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    Registered User Riv's Avatar
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    Ball pythons: The gateway Herp.

    Just be a man I said. Get over you fear of snakes I said. Its just one little ball python, and heck thst was a pretty cute yawn.. A year and half later ive got 4 ball pythons, plans to live my life around breeding them, I aquired a burm, and am now trading it for a baby Tegu and Breeding weight female normal. Getting a BP was HUGE for me on a base level, and now I cant seem to stop branching into bigger equally intreguing and intertaining reptiles XD Anyone else feel like it started out innocent and now youre hopelessly addicted for life?

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    Me! I wanted a ball python because my friends had one and I thought it was cool. 5 years later I think they're slightly jealous because of how far I took what they started with me


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    I wish I had local friends in the hobby XD My fiance likes them but isnt too knowledgable, and whenever I get talking about snakes I always get told to shutup because no one understands what im saying haha. Im pumped for this tegu though. I didnt really ever think about getting into them, but the more I read the more fun it sounds like. And this normal is a steal if its as big as was described.(I didnt get a weight. Just a pic and his word that she was big enough. What so you guys think? Im not convinved hes just wrong, and she does look pretty fat. Its just not a great pic to judge from.

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    Re: Ball pythons: The gateway Herp.

    I'd love to find some local breeding friends!! It would be a dream come true. When I got my first normal boy I was content for about 6 months. Then I started going to shows and I got ideas in my head for morphs and a future in breeding. Then came Spider boy and a few months after that, Pastel girl. Now I have plans for a rack and breeding in a few years. They are unbelievably addicting but I don't even mind I just love 'em.
    Now I want to get into a few lizards and some boas too. I want someone I can blab to all day about my balls! My friends tolerate me but I feel bad for going on and on so I don't do it too often.
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    A year and a half later and only 4 balls???!!!! How do you controll your self!!!???

    I started collecting BP's in May and I am up to 8!!

    I still have 3 slots open in my rack and its driving me crazy...they must be filled lol!!

    I got my Pastel in May. Then by the end of June I got 3 more at a expo. A Cinnamon,Pinstripe and a normal. In July I picked up a High White Pied and then this past weekend I picked up my Clown,Albino and Spider.

    I am crazy for Ball Pythons
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    Yes I do and I blame all of you for this horrible addiction!


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    Oh, they ARE addicting! It didn't start with a BP though with me. My first Reptile was my Leopard Gecko, Gaia, and since her I've fallen hard for Reptiles but for Geckos mostly. I am planning on having a small rack (5 tubs maybe) for BPs though, but that'll probably end up expanding into more with all of the morphs I've fallen in love with, lol.
    The only reason I only have 1 BP so far is because I don't have the money right now to get the morphs I want!
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    0.2.0 Leopard Geckos- Gaia and Prim, 0.0.1 African Fat-tailed Gecko- Latte
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    Re: Ball pythons: The gateway Herp.

    So true. I have four now, just 3 months after getting the first. Not that I'm complaining!

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    Balls are incredibly addicting, and are what got me into this hobby! But more and more I'm finding myself focusing on acquiring just a few select morphs I want to work with (axanthic, clown, enchi, and lesser are on the list) and moving towards other species. Savu pythons, Angolans, pine and bull snakes, mussuranas, red tailed cribos, woma pythons, rainbow boas.... I'm still trying to pick between what snake species I should get next vs ball morphs vs a lizard/gecko (Northern BTS or Citrus beardie, or maybe a frilled dragon, or some more cresteds....).

    I'm just going to have to start saving for opening that reptile zoo I want to run, just picking one is too hard

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    I started in Leopard Geckos, and those gatewayed to balls, which I'm trading out for four more right now.


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