What are your herp goals for 2005?

[KLG]

What would you like to accomplish with your animals for the New Year?

I personally plan to delve deeper into blood python addiction & obsession, finish bloodpythons.com, and hatch a bunch of the little whippersnappers! :P :P :P

Hope everyone is looking forward to a great year!

K~

[Ian]

Well, my first goal is to get some more rocks to replace the ones I lost last year, and to establish a nice breeding colony for some temperment/genetic science projects.
Second, to get my taxonomical/common name site up with pictures of all snakes and a brief page describing each species, geographic distribution, care in captivity, pictures, and status in the wild.
Third would be to start a few "side" projects (GTP's, Womas, Bloods, Eagg-eaters).
And last but not least would be to get all my cages switched to home made plastic cages and racks.
Nothing exicting, but it keeps me busy :D

Ian

[gmherps]

Boas: triple het snows, dbl het snows, hypos and go ol' normals.

:D

[Crow]

I don't have anything old enough to breed yet :cry: so I'm just gonna keep hanging out with you guys at the shop and watch all the magic happen. :D

[SickPyth7]

2005 Goal:
To hopefully produce a Frosted Ghost!

[anny]

To hopefully expand my collection to more than one snake. :oops: I guess I'm just a little less experienced than most people who are here right now.

I'm very interested in investing in a Blood Python or two.
I've been craving a Leucistic Texas Rat.

I might be adopting a homeless BP.
And if a friend doesn't "shape up" on his snake care skills, I might also have a Red Tail boa on my hands soon.

I will also hopefully begin the path to majoring/minoring in herpetology.
Also plan on learning more about Eastern Indigos as I'd like to have a pair/breed them one day (probably not in 2005 though...)

[PadraigC]

get my ackies to bury me with babies.
get my peachthroat project ive been dreaming about out of my head and into my room.
retry blood pythons ... 4 yrs later with CB animals
go back in time

[chondrogal]

Baby Chondros!!!! Would be my first



:o

[Tiffanybea]

Blood Pythons are my goal this year. Those are the most addictive creatures. I didn't know any particular breed of snake could be like crack. :D I can't wait to get started with the learnin!




Tiffany

"Just because you're human doesn't mean you aren't one of the monsters."

[Beardo]

Some of the projects I've got lined up for this year include:

Baby Amazon Tree Boas
Baby Striped Cal Kings
Baby Colombian Boas
A super secret hybrid project :!:

[Schlyne]

Hatching out baby crested geckos! I may pick up more females later this year. It'll be the first time for the whole deal, I'll be so thrilled to see eggs.

I may also pick up a male Irian Jaya Carpet Python later this year from acreptiles I won't be ready to start on babies for a few years, but I'd like to make that a future project.

[LdyDrgn]

First we would like more and better caging and a HOUSE!

As far as breeding goes... eh, I'd like whatever we breed to be successful and all the babies to be healthy! We will be producing more Spilotes, hoping the boas will take (working with poss het albinos and hopefully Harlequin-type), the Savus will be bred this year as well as het for Sunglow Sonoran Gophers. Our Borneo Short tails should be ready this year, too. We will be brumating the Spotted kings and CA King to breed early next year.

:)

[bigretic]

ball python eggs and chondro eggs.

*crossing my toes...

[Podo]

I personally plan to delve deeper into blood python addiction & obsession
I would like to do that. Hopefully by getting one or a pair from you.


And last but not least would be to get all my cages switched to home made plastic cages and racks.
That is prolly my second goal.

I also want to expand my collection further this year. I also hope to breed this year or next. I know I havesome other things I want to do I just can't think of them right now.

-Joe

[B]

hofully i will get some burms and maybe some BP's thats my goal for
2005 :D

B

[Lokismommy]

I don't have anything old enough to breed yet. But my main snake goal is to get some boaphils for my larger snakes and a rack system for my babies.

[Jim]

My goals for 2005 are to continue to enjoy and nurture my current animals, and to add another one or two if something just happens to catch my eye.

[CraigC]

Our biggest goal will be to have a successful breeding from a cbb pair we purchased back in '99 as neonates. We already have a couple of projects where mating has occured, but if we get those two to go it will be the creme de la creme for us.

CraigC

[JERICO]

Hopefully I will have some nice eggs from my miami corns, balls, house, plated lizards and leo's.

And this year i'm hoping to get some nice morphs or hets for my collection, balls, hoggies, house snakes all het for albino, and whatever else i fall in love with :)

[Brent Strande]

I'm still hoping for action this winter/spring on my BRBs as well as a BP that I sent out to be pimped upon!

I also may be pairing my male GTP up with a fellow herper when his female is good and cycled!

