what species do you eventually want to have?

[mainbutter]

Well after once again being a "herp owner" for the past couple of weeks, I'm definitely addicted. I've been thinking of what I could eventually see myself having five, ten, or fifty years from now.

I think at the moment I will stick with ball pythons, I'd like to get two males and at least another female sometime in the next three years, so I can try my hand at producing some babies! I'm sure once I do start breeding, the number of snakes I have could very well explode.

I'd like to have a boa of some sort, I'm thinking I'd be more than happy with a red tailed boa. This wouldn't be for breeding, most likely. I just like that they get pretty big, but it will take some convincing of the GF to get her to accept "bigger" snakes. She still thinks that a 12 inch skinny-as-heck garter snake is "normal" sized. She will learn

I have always been fascinated by lizards. Bearded dragons, water dragons, iguanas, monitors, and other large lizards are just SO COOL. If I am ever in the position to care for iguanas, I know that I would love to get into rescuing them from bad homes. For right now I know that I can't take care of them though.

If I ever get up the nerve some day, I might look into giant snakes. It would be so rewarding to care for beasts like burms or retics. We'll see what happens 25 years from now when I've got a farm and can breed my own feeder rabbits.

For now I have my eyes set on ball pythons and one red tailed boa down the line. How about you guys? Any dreams about species you don't already have?

[WingedWolfPsion]

Irian Jaya carpet pythons

Sinaloan milk snakes

Motley sunglow corn snakes

Green vine snakes (Oxybelis fulgidis, not Ahaetulla).

Satanic leaf geckos

Carpet chameleons (Furcifer lateralis)

Various Anolis ssp.

Draco lizards (I hear there's been some progress with captive breeding, and solving the issue with their husbandry).

[karbogast]

My dream reptile and one that I would just be happy to see let alone own is the Oenpelli Python - (Morelia oenpelliensis)!

One that I think may become a reality to work with down the road are Rough-Scaled Pythons - (Morelia carinata).

[Jyson]

Blood Pythons
Black Headed Pythons
Brooks King Snakes
Suriname boa BCC
Hog Island Boa BCI
Nicaraguan Boa BCI
Leopard Geckos
Crested Geckos
Dwarf Retic
Green Tree Pythons
Those are just a few that I want some day.

[gothkenny]

Leopard Gecko
More Ball Pythons
Colombian Red Tailed Boa
Olive Python
Super Dwarf Retic
Iguana
Ackie Monitor
Corn/Kingsnake
Bearded Dragon
Blue Tounged Skink
Caimen
Chemeleons of some sort?
Frilled Dragon ;D

[anendeloflorien]

Purple Albino retic (thanks to monkey boy lol)
More ball pythons
Amazon Tree Boas or Emerald Tree Boas
Cresties
Granite Burm or 3 lol
Blue Tounged Skinks
Ackie monitors
Peach throat monitors

There's more for sure those are just the ones I could think of off the top of my head lol.

[FloridaHogs]

Dorbingi Hognose
Jungle Carpet Python
Woma Python

[Beardedragon]

Savanna monitor... though that will be a reality next week

[SoCaliSon]

One day I wil find the time and money to go CHONDRO!

As far as overall herps... I would love to have the opportunity to work with a few pairs of Calumma Parsonii Parsonii! The worlds largest Chameleon... I got the opportunity to see my first pair in person last sunday... It was awesome!

[Colin Vestrand]

so i was thinking snakes... but now that i really think about it, i gotta have a pair of Varanus salvadori... i'd give them their own room with a cross section of a large tree.