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07-05-13, 12:23 PM
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Checking out the forums/new old guy
Hello sSnakess forum,
Just joined this forum as it was recommended by some fellow herpers so I thought I'd check it out.
I'm a long time herp enthusiast and keeper and make my living designing and fabricating animal enclosures for zoo's all over the country. I've also had a few articles published on varanid husbandry.
I've been keeping and breeding reptiles for over 20 years now, mostly with an emphasis on varanids.
I work mostly with S.E Asian species and currently have V. dumerilii, V. becarri, and V. olivaceous
I hatched out my first monitors in 1999 and have pretty much had babies hatching every year since. Currently have some F5 dumerilii in the incubator.
I'm also a big time field herping junkie and get out to see reptiles in nature whenever I can, I usually do 2-3 herp trips a year and get out to the Mojave every year in May to chase wildflowers and reps.
Most of my time is spent working though and I'm in a different zoo nearly every month so maybe I'll get a chance to meet up with forum members at their local zoo. Right now I'm working mostly on behavioral enrichment products for non human primates and will be fabricating exhibits for white handed gibbons, squirrel monkeys, aardvarks, fruit bats, wolfs guenons desert torts and more this year.
Look forward to interesting conversations here.
Thanks.
Ben Aller
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07-05-13, 03:24 PM
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Re: Checking out the forums/new old guy
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07-05-13, 03:29 PM
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Re: Checking out the forums/new old guy
Welcome! Lots of varanid lovers here 
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07-05-13, 03:30 PM
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Re: Checking out the forums/new old guy
Hi and welcome I can't wait for pics.
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07-05-13, 03:49 PM
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Re: Checking out the forums/new old guy
Welcome. Very interesting profession.
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07-05-13, 04:33 PM
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Re: Checking out the forums/new old guy
Thanks for the welcome, what pics are you interested in?
I should probably also mention that I am the owner/curator of the largest collection of varanid papers ever assembled, I have everything written about varanids since the 1700's, thousands of articles and just about every book that even mentions them. This collection was complied by Mark Bayless and was left to me when he died. Unfortunately I have not been able to fully re-organize this collection after moving it when Mark passed, but I do spend 2-3 hours a week working on organizing all of the data for eventual availability. I am currently working with Bob Mendyk to get more of the articles available through his fine organization.
A few forum questions, How do I add a signature? What is a "trackback"?
Thanks.
Ben
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07-05-13, 05:00 PM
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Re: Checking out the forums/new old guy
Does anyone read what this guy wrote? You have a V.olivaceous !!!!! PICSSS
Oh and welcome
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07-05-13, 05:16 PM
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Re: Checking out the forums/new old guy
Welcome to the jungle!
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07-05-13, 06:09 PM
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Re: Checking out the forums/new old guy
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Originally Posted by B_Aller
A few forum questions, How do I add a signature? What is a "trackback"?
Thanks.
Ben
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Signatures can be added with your user control panel, or you may ask forum staff to help with this.
A trackback means someone has linked to your post or blog on another site. We constantly receive them from the reptile report who features our forum threads often.
Ben, it's a real pleasure to see you posting here.
It's incredible to know that Mark's awesome archives are still alive and well. Even more incredible that you and Robert are organizing it all so that it will be available and not forgotten.
For the younger / newer varanid fans.......
A beautiful eulogy can be read here in the first issue of Biawak.
http://varanidae.org/Vol1_No1.pdf
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07-05-13, 06:12 PM
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Re: Checking out the forums/new old guy
Hello and welcome!
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07-05-13, 06:16 PM
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Re: Checking out the forums/new old guy
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Those are some cute babies.
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07-05-13, 08:06 PM
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Re: Checking out the forums/new old guy
Hey Ben, nice to see you here.
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07-05-13, 09:02 PM
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Re: Checking out the forums/new old guy
Thanks again, what a welcoming bunch, very nice, some of you I know, nice to "see" you again.
I'm hoping I got the customizing bit right, I always suck at that.
Here's a few pics of the olivaceous, taken a week or two ago, there is of course a long sorted story behind the grays, but for the record I did not solicit or buy this species, the animals were given to me in a rescue type scenario.
Ben
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07-05-13, 09:05 PM
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Re: Checking out the forums/new old guy
You have more than one??? What do you feed these guys and what species would you relate them too with regards to behavior / demeanor? Does anyone else in the U.S. have these?
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07-05-13, 09:14 PM
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Re: Checking out the forums/new old guy
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You have more than one??? What do you feed these guys and what species would you relate them too with regards to behavior / demeanor? Does anyone else in the U.S. have these?
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Yes, these questions: lol We love monitors here and will gladly read whatever you want to take the time to write regarding yours.
Welcome to the forum!!
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