For the 05/06 breeding season, I hope to be breeding BRBs again, a litter of 100% het albino Bci is in the works, JCPs perhaps, and Crested Geckos should be going at it sometime in there!

Other than breeding, I'd really like to add a pair of Womas (realistically) and I'm dreaming of a pair of Blackheads (possible, but by no means definite or guaranteed!)

Well, I've obviously got a million other plans, who doesn't? The other goal that I'd really like to see happen this year is to establish the North Dakota Herpetological Society for herpers in our area! I've already started www.ndherp.com as a gathering place for locals in our area, and I am researching how to successfully get a herp society rolling!

Well, that's a few of the goals. But there's always more! (Like getting a better website running!)

Take care and good luck to ALL in the following year!

[Adam]

My goal is to get some albino generations from the hets kevin sold me

[Tammy]

I plan to play the supportive girlfriend role.
Watch Andy do his thing and help take care of lots of cute babies :D

[rcrowley]

My projects for 2005:

Sarawaks STP (P. breitensteini)
Patternless Borneos STP (P. breitensteini) :twisted:
Albino Ball pythons
Pastel Ball Pythons
Prove out a new Ball Python Morph...Father to daughter...
Boa constrictor imperator

[captainmorgan]

to get a new place where I can build my own nice custom cages.....to get a nice male argentine boa, and enjoy my reptiles even more.....and to harass nerd every month for supplies!!!! keep them in business!!!! lol

[LdyDrgn]

Weeellll... we got the male argie taken care of, lol ;)

[BallPyFan]

Win the lotto and buy NERD out...
oh, wait, you said, goal not wish LOL.
Get my girls up to breeding size for the fall. I have one who is a bottomless pit and well on her way to that. Get through this college idea with my mind intact! Just started back full time this week, and oh boy is it a change of pace. Of course, aquire some more BPs, but first a couple new racks to house them in.

[savannah_babe]

we have a couple breeding projects in mind.. so we shall see how that goes..and better caging. there are also a couple things i would like to add our collection here. :)

*edited to add.. as i turned around, i saw this huge arcade game sitting caddy corner in the herp room..lol..to get my other half to get the wiring taken care of, so we can put it in my sons room. that way, we will have more room for cages and reptiles..hehe

[Robilyn]

my first borneo...a gorgeous baby girl is on her way and i couldn't be more excited :smt007

[huff747]

I'm hoping to produce my first ball python clutches (first clutches of anything actually). I've got 4 females over 1500 g and a nice male pastel producing plugs. I've witnessed copulation with all 4 and I am nearly (nearly because I've never seen it before ;) ) sure that one has ovulated and had her pre-lay shed and if I'm correct I'll be posting pics soon enough.

Other than that I'd like to keep improving my collection of balls and if I can find a nice albino retic that fits the budget I'd like to fill that empty cage again as well.

Oh, and hopefully this year I'll become a first time father.

Chris

[BPBabe448]

My goals:

Get another crested gecko.

Get yet another leopard gecko.

Get an irian jaya carpet python.

Get a blood from NERD.

Get a beardie or two.

Get another BP.

Get another RTB.

Get an AFTG.

Get a dumerils boa.

Turn my basement into a full herp condo. Get its own heating suply down there and keep it at a steady 78*. Make one of the rooms into a supply room. Get a fridge to go down there. Get a rack for baby snakes, a rack for baby/small lizards, and AP cages for my morphs and full grown snakes and big lizards.

Breed Ball Pythons.

Breed Leopard Geckos

Breed Crested Geckos.

[JTrott]

Get a pastel male Ball Python and have him breed enough girls next year to sustain my collection for another year. Even if I break even, it is good enough for me.

Jason

[Schlyne]

Well, just as an update, I was going to pick up a baby IJCP when Anthony C hatched out some...

He put some 2004 holdback's for sale, and if the weather would warm up, the little guy could come home (couldn't ship last week, stupid weather) :smt009 Right now we're on hold to see what the weather will do for next week...but I think Anthony's going to end up hanging on to him for another week :smt022 You can see pictures of the little guy at www.acreptiles.com

But at least this way he won't freeze, or be sick or anything when he finally does come home :smt026

And, I should add as an update, although it's not a herp goal, I may attempt breeding tarantula's later this year...(we'll see, it's definately a future goal.)

[TommyD.]

I'm always wanting to expand and get into new species plus add to the one's I got. But one of the species that sticks out that I want to pick up this year is the bloods. And I hope to be getting a pair from right here :smt023.

[earthpig23]

I will be producing some nice crested geckos this years..fire/harlequins and some nice yellows and orange dalmations.
By the end of this year we will start preparing all our breeding projects ready for their first mating season. Over 75% of our snakes will be ready to breed by the end of this year. So we will be preparing all year for this.

