IM addicted!!!

I got my Lemon Pastel in July. We waited 2 months til we got Micron, our Het Pied. On that same day, we purchased another one (Which I haven't announced) we're waiting for him to get one more meal and then he'll be coming home. So, almost one a month! We're gonna wait for a while to get a het pied girl, and after that I think we'll be done for a long time.

I always love when people ask this question because i love seeing everyones answers and their first snakes :) Ball pythons were never my first love. They became my favorite snake years later. I got my first constrictor about 13 years ago. An albino burmese. Less than a year later i got a common redtail boa and 2 kenyan sand boas. 7 years ago i got my first ball python. A normal. Then a few years later my first morph. A male pastel. Now i have 20 ball pythons. All of which are morphs except my original one and 2 surinam BCC (red tail). I love rainbow boas too and i have been trying hard to stay away from them but i'll probably have a couple of those before too long too.

I got my very first snake when I was in 3'rd grade. It was a terrific cornsnake who ate everything with mucho gusto. From that time on I kept different types of kingsnakes and lizards.

I then started with ball pythons in 2007 and I'm still on that track with a collection that I'm proud to be the owner of. :)

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Originally Posted by BPelizabeth

right there with ya!!! My mom got my son a normal for his b-day...I fell in love. About 3 weeks later I went out and got a bee. Now it is about 5 weeks later and I am going to the show on Saturday with the intentions of getting a lesser or a butter or a black pastel or a ............ (you get the hint there)!!!!

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Go for a black pastel female to that bee of yours. A pewterbee looks awesome! :gj:

I got my first ball python at march and now look at my signature

We are SUCH horrible enablers here! :P:oops::rolleyes:

I started with a normal ball adult. Six months later I had 3. By a year I had 11 snakes of various species. If memory serves :rolleyes: by 2.5 years I had over 20 snakes, and now that I've indulged my love for 4.5 years, 14/34 are rescues/rehomed, 14 are balls of various hets or morphs/normals and we have 3 giants and nine different species! The worse part??? I have ETS, but without a job, I have to put my dream wish list on temporary hold :( :sigh2:
until after I'm done with school and have another job before buying MORE snakes!

I'm raising hets to breed, and even tho' the boas are ready, there's no baby room and my first next wishlist is a spider for bees from breeding my lemon pastel 'Tude.

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Originally Posted by Josh Emmons

Ball pythons ARE like potato chips! 6 months ago i bought my first bp: Artemis. then at the rocky mountain reptile expo in august i got another bp: Zeus. yesterday, i bought my first morph, a spider ball: Apolo. i am going to get myself more snakes by the end of this year! when you guys first got into ball pythons, how many of them did you have at 6 months?
yes thats right, i am addicted!:spid0r:

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Keep on buyin... there are plenty of mythological Gods names' left. ;)

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Originally Posted by CoolioTiffany

Man, you are crazy!! In a good way:D
That is a ton of snakes, hopefully one day I'll get that many:banana:

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The way I see it there is way more worse addictions you could have. People ask me all the time how can I "waste" so much money on snakes. I dont think its a waste. How many thousands of dollars to people spend on tobbaco, alcahol, drugs and gambling and even junkfood? These are all addictions and there is no positive return. You spend loads of $ and its gone and you have nothing to show for it. You get cancers, liver disease, mental problems, family issues, overweight, even a criminal record (drugs). None of this is good. I dont smoke so right there is $300 a month I can spend on my snakes. Having snakes can have a positive return and possibly a financial one too if you breed them. It keeps me happy and busy and gives me a good feeling that I am responsible for these lives. When I look at a bunch of happy healthy animals I know I have done good. Its also great for learning and then you can pass on that knowledge. And then to be able to create life through breeding them and be successful at it, I feel this has been my biggest accomplishment. Each day I look at my babies and say to them and me, "I made you, how cool is that?" Having snakes is definately the best kind of addiction there is.

ge I started with a blac krat snake , tha fall for a a corn ( first rescue), then a pair of bp (rescues as well) Then relocated one other died) end up with 2 more replacements.( rescues) now up to 23 snakes and it mostly bps. I purchased only 11 of the snakes, 3 snakes were hatched here, and the rest came as rescues.

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Originally Posted by CoolioTiffany

Wow seriously we are totally shopping together, I'm going to ditch my mom and grandpa and go shopping for BPs with you instead.. but you gotta bare with me when I get to the Beardies:D

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No problem...that would be great!! Besides .....you probably have waaaaaaay more insight and knowledge on stuff! Why are you not my kid????:P