How many species do you keep in your collection?

Hello all,
I thought I'd ask how many species you currently keep in your collection. This topic interests me because there seems to be many who keep a "deep and narrow" collection of just one species with many examples, or a "wide and shallow" collection with one specimen of several species. I think each has its benefits, and personally love to see a collection that specializes in one species. I am still on the hunt for my "one species", so have several species at the moment.

I am interested in hearing how many species you keep, and if you'd like to post how many of each as well, that would be great too. I'm thinking that we'll see lots of BPs since we are on BP.net, but I'm also thinking we might end up being surprised.

Myself, I have 4 species, 2 of which are Kenyan sand boas, 1 hognose, 1 BCA, and 1 ball python

Just Balls...only have 14...:)

4. 2 royals, 1 bci, 1 boiga and 1 retic.

Balls, BCI's, & a GTP.

BP's, BCI's, BRB's, Garters, Kings, Milk, Hognose.

9 different species of snake including the one I'm fostering. 11 species of reptiles over. My sig is my list. My species list will grow when I get into boas, other pythons, and other colubrids.

For those who can't see it:

1.0.0 Albino Black Rat snake(Wafer)
0.0.1 California King snake(Oreo)
0.0.1 African Housesnake(Cupcake)
0.0.1 Honduran Milk snake(Blackjack)
0.0.2 Normal BP(Petey; Twix)
0.0.1 Yellow Rat Snake(Dijon)
1.0.0 Albino Nelson's Milk snake(Candy Cane)
1.0.0 Lesser BP(Creme Brulee)
1.0.0 Mojo BP(Brownie)
0.1.0 Black Motley Corn snake(Anisette)
0.0.1 Pueblan Milk snake[Fostering, Taco Grande]
0.1.0 West African Mud Turtle(Bulger)
0.2.0 Red Eared Slider(Squirtle, Turtwig)

I currently keep 10 different species of snakes and two species of geckos. I love them all for different reasons, and I can't imagine limiting myself to only one species and missing out on the great qualities that others have to offer!

Just three. :)

A king snake, two kenyan sand boas, and six ball pythons.

5.5.13 C. ciliatus (Crested Geckos)
0.0.1 V. Exanthematicus (Savannah Monitor)
0.1 Gargoyle Gecko
4.5 U. lineatus (lined leaf tail geckos)
5.2.3 U. fimbriatus (giant leaf tailed geckos)
1.2 N. amyae (rough skinned knob tail geckos)
1.2 N. levis levis (smooth skinned knob tail geckos)
0.2.1 Viper Geckos
0.1 Bearded Dragon
0.1 Red eared slider
0.1 Painted turtle
0.1 Leopard Gecko
0.2 Sugar Gliders (Platinum Cremeino and a Cremeino het leucy)
1.0 P. reticulatus 50% Dwarf Purple Albino het gen stripe
A bunch of BPs. Clown, Enchi, lesser, spider, pastel, pinstripe, yellowbelly, spotnose, F&F calico, OD, subsaharan subadults
A few colonies of ASF
A few colonies of B. dubia

I am at 6, however I'm trying to keep myself from the "ball craze" and fill my collection with more uncommon species

1.1 IJ Blue Tongue Skinks
1.0 Childrens Python
1.0 Panther Chameleon
0.1 B&W Tegu
1.0 Beareded Dragon

So far I have one adult male corn snake, one adult male hognose and one young female lemon pastel ball python. We also have a pacman frog, one citrus, one leatherback and one "normal" bearded dragon, and more tarantulas than I can really list in one post. :)

2 bps, Dumeril, BCI, woma python, cay caulker, viper boa, Sumatran, Borneo, corn snake, spotted python and one real old skink. I'm all about different species, the second bp came to me by chance.

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I currently only keep ball pythons, BCI, and crested geckos.

In the past we have also had
- Dumeril's boa
- carpet python
- leopard geckos
- red eye croc skink
-blood pythons
- western hognose
- corn snake
- Kenyan sand boas

There might be others but that is all I can remember at the moment!

Let's see 9 so far with a plan to move into at least 3-4 more. My primary focus is carpets specifically coastals, but I do like to dabble in a bunch of other stuff to keep my a.d.d. Happy.
San Diego gophers
Water pythons
Bredli
Ball
Carpets
King snake
Scrubs (Morelia amethystina)
Tanibars (Morelia nauta)
Amazon tree boas


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I keep mostly ball pythons but I also keep a few individuals of several different species that interest me. Collections ebb and flow throughout the years with lifestyle changes and interest changes. I used to have more cornsnakes than balls and used to produce hundreds of hatchling cornsnakes every year, now I'm down to 3 corns and haven't bred them in years. I used to have a lot more lizards but got so sick and tired of crickets that I got rid of all of them, however now that I'm raising dubia roaches I'm getting more lizards again. I also used to have many different subspecies of milksnakes but then for some reason I forget about, I got rid of all of them, but now recently just picked up a couple of hondurans. The list of species I have kept in the past is probably much larger then the number of species I'm currently keeping and I have over a dozen species at present (some of which I'll probably be getting rid of soon) :rolleye2:

Wow, thanks for your responses guys. I think MarkS his the nail on the head.. I too believe that collections change as your interests as a keeper change. I used to be very into crested geckos and have lately found snakes more interesting I also used to be very very into freshwater aquaria, but have gotten out of it as well. For me, I pick animals typically based on looks at first, but their behavior patterns are what keep me interested over time. At this point, I'm trying out individuals of several different species and based on how I like their behaviors and how they mature, I'll determine which ones I get more examples of and possibly breed down the line.

for those of you with many many different species how are you keeping all of them. Do you house multiple species in the same racks as long as the husbandry is similar? I am about tapped out on lizards because they requre such large enclosures but, would like to add to my snake collection down the road without having cages everywhere.

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Originally Posted by jclaiborne

for those of you with many many different species how are you keeping all of them. Do you house multiple species in the same racks as long as the husbandry is similar? I am about tapped out on lizards because they requre such large enclosures but, would like to add to my snake collection down the road without having cages everywhere.

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Nope. Boas in T20's in the living room. Balls in a rack in the bedroom. Gtp in his own stand alone tub in the bedroom.

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Originally Posted by DooLittle

Nope. Boas in T20's in the living room. Balls in a rack in the bedroom. Gtp in his own stand alone tub in the bedroom.

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Dang, I kind of figured that would be the response, but was secretly hoping it wasn't haha.

My Australian stuff is about the same requirements, so my carpets, waters, Bredlis are all in the same basic setup! The colubs are different, and the scrubs are also a different setup.


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All of my racks have individual thermostats for each rack but even so you will find temperature differences in each tub, cooler on the bottom and hotter on the top. So for instance in a 12 tub high rack I'll keep cooler colubrids in the bottom tubs, ball pythons in the middle and Woma's on the top but I do a lot of shuffling around to see who does better somewhere else. Lizards all have their own tanks and turtles have big tubs on the floor, but like I said I'm constantly changing things and shuffling animals around. Maybe somedy I'll be organized. :rolleyes: