how old were you at your first purchase??

okay, i have been around reptiles my whole life. my older brother had snakes and i was always helping with them. due to the army i wasnt able to buy my first snake til i was 24. still 24 i now own 3 and will own many more really soon. so how about you, when did u obtain your first BP that u were responsible for?

Heh... so far I'm the oldest, or at least GOT my snake at the oldest age. I got my first snake only 1.5 years ago, at the tender age of 32. I'm up to 29 snakes already (including the 6 I produced myself), so I've been making up for lost time! :D

Got my first snake 16 years ago. Produced my first clutch of eggs at 12 years old of corn snake eggs. Ever since then its been non stop.

got my first snakes and lizzards as a kid at 15, ive done corns in the 200 numbers
boas in the 30s, gopher/10 honds/15 kings/ 15 brb/8 hogs, mangroves, dums, much more with lizzards. i got into balls in the last few years, there is still nothing like finding eggs or babys after all these years. i do it as a hobby now and buy what i like for the fun and if i make some mone at it i just use it for food, cages, or the next snake. age 51

I have been around reptiles my whole life, I was practically raised with them. As I was growing up we always had dogs and reptiles, that was it. For my 8th birthday my dad took me to buy my own reptile, I bought a normal ball python, unfortunately it didn't live very long, I could only assume that back then it was a wild caught and was probably sick from the beginning, but we'll never know.

I adopted a snake when I was 18 but had to keep it at my girlfriend house because my parents wouldn't have that at all. Then I move out at 19 and bought my first snake about 2 months later at tinley park

I did my first Repticon show in Orlando last October (I sell lucite bug specimens and jewelry) http://www.LuciteTreasures.com I've always liked snakes, but were a little creeped out by them. I had a Pac man frog that ate hoppers 15 years ago, so I didn't mind feeding. The breeder in the next booth traded me a female normal for a bat in lucite. I've done every Repticon Orlando since, and the National Reptile Breeders show in Daytona (got my first morph) 47was a bit old to start a new hobby, but I'm hooked.

i was around 13 or 14 when i got my first ball python. he was a normal male. the best snake i ever had!!!

x nicole

Bought my first ball python almost 20 years ago, when I was 19 and in the army. Kept him hidden in my barracks room. :D

As far as BPs go...2 years ago at 35 which makes me the oldest that I can tell so far.
as far as owning toads, box turtles, lizards, garters, etc...I was quite young..under age 10.

What do you consider ownership? I caught snakes as a kid and kept them as a pet until I was bored with them then I would let them go and get a new one. Does that count or do you mean when I first bought a snake?

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Heh... so far I'm the oldest, or at least GOT my snake at the oldest age. I got my first snake only 1.5 years ago, at the tender age of 32. I'm up to 29 snakes already (including the 6 I produced myself), so I've been making up for lost time! :D

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You beat me by one year! I bought my first bp at 31!

i guess its whenever u had a snake in your care that u took care of, that was actually yours

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Originally Posted by seeya205

You beat me by one year! I bought my first bp at 31!

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Bought my first Ball at 45 ;)

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Originally Posted by snakesRkewl

Bought my first Ball at 45 ;)

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Never to old to take the plunge :).

Haha, I got my first snakes this year! Very mature old age of 19 :P Not very young due to the fact animals in cages weren't allowed in our house (isn't a house like a big cage for a dog?! Pffffft). As soon as I had the money when I moved out I jumped on a nice pair o' balls from Garrick :)

24 years old here! Just bought my first ball python a few months ago. I've always wanted one but my mom would not have it. Her argument was that it would eat her small dog. Haha. So once I moved out, settled in and figured out finances, I went and bought my first ball, i love him!

When I was 8 or 9 I got a ball python from my mom's boss. I learned a lot about husbandry with that snake much at her expense. She got burned from a hot rock. She also ended up with severe rat bites on her back when I left a rat in her cage over night when she was in blue. That required several trips to the vet. And finding a vet to treat a snake was no easy task 25 years ago. Even through all of that I had her for 14 years. I have no idea how old she was when I got her but she was an adult. She died about 3 days after laying a clutch of eggs about 10 years ago. I still have one of her daughters from that clutch. Before anyone gets all pissed off just remember I was 8 years old and we had no internet.

My first reptile was a leopard gecko, and that was at age 11. My first BP I got in summer of 2008, so I was 18.