I'm talking about legal in the UK kind of pets.

A friend of mine keeps exotic amphibians and has

Ceratophrys AKA Pacman Frog

and some

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A huge great toad. I've no idea what sort of toad it was, but it was an enormous bugger.

We used to have fire bellied toads, which released some sort of poison (think it was salmonella) so we had to wash our hands after holding them.
We also had newts, Geckos and some sort of snake.
My sister also had some Giant land snails.

But we aint allowed pets where we live now so we had to give them up.

Someone I know used to have Iguanas. They had their own bedroom in the house & used a cat litter tray. Interesting creatures!!

iguanas are horrible, don;t make good pets at all

as for exotics, college just got a raccoon in from someone who kept her as a pet
my friend has a lovely ball python - (i'll give you 3 chances to guess his name )

myself, i'd love to get a pair of fennec foxes

the most exotic thing i have at the moment is an albino red tailed shark

Probably some of the snake species less commonly kept as pets. (I keep corn snakes myself but as pet snakes go, they're pretty common)

Such as:

African Egg Eating Snake
Burmese Pythons (they get HUGE)
Various Tree Pythons (incredible looking snakes but you have to be careful how you handle them .... they have quite a bite)

I had a pet earwig for a while when I was younger. He lived on fish food flakes.

Some of the stuff people keep in marine fish tanks is pretty nuts as well. Lion Fish anyone?

I keep some unusual animals. Caecilians, Amphisbaena, Lesser Tenrecs, a Mudskipper, a Lungfish, freshwater crabs, and quite a few other exotic species.

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You're the guy with the brackish tanks aren't you?

I also keep an Egg Eating Snake, Dasypeltis scabra, what species do you keep?

Yeah, I have a brackish tank, theres a Mudskipper, a Knight Goby as well as a Nerite in it to control algae.

I just have a few corn morphs.

Just a normal, amel and snow at the moment. But have had the amel and snow for the thick end of 20 years.

I looked into getting an egg eater myself a while back but we don't really have the space for any more vivs.

One thing I do wonder .... where on earth do you buy a mudskipper?!?!?

Not something I'd expect to find in you average pet shop!

I got it from a local aquatics shop, most should be able to order them in, they arent commonly seen in shops at the moment though I think?

I saw a camen (small crocodile type creature) for sale in a pet shop once. The most exotic pet I've ever had was a corn snake.

Italian Greyhound

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Our local petshop has two Meerkats for sale .

£3,400 for the pair !!

I must have only been four, but apparently I and some family saw it near our house.

It's Hercules the bear. A pet, a wrestler and actor.

I have no idea how-much it cost, but I'm willing to bet it was a fortune, or was worth a fortune:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/d...00/2516041.stm

I have a chinese water dragon and am in the process on building a bearded dragon vivarium,our nearest pet store sells a variety of exotic pets such as chameleons,gecko's,green basilisks and iguanas,anoles,turtles,they have lots of parrots and a huge selection of marine and tropical fish,plus our local Dobbies has started selling reptiles so its ideal for me.

I've kept Iguanas and a Burmese Rock Python, but I'd say the most exoctic I've seen kept is a either a Mangrove snake or Monitor lizard (want one of these myself) and knew of someone who had a Black Mamba although that wasen't in the UK.

Quite a few years ago now I saw a really unusual animal in a pet shop. I can't remember what it was called but I'd never heard of it or seen one before. I suppose it was a reptile of some kind, not from this country. It was in a dry glass box and it was about the size of a tortoise and quite similar I suppose but it had like pointed scales all over it. It was like a miniature dinosaur almost. It was a few hundred pounds and the last one he would have as imports had been banned since he aquired it. ( Thats if they were ever legal in the first place, it's just what the shop owner told me. )

In my time, i've had:

Burmese Albino Python (just like Whitney's though I never wrapped him around my neck)

2 Boa Constrictors

1 American Bull Snake that was so vicious it used to try and attack you so hard through the glass if you passed it. We could actually hear it attacking the glass from the bedroom below

2 stingrays and an Asian Arrowana