Thanks for the advice. The way I see it, I have 2 options.
A) buy one off FLChams for 200$
B)wait for a member to have a batch that he does not want, and hopefully get a baby or juvenile for 125$ or so. Hopefully this happens soon.
For me, B seems the best option. I get a CB, it is young and will therefore do fine in the small cage I own, and I love lizards (if I didn't I wouldn't be here) sorry for arguing so much with the experts, but I get annoyed easily (should probably work on that) and I find that reptiles calm me down. I have a 15 or so year old Leopard gecko, and as the maximum life expectancy of a leopard gecko is 20, he is likely to die soon. I hope he does not feel pain. The last time a lizard of mine died, I barracaded myself in my room and cried for a day straight, I didn't eat or anything because I blamed myself. That was 5 years ago, and my Mountain Horned Dragon, Minerva, who lived in the same home as my new Rudis will, died of the cold, as that winter was very harsh and PETCO mislead me by saying she was "low intermediate." Yeah no, low expert. Anyway, I had her for a year and she laid eggs every once in a while and back hen I thought they were all fertile. I remember that vividly.
Anyway, he will probably sleep for a bit longer than usual in a year or so, and as he was my first ever lizard, you can expect me to be staying home from school (I refuse to go out in public crying) just writing this I am tearing up. I hate the thought of death. Leo has been in my possession 7 and a half years, my reward for getting all As on a report card in May. My sister got a corn snake, Mushu, whom I have cared for 6 years. My second leopard gecko, Bob, I got because he was sickly and I felt sorry for him. He is still sickly, and he will soon pass as well (Neither really eat anymore. Bob eats every 3 days, scarfing down ten mealworms, and Leo every week with about 3 or 4 mealworms. I dread the day when I have to force feed them, as I hate doing it to them. If they starve to death for being idiots, I will blame myself. On a happier note, Bob has finally realized that he has a neighbor (Leo.) It seems that all of my pets will die within a year or two of each other. As my two lizards slowly deteriorate, so does my loving Miniature Schnauzer, Hank. His species only lives 12 years (very very maximum) and he is 10. As I write this, my point is that I need another companion to fill the emptiness that will soon swallow me. Sorry for being so dramatic, but those who have lost pets understand. Once, I found tadpoles and felt sorry for them. I picked them up in my water bottle (filling it with pond water) and put them in a tank with my aquatic frogs from my first grade teacher (she always knew I loved herpatology). You can predict what happens next. Thinking their distant cousins were food, they ate them. Once I had a cage with three or four anoles that I caught in my backyard. When feeding them, one made a run for it. On instinct, I closed the door. Unfortunately, John's head was crushed. I let the others go, and I told my mom that I was going to hell because I killed one of God's creatures. I can babble on forever, but my battery grows increasingly low and I really need to go to sleep. Again, my point is that 3 of my four pets are soon to fall asleep forever, and I need a spot of light in (yes this sounds dramatic) the blackness soon to surround me. I hope my grades don't suffer. I want to get a degree in herpatology at Colorado University, study some there, and build a house there with 3 acres of forest in a warm climate. I will release a species of chameleons to live in the woods, and then I will be content. Considering that it rains every day in Colorado, humidity will not be an issue. Warmth will, however, but I have 15 years to plan.
Just hoping you guys will understand,
Nick, the Herpatoligist to be.
