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  1. Pacarana

    Pacarana Well-Known Member

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    This is my collection so far. Hopefully it will get bigger.

    1.2 Neon blue gliding lizards (Holaspis guentheri)

    1.2 Tropical Girdled Lizard (Cordylus tropidosternum)

    I will be starting a breeding colony of Lygodactylus ( Electric Blue Gecko, Lygodactylus Picturatus, and Kimhowelli )

    Along with Lygodactylus, I hope to have a couple of different species of Cordylus. The Tropical Girdled Lizards I have now, are the true Cordylus tropidosternum. I hope to get C. Jonsii, C. Ukinga, and C. berrraduci. Each have small distinct ssp. feature to them but still need to be breed to the specific species. I hope to get them as quickly as possible so there is no more in breeding between these species. Also, in the near future, I'm planing on grabbing a pair of C. Mozambicus and C. Rhodesianus. If I'm ever super lucky, I'll happen upon a true Armadillo Lizard (C. Cataphractus ), Giant Sungazer (C. gigantus), and other Cordylus species.

    The big collection I plane on having will mainly feature small mammals, reptiles, and other unusual less commonly kept animals.

    I would be very interested in Cavy type animals. Capybara, Mara, Rock Cavy, Paca, Pacarana, Springhare, Agouti, Viscacha, and Porcupines.

    Other rodents would be: Dormice, Gundis, and Bamboo Rats.

    I would love to have a couple of bats, Mainly Megabats, but I will take Micro too. I would want as many Armadillo species I can get, and tree shrews and Elephant shrews. Malagasy specific animals intrigue me as well. The most realistic I can get we these animals is Ring tailed Lemur, Ruffed Lemurs, and Brown Lemurs. Fossa and Malagasy Civet, along with a couple species of tenrecs.

    Other unusual animals would be:

    Raccoon Dog
    Black Striped Jackel
    New Guinea Singing Dog
    Fox species (Fennec, Red, Gray, Arctic, and Corsac )
    Wildcat ( European, African, Desert )
    Leopard Cats
    Fishing Cats
    Eurasian Lynx
    Cloud Rats ( southern, northern, panay )
    Marbled Polecat
    Marmosets and Tamarins
    Hyena
    Rock Hyrax
    Aardvark

    For birds I would get large flightless birds, exotic fowl, finches, birds of prey, and many species of pheasant.
     
  2. Gforrestersmith

    Gforrestersmith Well-Known Member

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    I know what I want if I had a Private Collection: Sloth Bears, Gorillas, Chimps, Bonobos, Orangutans, Gibbons, Babirusa, Lowland Anoa, Clouded Leopards, Maned Wolves, Capybara, Fennec Foxes, Meerkats, Aardvarks, Mongooses, Porcupines, Various Tamiran and Marmoset Species, Asian Small Clawed Otters, Giant Otters, Pudu, Rock Hyrax, Various Lemur Species, Striped Hyenas, Japanese Macaques, Various African Monkey Species Including ManDrills, Flying Foxes, Two Toed Sloths, Little Blue Penguins, Cassowarys, Flamingoes, Caracaras, Various Parrot and HornBill Species, Bali Myah, SpoonBill, Ibis, Black Necked Slilt, Various Crane Species, Inca Terns, Marabou Storks, Griffin and King Vultures, Other Bird Species, Komodo Dragons, Cuban Crocodiles, Indian Gharial, Water Monitors, Anacondas, Burmese Pythons, Tree Boas, Other Snake Species, Various Tortoise Species, and Various Frog Species.
     
  3. Pacarana

    Pacarana Well-Known Member

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    I have a recent update on my animals. Today at 10:30 a.m. I will be getting 1.0 Neon Gliding Lizards and 2.0 Flame Bellied Girdled Lizards. I'll post pictures of these animals soon.
     
  4. ungulate nerd

    ungulate nerd Well-Known Member

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    here is a list of pets i used to have that i no longer have

    Mammals-

    Domestic rabbit
    Domestic rat
    Syrian hamster
    Guinea pig

    Birds-

    Pacific parrotlet
    Budgeriger
    Sun conure
    Meyers parrot
    Peach faced lovebird
    Cockatiel
    Fischers lovebird

    Reptiles/amphibians-

    Red sided garter snake
    Oriental fire belly toad
    Japanese fire belly newt
    Bearded dragon
    leopard gecko
    African dwarf clawed frog
    Red eared slider
    Malayan box turtle
    Russian tortoise

    Fish-

    clown loach
    Spiny eel
    Hypostomus
    Beta fish
    Goldfish
    Koi fish


    Invertabrates-

    land hermit crab
    craw fish

    this is what i could remember off the top of my head
     
  5. Maisie

    Maisie Well-Known Member

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    Permanent residents:
    6 European magpies (pica pica): 3 outdoors, 3 in the house
    2 starlings (sturnus vulgaris)
    1 sparrow (passer domesticus)
    2 azure-winged magpies (cyanopica cyanus)

    Temporary residents currently 2 long-term carrion crows (corvus corone) but subject to change at short notice!
     
