What's it like livin' the dream of owning a lot of herps? I've got a few questions..

[Kris Mclaughlin]

This. Start small and work your way up as you can afford it.

Now that said, if you have a large collection then there are expenses you won't have - like vacation travel longer than an overnight trip - because pet sitters don't handle exotics.

Indeed. Takes alot of dedication. It is possible to leave for 2 days but other than that we have a very tight maintenance schedule. Were remodeling anyway but we rewired with big stuff and a generator hookup in our animal room. We lost a few pacman frogs last winter due to a power outage. Ive started building my own display enclosures lately too with more energy efficient heat wire to make side panels heat panels and save on all the heat mats and just have my uvb tubes and leds for my plants built in. Itll save me a ton on all my high powered things everywhere.

A friend of mine recommended a cheapie solar gig for my lights even...

Keeping frogs, snakes, and lizards of all sorts takes alot of time and sometimes pinching pennies for a while. But if ya have the resources, living artwork is the way to go!