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@the-reptile-girl / the-reptile-girl.tumblr.com

My name is Emily. I'm 20 years old and live in the north bay area of California. I currently maintain a moderate size collection of reptiles. I'm hoping to blog about my sometimes funny life with reptiles and other reptile stuff! My dream is to breed...
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It happened.

Hey Tumblr, it’s been a while, 5 months to be precise. 

On February 13th, my mom passed away after a 4 year long fight with cancer. My family, myself, and her friends were with her when she passed. Life hasn’t been the same since then.

I’m still at my job at Wonderful World and doing great. I’m one of the only employees right now so a lot of the weight lands on me- I have to feed hundreds of animals on top of packing shipments of several hundreds, even thousands of animals. It’s really stressful right now and will be until we get more help. 

Since February, I’ve:

- purchased my first car

- hatched my first clutch of ball python eggs (pastel yellow belly x ivory) and hatched 5 ivories/pastel ivories out of 6 eggs. The last was a pastel yellow belly

- hatched over 40 leopard geckos

- gotten 2 raises at work

- played with a domestic fox

- hatched my first crested gecko

-  went to Germany

- eliminated most of my rat feeder breeder colony

- watched several clutches of hognose hatch

- witnessed a palmetto corn hatching

- watched sinaloans hatch

- found out of one my “female” leopard geckos was actually a male

... And probably a lot of other stuff, I guess that’s all I felt was worthy or funny enough to share. I dunno, feel free to message me or stuff. I’m not sure how often I’ll be on here- maybe a bit this week when I’m on vacation.

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Perks of My Job

- I get to play with baby snakes every week (AKA feed, water, and change them)

- I get to see a ton of cool species of reptiles

- I get to play with baby leopard geckos

- The building is always 80 degrees

- I learn new stuff every day about different species

- I love my job

- I love my job

- My job rocks

Cons of working at my job

- The building is fucking 80 degrees all the time, and it’s not even summer yet

- My main job is draining and cleaning turtle tanks

- I get bit by stuff a lot

- Unfortunately, stuff dies. Animals that come to us are sometimes sick, or fail to thrive. (We never sell anything that is sick, and we do our best to try to get them back up to health.)

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Anonymous asked:

did u get my present!!!!

I did!! I’m sorry, I’ve been super busy. :( I haven’t been on for a while. And I really wanted to take a picture of my geckos enjoying their yummy pangea and tag you in it.

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HEHHEHE good. I went on anon in case you hadn’t gotten it yet, didn’t wanna spoil the surprise. B) I WANNA SEE IT THOUGH <3 

I defiantly will post one :) I think I have some time tomorrow to do it.

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Anonymous asked:

did u get my present!!!!

I did!! I'm sorry, I've been super busy. :( I haven't been on for a while. And I really wanted to take a picture of my geckos enjoying their yummy pangea and tag you in it.

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greylilacs

Quick!

Name an animal you’d keep as a pet if you could provide everything it ever needed and, by keeping this animal as a pet, you received a grant to pay for everything it required.

Moroccan Uromastyx or a Columbian Tegu probs!

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snakesnoots

i’d keep a chameleon or a boa constrictor in a heartbeat!

I would have an Orca, if it was somehow possible to keep them in a place that provided them with enough space, interaction with their families, and just over all happiness.

I think it would be cool to “own” a wild orca. Like you kind of just paid for it, but it stayed in the wild. But you could get a boat and go out and see it whenever the pod was around. Idk.

CHEETAH CHEETAH CHEETAH

Sailfin dragon!!

honestly if I could own a horse rn that would be incredible

A herd of Radiated Tortoises. 

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myreptiles

In case you or any of your followers needs a new tank-Petco is having its dollar per gallon sale. That's the best time to grab a 40B, over 50% off. Not a great sale for fish tanks because the filter and everything gets expensive, but perfect if you need a bigger tank or are planning on adding a reptile soon. I think the sale ends around January 23, but I could be wrong.

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YES. All of my reptile owning followers should read this. Petco’s $1 per gallon sale is awesome!

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