Where do You draw the line??

I'm not at our limit, but since I'm renting, I only have the two remaining tubs in the rack....unless I can find an inexpensive source for BUILDING racks. I can hammer nails, but can't saw straight to save my life (I make AWESOME bevels! :rolleye2: ) and I don't own the nec. tools.


IF we can get into a house in the next few months, then the sky is the limit....oh, that & how much I can scrape together for the purchase. Feeding / bedding / vet costs aren't a problem; that's budgeted for....it's the $$ for BUYING the little boogers....my next purchases are going to be the hets, and or the morphs, so I'm planning for bigger bucks.

Plans are to be breeding balls and RTBs, but I'll start w/the normals first. Hera is juuuuuust right, but I didn't have a male this year. Hopefully Wrigley will do the job next season. My het albino RTB is doing nicely, but no GF for him yet......he alone needs another 18-24 months. As for the balls, this would have been the season, but I've got 3 beautiful MALES, and no girls, so......... *sigh*

My goal is axanthics, pieds and albino balls, and then albino boas and eventually proving out our possible het for T+ albino boa. Here's what we have currently:

1.0 100% het albino RTB Petey
1.0 normal RTB Wrigley
0.1 normal RTB Hera
0.1 Pastel RTB Pinky T
1.0 Poss T+ het Apollo (He IS Hypo pastel, poss DH ghost)

3.0 Normal Balls: Zeus, Freddie, Precious

1.0 Stimson's python Felix
0.1 Albino Nelson's milksnake CeCe
0.1 Anery Kenyan SB Oreo
0.1 Amel corn (Robin's pet) Kishnah
1.0 Snow corn Flurry
0.1 Leucy Texas Ratsnake Crystal

1.3 Horses: 2 paints (Cody, Roxie), Arab (Chyp), AQHA (Duchess)

3.4 Cats: Checkers, Riley, Norman, Candy, Pesky, Mohawk and Keera

6.0 rats: Scabbers, Stewie, Robin Hood, Butterscotch, Smoo, Smee (two still waiting to be something other than batchelors)

0.7 rats: Peekaboo, Snow, Peachy, Squeeky, Monkey, Creamy, Beauty (mommies or mommies-to-be)

0.8 rats: Raven, Dumbelina, Fluff, Spot, Stripe, Patches, Thing 1, Thing 2 (still too small or waiting to be bred next)

Robin is mating Smoo and Beauty as a science project, and then we'll use the babies for either breeders (if in a house by then) or as food.

We won't be getting another dog to fill Tundra's passing, until after we get a house and land for a large enough kennel and running/yelling room.

I think everyone can reach a point where space, time, and money become issues with their collection of animals.

For me, time is the issue. I want to be able to devote a certain amount of time to each animal, and the more animals that I have.....I have less time to devote to each animal and enjoy what I actually own. I am actually considering selling a few snakes because I feel like I don't get 'quality time' anymore (although I am very content with the variety and size of my collection).

I would also like to set up a mid sized saltwater tank (65-90 gallons) over the next year or so.......so that will definately be more time that I need to care for animals. After that, I will only be looking out for stuff on my 'must have' list that has never been available to me before. Anything thing other than that, I will have to produce myself or trade/sell animals.

Current collection is:

2.2 Ball Pythons
1.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boas
1.1 Children's Pythons
1.1 Coastal Carpet Pythons
1.0 Columbian x Hogg Island Boa
0.2 Leopard Geckos
1.0 Veiled Chameleon
1.2 Storr's Monitors
0.1 Dog
0.1 Cat
12.5 gallon saltwater tank

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Originally Posted by daniel1983

I am actually considering selling a few snakes because I feel like I don't get 'quality time' anymore.

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You still got my number right? :D

I forgot to mention my two best animal friends. I think you forget their animals sometimes and more part of the family.

Harry
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and Taylor

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5 ball pythons. 2x100%het piedbald (male and female) unnamed, 1 male pastel - "Little Dude", 1 female VPI lemon pastel and one normal male - "Dexter". Dexter is 1.5 yrs old and the rest are 6 months old.

1 hog island boa cross - Drake 1.5 yrs old - 4 ft long
1 red tailed boa Surinam - Sabrina 1.5 yrs old - 2 ft long

4 corn snakes - Gandalf the Grey is an anery A - Valentino is a bloodred - Sevasti is a snow and Katie is an Okeetee. Gandalf is around 1.5 yrs old and the rest are under a year.

