Just joined. REALLY liking the UI!

[Herpetologicalgirl]

I must say, I've come and gone on quite a few different frog forums, one of which included Marty's (As in, Mist King Marty) forum and it was all the same stuff. Drama, elitists, etc. I'm hoping to get a fresh start here without all of that negativity and I'm SO glad to have been recommended by one of my customers, Christine. I'll have to look around for her username, but thank you, Christine!! I love the fact that this looks to be an international community of frog lovers of ANY kind I'm very bad about checking all the forums I'm a part of, so I apologize ahead of time if I don't get back to someone right away. I'm looking forward to connecting with some incredibly fun and knowledgeable folks!

~Abby M.
Herpetological Girl (HG)

[BG]

Welcome aboard HG and enjoy the forum. Yes we do have lots of interesting,fun, and knowledgeable people from all over. They know there stuff. They speak from personal experiences.We also love pics.lol We would love to hear some of your stories. So feel free to ask any questions that you like.

[IrishRonin]

Welcome, love the name. Hope you enjoy the forum agian you have BEAUtiful animals

[Sublime]

Hey HG! I know isn't this forum the best? Friendly, diverse, and best of all knowledgable people everywhere. Looking forward to pictures, we here at frogforum love pictures. Great to see that you have a little business going as well, looks official. Good stuff.

[GrifTheGreat]

Welcome! This is a great forum; I hope you enjoy it and have a better experience than with the other forums. This one is a little addicting. I joined to learn more, but I certainly didn't think I'd end up being on here everyday! It looks like you have a wonderful collection of animals. Remember, you can never post too many pictures!

[frogmania21]

Glad you didn't waste any time - you will love this forum! I am loving your 5 super-tiger legged monkey frogs - they are incredible! They are very healthy and moving around. I have an amazing cage set up - 18x18x24 with an orchid plant and other exotic looking plants, vines, etc. I'm thinking that this cage may be too big for them right now and may switch them tomorrow with a 12 exo terra cube - what do you think? The cage they are in will be awesome when they are as big as my adult red eyes. Wonderful working with you - you are awesome!

Christine

[John]

Welcome HG! I suppose no forum is ever completely free of drama but we have been lucky enough so far to have had relatively little of it. I'm really grateful that we've had very little interaction with the "elitist jerks" (you know who I mean).

Mark: that's a part of the forum software actually. As for hiring folks, haha I wish. Everything custom on here (features and graphics) was either coded / designed by me or is from a mod/addon I got or paid for.

[Sublime]

Ah ok, I deleted that post because it sounded a little bit noobish. Took a basic web design course, so please forgive me haha. Everything looks great.

I will admit a little bit of drama has come from myself. I've worked it out with a few people.

[bshmerlie]

Welcome to the forum HG. Everyone is welcome here regardless of their skill level. We keep our "elitist jerks" caged up in the back room and only feed them occasionally.

[Herpetologicalgirl]

WOW! Thanks for SUCH a warm welcome and the kind words, guys! I'd LOVE to post a ton of pics of my animals, but unfortunately my frog collection has dwindled a bit since the last move we made. My actual collection of frogs is merely a fraction of the variety that is on my website... My fiancee is preparing our basement to be turned into CASA HERPETOCULTURE so we're going to try and get the whole thing automated and digitally controlled. One of the last posts I read on Dart Frog forum was a guy who did it and was able to control his lights and misters from an in-wall digital switch.... thing... (yes. Can you tell I'm totally NOT the technical one in this house?? LOL). So when we get that going I'm going to take as much pictures as I can so I can give you all your photo fixes LOL I know how we frog people love our photos. In any case, this house is OLD so all of my more sensitive species have suffered as a result of the constant fluctuations in temperature that happen year round. GREAT for my snakes, not so much for my frogs and geckos... Once the basement is finished I'll have my frog/day gecko room back!! WOOHOO!!

