pet to breeder?

any breeders keep any of your snakes as pets (in an aquaruim in your house) and move them into your breeding rooms for breeding season? i would assume most would just always keep them in there racks all the time. can anybody share some experience's?

My first ball python was kept in a tank, and he didn't do well in the tank. He was moved to a tub, and has resided there ever since. As a normal male, he's not a breeder, and is truly a pet. My tanks now house rodents. :)

I picked up a 7 year-old virgin pet normal girl in 08 that had been kept in a ten gallon tank her whole life for the most part. Her owner said he used to ride his motorcycle with her around his neck!!! I hope it was on a warm day. :O She is very DOCILE!!!

I moved her into a cb 70, fed her up and bred her in 09.
She gave me 10 good eggs with no slugs. Also, she may have something genetic going on to boot. I have held back her Pewter, Pastel, and Cinny daughters, as well as her Pewter son.

I think she has a BETTER life now than her days in the ten gallon in that stuffy closet. :gj:

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Originally Posted by rabernet

My first ball python was kept in a tank, and he didn't do well in the tank. He was moved to a tub, and has resided there ever since. As a normal male, he's not a breeder, and is truly a pet. My tanks now house rodents. :)

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I started out with a somewhat reduced pattern female, she is definetly more beautiful than normal BPs at pet stores. As most people I bought a 10g tank and a bunch of stuff I didnt need. As I learned more about BPs from this forums, I moved her to a 28qt tub, after that I adquired the other BPs.

Even though she is just a pretty normal, she has the personality that I like the most out of all my BPs and the strongest feeding response. I bought hemostats (feeding tongs) because of her lol...

I plan to breed her, but she is only about 10 months old at the most and breaking 700g, so I guess next year :gj:. My choises to breed her will be a Lemon Pastel or a VPI Axanthic. So Im not sure which one yet.

but does anyone move there snake back and fourth from the house (off season) to the snake room(breeding season)?

I don't move mine around. They are all pets to me as well as breeders. I keep most of mine in stackables (there's still a couple in tanks--haven't gotten enough money together yet for everyone to have a stackable), and I just start pairing them up when the time comes. ;)

It's so much easier to keep snakes in tubs I wouldn't want the hassle of moving them around. The only snake I have in an aquarium is a 15 year old kingsnake.... but he is in the "snake-room" too. :D

I keep my crested geckos exactly as I would if they were 'just pets', even though I'm breeding them.

I realize they are CGs and not BPs, but I figured I'd throw that out there.