1 high white king snake "Puppet" - she's a few months old

about a dozen tarantulas.
a. versi BB
a. avic Bonbon
b. boehmei Carmelo
d. fasciatus Poncho
gbb Skittles
n. chromatus Maximus
obt B!tch
p. ornata Penelope
p. formosa
p. metallica Royal
p pedersoni

ratties
Cookie, Becky and Rosie (adult non breeding females) all in one cage
Whisper, Daisy, Jackson, Ashley, Daffodil - 4 soon to be breeding females and one male who will breed with them.

giant african millipede - Millie
Giant African Land Snail - Fritz

2 canaries - Max and Ruby
2 parrotlets - Bebe and Flip
5 adult cockatiels - Princess Candy Cane, Hope, Clarity, Pidgie, Gemma
7 budgies - each named according to its colour LOL - so a blue one is blue etc.

2 baby cockatiels being hand raised by us right now - 2 weeks old

6 cats - Inanna (6), Kira, Sasha, Misty, Tigerlily and Jayden (last four are kittens)

3 anoles, 2 firebelly toads and some endlers in one viv.
2 whites tree frogs and 3 green tree frogs

6 fish tanks - 210 gallons community fish - 135 gallon bismarck frontosa and cichlid tank - 90 gallon salt water tank - 77 gallon oscar tank - 46 gallon brackish tank and a 29 gallon tank in my daughter's room with community fish in it.

i think that's it.

nope... we also have fish in the pond in the backyard. about 1200 gallons.

oh and two crested geckos - flip and flop

oh and i silkworms approx 5-10,000 at a time and about the same amount of butterworms.

now, i think that's it! :sunny:

oh and your other question was... where do you draw the line? well... i don't think we have one.

we have decided no more fish tanks... as there isn't any more room for more. i don't want any more cats... we only took these last three kittens as rescues and didn't really want them to begin with... but i couldn't turn my back on them.

and i think i'm done adding tarantulas at this point although i still really want an a. geroldi so if i can get one of those sometime... i'll jump at the chance!

i have a friend who has a good line... she says, now, whenever she wants to get something new she has to rehome something first. and it really helps her to keep her pet-desire in check. cause she may reaaaaaaaally want that new tarantula, frog, spider etc but then she realizes she doesn't like it enough to get rid of anything she currently has. so it's working for her at this point.

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Originally Posted by Shelby

Prissy? I think regal is a better word. They were war horses for heaven's sake. lol

Only horse I think 'prissy' when I see them are american saddlebreds.

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yeah. true. i used to belong to a QH ranching type barn, and some of their influences still come out once in a while. lol. (appys are dumb, all TBs are hyper and crazy, friesians are a gay man's horse. all that stuff. lol)

The classic horse-breed owner/lover disparity! I can remember when most H/J TB jumpers would scoff at "western" QHs with their heads on the ground.. now I think it's nice that many riders can be found doing dressage one day, and WP the next.. great things.

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Originally Posted by Ginevive

The classic horse-breed owner/lover disparity! I can remember when most H/J TB jumpers would scoff at "western" QHs with their heads on the ground.. now I think it's nice that many riders can be found doing dressage one day, and WP the next.. great things.

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hec yea. i love my old mare, Hope. She was a little thing, like 14.3hh, and the fatest thing ever, but sooo sweet. and now i have a TB. whatever. i love horses. period. haha.

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Originally Posted by Emilio

Wow Jen you got alot of mouth's to feed......When it comes to ball's I haven't come up with a definitive number yet but I will soon , if I had to answer now I'd say somewhere in the 20's. More rat's would be necessary but hay I like breeding rat's I currently have 2.6 and they are great.

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I thought I'd be a little specific with my breeding plan's. I'm going to list what I plan to keep for myself.
0.1 pastel
0.1 Albino
0.1 yellowbelly
0.0 pied I'd prefer female.
0.0 ivory
0.0 super pastel
0.0 bumblebee
1.0 Spider
Hoping to trade for an orange ghost in the future maybe a mojave or lesser. This would put me in the low twenty's without keeping any of the sib's which we all know is going to be difficult to find a home's for. I'll prepare there is plenty of time.