What do you like about BPs? How did you get into owning them?

The morphs. I remember seeing a pied when they first came out, and was in awe. I knew that I had to have one, but did not have that kind of money at the time. Once I was making enough money, and the morphs dropped to prices I could afford, I decided to buy some.

Well I've always loved reptiles for as long as I could remember. My mom never let me own a snake while I lived with her, but i do vaguely remember when I was little (we're talking I was about 9 or 10) I found a baby ball python in one of my toy bags one night. All I remember is I freaked and cried to my mom who cried to my stepdad, who came, took it and brought it upstairs to it's owners (turns out the renters above us were bp breeders)..He came downstairs with it a few minutes later to thank us and I had a chance to pet the snake and actually learn about it from the owner..From that moment I was hooked..

Years later when I got my own place with my fiance I was in petsmart one night and noticed they had corn snakes. I fell in love with this little normal and had to have her..So Joe bought me her for my birthday..From that point on my corn collection grew to about 5 (2 sadly died)! After that I dove into geckos and lizards and that's how I got my crested gecko and my uromastyx..But I knew I wanted to start getting some other new kinds of snakes..not JUST corns...While at a reptile show A member from Cornsnakes.com was selling a thayeri kingsnake for a really good deal..so that was my first king snake...But I knew I wanted a ball python..Especially after making friends with my friend Harry..who has quite a few bp..The more I visited him and his snakes the more I knew I wanted a bp..

Until finally I found a way to get my own bp and now I am happy with her and love her to death, and am even possibly looking to maybe get her a boyfriend once I get some more room (which will only happen once I can get some rack systems made)...lol

Well my story is awesome lol. I had been breeding Boa's for about 7 years the I met my wife. She was deathly afraid of snakes, having been brought up in Oregon on a farm with a Rattle snake den close to the house. Eventually I got her holding them as babies and she even had her own a Albino named Lemony. Well all was fine until my big Snow female dropped her first litter and if anyone has bred Boa's they know that it smells really bad. She walked into the house and smelled that and it was the beginning of the end. We researched it and found that we could get into BP's and have tons more available place if i got rid of the 6 foot visions and replaced them with Racks(Where I had 6-6 foot vision cages I now have spots for 22 BPs). So I eventually sold traded all my boas and then my bloods for BPs and I haven't looked back yet. Long and drawn out but thats my story lol.