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04-24-03, 10:51 AM
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Join Date: Sep-2002
Location: Ontario
Posts: 881
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This is for all who have more than one reptile.
I would like to know how often you handle your reptiles?
I wonder those of you who have 50 animals or more manage to handle each and every one.
I handle each of my animals for 30minutes a day ore sometimes more.
Last edited by nuno; 04-24-03 at 10:57 AM..
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04-24-03, 10:53 AM
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Join Date: Apr-2002
Posts: 412
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I have 3 snakes and I handle them almost daily, but I imagine it's a lot harder for someone with, say, 50 snakes to handle ALL of them on a regular basis.
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04-24-03, 11:09 AM
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Join Date: Oct-2002
Location: Montreal
Age: 50
Posts: 1,455
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I have 8 snakes and 4 geckos now, and will handle my snakes about 2-3 times a week about 20 minutes or so. The geckos get handled every 1-2 days for 5-10 minutes each.
Pixie
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04-24-03, 11:21 AM
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Join Date: Mar-2005
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I have to many to list. I wish I could handle them more but I only have so much time. I have decided to only add to species I already own and can be housed together. Except I still want a trio of Gulf coast box turtles. I do not want to stretch myself to thin. But I am going to stop watching so much TV after the NBA playoffs are over  So I will find the time. -Tim
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04-24-03, 12:10 PM
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#5
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Join Date: Jul-2002
Posts: 4,768
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With 20+ snakes some unfortunately only get touched during cage cleaning.
Cheers,
Tevor
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04-24-03, 03:53 PM
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Join Date: Apr-2003
Location: England
Age: 36
Posts: 558
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I have two snakes and i feed them on different days so it is easyer to work out the handleing schedule, but my Bp likes being out of his viv and it can be difficult to get him to stay in it when i open the lid to clean water or to put him back so he is usually out for longer than planned, and i almost lose my corn everytime she comes out (she is so fast). But i spend roughly half an hour to an hour each on handleing them.
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04-24-03, 04:12 PM
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Join Date: Oct-2002
Location: Portland, Maine
Age: 44
Posts: 261
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I ave nine snakes and a monitor. I handle the two BPs, the boa and the hognose on Mon-Wed-Fri for about 15 minutes each. The othe five snakes get handled the same amount of time on Tues-Thur-Sat. No one gets handled on Sunday, because that is my cage cleaning day. The monitor will need to be handled every day, but I just bought her last weekend, so I haven't handled her yet.
- Victoria :w
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04-24-03, 04:16 PM
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Member
Join Date: Feb-2003
Location: Kansas City
Age: 48
Posts: 577
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I have my few that I handle alot, then I have some breeders that like has been said before, only get handled when we clean the enclosures.
Most the snakes in my gallery are the ones that get messed with the most!
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04-24-03, 04:32 PM
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Member
Join Date: Sep-2002
Location: Canada
Age: 37
Posts: 1,722
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i have 25+ Snakes. they are handled during shows and cage cleaning. and if an animal does not go to shows i will handle it when i am on the internet or watching tv.
Jordan
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"I Don't Get Mad, I Get Even!"
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04-24-03, 07:06 PM
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Member
Join Date: Jun-2002
Location: Trenton
Posts: 6,075
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Some of our snakes get handled every day some get handled once a week, depends on the animal. the burms get handled every day where the kings get handled once a week.
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04-24-03, 07:12 PM
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Join Date: Mar-2003
Location: Langley B.C.
Age: 38
Posts: 756
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I handle them whenever there is no real routine I pull each one out like 2 times a week maybe more or less
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04-24-03, 07:17 PM
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Join Date: Mar-2003
Location: Dallas, Texas
Posts: 1,010
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i handle my snakes about 1 time a day but some times 2-3. i handle certen anamals more often then others depending on how tame they are. like i handle my burm as much as i can. she i very docile now and i want her to STAY that way. but my ball who is just a sweet heart i dont handle as much. bucause i could manage to get taged by 5 foot ball. but the last thing in hell i would want is to get taged by a 17 foot burm!
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04-29-03, 01:04 AM
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Member
Join Date: Apr-2003
Location: Toronto
Age: 47
Posts: 262
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I guess I am kind of different from you guys becos my two reptiles are both lizards, a green lacerta and a giant day gecko. I handled the lacerta around once or twice a week- less in the past two months because I over-handled it at the beginning and she got so stressed out that the color of her head turned dark into purple-ish green. I left her alone most of the time for the past two months and the color is gradually coming back. You probably can see the differences from the two pictures I posted in the gallery. And I dun handle the Day Gecko at all because she doesn't like to be touched. Her skin get rip easily when being handled and her color would turn into a dullish green when it's stressed out. I didn't know that when I bought her (around 3 weeks ago) and it was not a pretty sight. Part of her tail came off when I tried to stop her from escaping and her skin got ripped pretty badly. Her tail is growing back now but I heard it won't look as nice as the original one, so I was lucky that only a small part came off.
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04-29-03, 02:25 AM
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Member
Join Date: Mar-2003
Location: Kingston Ontario
Age: 46
Posts: 1,805
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well i have about 25 or more reptiles and it is hard to hold them all every day but most of them are out every day for a bit mostly my big snake's
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05-02-03, 07:25 PM
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Join Date: Oct-2002
Location: Central Ontario
Age: 48
Posts: 1,054
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I handle my 2 snakes and adult leo whenever I have the time, which isn't that often with 2 jobs... the corn tends to get jumpy if I go longer than 4 days without handling her for at least 15 min though, but he's getting better (it was really bad during the month the only time I had for him was feeding and cleaning)
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