What was your first herp?

Well the title says most of it.

What was the first herp you ever owned?


Mine was a box turtle named Squishy.

A CornSnake when I was 6! :rockon:

A green iguana is what got me into snakes, the iguana just didn't do it for me. Plus you really gotta be on top of them they poop everyday and eat everyday.

Prairie King snake when I was 6.

corn snake named Jinx

green anoles are what kicked it all off. after all the garter snakes i caught outside.

I guess you can't count the lizards and snakes I brought home as a kid that my mom wouldn't let me keep? :D

My first legitimate herp was a green iguana when I was about 12... it was -not- the best choice for an inexperienced keeper. And the PetCo setup didn't help matters... he died of intestinal parasites at around 6 months--at least, so said the vet. Poor Keoke... I'm sure it was a combination of poor husbandry, an inexperienced keeper and the liklihood that he was WC.

Live and learn, I suppose.

my first herp was a green anole that i caught in south carolina at a family reunion. his name was arnie. :P

Woo...i'm the first one with a BP first. I never thought I was interested in reptiles until I had a girlfriend that had a cornsnake and convinced me to go out and get a BP, now shes gone, and i'm obsessed ;')

A garter snake i caught in my friends back yard when i was like 8 - ya i know now not to keep stuff from the wild but my dad never told me that.

Green anoles, had one for something like 5 years. But soon after it was a bp.


~mike

My first herps were two box turtles I named Donatello and April :) That was when I was around 5-6 and they lived in the backyard(where we found them).

My first snake was Amani, who I got in November of '04. I still have her and she's going strong at 1600g.

For me, it would be my African clawed frogs. I kept several at one point, but they are all gone now.

i think it was a green iguana. i called it Joanna, but i never knew it if was a boy or girl.

The first reptile that I remember keeping was a Rough Green Snake. I kept it on top of my dresser in a 10 gallon aquarium....fed it crickets. I had it for around a year before releasing it back into the wild.

Great snake. If I ever get the chance to catch a local pair, I would like to keep them and breed them.....to populate my yard with tons of rough green snakes ;D

Garter Snake...loved to musk me every chance it got...traded it for a ball python...and never looked back.

well MY first...lol...was a garter snake. We had reps in the house before that but he was MY first. Then I got Prince...my redtail!

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Originally Posted by Reptilian

Well the title says most of it.

What was the first herp you ever owned?


Mine was a box turtle named Squishy.

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First snake that ever lived with me, would be Chester my Ball python :)

My first was a ribbon snake, fed him feeder goldfish, super cool watching him eat. Sure did love to bite too! :rolleyes:

A Leopard Gecko name Spot.. still have him too.

My first was a bearded dragon named Draco. She was a big girl. Then my love for reptiles grew from there. Not long after her, we got Dagger, a male bearded dragon and a cham named Peatree.

My very first was 2 red eared sliders i caught in the local creek. Shortly after were some green anoles that i caught on the side of my house when i was a kid....

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Originally Posted by Freakie_frog

A Leopard Gecko name Spot.. still have him too.

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My. First. Reptile. Was. A. Leopard. Gecko. And. His. Name. Was. Spot. Too. WOW.

:D :D

Funny coincidence, but I'm sure it's common. :rolleyes:

Umm, I think a fire skink or a marine toad, I'm not sure which one was 1st. I was 6 or 7.

my first is my green iguana named Toran
from there I went towards snakes

My first herp was a Hermans tortoise called George ...my parents got him for me when i was 6 years old , The next year i got a Dice snake gorgeus snake very similar and related to the European Grass snake .
After that on my 8th birthday i got my very first tarantula a Mexican redknee which sadly died 3 years ago :( , ive always had some kind of reptile /exotic animal in my life since george the tortoise :)