Somebody stop me.

[khara]

I've been in the breeding and caging forums. Evil temptations. Wow caging made from Rubbermaid... Rubbermaid sure makes getting a tank setup cheap and easy. Wish I had known that before buying glass tanks. Rubbermaid would be great for breeding too. I used to incubate, care for and hatch alligator eggs at UF. My father-in-law has incubators. I'm looking at the snake/hobby room thinking if we put a shelving system here we could get easily another BP. We already have 4 snakes, 2 are my daughter's and one belongs to my hubby and my BP. Heh. Snakes are like a crack habit aren't they?

Where would one go about getting a 100% het for pied male anyway?

[tigerlily]

If you want to get into breeding and are looking at hets, just remember to go with a breeder with a good reputation. Since the hets look like normals, some people can try and pass normals off as hets, and by the time you can verify that they're gone. Here's a couple places to start off with.

www.8ballpythons.com
www.newenglandreptile.com

[khara]

Thank you for the links. Being new it's difficult to know who is out there and who is reputable so I really appreciate the help. I had no idea I'd be so interested in breeding...

[kavmon]

you can try pete kahl reptiles he has alot of hets available and the largest collection of pieds.


vaughn

[tigerlily]

If you ever have a question about whether or not someone might be reputable, just ask. Usually someone has had some experience with them or if not you may not want to do business with them. You can check out some good people at www.faunaclassifieds.com. Look under the Board of Inquiry. Good luck!

[khara]

Great! Thank you both so much. Now I have a couple of starting points.

[HelicopterPilot]

Pete Kahl has a TON of pieds. I just checked his site and it is full of them

[khara]

I'm there drooling right now. He has quite a few het pieds and a couple of pages of pied bp. Gorgeous. Time to start my het pied plan and budget, I think.

[frankykeno]

Who knew eh? You innocently get one little ball python, then you ever so innocently (and in the best interests of your new snake) join a reputable forum.

Next thing you know you are pondering whether your teenagers will need that college fund or will they just party away their college years and whether you really truely do need that new couch you've been waiting for to buy when the youngest finally got potty trained!

It's not a hobby...it's an obsession!

Oh and you just wait till those sneaky Lizard Ladies start on at ya (you women know who you are!) Posting cutsie pootsie pics of their lil beardie babies and the leo licking it's own eyeball.......

I'm a weak, weak person.......


~~Jo~~

[mlededee]

mwahaahaaa!