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Exotic Pets
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Just wondering what types of exotic pets you guys have.
I have an African Pygmy Hedgehog. They are considered exotic. Here is a picture of her. Her name is Lily.
What else do you guys have?
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awww
i want an animal...
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Sweet little hedgehog you got there makes me want one. How much did that little sucker set you back
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I used to have a hedgehog when I was in highschool that looked alot like yours. She only had 3 feet though, and her name was Dudeman.
She loooooved her toilet paper rolls!
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Cute hedgehog! Is it friendly? Does it know who you are and whatnot?
I gots theses pets:
Crested Gecko
Tokay Gecko
Pyxie Frog, aka African bullfrog
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Re: Exotic Pets [Re: Gumby]
#12185140 - 03/11/10 06:00 PM (14 years, 20 days ago) |
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Gumby said: Cute hedgehog! Is it friendly? Does it know who you are and whatnot?
I gots theses pets:
Tokay Gecko
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That gecko looks bad ass! whats his/her name?
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Re: Exotic Pets [Re: Gumby]
#12185143 - 03/11/10 06:00 PM (14 years, 20 days ago) |
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Is yer tokay nasty? I've had nothing but bad experiences with those.
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Re: Exotic Pets [Re: Gumby]
#12185150 - 03/11/10 06:01 PM (14 years, 20 days ago) |
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I designed a website for someone I knew. They go for around $125-175 for an unregistered one. If they are registered and have papers they are $250+.
Yeah, she is really friendly. I have only let her play with a tp roll once or twice as you are suppose to wait until they are a bit bigger. She's big enough now though. She LOVES mealworms though. If you give her one of those, she is your best friend.
Those geckos are cool as hell. I thought about getting a couple. I'd really like a jacksons chameleon though.
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Re: Exotic Pets [Re: Gumby]
#12185160 - 03/11/10 06:02 PM (14 years, 20 days ago) |
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Nice shot of nature taking its course
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Yup, mean as fuck. It's just a trait of the species, they're incredibly aggressive and can be noisy. Before she got used to me she used to make that god awful bark/scream and get in defense posture whenever I got within 3 feet of her tank.
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i used to work in a pet store that sold all exotic animals
i didnt need to own ANY haha
nice hedgie. i never got to work with them directly, but the sick room was near where i worked so i got to play with a sick one. it had something like "wobbly syndrome" and it couldnt stand for very long. he did like curling into a sharp ball though
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Re: Exotic Pets [Re: Gumby]
#12185191 - 03/11/10 06:05 PM (14 years, 20 days ago) |
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I do like the bark. They're cool lizards, beautiful, but mean.
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Re: Exotic Pets [Re: igwna]
#12185210 - 03/11/10 06:07 PM (14 years, 20 days ago) |
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Yeah. Wobbly Hedgehog Syndrome. It's a bad genetic disease which always results in death if i'm not mistaken.
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Yeah, actually bred them, I'm waiting on the female to lay eggs.
I had a male for a while, but I had to put it down. I found some dude in The Bronx who wanted to get rid of one. The thing looked like shit from the day I got it. I'm guessing it was wild caught and it had a parasite, because no matter what I would feed it, he just kept getting skinnier and skinnier. I couldn't just sit back and let an animal waste away like that so he went to sleep in the freezer and never woke up
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Quote:
PsilliCoder said: Yeah. Wobbly Hedgehog Syndrome. It's a bad genetic disease which always results in death if i'm not mistaken.
wow, now i feel like an asshole for finding humour in "Wobbly Hedgehog Syndrome."
i was only a worker. i did all the "bitch work."
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Re: Exotic Pets [Re: Gumby]
#12185289 - 03/11/10 06:16 PM (14 years, 20 days ago) |
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It's sad, but sometimes you gotta know when to be a friend to your pets and do the right thing. Just had my dog of 11 years put down last week; it was a little depressing, but I was happy to see her relieved.
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Re: Exotic Pets [Re: igwna]
#12185300 - 03/11/10 06:17 PM (14 years, 20 days ago) |
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Lol it sucks. But if you get them from a good breeder than you're good.
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I don't have 1 anymore I want to get a new tank set up and get a pair.
