What Ball python related things did you get for Christmas?

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Originally Posted by Mr. Constrictor

My wife got me 5 snake books the "ball pythons in the wild" dvd and an A.P. hatchling rack.

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Will you please let us know hwo the dvd is once you see it?

We got loaded gift cards from my husband's family, so some is earmarked for snake books. I wish they could give us $nake money - good at the Hamburg, PA show on 2/23!

Our two snakes (a BP and a KSB) gave each of our sons a stuffed snake (beautiful 4 footers) and wrapped them around the Christmas tree like garlands in honor of the corn snake found in the Christmas tree in FL. The kids loved it!

Do breeders sell gift certificates? :rofl: I'll ask for that next year! :please:

Well, I bought myself the Complete Ball Python book. And I decided to start saving up money starting now for a pied male....I have found the only sure way to get myself to not spend money and save it is to cash it in and store the cash in my apartment somewhere. I hate spending cash that I can physically touch...so my savings works well hahah.

So hopefully in a year or two I'll actually have enough haha. Hopefully pied prices will drop significantly...that would help out!

I am from a Jewish family...so no Christmas for me...

I think my BF's parents may have gotten me gifts though.

annnnnnnnnnd my parents just gave me $80 for rats!

anther update, thankfully when my relatives do not know what to get me, they get me either petco cards or cash:gj: I got a $15 gift card to petco, and $40 to spend on heat tape and towards another snake.

[QUOTE=MelissaFlipski;685245]Will you please let us know hwo the dvd is once you see it?QUOTE]
Ill let ya know as soon as i get a chance to watch it.
It turns out that my wife lied to me about the A.P. rack to throw me off track. She surprized me with a baby Suri. I damn near $hit my self i was so happy.
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I asked for a black milk snake for christmas, but my boyfriend isn't a fan of snakes to begin with, and my dad doesn't believe in giving animals as christmas gifts so that didn't happen. *BUT* my dad did buy me the Ball Pythons of the World book which I am *SO* excited for. He also bought me this:

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I haven't taken it off since he gave it to me. The "diamonds" aren't real - I think they're just crystal, but I'm in love with it nonetheless. :D:D It's a short chain so I can wear it with just about any shirt. I'm going to wear it every day!:P

A 4-month-old captive-bred BP that's already taking 2 frozen/thawed fuzzies a week, no problem, courtesy of my wife.

:) Which is what brings me here, in general, so hello everybody.

I set the tank up last night, so we didn't pick it up until today and :frustrate it's killing me to not have it out getting to know it (and my daughter's driving me nuts about it like a broken record), but it's shedding and adjusting at the same time.

I used to raise lizards, once upon a time - 2 full-grown iguanas raised from babies through a full life-span, plated lizards, swifts, etc, so I had all kinds of fun stuff to play around with (tanks, tubes, driftwood, etc etc etc), getting the tank the way I wanted it.

:D I forgot how much I love creating these environments, and this is the first snake I've raised, so it really is fun continuing to design, improve, build, repeat - already.

We've got it in a custom-built 25 gallon stainless-steel framed tank lidded with plexiglass, thin indoor/outdoor rubber-backed carpet and moss for bedding, and a hugely-over-sized cardboard roll cut in half and covered with driftwood and more moss that it promptly moved into and made itself comfortable in. Under-tank pads have a nicely-controlled 83 to 93 degree gradiant going and the plexiglass lidding, even with the air holes, works fantastic for trapping humidity.

Tomorrow, I'll pick up a 1x1 board and finish the framing for the top, and build that homemade humidity thingie in the DIY section here (GEEEN-ious idea... wish I'd though of it or heard of it 15 years or so ago).

Anyway, hopefully the BP'll come out and explore a little as night falls and I can steal just a moment or two of its time to give it a good looking-over, but if not *shrug* it's not like any of us are going anywhere.

*drums fingers* Need to come up with a name now, though, before my wife sticks it with "Fran". No patience, that woman. I'd like to at least get to know it a LITTLE before naming it. :confused: