Do you still have your first herp or snake?

I received my first ball python well over a year ago at a local PetSmart as a b-day gift. Of course, I still have her, and since I'm not a die-hard collector, (yet) I don't sell or trade, or even consider it right now. (My point being that I only have 2 BPs. :P) Aside from my first ball python, my dad used to have a leopard gecko several years back until it passed away.
I was thinking though, I wonder if any of you guys or the big breeders still have their first herp, and/or their first snake they ever had. If you do, please share!
And this thread isn't note-worthy without PICS! :rolleyes:

My first herp was a red eared slider bought from a jewelry stand in Chinatown NYC when I was 12. It was a field trip and an impulse pet my parents didn't know about until I got home. My mother threatened to throw him in a lake repeatedly, but I scrounged my lunch money together for years to keep him in the best care I could. I had him for eight years before I moved out of the house and rehomed him to someone with multiple turtles. I loved my turtle, Yoshi. He was so friendly and it was always a joy to walk into my room and be greeted by him enthusiastically splashing around to beg for food.

It wasn't until another four years before I could situate my finances for another reptile. Don't think I'll go back into turtles. I was also into fish keeping at the time but I'm not that into the prospects of maintaining the water quality in tanks anymore. Snakes are very lovely - and dry - reptiles.

Yeah, my first was a BP who is thriving. I forget how old he is now, maybe 5 or 6?


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Yep - still have Cleopatra the ball python that started me off. :)

My first "reptile" that I kept was a leopard frog I had one summer. I released him in the fall.

My first ball I got 3 years ago is still here and is never leaving. Indiana, 1600g male normal.
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/07/31/e8uta7ej.jpg

Still have my CalKing I got back in the early 90s. First snake I purchased.

:)

My normal indy. Been with me for like 5 years now:
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/07/31/7yrujybu.jpg

I've had my corn for 13 years now. :)

http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mc...jspo1_1280.jpg

I had tons of various frogs and toads when I was little, had a couple red eared sliders we rehomed, but my first snake and first reptile I bought as an adult is my anery motley corn, Cthulhu. He's what got me into snakes.

Day I brought him home on my friend's finger, 2010 I believe http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/07/31/hepu8ara.jpg

This is from a year or so ago but the most recent decent pic I've got that shows size.
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/07/31/a2u6ysu8.jpg

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My first snake was a speckled kingsnake baby that passed away. When I re-got into snakes I got my dear Capona from Petco:

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i3...ps60793141.jpg

Not going anywhere!