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    You gotta be kidding, you come to THIS forum for tips on Not acquiring snakes? That's like asking a junky how to come clean. Good luck with that!
    The one thing I found that you can count on about Balls is that they are consistent about their inconsistentcy.

    1.2 Coastal Carpet Pythons
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    Re: How to say NO MORE...

    Quote Originally Posted by Reinz View Post
    You gotta be kidding, you come to THIS forum for tips on Not acquiring snakes? That's like asking a junky how to come clean. Good luck with that!
    So very true !




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    Re: How to say NO MORE...

    Pretty easy the key is not to have any empty enclosure and no longer buy any.

    I have a certain amount of enclosures for my adults, so if I want something new something else has to go.

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    I started out with one baby Corn Snake in a tank. Then I discovered Neodesha 3 packs. But then realized my office would look so much better with a stack on either side of the window. As I expanded cages, so did my species range expand. At that point, I figured out that my desk and office stuff could fit very nicely in the first floor laundry room, and I could rent a pickup truck to snag used 422D's which expanded the size range of what I could keep. 11 species later, my son and his fiancé bought me a chest freezer for my birthday to get the rodents out of the kitchen.
    I have no advice other than this... if it ends up looking like a warehouse, and you can't remember who you have, and taking care of them is too costly in time, energy, and money... then you've gone too far.
    How much of your resources do you really want to spend on your snakes? How are you keeping them? In a dedicated room? As living area displays? This, too, will limit your numbers. And just like any other pet, what size can you safely handle, how much poop and pee are you willing and able to keep cleaned up? And how long are you going to want to do this? Because they last decades, and rehoming one or two is easy, a dozen or two, not so much.

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    If you are ever at the point of having the time it takes to care for your animals affect your relationships with friends, family, romantic ones. You should take the time and money you'd spend on the next step and invest in those relationships instead.

    Now that your friends and family know you aren't dead, ask them to watch your snakes while you use the next build's money on a field herping vacation tour (you'll see them posted every now and then on some sites)

    There, you're poor again. No more snakes.

    If you don't have friends, family or significant other or don't care about them I've found completely running out of room is the next step. If you keep your animals in tubs, instead of a new snake, pick a snake and put it in a nice vivarium. Do so with each urge.

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