  6. LizardInsanity

    LizardInsanity Well-Known Member

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    A house full of animals
    I still have yet to come up with a name for my fantasy park. But I want to show you guys some of the parts I have done anyway.

    Species Lists;

    Rattlesnake Canyon -
    Mojave Rattlesnake
    Western Diamond Back Rattlesnake
    Albino Western Diamond Back Rattlesnake
    Black Tailed Rattlesnake
    Timber Rattlesnake
    Pygmy Rattlesnake
    Northern Pacific Rattlesnake
    Gila Monster
    Chuckwalla
    Desert Spiny Tailed Iguana
    Desert Iguana
    Texas Horned Toad
    Desert Tortoise
    Various cacti, succulents, agaves, and other arid land plants.

    Alligator Bayou -
    American Alligators, including Albinos.
    Eastern Diamond Back Rattlesnake
    Northern Water Moccasin
    Southern Copperhead
    Florida Rough Green Snake
    Florida Garter Snake
    Florida Indigo Snake
    Various pond turtles
    Common and Alligator Snapping Turtles.

    Safari Trail -
    Spotted Hyena
    African Serval
    Ocelot
    African Crested Porcupine
    Capybara
    Giant Anteater
    Two Toed Sloth
    Hairy Anteater
    Ring Tailed Lemur
    Bennet's Wallaby
    Raccoons
    Virginia Opossum
    Asian Short Clawed Otter
    Giant Straw Colored Fruit Bat
    Aardvark
    Meerkat
    Greater Bushbaby
    Dwarf Caiman
    Red Footed Tortoise
    Green Iguana
    Black Throat Monitor
    Veiled Chameleon
    Various Macaws, Cockatoos, and Parrots.



    Thats it for tonight ( its 2:13 am).
     
  7. groundskeeper24

    groundskeeper24 Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    My pets:

    5 yr old male border collie
    2 black kittens, 1 male, 1 female (belong to my wife)

    Animals I keep:
    3 year old blue tegu.
    8 year old red ridgetail monitor
    4 year old Egyptian uromastyx
    8 month old green tree python
    11 month old South African leopard tortoise

    I've had them all since they were hatchlings with the exception of the tortoise. I spend most of my non-working part of the day caring for them. The tortoise is the most work, as I'm doing everything I possibly can in terms of diet and humidity to encourage smooth shell growth. He's grown a lot since I bought him and he eats like a horse. I even grow grass for him in a separate container. All have been very rewarding charges.
     
  8. coffeepheasant

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    MY BIRD PARK

    My current collection consists of :
    a spaniel,
    a cocketial,
    a cat,
    2 horses,
    20 chickens,
    5 ducks,
    2 geese,
    golden pheasants,
    lady amherst pheasants,
    reeves pheasants,
    silver pheasants and
    quail.
    I have a real passion for birds !!! and one day i will have my own bird park :D In my park i would specialise in Galiformes, especially Cracidae( curassows, guans and chachalacas).
    I would split my park into sections based on the geographical locations of the birds:
    NEW GUINEA

    Walk through flight....king bird of paradise,
    blue bird of paradise,
    rifleman,
    victoria crowned pigeons,
    green naped pigeon pheasants,
    count raggiana bird of paradise,
    vogelkops bowerbird,
    wilson's bird of paradise,
    zebra doves.

    Dwarf cassowary,
    single wattled cassowary.
    SOUTH AMERICA

    walk through flight... cock of the rock,
    purple throated fruitdove,
    sunbittern,
    hoatzin,
    scarlet ibis,
    rosette spoonbill,
    greywinged trumpeter,
    sun conure,
    spot billed toucanet,
    white faced whistling duck,
    two toed sloth( not a bird but very cool :) )

    Tropical house
    amazilla hummingbird,
    spatuala tailed hummingbird,
    peruvian sunstar,
    giant hummingbird,
    marbled wood quail,
    rufous breasted wood quail,
    striped wood quail.

    Cracidae aviaries.
    great curassow,
    helmeted curassow,
    razor billed curassow,
    crestless curassow,
    nocturnal curassow,
    bare faced curassow,
    red billed curassow,
    blue billed curassow,
    baudo guan,
    crested guan,
    andean guan,
    marail guan,
    horned guan,
    black guan,
    highland guan.