And I wouldn't really call myself a "business". I'm just an avid hobbyist who wants to be taken seriously when people purchase an animal. These days, most people won't purchase an animal unless it's from a "trusted source", which I completely agree with and I do that as well. The way I see it, I'd LOVE for more people like Christine to take the risk of going through me. What better way than to come across as professionally as possible? My animals mean the world to me, and I'd hate to have Joe Shmoe think otherwise and one of them end up at the local herp rescue or worse... Maybe one day I'll take the next step, but for now my concentration is doing the best I can with what I got

Oh... and I may or may not be totally addicted to herp photography. Unless the photo is out of focus, there is just NO wrong way to photograph these amazing animals!



EDIT: I should probably mention that I'm going to be in the December issue of Reptiles Magazine. I'm a member of the Global Gecko Association so me and Leann Christenson (author of Day Geckos in Captivity) teamed up with a few other people to write about Lygodactylus Williamsi (Electric Blue Day Gecko). I was honored to be able to submit photos alongside the amazing Bill Love (renown herp photographer). My photos didn't get used (NOT surprised), but Bill Love and I have a mutual friend so I had the pleasure of meeting him and hanging out with him and his wife for a bit He's using one of my images in his herp photography class!

[BG]

That is great. Alot of us here have multipets.

WOW! Thanks for SUCH a warm welcome and the kind words, guys! I'd LOVE to post a ton of pics of my animals, but unfortunately my frog collection has dwindled a bit since the last move we made. My actual collection of frogs is merely a fraction of the variety that is on my website... My fiancee is preparing our basement to be turned into CASA HERPETOCULTURE so we're going to try and get the whole thing automated and digitally controlled. One of the last posts I read on Dart Frog forum was a guy who did it and was able to control his lights and misters from an in-wall digital switch.... thing... (yes. Can you tell I'm totally NOT the technical one in this house?? LOL). So when we get that going I'm going to take as much pictures as I can so I can give you all your photo fixes LOL I know how we frog people love our photos. In any case, this house is OLD so all of my more sensitive species have suffered as a result of the constant fluctuations in temperature that happen year round. GREAT for my snakes, not so much for my frogs and geckos... Once the basement is finished I'll have my frog/day gecko room back!! WOOHOO!!

And I wouldn't really call myself a "business". I'm just an avid hobbyist who wants to be taken seriously when people purchase an animal. These days, most people won't purchase an animal unless it's from a "trusted source", which I completely agree with and I do that as well. The way I see it, I'd LOVE for more people like Christine to take the risk of going through me. What better way than to come across as professionally as possible? My animals mean the world to me, and I'd hate to have Joe Shmoe think otherwise and one of them end up at the local herp rescue or worse... Maybe one day I'll take the next step, but for now my concentration is doing the best I can with what I got

Oh... and I may or may not be totally addicted to herp photography. Unless the photo is out of focus, there is just NO wrong way to photograph these amazing animals!



EDIT: I should probably mention that I'm going to be in the December issue of Reptiles Magazine. I'm a member of the Global Gecko Association so me and Leann Christenson (author of Day Geckos in Captivity) teamed up with a few other people to write about Lygodactylus Williamsi (Electric Blue Day Gecko). I was honored to be able to submit photos alongside the amazing Bill Love (renown herp photographer). My photos didn't get used (NOT surprised), but Bill Love and I have a mutual friend so I had the pleasure of meeting him and hanging out with him and his wife for a bit He's using one of my images in his herp photography class!

[GrifTheGreat]

Welcome to the forum HG. Everyone is welcome here regardless of their skill level. We keep our "elitist jerks" caged up in the back room and only feed them occasionally.

LOL! Just a few leftover crickets and nightcrawlers. Don't want 'em to get too chubby!

HG, Glad to have you aboard! Your room project sounds awesome! You'll have to give us all the dirty details. Darn, I wish I had a basement so I could do that. Sigh. Well, keep us updated on your project please!

[Herpetologicalgirl]

HG, Glad to have you aboard! Your room project sounds awesome! You'll have to give us all the dirty details. Darn, I wish I had a basement so I could do that. Sigh. Well, keep us updated on your project please!

Of course!!! And thank YOU for all the photo comments

[Herpetologicalgirl]

Also, between the photo uploader and the panic button, I think I'm in LOVE with this forum! XD