10 March 04

My name is Homer Faucett, and I'm a certifiable frog fiend. It all started when I was five years of age and I constantly brought home salamanders, toads, and box turtles from the woods behind our house in bucolic Indiana. Of course, I grew up as a science junkie in school, and my father's hobby of raising killifish became my own. I went off to college to study biology, biochem, and business, and left my bug culturing and animal husbandry days behind me. After all, the roaming life of a college student oft in the lab late is not beneficial to humanely keeping animals of any sort.

As days followed one after another, I graduated, was married, and went off to grad school--law school to be precise. We moved into a small house in the country where I commuted into school, and one day during a very dull international business law lecture, I did a google search on poison dart frogs. Low and behold, people were actually successfully keeping these little jewels and even breeding them! Since I had saved all of my calendars with dart frog pics from years past, I knew I had to start finding out as much as possible about keeping these guys. One thing led to another, and as a poor grad student I built my own 55 gallon terrarium (glass and all) for about $60. That was a little over a year ago, so I'm still quite a newbie. I now keep 5 species of darts, and I'm waiting for my first woo-hoo any time now.

I just want to thank all of you who have helped me, whether you know it or not, through the info contained in these posts. I really enjoy the academic exchange that occurs here with the encouragement to question "why" without fear of reprisal when positions are challenged. I hope to get to know you all better, and I thank you for your time.

Thank you for the warm welcome everyone. Upon review, it looks like I should have clarified that I have since graduated from law school and practice Intellectual Property law in a firm in Indianapolis, Indiana, so I still get to use my bio degree from time to time in my line of work, and I often get to see applications of new discoveries well before publication.

Sincerely,

Homer Faucett III, esq.

"Purveyor of Trivialities and Fine Nonsense."


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