Why are you in the reptile hobby?

I do it mainly for my kid. It gives us some father and son time. Plus the happiness on his face when he can get his favorite boy out https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...3efc65f52d.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...3e2ac8e62d.jpg


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My daughter wanted a snake so we got a king snake (over my strenuous objections).

The little bugger was pretty cool so we got a ball python next. Well we meant to get one but came home with two.

Then we got more ball pythons, and a boa, and a milk snake, and a Brazilian rainbow boa...

And so on, and so on, and so on!

Because I wanted to make my childhood dream of owning a snake come true, than it got out of hand from there. :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by bcr229

My daughter wanted a snake so we got a king snake (over my strenuous objections).

The little bugger was pretty cool so we got a ball python next. Well we meant to get one but came home with two.

Then we got more ball pythons, and a boa, and a milk snake, and a Brazilian rainbow boa...

And so on, and so on, and so on!

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Haha. I know how that is. I just bought our 5th ball python a couple days ago.


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Originally Posted by Deborah

Because I wanted to make my childhood dream of owning a snake come true, than it got out of hand from there. :rolleyes:

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I already see that happening with us. I'm already trying to buy a 6th ball python [emoji38]


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I wanted a snake since I was 6-7 years old, but my parents hate snakes and I was too young to research or know any better anyway. Then I've wanted a ball python since I was 12, and then did more research before moving out after graduating college, so I finally got one for myself!

Then I think I got my second ball python only two months after that, and my dumeril's boa about 3 months after THAT, after realizing how low-maintenance these animals are. And then it just kept my interest and kept going! LOL

I'm mostly just a collector of diverse species, but I've tried breeding one of my male ball pythons a couple years ago with a female that didn't ovulate... And then I'm pairing him again this year with two females. and hoping to find a nice male for my tanimbar scrub python female too to make more babies!

Cute kid! He looks like my youngest. Is he 9...10? Mine will be 10 in 2 weeks.

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I wanted a snake since I was 6-7 years old, but my parents hate snakes and I was too young to research or know any better anyway. Then I've wanted a ball python since I was 12, and then did more research before moving out after graduating college, so I finally got one for myself!

Then I think I got my second ball python only two months after that, and my dumeril's boa about 3 months after THAT, after realizing how low-maintenance these animals are. And then it just kept my interest and kept going! LOL

I'm mostly just a collector of diverse species, but I've tried breeding one of my males a couple years ago with a female that didn't ovulate... And then I'm pairing him again this year with two females. and hoping to find a nice male for my tanimbar scrub python female too to make more babies!

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Nice. I'd like to learn the breeding side.


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Cute kid! He looks like my youngest. Is he 9...10? Mine will be 10 in 2 weeks.

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Thanks. He is 9


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Here’s both of mine

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That's a cool Pic. Hes looking at the snake like "daddddd" lol


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That's a cool Pic. Hes looking at the snake like "daddddd" lol


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I wish I would've had the camera on him when he first help a BP. His face lit up and he came alive. Found his pet calling.:snake::snake::snake:

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I wish I would've had the camera on him when he first help a BP. His face lit up and he came alive. Found his pet calling.:snake::snake::snake:

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That's awesome. I'm just glad to pull my kid away from gaming and phones lol


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That's awesome. I'm just glad to pull my kid away from gaming and phones lol


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Me too. All kids seem to have the disease!

People in my family are allergic to furry animals so I was considering getting a corn snake. While doing research I ended up on the ball python side of YouTube over the winter holidays, and upon seeing a baby pied ball python for the first time (specifically in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-ne7m6YFtw ) I was instantly in love.

I now have an albino mojave boy that I am very happy with, and I might get a pied in the future once they are available!

I’m in it because I was obsessed with the garter snakes in my yard growing up. I would get bucket fulls of them at my grandfathers campground. Unfortunately my mother was terrified so I never had the chance. So I put a plan in action. Grow up,make money get a house and start a collection,because I’m the man of this house and get what I want...Well I get what I want when my wife lets me. I’m still the man of the house when she’s not here, or when my daughters not here. Well come to think of it. I’m a bank that occasionally gets to spend my own money

Ok this will sound stupid but 2 years ago I had this dream where I had this pet snake that was big and heavy, and I brought it to school. People loved it and I fell in love with it. Since that dream I have been in love with snakes. I have dreamed about owning an OD pied bp (ik that's very specific) since but now I am leaning more towards blood boas as my second snake.

When I was a little kid, I was catching toads, frogs, lizards, salamanders and newts. Then I discovered snakes, much to my Mom’s dismay. My Dad taught me what was safe to catch, and it’s been all downhill from there. I was fascinated by reptiles and amphibians but never allowed to keep any of my captures as pets, and no snakes until I was out on my own. I bought my first snake, a common redtail boa, in 1991 and had him until he passed in 2017. I’ve had a number of different species over the years, but really love the ball python morphs. They’re beautiful, a great size, sweet tempered, not terribly difficult to care for, just all around great snakes....as long as you can deal with the occasional fast. :rolleyes:

Since I was a little boy and lived across the street from a Forrest Preserve. Snakes, frogs, turtles, toads and an occasional tortoise. I was definitely hooked.

When I was 11 or 12 I found a brown water snake when I was fishing and from that day on I was hooked. I caught and kept pretty much every indigenous snake and lizard there was in my area. My mother only had one rule and that was that I had to take good care of them. Not so much into lizards now although I do see an ackie in my future once I have more space.

Sideways story,

When I was a kid we went on holiday to a farm owned by relatives.

He thought the only snakes on his land were venomous ( I found another species that, according to convention, shouldn't have been there but never told him about it ). This was the european adder on his fields riverbanks etc and he wanted them eradicated. I was about 10 and didn't know any better so he told me to catch as many as I could. To do so I, obviously, had to learn quite a bit about them and their habits. It took me about a week to learn he was being silly about it and get interested in them myself.

So I caught a few everytime we were there, showed them to him and quietly relocated them. My parents however remained totally against snakes in general - especially when I got sent home from school for taking a live adder into biology in a lemonade bottle.

Within two weeks of moving into my own flat I bought Cleo, a female royal python still sitting about 12 foot away from me as I type. She is still my favourite and an absolute angel of a snake. <3

Rather like Dianne, I grew up fascinated by frogs, toads, turtles, & salamanders in a rural setting* and none of which I ever kept, until my family moved to a
populous suburban area with no such wildlife. I've always loved animals & it wasn't until I was an adult that I was offered a snake (a pet I'd never considered
before) & "the rest is hissstory". :snake:

*The closest I ever got to a snake as a kid was either a rapidly-disappearing racer or garter snake, or the shed they left behind. And all family members were
firmly anti-snake, though I do remember a program at my grammar school by a man wearing jungle garb & showing all sorts of snakes, one of them enormous.
So maybe that planted a subliminal seed?