So I am way past the point of having just a couple BPs or reptiles for that matter and I'm starting to wonder if maybe I should stop adding to my collection.
I currently have 16 BPs, 4 boas, 2 rat snakes and several geckos, and I started the year with just 1 BP... I feel all of my reptiles are well taken care of. I feed weekly, spot check daily and scrub tubs weekly. My record keeping has also gotten much better in the past few months. BUT I feel like I no longer give my snakes individual care.
I used to be able to tell just by looking at my BPs if they are about to go blue and shed, but now I've actually had 1 or 2 surprise me and shed with out me noticing. I love the challenges of keeping a lot of reptiles and I know that they could care less if I take them out and hold them every other day or so, but it bothers me a little that they can shed without me noticing.
I don't want to miss signs for anything else because I don't give them more individual care. I'm really torn here because there are several more morphs I really want to add to my collection and I would like to breed, but I don't want to get in over my head. How do you handle your larger collections? How can I balance maintaining a larger collection and still giving individual care while working 45-50 hours a week? Is it possible?
Sorry this is so long winded, I'm just worried I'm not doing the best I can for my snakes. :/
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