To answer nospice, I got the CHC at petco,but I suggest ordering from www.thatpetplace.com,much cheaper,even with shipping.This is safe for citrus,B/c they must leach any salts or other harmful materials out in order to use it with amphibians and other pets.You may even see bits of shell or cuttlebone in it,but it is fine....I've used it befpre on several plants and in animal cages. Toni: I waiting on my new camera to get here.I don't have a website,but I woule be glad to e-mail some pics to anyone shooting an email to me at extensionofgreen@yahoo.com.I do keep my lemons in witht he chams and no nibbling on the plants.They will accept greens from a hand at times(some individuals),but these guys are insectivores.I have hanging pothos and soon to add some nepenthes to their outdoor enclosures and I have no trouble.The worst I get is a broken leaf or branch fromt heir massive bulk...LOL These guys are around 400 grams as adults and nearly 2' long,with unconfirmed reports of them getting up to 36''.My largest is a 22'' male.I have fed them crickets,but I breed all of my own feeder insects now.I breed some crickets,but rely on an assortment of 9 species of tropical roaches that I breed and chop fruits and vegetables for.The roaches are a great food source and don't chirp or smell.They are noninfesting,if they should escape and there aer one savailbal that neither fly nor climb glass or smooth plastic.I house them in rubbermade bins and the ones that climb glass go in a tank with vaseling around the inside rim,they won't climb throught that,then they get a lid over that.They also get silkworms and hornworms from mail oreder or bought at shows as a treat.I avoid fatty species of feeder insect to the best of my ability.I also raise stick insects,but that just started and I have lots of eggs waiting to hatch.I plan to try my hand at breeding our native locust/grasshoppers as food,,,,excellent nutrition there!!!LOL I do not have a personal website,I have no time.I work at a vet clinic in the evenings and work as a nursing assistant during the day....I hit 70+ hours a week.PA does not pay anything for wages and I have to drive an hour to make $10 an hour or better,but that starts getting into politics,so I'll back out of that arena.LOL I have future plans to publish work and possibly start a website to supply my research tot others who are working with challenging species.This will be a great while yet,I am currently fixing up the chameleon area to be a bit more utilitarian and allow more animals to be housed with less electric being wasted to give me a chance to expand.I really have a whole want list of chameleons,but the dang meller are so tempremental,they took all of my time and energy.They still do...it i snever OK with all 6 animals at one time...someone is laways up to injuring themselves or being ill,refusing food....I have two adults that moved outside for the summer into 7'X7'X7' cages and are pouting with their green lips stuck out and refusing to eat,b/c they were moved to healthy sunshine and a more private space!!LOL They react badly to changes in their environment,but the younger ones all settle din and are eating.The move outside each year is far worth the stress it imparts for a bit on their lives,b/c as with citrus,nothing replaces the sun when it come to the health of a reptile that is active during the day.It contributes to so much psychologically and physically for them...it is a miracle cure sometimes. To answer citrus crazed: I think it was $172.00 for all three,5 gallon trees shipped.They came in huge carboard boxes with wood splints.The compacted and soaked soil weighed the most and would have been better removed...bare root is not the nicest option for the plant,but in this case,it would have been bettwr,considering the soil was not condusive to good citrus growth anyway and the trees weren't really potted.Half the soil was removed,they wre stuck back into the pots and the covered with hay.I am getting ready for work....later.

No, Canada doesn't allow reptiles or amphibians across the border, but there are a couple RETF breeders here. I also know a girl who manages a pet store here that could get me anything I need from the States. But from what I've read, red eye's prefer a vertically oriented habitat for climbing, where-as I've designed mine for the terrestrial PDFs. Red-eyes are also nocturnal, and I would prefer something that I can see during the day. Eventually I do want to build a huge 4x5x2 foot paludarium though, and then I will get a few red-eyes, because I just love them! You could rig up a misting system to simulate rain. Check out www.poison-frogs.com. The guy there also simulates a rainy season to get his darts to breed. It sounds quite simple, actually. And from my experience with misting systems, I will say: get a pump that is twice as strong as the guys at the hydroponics store tell you, and don't get cheap misting heads! I switched from 10 cent misting heads to ones that were $2 a piece, and the more expensive ones are WAY better. And the thing that really gets me is that the better ones were at Home Depot, not the hydro store. Go figure. . .

The reptile specific expo that is in my area is very professional and has breeders and retail stores that sell supplies and animals. There are certainly some shady people in the hobby but that can be said for any hobby. If you ask the right questions you can usually avoid problems. I see a lot of wild caught native reptiles from the United States being offered for sale on American websites and personally I can't stand it. It is illegal to remove animals form the wild in Canada, reptile populations are in enough trouble without people collecting and trying to make a buck off of them to. You can easily order live feeders through the mail but if you live somewhere where it snows in the winter you can obviously run into problems. Just a few minutes of exposure and every one of the crickets will be dead and absolutely useless. Another problem is that by the time you get half way through the pinheads they are no longer pinheads because they have grown. To tell the truth fruit flies are not hard to breed but it can be difficult to get a nice even supply so you have to have a back up plan in place. Your frog sounds like a cross between Epipedobates tricolor and Dendrobates auratus. Who would have known that they would even interbreed? Epipedobates tricolor was the species I was interested in because they are not terribly difficult to keep, they vocalize and are active during the day and they are able to eat larger prey items than some other Dendrobatids.

I wish ya'll would share some of the things that you do at your meetings. I don't live close enough to attend but I would love to know a little bit about what kinds of rare fruits you have at your meetings. Cheryl