My other obsession..

[lnaminneci]

Gorgeous T's Jo-Anna! You have made me start to look at some......yikes! lol
And I have always liked snakes, especially ball pythons....I don't see getting one in the near future though.

Thanks for sharing the photos! I always enjoy seeing them.

~Lesley

[Jace]

Thanks everyone!

Don, I feed them a main staple of crickets, with an occassional mealworm. I was hoping to continue to breed Hissing roaches for them, but the babies take too long to grow to a decent size and are excellent escape artists...which lands me in the dog house! I love ball pythons as well, and having one is definitely on my want list. Lemons are beautiful, as are the pieds, but you need to have deep pockets for them! Right now, I am saving up for another corn snake to be named Mosby.

Yes, Ebony, the spider population in my house just exploded! Though I have been told that if any escape...well, it wouldn't be pretty for the tarantula. But they are great additions to the household.

Lol-thanks Luke. Between the frogs, toads, geckos (2), dogs (2) and cats (3), I have my own zoo. I should charge for admission and offset a few of the feeding costs! I love finches, though-absolutely beautiful and if you breed them, my hats off to you!

Lesley, tarantulas make awesome pets. Very easy to care for and always a topic of conversation. And there are lots of great beginner T's available for a good price! If you need help, let me know!! Just like frogs, researching before buying is always smart!

[bshmerlie]

Yeah I was looking at getting one awhile back but it quickly got vetoed in my house. Like Don I would have been booted outside. We don't have igloos in southern california....we have pool houses. Sorry Don not as striped down as the igloo.

[Whistly]

I would like to take credit for my finches but all I did was build a nesting box for my 5 budgies but the finches took over it and every 2-3 months there's another lot of eggs. Their last lot was the biggest having 9 babies and 2 eggs that fell out of the nest and cracked just think I could have had 11 lol.
How much are you thinking of charging I think $10 sounds good.

[Jace]

Cheri, the tarantulas weren't a huge hit in my house either, which is why I am the only one that feeds them, waters them, and on the rare occassion, handles them. Oh, and did I mention they are all in locking containers??? Worth it to have them though.

Wow, Luke, I can't even imagine 11 eggs, with 9 hatching!! Those poor parents-LOL! I really love the finches calls-very beautiful. Honestly, I am not a huge pet bird fan, but I do have a soft spot for finches. As for admission, I think $10 is a great starting point....plus $5 to hold the massive African Bullfrog, Gherkin, with a complimentary photo! I really sense a money making there......

[Whistly]

lol you could give Gherkin a muddy foot and charge an extra $5 for signed photos lol.

I wasn't really interested in birds until my friend gave me my first pet bird an albino budgie. Over the years my collection has grown. My first finches were a pair of zebras but a cat got the male and it's leg was pretty much ripped off and yet it survived a whole day. The male I bought then escaped from the aviary so I got another which died from the cold and the week after the female died (also from the cold) which leads me to the female I have now but because the pet shops house different finch species together and bengalese and zebra females look the same I accidently got a bengalese female for the price of a zebra (bargain). Then something got into the aviary ripped all the finches to pieces babies and all the only survivors were all my budgies and the bengalese female which I still have. So I had to buy another finch so I wanted a Bengalese but all the shops had run out of them so I got a Zebra. The female has escaped twice but always comes back trying to get to her partner so I put all the birds in a cage in the aviary, leave the door open and the next morning the female is in the aviary. The cross bred finches look much better than the pure breds, and I can sell them to the pet shops for quite a bit more than they sell pure bred Zebra finches.

Unfortunately I haven't had any succes with breeding the budgies. I do apologise for the long story.

[Jace]

No worries! Sounds like you have had quite the interesting time with the poor finches. I have never tried to breed any of my animal-lack of time, space and funds account for a lot of that, though local pet shops and friends have shown an interest in what I have. Maybe one day, but definitely not now. I was willing to breed my geckos, but when I found out they were brother and sister, that nixed that idea quickly!! Too bad-the offspring would have been interesting to see...anyway, off topic a bit!

I will keep that in mind about the muddy foot and Gherkin. Luckily, he doesn't mind his feet touched...as long as I feed him really well beforehand!