Does it ever stop?!?!

Lets just say i "had to buy another rack", this time a CB-70 3 shelf from RBI. Mainly because my 2 900+ grams BP's, i feel should have a little more room. Plus another T-stat for the cb70's and couple more larger tubs for the VE-6. Feel like I'm ordering something every week or so lol.

Anyone else with multiple beeps feel this way also?

My racks are of the roll your own variety, so that is not too big an issue, but it seems all too often that I open the freezer and have to order rats again...

i feel like i'm always buying thermo/hygrometers because i always manage to get the screens wet and ruin them lol.

I swear I should have a museum of bad choice purchases of all the junk I bought over the years to try and make things better. I still have not learned not that I will really ever learn to not be a sucker for new shiny things :P

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Originally Posted by JodanOrNoDan

My racks are of the roll your own variety, so that is not too big an issue, but it seems all too often that I open the freezer and have to order rats again...

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That's not a bad problem to have. ;)

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Originally Posted by Mr. Misha

That's not a bad problem to have. ;)

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Oh that depends, when your rats start arriving by dolly load bi-weekly and raising snakes is not your primary source of income there may be a little bit of an issue. I really need to break down and sell some more babies.

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Originally Posted by JodanOrNoDan

Oh that depends, when your rats start arriving by dolly load bi-weekly and raising snakes is not your primary source of income there may be a little bit of an issue. I really need to break down and sell some more babies.

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That sounds like a full time job. This why my max is 6. I'm looking for one more and then I'm done.

This is a stupid problem to have, but I keep thinking I need to buy a new tub for my one (1) snake because I keep thinking of ways to improve things, and it wouldn't work with how many holes I've drilled into my current tubs.

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Originally Posted by Mr. Misha

That sounds like a full time job. This why my max is 6. I'm looking for one more and then I'm done.

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The care, feeding and breeding is actually not that bad and I actually enjoy it. I also am lucky enough to have help when I need it. The marketing/selling is the part that is like work. At my real job, I have hired people to take care of selling the product I create because I have such a distaste for marketing in general. Next season I will probably do the same for snakes and it will let me focus on what I like to to.

Every paycheque. This next one coming up I'm replacing my jumpstarts with herpstats.

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Originally Posted by Pezz

Every paycheque. This next one coming up I'm replacing my jumpstarts with herpstats.

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i only need a few more checks and i get to do the same!!! [emoji3]

Then you get a new snake and it starts all over again. IT NEVER ENDS!!!!

Yes if you put limits it does stop.

At first it seemed like I was always buying racks and equipment, now pretty much if something comes in or I hold back something, something in my collection has to go, so I still have the same numbers and no longer need racks but the collection is upgraded.

The key is finding your own limit and not get overwhelmed.

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Every paycheque. This next one coming up I'm replacing my jumpstarts with herpstats.

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Check out the classifieds! I got my herpstat 4 for like 200 bucks a few years ago. Actually, both of my herpstat 4s were bought second hand.

I'm at the point where I literally have 4 spare empty setups large and small, and there's literally nothing holding me back from getting more snakes. I also have 2 empty spots in my BP rack.

I've kind of accepted that I'm currently at my limit, especially resolving that Jack would be my final "most wanted" species. But honestly, who knows what will happen to me again in a year or so... LOL

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Originally Posted by Mr. Misha

Check out the classifieds! I got my herpstat 4 for like 200 bucks a few years ago. Actually, both of my herpstat 4s were bought second hand.

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Thats a good idea, i was just going to order some herpstat1's on amazon.

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Originally Posted by SDA

Then you get a new snake and it starts all over again. IT NEVER ENDS!!!!

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This is the hobby that never ends.
It goes on and on my friends.

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I'm cutting down... I bought a bunch of snakes altogether in a rack off craigslist this summer. I have sold three of the snakes already, and about to sell one more.... That will leave me down to 4 snakes, 2 males and 2 females, and I am setting 4 as my limit, unless I somehow get rich!!!

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I hold back something, something in my collection has to go, so I still have the same numbers and no longer need racks but the collection is upgraded.

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I definitely understand that from a breeder's point of view but that's the only thing that I struggle with since my BPs are pets first and I feel a little sad replacing them with "better" stock. I know that it's a business decision for most.

I'm probably going to be breeding my first clutch (my Pied project has taken me 3 years so far to finally breed) this upcoming year and will only hold back one, if I get the combination I'm shooting for. I only have room for one more in my collection. All the others will either be sold online or to a local reptile store with which I already worked out a deal.