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RyanSkilton

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Hello!

I'm Ryan, I live in Nottingham where I'm about to start a PhD in chemistry.

I have one corn who I have had for approx 2 years, although I have never had it sexed I refer to him as a he just because some of his behaviour seems more male to me (not eating during the mating season because he is distracted, for example).

I also have a crested gecko, but I guess people here aren't very interested about that.

I've had a fascination with reptiles for as long as I can remember, and get monthly issues of practical reptile keeping, for which I receive constant mocking from friends and family!

I'm really happy to have finally joined a cornsnake forum, especially one as well represented as this one.

Thank you.
 
Hello & welcome from Idaho, USA! There are actually a fair number of people on here that own cresties. Glad to have you on board!
 
Welcome to the Forum! You'll find this website enjoyable.
And I bet many people here are interested in Leopard Geckos. I have heard of one person on this website who breeds Leos'. Everyone here has a wide variety of animals, and they are all interesting. :D
 
Welcome! We love pictures, and we are interested in things with legs too. What are you doing your PhD in?

Oh, and it sure sounds to this relative n00bie like you have a male corn. Nobody has mentioned females going on spring feeding strikes around here, and none of mine did it this spring, but one of my males sure did, and lots of people mention it.
 
Haha, I regret making the crestie comment now! :p

The PhD is in chemistry, I'm lucky enough to be in the same lab with the same supervisor that I was working with during my Masters so its going to be an enjoyable few years (hopefully...)

As to the sexing thing, I know you can supposedly tell by how quickly the tail tapers after the vent, but I can never get The Duke to stay still long enough! Lol.
 
RyanSkilton said:
The PhD is in chemistry, I'm lucky enough to be in the same lab with the same supervisor that I was working with during my Masters so its going to be an enjoyable few years (hopefully...)
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Details! What kind of project? Are you an organic chemist, biochemist, physical chemist, what?

I was an undergraduate chem major who expected to go on to grad school until life happened & I maintain an active interest in the subject.
 
Haha OK OK!

I'm inorganic. I work in supercritical CO2 developing reactions with enhanced efficiencies by playing around with the fluid behaviours. My Masters research was founded in studying the phase behaviour of binary systems in continuous flow, measuring them simultaneously with a newly developed method (invented by the person from whom I am taking over) and a previously developed method (also from our research group, but which has undergone far more extensive testing, and as such is known to be fairly reliable and accurate). This was for two reasons: Primarily we wanted to see if the new method would well enough to be used widely, because it's much cheaper than most other methods, and also much easy to set up and monitor, secondarily I was working with another researcher who wanted to try rationalise some changes in reactivity he was observing as he changed his reaction conditions. One idea was that a biphase region was forming, limiting the transfer of reagents, so I investigated the system at the conditions he was using to see if that was the case.

Wow! What an essay!!!

Sorry, lol, feel free to message me if you would like to know more, as you can guess, this is a subject I like to talk about! :-D
 
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