Hi Toni thanks for coming by my page.Your job is so interesting!

they're all imported from italy as they undergo treatments there

Hi Toni!
Yeah, I had two green tree pythons. One I had since he was a month old so I got to watch him turn from yellow to adult green which was cool. The other one was already an adult but had bits of blue and white coloration. They were my babies. I didn't get a chance to make it to the daytona convention yet. Gotta check it out. Oh yeah, are there any good reptile shops in HK? The ones I've seen treat their animals very bad and they all look sick.

i'm a big fan of herpetology! well anything to do with wildlife really. mostly entomology. I think your work is fantastic and its always nice to meet people in the field and see what they do. =D

This is absolutely amazing what you do!

hey!welcome here!

You're a herpetologist, sweet! I love animals (well, maybe not some insects that want to invade my house or garden en masse) and am always trying to be aware of the animals in my neighborhood. There are some amazing tree frogs calling after the rain these days that I hear on my walks. I have been hearing a new species that I can't identify from its call. But I think it must be a tree frog, because it doesn't sound like any insect I'm familiar with nor any bird. It is also in the trees near the tree frogs I am familiar with and they are calling at the same time after the rain. Since I never see them, I guess I never know what I'm dealing with. There was also this great little frog living in one of my potted plants that was hopping around the last time was was watering. Like Jaine, we also have several varieties of skinks around here, and many kinds of snakes. I always hate it when people go out of their way to kill snakes. Someone at work was talking so proudly of a big black snake that they had killed because it got into a bird nest and ate up the babies. I just looked at her like she was a murderer and explained that those baby birds the snake was eating were surplus (we are on third brood here, now) and most of them would have died of natural causes if the snake hadn't eaten them. In a certain sense, because they are third brood, they were born to be food to for the local predators. This didn't fly with these "tender hearted" ladies at work. I still feel really bad for the snake. It didn't deserve to die for doing what comes naturally.

our geckos are rare, I have never seen one in the wild - only lots of skinks.
I did get to hold a tuatara before I left NZ which was pretty special (to me anyway).
hehe, I can't speak for other kiwis but I would like to hold a snake - but not one a I encountered in the wild. The snakes in your photos did not endear me to them but maybe in person I would feel different.

My pleasure to welcome you, Toni. I wish you could have photographed the others. You have such a wonderful collection of very beautiful animals

Toni, that lizard is HUGe!!!