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if I'm feeding it can I call it a pet? if so I'm feeding a coyote the chickens I preferred to keep
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Prisoner#1 said: if I'm feeding it can I call it a pet? if so I'm feeding a coyote the chickens I preferred to keep
Lol. That shit sucks man.
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Prisoner#1 said: if I'm feeding it can I call it a pet? if so I'm feeding a coyote the chickens I preferred to keep
You should place a bunch of snares around your chicken coop.
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Re: Exotic Pets [Re: Poid]
#12185572 - 03/11/10 06:57 PM (14 years, 20 days ago) |
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I'm not sure if you would consider ferrets as exotic, but here is my pet ferret Chewbacca or "Chewie" for short. As you can see he is a camera whore but it just loves him.
The last one is my lovely exotic pet wife Elizabeth <3
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I have my dog, and I've had mice and my two rats!
I want to get more pets sometime soon, but my puppy is always my number one
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Re: Exotic Pets [Re: Kada]
#12185586 - 03/11/10 07:00 PM (14 years, 20 days ago) |
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You ever get him high, Kada?
I have my dog, and I've had mice and my two rats!
Those aren't exotic.
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Re: Exotic Pets [Re: Poid]
#12185599 - 03/11/10 07:02 PM (14 years, 20 days ago) |
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Poid said: You ever get him high, Kada?
I have my dog, and I've had mice and my two rats!
Those aren't exotic.
Neither is your mom
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Re: Exotic Pets [Re: Poid]
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I got him a little stoned once. He kept coming back for us to blow smoke in his face lol. My cat spike and my dog sherlock always come down to the basement in the smoke room when we burn. We always blow them smoke and they always sit there and love it. It's funny when were done the animals start eating the crap out of their food and we go make something to much on too lol.
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Re: Exotic Pets [Re: Kada]
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Re: Exotic Pets [Re: Kada]
#12185627 - 03/11/10 07:08 PM (14 years, 20 days ago) |
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AluxesLeaf said: Neither is your mom
She's from the deep south of Mexico, so some would say she is.
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Kada said: I got him a little stoned once. He kept coming back for us to blow smoke in his face lol. My cat spike and my dog sherlock always come down to the basement in the smoke room when we burn. We always blow them smoke and they always sit there and love it. It's funny when were done the animals start eating the crap out of their food and we go make something to much on too lol.
, yeah some pets love getting high, fuck those animal rights pussies who claim that getting your pets high is a form of abuse/torture.
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Re: Exotic Pets [Re: Poid]
#12185661 - 03/11/10 07:13 PM (14 years, 20 days ago) |
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Wow that Hedgehog is awesome.
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Re: Exotic Pets [Re: Poid]
#12185665 - 03/11/10 07:13 PM (14 years, 20 days ago) |
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I have 3 desert spiny mice.
A friend worked at a place that took in exotic pets from bad owners/situations. I ended up with them. Cool little guys to watch. I have no pics but they look like:
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Re: Exotic Pets [Re: Kiefish]
#12185728 - 03/11/10 07:24 PM (14 years, 20 days ago) |
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Kiefish said: I have 3 desert spiny mice.
A friend worked at a place that took in exotic pets from bad owners/situations. I ended up with them. Cool little guys to watch. I have no pics but they look like:
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Kiefish
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Haha.
Yeah the mice don't give a FUCK about the gato.
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Quote:
AluxesLeaf said:
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Poid said: You ever get him high, Kada?
I have my dog, and I've had mice and my two rats!
Those aren't exotic.
Neither is your mom
IDk. have you seen his lips? his mom must be at least somewhat exotic
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Alec_Baldwin said: Wow that Hedgehog is awesome.
I'll get some more pictures of her tomorrow.
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Me and my roommate bought some Sonoran Desert Toads. They're fucking huge.
He's had alot of reptilian animals growing up so it wasn't as exciting as it was for me to watch them eat and well... thats really all they do.
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^^which part do you milk? that big whitish bubble on the second picture?
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Gumby
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Nope, it's that big green ridge above the white thing. That's a toad's main venom gland.
