chams1
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Holy moly, it's been ages since I've been on here!! I've been meaning to sit down and get on almost every day, but just get busy with other things.
Where to start....... Well, first off I want to say "Hi!" to all my friends on here and also to those of you whom I have not met!
It's been too long. My firm transferred me to a different office location and I've just been super swamped every day since then and am wiped when I get home and after cham chores. Here's what been happening:
To those of you who knew Newbie (prolific egg-laying melleri), she passed away in late December. Poor girl. She laid yet another clutch in October (of course, she laid them in her food bucket....after she ate all her food....) and this one was just too much for her and she wasn't quite the same after that. I had some hopes for this clutch since she bred again with the same male, Magna Cham, but alas, they were infertile. This clutch took a toll on her physically, and she developed a couple issues, including a bad respiratory infection, which untimately caused her demise. She laid 4 clutches in a mere 16 months!! I believe this is (or should be) a new record for a melleri.
Around the same time, I had a couple other tough losses, including my best male panther (whom I had acquired from Catherine) and a few various uroplatus.
I have also had some personal issues arise and, sad to say, I am selling most of what I currently have. As hard as this was for me to come to terms with, it is something that I need to do. The hardest thing is picking and choosing who stays and who goes. I have, of course, decided to keep the melleri for as long as possible. That is the one species that I have been working with the longest (and hardest) so I want to keep what I have. I currently have a decent colony, including 5 adults (including the 2 that I recently acquired from GoFast), one sub-adult and one baby. I do have a couple confirmed females in the group, so hopefully between them and Magna Cham (who LOVES the females), hopefully I can get something going in that respect. I have also been having a hard time deciding if I should let all of my colonies of uroplatus go, but have decided to let them go as well. Everything I have that is going, chams and uros, will be placed in the classifieds shortly. A couple of weeks ago, I sold my first wave of chams at our local show and it was amazing at how that night it was noticably different. It is truly amazing how we become so attached to these magnificent creatures.
Anyway, just wanted to pop on here and tell you all hi and say that I haven't forgotten about you.
Sincerely,
Julie
Where to start....... Well, first off I want to say "Hi!" to all my friends on here and also to those of you whom I have not met!
It's been too long. My firm transferred me to a different office location and I've just been super swamped every day since then and am wiped when I get home and after cham chores. Here's what been happening: To those of you who knew Newbie (prolific egg-laying melleri), she passed away in late December.
Poor girl. She laid yet another clutch in October (of course, she laid them in her food bucket....after she ate all her food....) and this one was just too much for her and she wasn't quite the same after that. I had some hopes for this clutch since she bred again with the same male, Magna Cham, but alas, they were infertile. This clutch took a toll on her physically, and she developed a couple issues, including a bad respiratory infection, which untimately caused her demise. She laid 4 clutches in a mere 16 months!! I believe this is (or should be) a new record for a melleri. Around the same time, I had a couple other tough losses, including my best male panther (whom I had acquired from Catherine) and a few various uroplatus.
I have also had some personal issues arise and, sad to say, I am selling most of what I currently have. As hard as this was for me to come to terms with, it is something that I need to do. The hardest thing is picking and choosing who stays and who goes. I have, of course, decided to keep the melleri for as long as possible. That is the one species that I have been working with the longest (and hardest) so I want to keep what I have. I currently have a decent colony, including 5 adults (including the 2 that I recently acquired from GoFast), one sub-adult and one baby. I do have a couple confirmed females in the group, so hopefully between them and Magna Cham (who LOVES the females), hopefully I can get something going in that respect. I have also been having a hard time deciding if I should let all of my colonies of uroplatus go, but have decided to let them go as well. Everything I have that is going, chams and uros, will be placed in the classifieds shortly. A couple of weeks ago, I sold my first wave of chams at our local show and it was amazing at how that night it was noticably different.
It is truly amazing how we become so attached to these magnificent creatures. Anyway, just wanted to pop on here and tell you all hi and say that I haven't forgotten about you.
Sincerely,
Julie
