Re: [gecko]Gex for everyone!

2004-01-15 Thread Neil A. Meister
Herps priced drastically below market price. The famous "throw-away" herp. Has created a type of customer that is not willing to invest anything in the care of the herp for obvious reasons (I can always get another one). I am sorry to see the Rhacodactylus ciliatus (Crested New Caledonian) fal

Re: [gecko]Gex for everyone!

2004-01-15 Thread Neil A. Meister
Hi Julie, The timing of the article and an abundance of cheap imports is unfortunate. It was written over a year ago, so it's purely coincidental. I did include a fair bit about acclimation of wc gex, if anyone actually reads it they have more than a fighting chance. I started my projects, perhaps

Re: [gecko]Gex for everyone!

2004-01-15 Thread Julie Bergman
herpnut wrote: Thank you Julie!!! Unfortunately folks like Mike and I end up as hospice for dying gex. Pat Christianson Pat, I know that is tough. It is no fun to watch what were once beautiful gex die before your eyes. Karin, did the H. taylori not survive? That is sad too. You were pl

Re: [gecko]Gex for everyone!

2004-01-15 Thread herpnut
Thank you Julie!!! Unfortunately folks like Mike and I end up as hospice for dying gex. Pat Christianson ___ Global Gecko Association http://www.gekkota.com Classifieds http://www.gekkota.com/cgi-gekkota/classifieds.cgi gecko mailing list [EMAIL PROT

Re: [gecko]Gex for everyone!

2004-01-15 Thread Barbie Heid
Hi Julie, Someone is always > willing to sell you a reptile they know you will kill in short time. > Perhaps there is an article I can write about ethics here. I dunno, maybe it's one of those human nature things; the "yeah, my car's great, but I really want that big Mercedes" thing. I haven't

[gecko]Gex for everyone!

2004-01-15 Thread Julie Bergman
I have gotten a lot of phone calls lately about Uroplatus due to the article in the new Reptiles. I see a shipment of WC must have come in, because folks are selling mass quantities of U. phantasticus and probably other types on kingsnake.com. Bummer for the gex, most folks are not prepared f