Re: My FIRST ball python!
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Originally Posted by
Albert Clark
Great looking animal! I know you are very happy with him. I thought he was your first bp. I see you have quite a few listed. Did you get all those since acquiring Malachi?
Thanks everyone :)
He is my first ball python, and yes all of my others were gotten after him. I'd been admiring snakes pretty much my whole life, but I was never in a situation to have them because my parents completely disallowed it. Then I moved out when I was 18, but still didn't take the plunge. Just kept watching videos and reading and looking at pictures. Then I finally decided it was time, at 21 years old, and got Malachi, and of course it was the best decision I ever made! I waited until I got into a groove with him, with feeding and cleaning the enclosure and stuff like that until I got my second boy, Lucien. But Malachi was in a tank at that time, and I was having a really hard time keeping his humidity up and it was really annoying to have to take the lamp off, the books off, and the lock clips off every time I wanted to open his tank. So I bought a rack system (Reptile basics), well I bought two, with 3 tubs each, so 6 tubs total. I moved my boys over to there and ended up getting perfect sheds from both of them, and they were much friendlier and happier in there.
Also, I had always wanted a boa. They were by far my favorite species of snake. Not only due to their look, but their personality. How curious and active they are. But I was unsure with my small height that I would be able to handle a larger snake like that, but I went to a pet store that had an adult male, and after holding him for a while, I was smitten and knew I wanted a boa. So I contacted Vin Russo, because I knew he had dwarf boas. And that is how I got Faust, my sweet Caulker Cay little man <3 Seeing his little face and feeling his entire body wrap around my hand just makes me light up...I love it.
I just really fit into this like a tetris block. It's like when you meet someone new but feel like you've known them forever? That's how this was for me :P
That's probably a lot more info than what you wanted to read, but there it is lol.
