What's the Point of Having a Bunch of Pythons?

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Originally Posted by 200xth

Having one is like eating one potato chip.

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x10! :D

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Half the time it's been future breeding plans and I need a specific set of genes to get there, the rest of the time it's just poor impulse control combined with having available rack space.

I had a lot of cats when I was younger. Not spaying and neutering will do that. I still love cats and dogs. I would have a lot more if I could afford their care. Yes the cat population was 20+ lol. I also had a lot of dogs that were spayed and neutered. I just have 1 bp right now but am about to start negotiate for another to help the people out with money and for his health. To me its not about breeding its about taking care of what we can. I can afford to take care of 2. If and when I have the resources to take care of more I might get more.

I'm in the wildlife bio field and I like keeping many ball pythons because they're fascinating! None look the same or act the same. Sure they may not be as exciting as other species of snake, but their genetic potential is amazing to me and I like toying with genes. I do it all the time in my rat breeding projects.

I have an interesting research project planned out for my snakes next year. So we'll see how that goes.

Well, if your into breeding them, its kind of like asking an artist why he likes having multiple colors to paint with.

For me personally, having ball pythons have slowly became an addiction. I love observing their behavior and taking care of them have become sort of thereputic. I have 3 in total with plans on getting a 4th one soon. Also, I'm fascinated with genetics of BPs and want to try my luck in breeding for fun (I'm trying to shoot for Pastave Pied).

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How long have you had your BP? I bet if you have a little patience, bro, you'll get hooked too.

Because I can.


Once you learn how and have a system in place, snakes are ridiculously easy to care for. Once you've fed them cleaned the cage and watered them, what do you have to do for the rest of the week? Half a dozen snakes are not much more work then one, so why not?

I agree with the above post. They are really easy to care for. My only problem is I get carried away, with the time I spend with mine. In realty, if you are setup correctly it really takes little time to care for them. I think the feeder rats are more of a hassle for me. To me ball pythons are like potato chips, you can't have just one.:)

They take so little time to care for... why not? Now feeding does get pricey because I choose to patronize a local pet store ran by someone very knowledgeable about reptiles and yes I pay more for his feeders, but they are great quality and I can choose from a whole bunch of sizes, and it's on my way home from work. We can chat about snakes and I don't get that when I just buy online.

I digress. For me, I love all the "paint jobs" and breeding snakes (and geckos) is in it's own way, an art form. So I may have multiples of the same species, but they are all different morphs, picked purposefully because I really liked the color/pattern and would like to produce babies from them. It's a bit more fun than breeding tarantulas - a sac from a tarantula will only give you little carbon copies of mom & dad. A clutch of snake eggs can give you some surprising and awesome results!