08-15-2011, 01:23 PM
Hello all,
i have just joined this forum today as an alternate to dendroboard after recent experiences there. i look forward to meeting all of you and conversing and sharing dart frog related subjects. this forum was suggested to me overnight from a dendroboard member that disagreed with a post being removed from dendroboard without explanation from that forum. it was the lorenzo thread and unfortunately i was unable to touch upon details of the transaction before it was removed. there were a few members there that disappointed me with their actions. not all members but a few. i have never dealt with anyone on dendroboard in a transaction or spoken to a member in person for anyone to know anything about me. still some members thought they had a right to make assumptions to why i bought the lorenzo pair. also some members thought it was ok to openly tell me, not ask me why i bought the pair. this is when things go to far in a forum. so i thank mike for sending me a pm suggesting this forum. i won't start the lorenzo converstaion again in this post but feel free to pm if you would like details i have no problem sharing the entire transaction with anyone who asks.
So now a little about me for those that are interested. i grew up in the north and now reside in the south. when i was a little kid i lived in a city and would still explore every green area for anything that crawled. of course bugs were first. when i was 9 we moved to the suburbs and the adventure began for me. instead of riding bikes,skateboards, etc i would be anywhere around water. creeks,ponds all there for my explorations. i started an interest in amphibians at the age of 10. i would visit the many local ponds,streams and creeks and pretty much dive in leatning about the newts,salamanders, frogs and turtles to be found in the area. by 11 i was already literally knee deep in wild caught frogs, newts,salamanders and toads. i kept them and learned from them through my pre-teen years.while i was literally addicted to catching every amphibian i could find i became interested in reptiles. first snakes then later geckos. my teen years were spent the same way as pre teen except now i had a passion for reptiles and amphibians. i caught snakes in the wild kept them successfully and learned all i could.
in my 20's i became heavily into learning about geckos. i read everything i could find on the subject. as the years went by i became a reptile breeder and had my own company up north before moving south a few years back. now in my 40's. about 3-4 years ago i saw a national geographic special i believe it was on costa rica and the vanishing rain forest at a rate of 10,000 acres a minute or something like that. the show ended by them showing frogs that they stated were only living in a very small pocket of the rainforest and were becoming endangered. that was the beginning of my interest in dart frogs. since then the last 3 years i have spoken to many people about dart frogs. i read everything in books and internet that i could find. i spoke to people in the hobby as well as experienced breeders and wanted to make sure dart frogs were indeed for me as other frogs had been, and i fell in love with them and their diversity.
over the past few years not only did i do all my research that some have doubted, but i also have made all my purchases up the this point from very big well known breeders. i researched 2 years before picking my first darts.everything i could find on the subject including diseases and SLS. i got tinc and auratus morphs first and have since added to tincs, auratus and pumilios all through those breeders. i have asked questions along the way and have never assumed anything of a trasaction until recently. the one time i did, it bit me in the keester. all my dealings were good and professional and i did not think i had to ask how do you pack. sorry i assume they know how.i just assumed it would have been right. my mistake. anyway for those wondering, i studied everything i could find as well as asked every question i could of the reputable breeders before i attempted keeping darts. i got into numerous types and i love so many i can't even start a list.
i have bred various morphs, i make sure that i am meticulous in housing, temperatures,humidity, supplementation, water quality, food quality,cleanliness, etc.
i have produced many tadpoles and juveniles and have been lucky enough to avoid SLS and any other disease. i have been rewarded for my husbandry with not only receiving great clutches but almost having a non existant mortality rate for tadpoles and also juveniles. i have yet to lose one juvenile frog from my breeding. i've been very fortunate. that combined with no sls and never losing an adult yet makes me extremely happy that i did all the research i could long ahead of time.a total of 3 years before beginning my dart frog journey.
i'm looking forward to being a member of this forum and hope this intro will help some of you who don't know me get a better grip on who or what i am. i have a lifelong passion for frogs and amphibians. i'm not someone who has an overnight interest. it has been a huge part of my life and i have always been around these magnificent animals in one way or another.i love both amphibians and reptiles, i breed both, and yes a person can do both. i hope to meet all of you in the future posts. have a great day.thanks again mike for the suggestion of this forum, i appreciate it..