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Re: Exotic Pets [Re: Gumby]
#12187023 - 03/11/10 10:43 PM (14 years, 20 days ago) |
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thanks gumby. ill stick to extracting it from plants
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Quote:
NoxVolpes said: Me and my roommate bought some Sonoran Desert Toads. They're fucking huge.
He's had alot of reptilian animals growing up so it wasn't as exciting as it was for me to watch them eat and well... thats really all they do.
Thats cool as hell.
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Gumby
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NoxVolpes, tell your roommate they need new substrate. That shit is moldy. Try cocoa fiber or bark for those toads. They like burrowing substrate, but if it gets moldy it can easily kill them. Frog/toad + mold = dead frog/toad.
Shredded Aspen is more for desert snakes and lizards.
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Re: Exotic Pets [Re: Gumby]
#12187098 - 03/11/10 10:52 PM (14 years, 20 days ago) |
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I want to get a Bufo Frog one day, think about having a pet that produces DMT!
Fucking awesome...
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NoxVolpes said: Me and my roommate bought some Sonoran Desert Toads. They're fucking huge.
He's had alot of reptilian animals growing up so it wasn't as exciting as it was for me to watch them eat and well... thats really all they do.
That's quite a tiny cage and doesn't seem he has much cover to get to. Also not a good sign he's standing in the corner like that, he is trying to find a way to safety.
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I had a colombian red tail boa before I moved to my new place. They wouldn't allow lizards here so I had to part ways with her. She was around 8-9 feet long I believe.
Not mine but a picture of one smaller:
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that hedgehog's tight, i think i'm gonna get some badass exotic fish, but now i'm leaning towards a bad ass lizard or something...i have a leopard gecko but thats not too badass
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Yeah the lizards are pretty bad ass.
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Hey thank guys for the complements and the info.
The guy we got them from had them both in 1 tank with only 1 hollow log. When we got them home we seperated them into 2 10 gallon tanks.
We keep buying them crickets and those do fine but i wish there was something that i could just keep instead of getting a bunch of crickets and feeding them all at once.
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I used to keep all manner of odd pets. I dont much care for the normal cats and dogs. Snakes were always my fav.
Roomie has 2 ball pythons now, so I dont need to get another snake for a while.
I recently delved into salt water reef tanks.
Basically I have about 10 types of coral growing under halides, candy cane pistol shrimp paired with a high fin goby (symbiotic), one fire fish, 2 sexy shrimp, cleaner shrimp, porcelain crab (filter feeds), pom pom crab (uses anemones to sweep food up in its claws, carries em around) all sorts of crazy worms, micro brittle stars, and multitudes of other tiny life that grows int he sand bed and around the rocks.
Camera is broke so no pics yet, but you can google any one of thsoe names and get pics.
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Burke Dennings said: Is yer tokay nasty? I've had nothing but bad experiences with those.
He fed them one time I was over and they make a really creepy hiss type sound, and it constantly tried to take a chunk out of his hand.
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Re: Exotic Pets [Re: Newbie]
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i had a pet rat when i was a kid she was very pretty and very smart
then i got severely allergic to touching her and later she died from a horrible leg deformity
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My poison dart frog (d. tinctorius) You can't see it in that pic (he's hard to take pics of), but his sides fade from yellow into a really pretty turquoise. We also have a 5ft iguana, 2 bearded dragons, 3 firebelly toads, and a fiddler crab.
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Quote:
mndfreeze said: I used to keep all manner of odd pets. I dont much care for the normal cats and dogs. Snakes were always my fav.
Roomie has 2 ball pythons now, so I dont need to get another snake for a while.
I recently delved into salt water reef tanks.
Basically I have about 10 types of coral growing under halides, candy cane pistol shrimp paired with a high fin goby (symbiotic), one fire fish, 2 sexy shrimp, cleaner shrimp, porcelain crab (filter feeds), pom pom crab (uses anemones to sweep food up in its claws, carries em around) all sorts of crazy worms, micro brittle stars, and multitudes of other tiny life that grows int he sand bed and around the rocks.
Camera is broke so no pics yet, but you can google any one of thsoe names and get pics.
Sounds like a nice reef tank. What size? What kinda corals you keeping? LPS, SPS, zoos or all of the above?
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