What's your snake frustration?

What's your frustration with your reptiles right now? Anything from an escape artist to making a stupid mistake.

My current: for two years now, I've been trying to get a male piebald from a specific breeder. Each year, something crops up at the last second and leaves me unable to get one. Last year, my car decided to die on me. This year, on the same day I received a photo of the beautiful piebald - he's even het lavender - I could have, my dog dug under the fence and got hit by a car. She'll be fine, she just needs surgery. Don't mean this to sound like I'm upset with the dog or anything, I'm not, just frustrated for the second year in a row something cropped up. Now, I can't afford it. I should be able to next month, so fingers crossed that male is still available. I doubt Shadow will be digging under any fences anytime soon, at least - though it's time to get my hands on some bricks to prevent this again

That's my current frustration - what's yours? Just figure this could be a good place to vent a little about any of your frustrations that have anything to do with reptiles

Currently... Day 54 of incubation and I am super impatient, but refuse to cut until 60 days :)

Are the days getting longer, or is it just me? LOL

That I'm not a nurse yet so I don't have my own house and extra cash to expand my collection. Also waiting on two females to take their meals so they can be on their way to me. I'm not a patient person at all, but I've been patiently (and eagerly) awaiting to hear from the breeders on how they're doing. :)

That i don't have enough money to buy all the snakes i want haha

I have 3 frustrations...Two funnier ones, and one rather sad one.

1)Water bowls. Spilled. Every. Night!! I have one male that never fails to spill his water. I finally gave him an absolutely unspillable water bowl, and guess what? He still spills it every night!!!! Grrrr!!

2) They ALWAYS poo the night after I've spent the whole day scrubbing and disinfecting every tub, water bowl, and hide.

3) I have one girl I've had since Feb. and she's never eaten for me and can't shed properly :( I assist fed her once and she took it, but no luck since and still losing weight faast. 2nd vet appointment is in an hour :(

Sorry to hear about your dog OP, glad she'll be okay.

Mine is:

Not enough room! Dustin's been building some new cool racks and I want more space for them and the vivs we'll be getting soon for our bigger guys. We need another bedroom...

I have two stubborn snakes that won't go on f/t for me: they've been my ongoing "projects". They get their live weekly but I wish they'd transition for my personal preference.

I'm waiting for a breeder to make some baby boas available that just dropped. He hasn't gotten back to me with some questions I have but the wait (a month or so before he said they'll be ready) is making me impatient :P

Daybreaker, thanks. If she wasn't going to be okay, I'd be more concerned about her. Seeing as it's 'only' a few broken bones, she'll heal up just fine so I'm not too worried about her.

Zuma22, sorry about your girl! I hope you figure out what's going on with her and get her squared away quick as can be!

Not having the money to upgrade/add a couple more OMG RIGHT NOW or having the space to get ALL the species I want (though I could probably get another ball or hognose, or even a rosy or kenyan boa D:... just no big boys) xD I was warned it's a bug, and it is!

Slightly related, I'm working on getting my license, and I want it NOW so I can start volunteering with a reptile place which will help the fix a little xD


Also, I have too much fun feeding Tali, and I hate waiting for her feeding days to come back around because I wanna see it again NOWW.

Main frustration: Throwing away a perfectly good rat because either my snakes aren't hungry or just being stubborn about want live food. That's like ordering a hamburger for yourself and just tossing it in the trash.

TheSnakeGuy, I so understand that. My female corn is very picky and somedays she just won't eat. My male refuses to move up a size so I have to keep him on smaller, so when she refuses, he gets hers too - works out great. For some reason, none of mine will touch frozen so I have no choice but to do live