]

After killing many anoles (which we called "chameleons") in my youth due to ignorance, I got my first leopard gecko 10 years ago. I've been breeding them since 2005 and just finished my 9th season. I think I have about 70 geckos at the moment (as well as a bearded dragon and a steppe runner) and have about 25 to sell. My biggest breeding group is leopard geckos but I'm also breeding fat tails, Coleonyx, gargoyles and L. williamsi. I've hatched a couple of misc. geckos since I inherited someone's eggs.

Another gecko passion of mine is Gecko Time online magazine, which has been going for more than 4 1/2 years now!

I think it would be very hard to pick a favorite morph of leo, since I like so many. Thinking about it, I'd have to say:
--Tremper albinos: the kind that are white and yellow with orange outlining their spots
--Creamsicles: what I consider a true creamsicle is a tangerine Mack snow that's got orange and white contrasting bands. Not many of those around in "real life".

Aliza

 

[lisa127]

My name is Lisa. I've been keeping reptiles for almost 20 years now. I was breeding leopard geckos about 15 years ago but then got out of geckos entirely about 10 years ago. Last year I was thinking of how much I miss leo's but had no desire to get back into breeding. So I got a male tremper albino in September of last year who grew to be huge, 125 grams now. Then about 6 or 7 weeks ago I got the itch for another but wanted a normal. I found some babies produced by the adults of a casual acuaintance of mine and brought this little one home at only about 7 grams in weight. As of 3 days ago he was up to 25 grams and looks to be turning out to be male. So....since my first leo is named Bert this one will be Ernie.

Fifteen years ago I had a room full of herps. Now I keep it a bit smaller. Right now I have my two leo's, a blue tongued skink lizard that has been with me 14 years, and 2 box turtles.

 

[staceyleigh]

My name is Stacey, I have owned reptiles for about 4 years. I have 4 geckos (3 females, 1 male) I also have 4 Bluetongued skinks, which I raise and breed. I have always been an animal love and have had many different animals as pets over the years, dogs, cats, chinchillas, salt water fish, seahorses, etc. I am in my 40's and most of my friends and family think I am nuts for liking reptiles? That's one of the reasons I like the Forums, I can only talk to my friends and family a little about reptiles before they roll their eyes and say "enough", lol.

My favorite morph is an Eclipse. 3 of my geckos are Eclipse and the 4th is het for eclipse.
I am looking forward to breeding this next season. I have a female "G Project" red stripe, het tremper, het eclipse that I am very excited about breeding! Here is a new picture of her. She is currently 40g and growing 3-4g a week!

 

[lisa127]

staceyleigh, don't feel bad.....I'll be 45 years old next month and I'm a very conservative middle-aged person with two basically grown daughters. And I love all things reptile!! No one thinks anything of it anymore though because Ive been keeping reptiles since I was in my twenties.

 

[Tongue Flicker]

Hi i'm Neil. Haven't been long in the leo gex wagon like some of you guys but i'm a reptile addict since 4. I have a mack snow wild type and a reverse stripe tremper albino with a tremper raptor ancestry. I sold the former since it fetched at a high price and wasn't too keen about youngsters that time. Both were also freebies along with a wagler's viper when i bought a yellow vinesnake from my favorite snake dealer.

@stacey: don't worry about your age, my mom who is 63, keeps a pair of matured adult sailfin lizards, a male adult cuban rock iggy and a 4-foot long spectacled caiman.

 

[Phantom240]

My name is Corey. I started keeping reptiles when I was about 13. Had a few corn snakes, an iguana, and a pair of collared lizards. Stopped keeping reptiles when i was 17, as I worked and didn't have time for them anymore, being in high school and perpetually poor. Fast forward 8 years, and in that time I became fascinated with other reptile species. The bug bit me again, and I decided to get a gecko. One turned into two. Two turned into wanting to set up an entire room dedicated to reptiles when I buy a house. Haven't bred my geckos yet. I might not ever breed these two at all. My first means too much to risk, and the other isn't an interesting enough morph for me to want to invest time in breeding, plus she's a... well, let's just say she doesn't have the best temperament.

 

[favrielle]

I'm Angela, homeschooling mom extraordinare.

I've been a critter freak since I was old enough to go outside and play on my own. Bugs, snakes, fish, furry things... they were all fair game. I wasn't allowed to keep them very long, though, as my mother wasn't the "keeping wild things in the house" type.
When I was 10, my older brother and I used to go hunting for snakes in an old tumble-down farmhouse foundation in SE KS... til the day he lifted a rock the wrong way and found a couple baby rattlers. After that, I had to snake-hunt on my own, lol.

One of my biggest heartbreaks was when we had to move away from KY. We had a sweet little burmese python we'd been raising, she was up to just over 4', and we couldn't take her with us. Clio loved to hang out while I did schoolwork, usually wrapped around my shoulders/hair clip and sitting on my head.

Counting pets and babies, I have 22 leos right now, plus a squirrel tree frog and 3 cats. Next year is going to mean a huge increase in leo population, depending on how many of my adult female leos I actually breed. All but a few of my breeders are Bells or het/poss het Bells.

My favorite morph I produced this year: Super Radar, followed closely by a really awesome MS Jungle Eclipse ph Bell.

My favorite morph... not sure anymore.

After John Scarbrough's post on FaceBook recently with his various Eublepharis subspecies and species, I think I'm in love, but it's not with a "morph". The E. angramainyu, specifically the Kermanshah province locality, are just plain spectactular and I think I need to start selling children and body parts so I can afford a few, lol.

 

[Dinosaur!]

I'm Autumn, a sixteen year old high school student. I've had reptiles since... well there were seven rosy boas in my house when I was born! my mom doesn't really care for them, but she doesn't mind if I have them so long as they are kept healthy, I pay for any new additions plus food, enclosures, vet visits, and everything else! (unless it's Christmas or my birthday) I started to breed rosy boas when I was seven, and made around 160$ my first time around. I was at a local reptile expo about... 4 or 5 years ago looking to buy a corn snake, where a gecko vendor let me hold an AFT for the first time. I was never into lizards, but I fell in love! the next year ,after doing research, preparing , and deciding on a leopard gecko instead of an AFT (very hard to keep any humidity in my house!) I purchased a gecko, and soon after, more, and more.... and here we are today! all of my pets are:

~Sakura- 3-4 yr old female super snow tremper albino leo

~Dinosaur- 3 yr old male SHTCTB leo

~Meat head- ? yr old male blind bell albino leo

~Maverick- 1-? yr old male normal pos lavender leo

~Cheddar Anne- 1-? yr old female ?albino aberrant leo

~Porkchop-2 yr old female blazing blizzard raptor leo

~Clementine-2-3 yr old female normal corn snake

~Rosy-33-34 yr old female rosy boa

~Lumpy- 14 yr old male rosy boa

my favorite morph is probably a SS tremper albino! (but I completely adore dreamsicles!)
I love all of my reptiles, and furry pets! my family is pretty accepting of them, along with my friends, and they all love to pet the geckos and pose with my (rather large) rosy boas. but there is a point where I have to leave after haring " do they change colors!?" or, "are these all the same species?" or, do you raise these lizards as snake food?" or (my favorite!) "look its the geico gecko! do I get 15 percent off!?" yep. that's my redneck family! haha! well that's me!