Actually just started, I've owned BPs for roughly 1 year now. Not including 2 I owned for short periods of times years ago. I'm not new to herps as I've kept reptiles for some 20 years now. Yet snakes are relatively new to me. With ball python the first I've invest alot of time and commitment to. I'm a hard core turtle keeping. Yet happy to say I'm a ball python keeper. I got into them pretty heavily in a short period of time have a breeding group of 24 balls (plus some forsale) and produced 4 clutches of eggs.