Do you still have your first herp or snake?

My first were two green anoles I got about 14 yrs. One of them lived to be almost 6 yrs old. After that I had a yellowbelly slider for a while and a leopard gecko that actually just passed away a few weeks ago.

My first was a Green Iguana named Spike. He lived with us for 8 years or so until he passed.

I still have my first snake Chloe (normal BP) whom I've had since 2007 May.

My first snake was a huge wc female garter snake i caught when i was about 11 or 12. Kept her for a couple years, then had to release her when she got loose in the house and was discovered by my sister in the christmas decorations lol. The first snake i ever purchased was my first ball Cyrax, and i got him when i was about 22. I got him at a pet trade show in AC, about 1999, when pieds were prob $15k lol

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My first is Drake and he will not be going anywhere.
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Oh, n i forgot to put that Cyrax passed away a few years back. Ill never foget him tho...he was my lil buddy. I still have Zephyr, a texas lucy that was given to me as a gift a few years after i got Cyrax. Zephyr is goin on 12 years old.

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My first snake was a snow corn when I was 11 years old, he was a christmas gift from my cousin, I also had a beardie and a leopard gecko. They have all passed, however I have just recently gotten back into keeping reptiles now that we are in a house. I have my 2 year old motley okeetee corn (got him as a baby), and we just got a normal BP baby he is 3 months old now.

Long gone from old age. I remember the first snake I ever hatched myself. It was a normal corn snake. I gave it to my mom who was a grade school teacher to use as a classroom pet. She had it in her classroom for many years until she retired, then she gave it back to me. I used that snake in educational programs for many years until it died about 5 years ago.

I've had many a lizard and snake, my first being a pair of dekay browns we got when in fort Polk LA, my family captured her and him in '92 and had them till 98, when they both passed a few weeks apart, both were full grown when acquired, I remember them having five clutches of live birth, which three got released around the house, two by the local lake, and until about a few years ago could see the hybrids to the local brown snake species, very cool little guys, as to what I've had in my adult life, I got my boy ball Joey in march, he is about 4-5 years old, my girl ball Samantha who is six according to her only owner, in may, my eastern box Draco in June, my RES Turtle also in June, and my baby corn in July, none of these guys are going anywhere!! I'll have them till they go! So my time frame as of now had been kinda short but man has it been a fun ride!!

Normal Ball python circa 1999 that has markers for being het pied, though never tried to prove him out. Still alive and well

I forgot to mention, but I also kept a few local creek tadpoles until most of them became small toadlets. However, because I didn't have the facilities to care for them, and one died, I released them in my yard. I id'ed them as coastal toads. This was a year before I got my first BP.
However, today while my mom was watering the yard, I found one who was all grown up at a proud 2 inches. Almost brought tears to my eyes to see one of my ole buddies again after 2 years. :) The work I put into saving those tadpoles from that drying creek of death didn't go to waste. Man, I almost forgot how much I missed and loved them. It was kind of like a miniature version of seeing your kid again, all grown up. lol
He didn't stay long enough for a picture though. However, he is forever in my memory now.:love: