yup wolfy, you know me, i'm not about to leap into anything without researching, it'd be after xmas before i could afford anything anyway so that gives me time to decide what i wan and do some research. also i still have to convince Ian that I should have another pet, generally not too hard though we ususally have to try and convince each other not to buy more animals rather than the other way around.
they had some beautiful lizards in the pet shop that they let us handle when we went in, can't remember the name of the species but they need a 6'3'3' viv and were £450 for the pair and we were still looking at each other with that look in your eye that says 'we don't really need a sofa do we, could fit a nice 6 foot viv in the living room if we sit on the floor from now on'
anyway thanks for the suggestions everyone, the hognose is sooooooo cute!!! what size viv do they need?
legless lizards could be an interesting option, got any suggestions for small species, i don't mind if they're a little expensive or hard to get hold of (so long as it is actually possible to get them anyway!), we're always happy to wait for the pet shop to order in anything special for us. with limited space for pets we'd always rather wait a couple of months and get something we really want rather than rush it and get whats available and then find we regret it later.
i don't mind venemous actually, don't want anything that's super dangerous but not phased by the possibility of a slight reaction occasionally.
got a snake question, we were talking to the lads in the et shop about the whole survive/thrive thing, saying with fish and other pets we don't tend to keep them in the minimum tank size, we almost always go a little bit bigger so that they have a brilliant living space rather than an adequate one. he said it doesn't work like that with snakes and they don't like to have too much space, it freaks them out. is that true or just the pet shop spinning us a line?!