    NEW ZEALAND

    walk through aviary..... kakapo,
    kaka,
    saddleback,
    weka,
    new zealand pigeon,
    koako,
    blue duck,
    new zealand brown teal.

    Nocturnal house..

    brown kiwi,
    spotted kiwi.

    This is a greatly reduced list but any wierd and interesting bird and i love it. kind regards coffee pheasant.
     
  9. grafxman

    grafxman Active Member

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    There's nothing beautiful or exotic about it but my aunt and uncle love it to bits. It's one of the few wild birds in the USA that can kept as a pet since it's not a native. They let it fly around the house.

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  10. Maisie

    Maisie Well-Known Member

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    I don't know about "nothing beautiful about it". Sparrows are lovely delicate shades of brown when you see them close up. This is our house sparrow, Buffy, taking a nap on Chris's leg:

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    Sparrows are also packed with far more personality than their size suggests. They're "sparrogant" and very quick to voice their opinion if you do something they don't approve of ;)
     
  11. Norwegian moose

    Norwegian moose Well-Known Member

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    In the future I would like to have this private collection. I would like to live on a farm, and the farm animals and larger exotic mammals would live in a barn. While most of the smaller mammals, dogs, cats, birds, reptiles, amphibians, inverts and fish would live inside the house. Although the birds, dogs and some of the small mammals would have access to outdoor aviaries and yards. While other ones like the skunk and cats would be semi-free ranging in the house. I would have a mega aquarium in the basement, rodents spread through the house and reptiles in the bed room:). A greenhouse would create an extension to one side of the house, holding butterflies. While the lemurs, koi carps and tortoises in the summer are found in the garden. Off course this would cost much money, and I think I would have to hire at least five people to take care of the animals, in adition to me and my wife. I would live in Germany or The UK, and I have tried to use animals that are legal there. I have also tried to take a little bit of each, focusing on mammals, and animals that are common and readily available. In stead of adding a few more animals I would like to have, like meerkats, coatimundis, kinkajous, racoons, hyacinth macaws, more pheasants, finches, lizards and saltwater fish. Here is the list of animal species and the number of specimens I would like to have in my private collection:

    Dog: 5
    Cat: 5
    Ferret: 2
    Striped skunk: 1
    Fennec fox: 2
    Rabbit: 4
    Guinea pig: 4
    Fancy rat: 4
    Syrian hamster: 1
    Mongolian gerbil: 4
    Long-tailed chinchilla: 4
    Degu: 4
    African pygmy hedgehog: 2
    Common marmoset: 2
    Ring-tailed lemur: 10
    Sugar glider: 2
    Blue-and-yellow macaw: 4
    Red-and-green macaw: 2
    Blue-fronted amazon: 2
    African grey parrot: 2
    Yellow-crested cockatoo: 2
    Cockatiel: 4
    Rainbow lorikeet:10
    Yellow-collared lovebird: 4
    Budgerigar: 6
    Zebra finch: 6
    Common hill myna: 1
    Toco toucan: 2
    Domestic pigeon: 10
    Central bearded dragon: 3
    Blotched blue-tongued skink: 1
    Green iguana: 2
    Chinese water dragon: 4
    Leopard gecko: 2
    Nile monitor: 1
    Corn snake: 4
    Milk snake: 4
    Indian python: 2
    Ball python: 2
    Spur-thighed tortoise: 2
    Red-eared slider: 4
    Spectacled caiman: 2
    White's tree frog: 2
    Axolotl: 4
    Mexican red-kneed tarantula: 1
    Indian stick insect: 10
    Monarch butterfly: 10
    Blue morpho butterfly: 10
    Goldfish: 6
    Platy: 10
    Guppy: 10
    Green swordtail: 10
    Freshwater angelfish: 6
    Ocellaris clownfish: 5
    Yellow tang: 2
    Red-bellied piranha: 10
    Black pacu: 6
    Arapaima: 2
    Oscar: 6
    African lungfish: 1
    Koi: 10
    Sheep: 20
    Cattle: 20
    Goat: 6
    Pig: 6
    Horse: 4
    Donkey: 2
    Llama: 4
    Plains zebra: 4
    Common eland: 4
    Ostrich: 4
    Yak: 4
    Bactrian camel: 4
    Fallow deer: 6
    Maned sheep: 6
    European mouflon: 6
    Emu: 4
    Red-necked wallaby: 4
    Capybara: 4
    Patagonian cavy: 4
    Greater rhea: 4
    Chicken: 10
    Indian peafowl: 4
    Turkey: 4
    Golden pheasant: 2
    Domestic duck: 6
    Domestic geese: 6
    Mallard: 6

    439 animal individuals, if I counted correctly
    89 animal species, if I counted correctly
     
  12. Norwegian moose

    Norwegian moose Well-Known Member

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    What do you think about my private collection idea?
     
