A little survey for everyone!!

Crickets.... I hate crickets. They are the reason I no longer keep lizards.

Maggots.... I hate it when one of my snakes doesn't eat their rat and then lays on top of it or hides it under their substrate so I don't find it until it starts to smell and has maggots crawling on it. That just creeps me out.

Mark

Snakes are just SO easy compared to my adult beardie was... they are a walk in the park to me! Eating and pooping once a week is like a dream :P

Adult beardie poop, ESPECIALLY after he has eaten a lot of crickets and superworms that morning - the worst is coming home to my whole room smelling disgusting. And from personal experience: Don't use paper towels/newspaper as a substrate for an adult beardie... makes the smell and the cleanup ten times worse.

Another thing... keeping large amounts of crickets (500+ in a tub or aquarium) smells TERRIBLE. Ugh... I hate crickets. Silkworms and roaches are MUCH better alternatives. (Except my mom never came around to letting me keep roaches... very silly of her, as they're not the kind that infest houses...)

Nothing against beardies, of course... I absolutely adore them! They're amazing pets with great personalities. I miss my little boy terribly :tears: (had to give him up when I moved to college.)

I also deeply despise crickets, which is why I keep snakes lol.

I do not like escapees, and I do not like worrying if a new arrival is going to eat or not.
That's about it.

I don't know what I hate... I think nothing.
I used to have a gecko and the crix annoyed me, that's about it.

When I kept around 80+ panther chameleons I hated the escaped crickets. Taking care of the crickets wasn't too bad, but having them escape the feeding cups of the chameleons was a huge pain. Along with just the over all amount of time the chameleons took up in caring for them.

I loathe crickets... the sound, the smell, the feel of them. I have been trying to find a cockroach colony for over a year now to no avail.

Those nasty fruit moths(?) that I get in my mealie and super colonies make me nuts. If there is an open bottle of wine anywhere in the house they just HAVE to duck in to investigate and then promptly drown.

Semi-brumated dragons that only poop once a week (or more). If there is anything stinkier than dragon poop I have never smelt it.

Nothing about the snakes really bugs me. Or the rats for that reason.

Oh... not true. My milksnake and her musking. I think it is positively foul. And she is fast... so on occasion she darts out of my hands and is on the run. A python on the run, easy enough to deal with, a corn snake, not so bad... a milksnake *HMPHHHH!*

Bruce

Actually, I don't mind the cricket bin... I kinda even like the sound! :oops: No real complaints with the snakes, I do wish they wouldn't poo on the edge of their hides :rolleyes:
My biggest "pet-peeve" w/ herps!?!? Cleaning glass. Some of my Cresties are in mostly screen, but some are in Exo-terras... because of the misting, the glass gets cloudy. Cleaning the glass on the frogs too... not my fav....

1. Worrying about my snakes' health (like the hard to beat URI or bad sheds).
2. Getting bitten by our JCP. See #1, if he has a bad shed, we are doomed!! Bite, bite, bite!
3. Worrying about whether I am really following proper and effective quarantine procedures (see #1!).
4. Feeling like I have to wait to get another snake (my husband's patience will only go so far with my obsession).
5. Worrying that one day, my husband will finally say, "NO more reptiles - ever! We are full up!"
6. Given #4 and #5, feeling indecisive about what reptile to get next. If there is a limited number, I better choose well!

Edit: Did I mention that I'm a worrier?

I don't like bugs. So I stay away from reptiles that require bugs as a diet.

I hate it when I get a perfect shed along with a present in it, which is then smeared all of the snake in question.

Shots are the worse. My helper has a fear of being bite so will hold them, but not as tight or correctly. I haven't learned to give shots w/o a buddy to hold the reptile.

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Originally Posted by monk90222

I agree that escaped rats in the snake room are a pain....crickets are worse though......I think I have an established colony of escaped now feral crickets in my basement...

I also hate the smell when a snake kills but does not eat a rodent...nothing like a bloated stinky rodent in a 83 degree room.....

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YES there is, when they drop it in the water bowl!!!!!!!!!!