Thanks for the friendly welcome, everyone!

And the original reason I started lurking here was to find out all I could about keeping snakes responsibly. I want to know all I can before buying all the equipment I need and finally going and picking out a snake.

Also, some things I forgot in my first post:

I live in Dallas, Tx, I listen to country, pop, and some rock, I am not a Christian (which gets me some flak from my family, but I ignore it. I don't nag them for their choice in what to believe, and I'm hoping for the day that they choose to return the sentiment. Live and let live, and all that), I'm 26, I have moments where I devolve into a squeeing fangirl (usually when presented with something adorable, though my standards are... strange... as to what falls in that category), and I love fire and things that go boom a LITTLE too much. I work nights as a security guard, and often hop on websites on my phone when bored.