Eric Adrignola
Avid Member
I'm going to get back into things when I buy a house. I've been a RN for a little over a year now. New career, new life, etc. Moved into a friend's house for a short while until I get a house - only THEN will I get back into things. I would never even think about breeding cockroaches in someone ELSE's house!
I'll probably get some deremensis, jackson's and eventually melleri. I'd like to have a panther or two, down the road.
I'm hoping it isn't more than a year. Until then, I'll look around the forums and find interesting stuff to talk about. this is interesting stuff.
My old CB melleri was named Ardi, as a sort of sarcastic nod to Ardi Abate. I loved talking to her. She got a bit funny down the road, she seemed guilt-ridden. I guess I figured at the time, that she got ALL the calls from struggling hobbyists. It's almost like she was the 911 operator due to her status in the CIN. Anyone that had a horror story or sick chameleon called her. I felt sad.
The last time I talked to her, she was telling me that she was trying to get melleri banned, as they posed a very dangerous public health hazard due to the "retrovirus" they harbored. This was deadly to all other reptiles in the area, could possibly be passed through the air, and was transferred to the babies whilst still developing as eggs in the female...
I was only a teenager, but I knew that they were not going to be spending the money to identify a virus as a RETROVIRUS in a lizard. She believed melleri were impossible to keep, and that they should all be banned - even CB! When I got my CB from Kristina, I had to name him Ardi. For all the good things she taught me, and a little sarcasm too.
I'll probably get some deremensis, jackson's and eventually melleri. I'd like to have a panther or two, down the road.
I'm hoping it isn't more than a year. Until then, I'll look around the forums and find interesting stuff to talk about. this is interesting stuff.
My old CB melleri was named Ardi, as a sort of sarcastic nod to Ardi Abate. I loved talking to her. She got a bit funny down the road, she seemed guilt-ridden. I guess I figured at the time, that she got ALL the calls from struggling hobbyists. It's almost like she was the 911 operator due to her status in the CIN. Anyone that had a horror story or sick chameleon called her. I felt sad.
The last time I talked to her, she was telling me that she was trying to get melleri banned, as they posed a very dangerous public health hazard due to the "retrovirus" they harbored. This was deadly to all other reptiles in the area, could possibly be passed through the air, and was transferred to the babies whilst still developing as eggs in the female...
I was only a teenager, but I knew that they were not going to be spending the money to identify a virus as a RETROVIRUS in a lizard. She believed melleri were impossible to keep, and that they should all be banned - even CB! When I got my CB from Kristina, I had to name him Ardi. For all the good things she taught me, and a little sarcasm too.
