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By Tyler Stewart After growing up chasing lizards in the deserts through the late '80s and early '90s, I started keeping and breeding jacksons, veiled and "blue" panther chameleons in 2001 on a small scale as Bluebeast Reptile. Things slowly expanded through 2003, and by 2004, I was producing a surprising amount of chameleons monthly in a few different species. I was heavily involved in the chameleon market through late 2007 when a few factors forced me to redirect my reptile addiction. More than anything, I was working enough hours in my normal job, on top of being a single dad, that I didn’t have the proper time to care for the 200+ chameleons I had on hand at any given time. With all the cage cleaning, cricket care and everything else that comes with it, I was stretched thin for time, and started to feel some chameleon burnout coming on (as anyone with multiple chameleons knows, it's a lot of work). After getting married in early 2008, I managed to drag my new wife, Sarah, into this business with me, and we took it in a new direction: Tortoises. I always had the tortoises running around, just never put the focus on them until now. It has taken off surprisingly well and we have positive expectations for the future. It's been refreshing to start something new and market something different. Because of a good, established reputation in the reptile world, we kept the name "Bluebeast Reptile" after the switch to tortoises. Tortoises have been much easier for us to handle being in the desert of Las Vegas, and it offers us more time to spend afternoons together as a family, and to be able to get out of town when we need a vacation. Sarah and I were both born and raised in Northwest Las Vegas, and live here still. We have known eachother since we were kids, but didn't date until a few years after college. We both come from large families, and spend much of our free time with them both here in Vegas and in parts of Utah. Sarah is a hairdresser part time, and full time mom with my son and our new baby "Mack" that was born March 22nd, 2009. Hunter, my 6 year old son, just finished kindergarten and is a good helper with the animals here. He likes to draw, ride bikes and wrestle with the dogs. I work day to day as a commercial concrete estimator, and ride dirtbikes as much as I can between everything else. We also have two beautiful bullmastiff dogs (Daisy and Bella) and a bengal cat that complete our family. |