  13. stubeanz

    stubeanz Well-Known Member

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    All those species are easily obtainable but as you have said you would need some staff for that many animals, these cost money as does the heating, the lighting, the waters supply, so I hope you have a highly paid job also added to that wish list :D
     
  14. kbaker116

    kbaker116 Well-Known Member

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    Looks good Norwegian moose! As stubeanz said this collection isn't going to be cheap. Besides a well paying job I would also recommend you consider focusing your collection as farm/business. Although a lot of these animals are expensive to keep, consider breeding some to be profitable. This would help you to at least offset your costs if not pay for it itself if done correctly. That is how I run my reptile collection, and that allows me to keep an enjoyable collection while still being a poor college student. Just something to consider.
     
  15. cloudedleopard

    cloudedleopard Well-Known Member

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    My collection would be farm animals, easy to get exotic birds (zebra finch, parrots, etc.). and maybe a few small mammals (rabbits, degus etc.). It would expand as I got more money to include a native animals area and then a full-fledged zoo.
     
  16. Norwegian moose

    Norwegian moose Well-Known Member

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    Actually my plan is to own a large zoo in adition to this private collection. In that way I could pay the costs of the private collection. Although owning and working in a zoo would take much time, so therefore I want to hire some people to work for me at home, in addition to my future wife;) I also maybe want to open up a bed and breakfast service at my property. This would make money as well. And I am considering your breed to sell some animals aproach. But nevertheless Im still dreaming yet. However I hope the dream will come true:)
     
  17. Cassidy Casuar

    Cassidy Casuar Well-Known Member Premium Member 5+ year member

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    If I had a private collection, I would make sure that all of the non-domestic animals that I would hold would be proven pure-bred specimens; not carrying the blood of related species or other subspecies; I would have the animals that I would hold DNA tested for this to happen. This way, it would be possible to have animals such as purebred Red Junglefowl and Lady Amherst's Pheasant in a secure state in captivity.
     
  18. FrightyDog

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    One day, I plan to open up a biodiversity sanctuary (take sperm [and eggs if possible] from different creatures and keep it stored.) Cloning is a real thing, and it is not perfect but it can be done. I would also like to keep a storage room for that genetic material. BUT to the question I would have a large variety of canids (FrightyDOG);
    (non canid) a fossa (they are so adorable)
    A small pack of African Wild Dogs
    A breeding pair (for conservation) of Maned Wolves (they are hard to breed in captivity and they mate for life)
    What are canines without a pack of wolves? 4-6 timber wolves to be exact
    A pair of golden jackals
    Rescue coyotes of red foxes (wild ones that intrude people's homes in America)
    a pack of dholes
    And an array of foxes such as fennec and bat eared :) I love the canidae family, but imagine all that meat? I do plan to own all of those one day. In a public research facility that acts as mostly museum with part zoo :p I don't like the ideas of zoos too much because of zoochosis. I saw a fossa pacing endlessly in its cage which is the size a small master bedroom. It was depressing to see such low stimluation at the LA zoo :(
     
  19. squirrelmonkey

    squirrelmonkey Well-Known Member

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    When i am older (still in school) i plan to do a honours degree in biology. After that i plan to save for a while and then open a small educational zoo. I would hope to have a range of reptile and amphibians which would include a range of gecko species, bearded dragons, range of snake species, tree frogs and salamanders. I already have crested gecko. I would then hope to get some small mammals like marmosets, tamarins and lemurs (especially red ruffed). I also think an enclosure with capybara, rhea, tapir and mara would be very cool and i also would definitely have to have squirrel monkeys!
     
  20. Ortolan bunting

    Ortolan bunting Well-Known Member

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    my private collection would be a green house with different butterflies
    and some aviaries with birds like Gouldian finch (Erythrura gouldiae),
    masked finch (Poephila personata),palm cockatoo (Probosciger aterrimus),
    cockatiel (Nymphicus hollandicus),Chinese pheasant, (Chrysolophus pictus),
    crested guineafowl (Guttera pucherani) and Madagascar lovebird (Agapornis canus).

    i would also have banded mongoose (Mungos mungo),golden-headed lion tamarin (Leontopithecus chrysomelas) and black lion tamarin (Leontopithecus chrysopygus).