The first veils in the usa?

[jernlee]

I was reading a article. And Ron Tremper said I brought back the first panther, oustalets and parsons chams from Mad in 1988 to that building........the first veileds in 1990 from Czech Rep......... great years.
He is from Texas. Does he still raise chameleons?I meet him years ago, when I raised tortises.

 

[kinyonga]

He came with Al Cardin to my house to ID a chameleon once a long time ago. They were here to speak at a reptile symposium near here.
I don't know if he still keeps chameleons.
http://junglereptile.com/ron.asp
http://www.reptilestv.com/raar/boardofadvisors.htm

 

[jernlee]

I was looking at the super gaint geckos and saw that he raised veils too back years ago. Interesting.

 

[Eric Adrignola]

The female CB veiled I had (second female I owned), was an F1 sired by a wc male that came in with the first shipment. Friend of mine in PA picked up a couple animals right after Ron Tremper had (nearly) cleaned out the importer.

The first pair I owned, a WC pair, came with Tremper's old caresheet - which I may have somewhere. It's got every single incorrect myth about veileds on it - from females dying if not bred, to praising clutches of 80+ eggs... it's funny in retrospect.

Amazing they were going for hundreds of dollars at 2 weeks old back then!

 

[jernlee]

My how time and knowledge changes everything.

 

[jernlee]

Back in the day. Everyone was going by the set of their pants. It wasn't like todays internet and all. You had to find someone at one of the zoos that might share some knoledge with you. But really very few were breeding at all. Now days you get on the internet and prestol there it is. Knoledge every where being shared. Thats why we all are so lucky to have sites like this to go and ask the people that have flown by the set of their pants and learn by trail and error and death of the animal. Gut by doing so they are helping not to rob nature of its jewels. We can raise in captivity easier .
Thanks to all for the knowledge.

 

[Kent67]

Funny, I've got one of Tremper's old veiled care sheets, too. I never purchased a veiled until last year, though. I've also got an old copy of the San Diego Zoo's Zoonews that says they were the first to hatch the species in the US, from animals imported from Czech.