When I was a kid I had a Boa and a Burmese Python. Unfortunately they had mites and I could not get rid of them. I was also told the wrong information by the pet store I got them from and the snakes did not survive. The whole endeavor was irresponsible on so many levels from selling a 12 year old kid snakes that would get too big to handle to wrong husbandry advice to me being dumb enough to get them. I still feel bad about it to this day. The whole experience turned me off from having a snake and twenty years later after a lot of thinking and reading I bought myself a male pastel banana ball python. I figured a ball python had everything I loved about pythons in a more manageable size. He is quite colorful and when I was a kid a ball python was considered a garbage snake. I know it's a horrible term. I have not named him yet but he is really friendly and out going and I'm very excited to have him. I can see myself getting another one and will be purchasing a rack very soon. If things go as well as I anticipate, I would even try breeding.
Anyway I wanted to introduce myself and hopefully you will be seeing me around.
Billy