i have just joined this forum today as an alternate to dendroboard after recent experiences there. i look forward to meeting all of you and conversing and sharing dart frog related subjects. this forum was suggested to me overnight from a dendroboard member that disagreed with a post being removed from dendroboard without explanation from that forum. it was the lorenzo thread and unfortunately i was unable to touch upon details of the transaction before it was removed. there were a few members there that disappointed me with their actions. not all members but a few. i have never dealt with anyone on dendroboard in a transaction or spoken to a member in person for anyone to know anything about me. still some members thought they had a right to make assumptions to why i bought the lorenzo pair. also some members thought it was ok to openly tell me, not ask me why i bought the pair. this is when things go to far in a forum. so i thank mike for sending me a pm suggesting this forum. i won't start the lorenzo converstaion again in this post but feel free to pm if you would like details i have no problem sharing the entire transaction with anyone who asks.
So now a little about me for those that are interested. i grew up in the north and now reside in the south. when i was a little kid i lived in a city and would still explore every green area for anything that crawled. of course bugs were first. when i was 9 we moved to the suburbs and the adventure began for me. instead of riding bikes,skateboards, etc i would be anywhere around water. creeks,ponds all there for my explorations. i started an interest in amphibians at the age of 10. i would visit the many local ponds,streams and creeks and pretty much dive in leatning about the newts,salamanders, frogs and turtles to be found in the area. by 11 i was already literally knee deep in wild caught frogs, newts,salamanders and toads. i kept them and learned from them through my pre-teen years.while i was literally addicted to catching every amphibian i could find i became interested in reptiles. first snakes then later geckos. my teen years were spent the same way as pre teen except now i had a passion for reptiles and amphibians. i caught snakes in the wild kept them successfully and learned all i could.
in my 20's i became heavily into learning about geckos. i read everything i could find on the subject. as the years went by i became a reptile breeder and had my own company up north before moving south a few years back. now in my 40's. about 3-4 years ago i saw a national geographic special i believe it was on costa rica and the vanishing rain forest at a rate of 10,000 acres a minute or something like that. the show ended by them showing frogs that they stated were only living in a very small pocket of the rainforest and were becoming endangered. that was the beginning of my interest in dart frogs. since then the last 3 years i have spoken to many people about dart frogs. i read everything in books and internet that i could find. i spoke to people in the hobby as well as experienced breeders and wanted to make sure dart frogs were indeed for me as other frogs had been, and i fell in love with them and their diversity.
over the past few years not only did i do all my research that some have doubted, but i also have made all my purchases up the this point from very big well known breeders. i researched 2 years before picking my first darts.everything i could find on the subject including diseases and SLS. i got tinc and auratus morphs first and have since added to tincs, auratus and pumilios all through those breeders. i have asked questions along the way and have never assumed anything of a trasaction until recently. the one time i did, it bit me in the keester. all my dealings were good and professional and i did not think i had to ask how do you pack. sorry i assume they know how.i just assumed it would have been right. my mistake. anyway for those wondering, i studied everything i could find as well as asked every question i could of the reputable breeders before i attempted keeping darts. i got into numerous types and i love so many i can't even start a list.
i have bred various morphs, i make sure that i am meticulous in housing, temperatures,humidity, supplementation, water quality, food quality,cleanliness, etc.
i have produced many tadpoles and juveniles and have been lucky enough to avoid SLS and any other disease. i have been rewarded for my husbandry with not only receiving great clutches but almost having a non existant mortality rate for tadpoles and also juveniles. i have yet to lose one juvenile frog from my breeding. i've been very fortunate. that combined with no sls and never losing an adult yet makes me extremely happy that i did all the research i could long ahead of time.a total of 3 years before beginning my dart frog journey.
i'm looking forward to being a member of this forum and hope this intro will help some of you who don't know me get a better grip on who or what i am. i have a lifelong passion for frogs and amphibians. i'm not someone who has an overnight interest. it has been a huge part of my life and i have always been around these magnificent animals in one way or another.i love both amphibians and reptiles, i breed both, and yes a person can do both. i hope to meet all of you in the future posts. have a great day.thanks again mike for the suggestion of this forum, i appreciate it..