What i realized..

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I've been keeping up with all of these threads, and I feel there are quite a lot of misunderstandings. I can almost guarantee everything said in all of the threads were not meant as an attack on you, or your ability to keep snakes.

First off, everyone here is not trying to insult you or talk you down or anything. Everything said is for the well being of the snakes you have, and the snakes you may breed.

From what I can tell, you mean well for your snakes. You love keeping snakes, and you're addicted to the hobby and want to expand your knowledge, and your collection of snakes. Honestly I think we all want to do that, hell I don't even have my first snake shipped to me yet because it's too cold and I'm already spending quite a lot of my time searching the web, looking at possible combos to breed to him in time. But, the conditions have to be right, the money has to be right and it all has to fall into place before I will take the leap, if I even do.

With that being said, I feel you're in a similar boat that I am. Obviously, you're quite a bit more experienced in snake keeping than I am, seeing as you have decent sized snakes, that if i recall correctly you've had for a while. None of the people here are telling you that you should never breed, that you should never expand your collection, in fact I'm sure everyone here will support you and help you with any questions you may have. Hence why they're so many thoughts and time being invested into your threads.

I believe everyone here is just trying to tell you to get your setup ready (and done correctly), figure out what you're going to do with your snakes once you've bred them, have a rack for the babies, an incubator, rats/mice for them, reliable breeders that always have rats/mice, etc.. All of the above stated really boil down to one thing, money.

All in all, I'm just trying to say that you should get a plan of what you're going to do before you jump into breeding and end up with 20 more snakes with no where to put them and no where to sell them to.

Hopefully this helps clarify what may seem to come off as a personal attack on you.