Your first BP (do tell!)

[Ginevive]

I thought it'd be fun to start a thread where we can all talk about our first BP. I am curious and realize I couldn't pinpoint/name most forum members' first BP.. so please do tell!
Mine was a freebie I got from a Petco in Cheektowaga, NY.. it had been returned several times for being "aggressive" and this girl gave her to me. We got talking because mark (my boyfriend) has lots of tattoos and so did she. Well, I went home, researched and the next week we went back for our new baby. This was back in 2002.
Sadly, she ended up escaping her tank and passed away in our basement (it was wintertime.) From her, I learned the importance of secure cage locking. I soon got Ginger (who was then Goblin; though she was a male!) And thus my BP addiction was born out of one surreptitious visit to Petco.
So what's your story??

[stangs13]

Well I PM Chris and asked if he had any near or breeding sized gfemales forsale and well.... he didnt so i asked Adam...well he didnt...so I asked adam about normal female hatchlings....he had some!! he gave me a choice of 4 !! And there was one that was black backish and I really realy like black backs and reduced patterns! So she was the one!

[Ginevive]

Here are a few pics of her.. her name was,well, the word for a female dog (she had a WICKED temper!!!)



On the right:

[stangs13]

Here are a few pics of her.. her name was,well, the word for a female dog (she had a WICKED temper!!!)



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Oh shes gorgeous!!!! I want her !! I like spunky females.

[jcaustralia]

i my my fisrt (still do), from a store called world wide aqurium and pets for $25, he was in a 10 gal tank with 25 other balls, he just stood out in the mass of colors. ended up naming him raphael. this pic is from last year. is is attempting to breed this year.

[Amy1217]

so, i was dating this guy named Ian...He had a BP, and i went upstairs to his attick with him...well, i saw the snake and was absolutley fascinated. I was sitting there, "awww! I want one!!" Well, i wouldnt put her down, and he told me that there was a Repticon show coming up, so i went with him, and he bought me a BP. well, the Repticon and F.I.R.E. shows are coming up, and im going to get another snake i figured, if i limit myslef to a new snake only whent the shows come up, i will not overload on snakes. lol.

[shhhli]

I've said this a lot i think:

I got crowley from my friend who when i was bitten by the BP bug back in early 2004 decided she wanted one too. Her mother had had one back in college and they set up his cage accordingly. A massive glass tank, screen top with a heat lamp and i dont remember now if there was a uth or not. He had some sort of.. bedding that some people here use- it looks like bark or such? not shavings and it was safe but i prefer paper. Any who, I had done the research and she had not. When crowley (then called Baby and assumed a girl) wouldnt eat for nearly six months I tried to tell her several methods, but of course, she knew it all because her mother had had one and anything i tried to sneak in as a comment fell on deaf ears. I was frustraited but knew that BPs could go on 'fasts' and thought he'd hopefully get hungry enough. Ugh. at one point she wanted to give him away and i didnt have the cash to do it. She had him up until April this past month when i paid 50$ for him+tank+stuff.
Dont know if anyone remembers that post where I talked about him having a 'black' shed. I think it was old shed that didn't come off entirely ontop of the new shed + the fact we removed that bedding, cleaned him up and raised his humidity. If you take paper and cover it in wet mushy mud and then ball it up and pull it out that's what it looked like. D8

Now, Tony and I love him more than any other snake we have because he was/is our first and laugh as you may at my petty normal male, I know if it ever came between him and any morph i may like, I'm so severly emotionally attached to the guy I would give up the morph- or any of my snakes- to keep him.


No, you cannot have my pastel- i said IF.
(jk)

(dont hate) lol

[jason221]

I got my first BP when I was in, I think, third grade. I got him for Christmas. He did fine; never a refused meal, no matter how much I handled him. Unfortunately I had to get rid of him. Since then, I haven't had any BPs until about three months ago (July).

[Schlyne]

I had gotten interested in bp's and had done a lot of research. I stumbled across kingsnake.com while doing research and finding out the Tinley NARBC show was in about 2 weeks. (I had also stumbled across this site in my research). That weekend I went down to the Chicago Reptile House (in IL) to pick up all the caging as I was going to get an animal at the Tinley show. I finally get down to the reptile house and looked around it, and the other two stores associated with it. (This was 2004)

I had already found out how long bp's live, so I held a few in the store (for quite a while) while Jeff? (one of the owners) ran around helping other people.

Later, Jeff hands me a baby ball, which promptly pees on me and slowly uncurled. He then ran off for a while to help the other customers.

Jeff comes back "Can I put the snake back now?"

"Oh no, you've sold me, I want this one".

I drove home with a baby ball python going into shed in a paper bag, and everything else I needed. I soaked him in warm water while I set everything up.

This is a year old picture, but here's a rough idea of the size change. The container pictured was Issa's first hide.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y21...eyearlater.jpg

Issa is the snake in my avatar.

I haven't gotten new pictures of Issa in a while, I should

[adizziedoll]

A friend of mine at the time had bought 2 baby balls from petco, and he mother hated snakes. She was trying to keep them hidden in the darn closet! (We were around 13 at the time) She asked me if I wanted them and I so I took them - for free. I still have them to this day, one male and one female. I love them both to death!!