How/why did you get into the reptile hobby?

I have always wanted a snake. And was sooo close every time when I was a kid. But things happened like me getting sick or something else and it never happened. Truthfully I was always afraid of snakes but I loved them so much. Well I am glad I never got a snake because I was just so under educated back then compared to now. Then in oct.2011 my house burned down and in feb.2012 we finally got an apartment to live in. So after doing lots of research I found that ontario has reptile expos about once a month.

So 15 days after we moved in there was a expo about an hour away. Thats were I got my first snake! Then after me saying I would never ever get a ball python I finally got one in april. Then a 2 months later I now have 4 ball pythons lol.

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Originally Posted by reptiliachnids

Then after me saying I would never ever get a ball python I finally got one in april. Then a 2 months later I now have 4 ball pythons lol.

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Yeah I just cant stop buying them. I get a new one and for about a week or so I am cool then I start shopping again even though I know I have to wait. I bought 2 Back in Feb. then In may I bought 10 more! Now I want to add a couple of hypos. This coming season I am expecting to have 4 clutches! Woot! Then when my hatchlings start moving I can buy more snakes YAY!

I wish i could start breeding lol! But 2 of my girls are 2012 and the other is late 2011. O well :rolleyes: I wanted to grow all my snakes out anyways

I am one for instant gratification and so I bought a spinnerblast and some breeder girls so I could do it this coming season! But I just cant wait to start breeding the rest of my ladies too! And I really wanna get a hypo project going but theres so much I wanna do so I gotta focus on one thing at a time I guess so I will work on what I have now and some hypos and then in the coming years do some other things. I really wanna add Lavendars too but I gotta pace myself! AAAAAHHH!!! :taz:

I grew up in a house with a huge field behind us and spent a lot of time back there with friends catching anything we could get our hands on. I've always been fascinated with snakes and I am allergic to cats and dogs. So them as a pet was out.

I've always liked animals of all types but I never really wanted snakes. I always thought all snakes had to be upgraded to bigger and bigger enclosures and took up lots of room. Idk where I got this lol. Idk there was just no interest there. I've owned lots of lizards and amphibians.

Then one day I was on Craigslist and kept seeing ads for corn snakes and for whatever reason decided I wanted one. A friend who's into reptiles told us about the reptile expo so we went and picked out Cthulhu. Brandan had no experience with anything other than dogs or cats before him but got over his iffy-ness about him pretty quick.

Shortly after I was looking up corn snake stuff online and saw pics of clown and pied ball pythons and started researching them (by which I mostly mean looking up pics of every morph ever.) They sounded so cool and the combos, amazing! We very quickly became obsessed and worked out a plan of what we would like to start a small breeding project and picked up a couple of girls, Koko and a female spider we traded for Snizzy at the next expo. I never really thought we'd get quite as into it as we are now lol.

I never thought I would seriously consider spending $1000. It seems like the limit just keeps going up.

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Originally Posted by Coleslaw007

I never thought I would seriously consider spending $1000. It seems like the limit just keeps going up.

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Yeah for real! On another thread I mentioned that I would rather spend 45k on a snake than a car!

I always wanted a snake, but my mom wasn't very fond of them. Eventually she told me I could get a snake if I wrote her a two page paper showing I knew how to care for one and reasons I should be allowed to get one. That was on Christmas. Challenge accepted.

Needless to say I completed the paper in about an hour that Christmas. Unfortunately it was about time for college so I had to put it on hold. Now that I am living in a reptile friendly environment I was able to pursue my goal :D