How would you rate your bp/reptile knowledge level?

Go with however you feel :D

Should just be interesting to see how people view their knowledge.

I put advanced on mine. I don't think I'm an expert or a 1337 God or anything, but I also don't think I'm starting out. -Smiles.- Advanced is around being in the middle to me.

I put Advanced. I have almost every BP book out, and a few of the general Python breeding books.

Best of all, I have acess to breeders that have been doing this longer than I and they are nice about answering my questions!:)

Alright, you guys get the spanners over here, you two, with the studs, over on the north wall. Who's got the sawsall? Over here with that, this doorway needs to be expanded. Forget putting a new door in, just make the doorway bigger. Nope, take the screen door off entirely, won't need it after we're done, it wouldn't fit anyway.

What??? They didn't put the header on the load? Where am I supposed to get a 4 X 12 that's 6 feet long this time of day. Just double up some 2 X 4s, this job has got to be finished asap.

Any more big heads come crashing through this standard doorway and the whole place will come down on top of us.

Gordo, get off your but and get to it.

I put advanced since ive been into reptiles in & out for 30 years since I was a kid.I have bred corns for many years & also a few species of turtles,but new to BP's & have yet to get eggs.im no expert by far but Im learning quik:D

I put average.......

Had reptiles since I was 7....Im now 23......

16 years and I still dont think that would qualify as advanced

I put average...

Been into reptiles since the early years (it was a Copperhead bite that got me into it), since then it has been 42 years. Read Herbert S Zim's Reptile & Amphibian book from front to back too many times, carried it with me from 1966 (3rd grade) through High School, knew more about herps than my science teachers through school, caught all species of snakes, turtle, frog, lizard, salamander etc in the mid-atlantic area of the states and wanted to be a Herpetologist when I "grew up". I was the kid on your block who always had "the weird" animals in the house, the ones that bit you.

Now I am a project manager with a major auto maker.... but my passion stayed strong for animals and for the cold blooded. School always had bio, sciences, and environment classes available, I excelled in those, but life took a differant path, my generation was about getting a "real" job, making money, starting a family.

Always kept a hand in it however, which led me to become a Naturalist, a docent in our local conservancies and parks. This is my second career, my retirement, my give back to kids. I teach my 6 year old boy about the outdoors, he is quite the tracker :) . I will support his passion whatever it may be, because I learned that you should "do what you love". This I can give to him...

I say "average" though because though I am full of nature information on flora/fauna and especially herps, I have never gotten into breeding, morphs, hybrids, or had a "collection" as some of you have. I was more the outside environment type, sitting and watching the turtles sunning and their social interactions, watching a bullfrog watch me, sitting on a rock for hours viewing raptors.

I came to this site as a newbie "BP" owner who adopted a young BP, get a caresheet, some info and move on. I am a research hound, explored the site, found myself getting involved with others. The knowledge here is amazing. It is good to know, please don't take this wrong, take it as a compliment, that many here are younger and have "the passion".

I put novice. I've only had my BP for 3 months and I feel like I know quite a bit, but definitely still have more to learn!

I'd honestly put average.

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Originally Posted by katiadarling

I put novice. I've only had my BP for 3 months and I feel like I know quite a bit, but definitely still have more to learn!

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That's how I feel... only I've only had my BP for 2 months :oops: