How many snakes will you have?

Right now I have 13 snakes, but in the future, its looking like I am going to have somewhere in the proximity of 70 to 80. :omg:
How about yall?

lol if your wanting some rtbs let me know, im up to my ears in them

One for now, planning on my second one - can't decide between some sort of RTB or a Carpet Python. I just can't make up my mind :P I would love to be able to home an Albino Burmese in the FAAAR future, and some sort of Tree Python in the near future.

How many snakes can you fit in a 400 square feet room??? :D

I am building a shop for my BPs with in the next 2 years. So it will be a shop for bps and rats.

i guess I need to figure out my wish list and start from the top.

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Originally Posted by Deborah

How many snakes can you fit in a 400 square feet room??? :D

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seriously!

for me, i'd love to have more, but i know that with my current lack of time and with a young family, now is not the time to have or build a super-collection. at the same time, i can still have a pretty moderate group and i must say that i'm very proud of my carpet collection i've amassed!

well, I really cant think of a number because then i feel like id be rushing into things and just acting like Oh I have to have this many snakes to seem impressive( in my mind that is, i haven't gotten than impression from anyone) so, i'll just see where the current takes me!

I assumed from day one that I would hit 200 easily... and I do not think that will be that long with holdbacks and hatchlings.

I give it another 3-4 years, and I think that is a modest estimate.

I had an unofficial goal of adding 10 hatchling females a year minimum. I added 9 this year and there is a show coming up in a week and a half... I think I'll hit my quota. :)

We have planned for the eventuality of 200-300. It'll just be a matter of being very selective as time wears on... mark em up... move em on.

Bruce

Well in 6 month i went from 0 snakes to 10. So my goal is 100 in the next 3 years.

I have already started breeding mice and asf's. I will be trying to breed this year for bp's but we will see how it goes.

I will not stop adding snakes until my entire basement is full.

I have only scratched the surface at 27 right now.

I estimate 20-30 per year at a minimum until my '08 girls hit breeding weight.

Richard

I can reasonably see myself with 25...

Oh my... well that is a dilema... I want to have 5 adults to breed and have some holdbacks:D The reason its a dilema is cause my boyfriend says he wont let me have more than 3 snakes at any given time (I am marrying this boy). poo on him i will hide them in my closet!

Good question..

I don't think I want nearly the number that you guys are talking about. I'm hoping to pick up a nice male to court my girl, but who knows when that can happen.

I think a breeding pair or two would suit me for many years.

I could, however, see myself retired many years down the road, and running a small time snake/reptile operation. Who knows?

I'm thinking within the next 10 years, the number of snakes purchased and holdbacks from breeding will be 10 or fewer, but of course if I'm breeding then the number of hatchlings will far outnumber that. I wouldn't count those as "my pets" though, I'd just be the temporary carekeeper until I found them good homes :D

Right now, I have two breeding pair of RTBs. They won't be up to breeding weight for another couple of years or so, plenty of time for me to get some more room. But I really don't plan on expanding that large. I want to keep two or three from each litter, and will probably add another one or two to the cycle depending... but nothing huge. And even if I have four or five breeding pairs, I will probably only breed one or two at a time. I don't want to overload myself... it's just me here, for the moment. But, you never know what the future might hold! :)

im gonna go with 500-1000

Well....

I have 3 Bci's and hope to get one more next season; however, one of them will go with my son to college and beyond!!

I have 13 ball pythons and will breed some and keep my most favorite morphs from the pairings (BEL, Bee, pastel mojo, etc.) I really hope to keep the numbers somewhere within sanity...

Dodging the question, aren't I?? :P Lol!!! :D

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Originally Posted by Deborah

How many snakes can you fit in a 400 square feet room??? :D

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i guess I need to figure out my wish list and start from the top.

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Mhm, wish lists make it alot easier to figure out what you'll need and what to start with first.

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Well in 6 month i went from 0 snakes to 10. So my goal is 100 in the next 3 years.

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Nice! That is alot snakes to get within three years.

I have a feeling that my est. number is going to change dramatically since I keep getting snakes that I didnt plan on getting.

My goal is to top out at 60 breeder ball python females and breed half each year (heavy on the pied combos: cinnie pied, albino pied, super pastel pied as well as clown combos). Probably 10 breeder males, and a ton of hatchlings and juvies growing up / for sale.

JonV

I only have 2 so far, but I'm guessing that I'll end up with somewhere between 10 and 20 snakes, not including any hatchlings from possible future breeding experiments. I currently only have the 2 bps, but I plan on getting a RTB and a GTP for sure, possibly a corn or two, maybe a blood or two too...

I can't even begin to honestly answer that. Currently I have 27 with plans to buy at least 5 more in the next year. However with my other business getting steadily more busy, I may end up having to cut back or hire someone to help out. This is also (hopefully) my first breeding year so I have no idea how many I will hold back.
Now how many do I want? All of them :rofl:

I have no idea how many snakes I'll have! I would never put a number to that, or a limit either.

My only true limit is when I have exhausted all space and time constraints. There is no number for me, AT ALL.

I have 31 now, and it doesn't feel like so many that I'd ever have to sit and think "Okay, I'll only have 100, 200, or 300 and that's it!! Tap OUT!!"

I'll just go with the flow, see where my fancy takes me. :) It may never get above 100.. who knows.

I have a pretty good head on my shoulders, and I know just what I can handle at any given time.

I will easily break the 500 mark. I currently have 35+/- snakes I plan to add 25+ more by March 2009 plus 10 holdbacks and another 10 morphs I want to add from there its females all the way. I added what like 12 new ones this year alone

Last year I posted a 25 to 30 limit for my collection. Now I have to agree with Connie I'm going to have as many as I can feed and home.

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Originally Posted by Emilio

I'm going to have as many as I can feed and home.

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That's exactly how I feel :D I'm estimating that I won't really be able to feed and home nearly the number of snakes that some of the people here are capable of! Living in a 800 sq foot 2 BR apartment, with the room that is certainly <250 sq feet being the "snake and office desk" room.. I have space for maybe two adult snakes, an incubator, and a rack for hatchlings. If I wanted all the space in the room to be taken up by snakes, then maybe a rack or two more might fit, but I would have to take out the tape measure!

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Originally Posted by Inknsteel

I only have 2 so far, but I'm guessing that I'll end up with somewhere between 10 and 20 snakes, not including any hatchlings from possible future breeding experiments. I currently only have the 2 bps, but I plan on getting a RTB and a GTP for sure, possibly a corn or two, maybe a blood or two too...

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You have lofty aspirations my dear. Was I going to be consulted?????? That's a LOT of snakes....:P

2 unless I move out :)

I only have one so far but I plan on at least two more within the next few months. I am going to start working on finishing my basement this winter so I can keep my little friends there instead of the spare bedroom. I really don't have a set number on how many I would like to have.

LOL, I used to think that I could never have too many but in all honesty I'm right about at my limit. We have about 45 adults and number of babies will fluctuate with the season, but in reality this is about as many as I want to keep. We are out of space and extra time.

As many as i can Feed, house, and love haha