[TommyD.]

Over 75% of our snakes will be ready to breed by the end of this year. So we will be preparing all year for this.

About the same percentage for me too aleast it looks that way guess I will find out when the time comes. Alot of work ahead it will be here before you know it.

[JoeChondro]

What would you like to accomplish with your animals for the New Year?


Breed my Liasis fuscus and increase my chondro collection!

Stu

[JLExotics]

Getting JL Exotics off the ground is my goal. We have some high end ball pythons and blue tegus. I plan on expanding as well into some other high end animals.

[Kevyn]

I just want my lavender albino, tiger het , and het Retics to arrive. :smt009

[RhacBreeder]

Cresteds, cresteds, cresteds, try my luck with cal kings!!

[Biscuit71]

I would jsut like to get a nice collection going and a few breeding pairs... But as i have said many many times... every time you nail down what it is you WANT to raise and breed, you find somehting else.... before long Ill have a damn zoo in my basement.... but thats all good. :lol:

[CJReptile]

Get ready for my first breeding project, hi white het albino cal kings
poss. striping too , by the way , ho much would some of these babies be worth?

[jordanm]

I just want more bloods, lol GIMMIE!! :lol:

[Alias47]

My goal is to spend every single dollar I can get out of the bank account without my wife knowing about it on snakes, racks and supplies... :twisted:

And then spend all the money she DOES know I spend as well... 8)

Hopefully in the next year or two I will be breeding multiple species... :dance:
SHould be ready to go in the next 2 years with BP's (Normals and Albino hets), Dumeril's, a bunch of different Corns, Thayeri Kings, Womas, and, God willing Angolans...have to start squirreling my money away for those though...and whatever else comes along... :roll:

[ball21]

Plain and simple.... have my mom allow me to get another snake. She has this freaking one snake limit and it drives me insane! Her only reason is she doesnt want it in her house. :angryfir: And its not like she doesn't like them she holds my ball all the time she just doesn't want another one. If i were allowed to get another it would be between a male burm, red tail, dumerils, or a blood. But my goal for the next 5 is get a business degree and open up my own pet shop speaclizing in reptiles.

[RhacBreeder]

she holds my ball all the time

HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA!!! :clap:

[damianthesnakeman]

start breeding my ball pythons and get a burm or two

[RRusso70]

I want 2 expand my collection by obtaining some Bloods & An Albino Retic, and Definitly get a Bat Eater.

[Rich]

I am hoping to hatch my first ball python clutch, I breed my het albino male to my largest female.

[Boa_Addiction]

Basically get myself established breeding Balls. Which means getting my females up to breeding weight for my male Pastel.

Thats it

[Adam]

well guys sense we have watched all the magic happen since kara was smart enough to make a post like this we can look back onto to see what happened

well a update on me. i traded the hets in for a yellow monitor at nerd.

how about the rest of you? i no andy,kara,justin, and kevin (cant remember if he posted in this) might have had some goals accomplished by hatching out all those snakes!

well i hope its brought back to life i wanna see how far everyone got

[Hennek]

1. Feed the crap out of my "box-o-bloods"
2. Feed the crap out of my 0.7 normal balls
3. Hopefully breed 0.3 or 0.4 of those normal balls to a lemon pastel!
4. Go further into debt buying cages, rats, an albino blood and hopefully a hypo or matrix blood (hey Kara, can ya hook me up! :))

[Rbraczyk]

Get a pair of breeder balls in a few weeks. Get them down to breeding.

[Carlos Boillat]

first priority is try to breed 0.1 normal ball to 100% het orange ghost to get some 50% percents for 2008

secondly I will fatten up my other .2 balls

trade one of my 0.1 beardies for a crested gecko or baby ball pythons

hopefully move on to boids( in the 6 to 10 ft. range)

get mo money!, to fix up my rack, (seeing as how I built it its not the greatest, but its ok)and make an incubator

and above all learn more and get many more different herps :039:

[TOM E]

Some great goals out there..

I am hopefull my calico(x)anthrax go this year def got the size
hopefull on my 1.2 tiger calicos
and my 1.1 super tigers. That would be a handfull but I wouldnt complain..:)

[RhacBreeder]

I am going to start grabbing all the balls I can. -Joe

[Hennek]

Joe, the topic is HERP goals.

;)

[BIGSI]

Get rid of most of our breeding stock and concentrate on just a few projects, namingly Boelens, Albino bloods, Liasis barroni + Rhino rats and Albino Western hognose.

[meltingfetus]

good luck with the Boelens they are awesome.

[RhacBreeder]

Joe, the topic is HERP goals.

;)
OHHHHHHHH... Well in that case I'm going to start collecting balls.