Website Owner:
| Hi, my
name is Ed Fong. As kids we've kept just about every kind
of pet you can think of, from cats and dogs to guinea pigs, rabbits and
mice. Somewhere in between, we also had pigeons, chickens, bantams and
ducks. Let's just say, it got to a stage where mum and dad was no
longer surprised to find a new pet in the yard, when they came
home from work. My brother and I started keeping birds in 1976 when I was 14 years old. I stopped keeping birds in 1985 due to some minor disruptions in my life, like finishing university, starting work, getting married, buying a house, and having kids. I am currently working as a systems analyst in the finance sector. |
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The bird
bug bit in
October 2004,
it started off with
one aviary, then
another popped up, after 2 years,
5 aviaries had sprung up from nowhere. Around December 2006, I
constructed a pond out the back, and filled it with Lionhead goldfish.
We
also have a Maltese Terrier (called Muffin) and a Shih Tzu
(called
Bella), my backyard is
fast resembling Taronga Park Zoo. I'm not sure how
much further I can push my luck with
the 'Mrs', but one day when they
become
more common and the price becomes affordable I'd like to add a couple
of albino blue
tongues to the menagerie.
In 2003,
armed with a keen interest in the world
wide web, I set up the user id scrapcollecta on eBay so that my
daughters could sell their scrapbooking products from home and
earn a bit of pocket money. As time passed, they moved into
selling books. BirdSale.com.au ,
launched July 8th, 2007, is the natural progression from this
eBay venture, further consolidating my pastime in computing and
aviculture.
In early May
2008, I
made the mistake of taking my 10 year old daughter
to the Frog & Reptile Show at Castle Hill, she decided then
and there, that she wanted a pet snake. Having no
experience at keeping reptiles before, we came to a compromise of
getting a pair of bearded dragons instead. Within a few weeks
(the time it took to get my reptile license) we aquired our first
reptiles, a pair of adult yellow phase Bearded Dragons from a
Sydney reptilekeeper who was moving to Tasmania.
Unlike
the hobby of aviculture, where there are many annual sales held
by the various bird clubs, I discovered that aquiring a unique
reptile at a decent price wasn't as easy as buying a parrot or a
finch. The hobby of herpetology is not quite as well established
as aviculture is, however, I can state that it
is growing at
an phenomenal
rate. As a result of the difficulties that I've experienced in
tracking down our High Yellow phase Beardies, I decided to set up
ReptileSale.com.au which links
together all
the best websites for buying and selling frogs & reptiles on
the web.
The products which I sell and any advertising revenue received, go towards funding the maintenance of these web pages, paying the ISP bills , domain name registrations and renting the server space to host these web pages. We hope you find this website a useful tool in the pursuit of your hobby.
The products which I sell and any advertising revenue received, go towards funding the maintenance of these web pages, paying the ISP bills , domain name registrations and renting the server space to host these web pages. We hope you find this website a useful tool in the pursuit of your hobby.
Last Updated: July 27th, 2008