https://ball-pythons.net/forums/blog.php?18443-dragonboy4578 Ball python care and information as well as community driven content covering all manner of reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates - from boas to ball and blood pythons to bearded dragons and brachys. Have questions? We have answers! Come join our unique community and create your own photo gallery, compete in monthly contests, classifieds, calendared events and so much more. Got balls? We got you covered! en Sat, 27 Dec 2025 13:21:23 GMT vBulletin 60 https://ball-pythons.net/forums/images/themes/default/misc/rss.jpg https://ball-pythons.net/forums/blog.php?18443-dragonboy4578 https://ball-pythons.net/forums/entry.php?76-A-quick-update-on-my-collection Fri, 16 Sep 2011 23:24:11 GMT It has been a while since I have posted anything in here, and I would like to give a quick update. Life has just been crazy lately, and the collection just keeps growing. Right now I am up to 24 snakes. I have added to the boa collection, I currently own 3, and really have been enjoying them. I am... It has been a while since I have posted anything in here, and I would like to give a quick update. Life has just been crazy lately, and the collection just keeps growing. Right now I am up to 24 snakes. I have added to the boa collection, I currently own 3, and really have been enjoying them. I am sure that I will be adding one or two more in the near future. As I have said before, they are so much different than bp's. I have also added a few adult females to my collection. My best news to report is that my '09 female woma has finally started to eat for me again. In the last 15 days she has taken 3 small rats for me. Before this she had only eaten 1 rat in the last 7 months. I didn't think she would ever get large enough to breed. She had been sitting at 1100 grams for what seemed like forever. With any luck I may even be able to get started on my woma x pied project. Lets keep our fingers crossed. :D ]]> dragonboy4578 https://ball-pythons.net/forums/entry.php?76-A-quick-update-on-my-collection https://ball-pythons.net/forums/entry.php?75-Boa-s-behavior Sun, 26 Jun 2011 22:35:49 GMT A few months a go I picked up my first boa. She is a beautiful coral albino. All I can say is that she is quickly becoming one of my favorite snakes. Her behavior is so much different than my bp's. She is always watching what is going on from her tub and is rarely hiding. The only time that she hides is after she has eaten. She is always ready for a meal, and never has refused to eat for me.Which leads me to today's post. I fed her today, and I knew she was going to shed soon. A few days ago she was in blue and yesterday she went clear. While she was eating she started to shed. It was a sight to see. I wish I could have gotten a few pic's, but I couldn't pull myself away from the sight. By the time she finished eating, a total of about 3 minutes, she was done shedding. I just really love Boa's....:D ]]> dragonboy4578 https://ball-pythons.net/forums/entry.php?75-Boa-s-behavior https://ball-pythons.net/forums/entry.php?74-Just-one-of-those-days Sat, 11 Jun 2011 11:48:10 GMT It was a great day today. My 1100 gram Female finally decided to eat for me after a 2.5 month hunger strike. The rat wasn't in her tub for 2 minutes when she decided to make her move. She had it completely gone in under 5 minutes. :D

The other great thing that happened last night was that I managed to get 4 more to eat f/t for me. I skipped last weeks feeding to these bp's hoping that they would be good and hungry, and it seemed to work. Only time will tell if they will stay on f/t. I have a few that keep switching between f/t and Live which can really be a pain. Getting the 4 to switch to f/t means that I only have 2 more that need to switch, and then I will no longer have to have live rats and mice on hand. ]]> dragonboy4578 https://ball-pythons.net/forums/entry.php?74-Just-one-of-those-days https://ball-pythons.net/forums/entry.php?73-My-mom-and-my-snakes Fri, 20 May 2011 03:48:54 GMT Today turned out to be a great day. My mother came over and asked if she could play with a few of my snakes. Well to be honest she really didn't ask. She just headed back to the snake room and started to pull open tubs. lol She has always loved animals of all sorts, I really think that this is where I got my love of animals. She was always bringing home different pets for my sister and I.

I was very proud of the way she just reached into a tub and pulled out the snakes that she wanted to play with. She showed no fear even when my spider mojave started to hiss at her. She said that she wouldn't let a little bp with attitude stop her from playing with it. She spent over 2 hours just playing with my bp's.

The last snake that she played with was my newest addition, a beautiful '10 Coral Albino. The boa has behaved perfectly since I bought her, but I am always concerned about someone handling one of my new pickups until I have time to work with them. I want to know exactly how they are going to behave. i really didn't want my mom to get bit handling my snakes. before I could stop her she pulled the boa's tub open, and reached in for the boa.... Well to my relief she wasn't bitten. My little boa behaved perfectly for her. Mom had her out for well over an hour, and the boa seemed to enjoy every minute.

My mom is going to watching my house for the next few days while I go out of town. The only question that she asked was if she could take the boa for a walk with her. I asked her to leave the snakes alone while I was away. I can hear it now. I don't know how it happened but one of the bp's is missing. lol She was having none of this. She told me to answer her question because if she is staying at my house she was going to have free reign to play with any snake that she would like. How do I argue with the free help? I can't is the answer. I am sure that they will be alright though.

I did post pics of her with a few of my snakes though. http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...nakes....-DUW.

Now I just have to talk her out of wanting one for herself.......lol ]]> dragonboy4578 https://ball-pythons.net/forums/entry.php?73-My-mom-and-my-snakes https://ball-pythons.net/forums/entry.php?72-The-collection-keeps-growing Thu, 05 May 2011 16:25:51 GMT A few months ago I was happy with the three ball pythons that I had. I was enjoying watching them grow, and really didn't plan on getting any more in the near future. Well I guess that changed a little bit. I am currently up to 15 snakes. I have 14 Ball Pythons and 1 boa!!! There are days that I think that I may be getting a touch carried away. Lucky for me that my online support group tells me that I am still ok. By the way thanks everyone for the support....lol

I really have been enjoying spending time with all my snakes, and wouldn't change the path that I am on. All I know is that sometimes life is awful funny.... ]]> dragonboy4578 https://ball-pythons.net/forums/entry.php?72-The-collection-keeps-growing https://ball-pythons.net/forums/entry.php?61-A-New-Start Mon, 10 Jan 2011 04:41:38 GMT It is funny how life works out. Two weeks ago I was happily planning my wedding with my long term fiancée, we were together for 12 years. Now everything has changed. On December 28 I came home to find a note saying that we were through. This wasn't a complete shock though. We have been having difficulties for the last 6 months, but things seemed to be doing better. We had both agreed to work on our relationship, and it seemed as though it was working. The funniest part of the letter was the P.S. I will pick my thing up in the next week or two. I started to receive calls from her family telling me to keep the faith that all she needed was time. I just told them that this was her decision and that she could get her things when she wanted to. I said it was no rush. Well today I get a call from a friend telling me that she has been posting on her facebook page about her new boyfriend and that she has been seeing him for a while behind my back. This just made me sick, but I have had time to calm down. I realize that this is a blessing. Yes it hurts, but this definitely puts closure in our relationship. I called her family, and told them to pick up her stuff tomorrow, and even said that I would help. I just need this to be over. Now I need to focus on me, and work on getting my life strait. I am going to focus on the things that make me happy, and go from there. Luckily I have a great group of friend that will help me through. On a positlive note I will have more time to dedicate to my reptile, and with the money that I am going to save by not paying on her bills I should be able to really grow my collection.

Have a great day, and remember when life throws you a curve ball the way you react will help to define you.

Morgan ]]> dragonboy4578 https://ball-pythons.net/forums/entry.php?61-A-New-Start