Reptiles
In 2020 we started breeding leopard geckos and ball pythons. My wife has a background in veterinarian care and she has always liked reptiles. Two of our kids are really into them as well.
We currently have 53 leopard geckos, 2 crested geckos, 1 corn snake, and 17 ball pythons. We have gecko eggs in the incubator now and hopefully some ball python eggs soon. We have a wide variety of morphs and genetics.
Anyone else here into reptiles? 
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Here is part of our gecko setup. We also farm our own mealworms, superworms, and dubia roaches.
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@jsnake said:
We also farm our own mealworms, superworms, and dubia roaches.We have ants in our bathroom. That count?
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
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Had a lizard that sat on the living room curtain rod and watched TV, when I lived in Florida. Does that count?.
Don't let the wife know what you spend on guns, ammo or cigars.
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had a baby garter snake that I kept in my shirt pocket for a few days until it got away, somewhere....
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Years ago I kept a Colombian red tail boa for a friend for about a year. The enclosure was large enough for me to step inside to clean. His roommate had just gotten some kittens and he felt that keeping a 7 - 8 foot snake in the same place as kittens wasn't viable.
Currently my youngest daughter has a rosy boa and a bearded dragon that she got from her cousin that wasn't socialized properly.
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Woah, awesome. How long do those leopard geckos typically live?
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@Yakster said:
Years ago I kept a Colombian red tail boa for a friend for about a year. The enclosure was large enough for me to step inside to clean. His roommate had just gotten some kittens and he felt that keeping a 7 - 8 foot snake in the same place as kittens wasn't viable.Currently my youngest daughter has a rosy boa and a bearded dragon that she got from her cousin that wasn't socialized properly.
So, who's re-socializing the cousin?
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain7 -
@Amos_Umwhat said:
@Yakster said:
Years ago I kept a Colombian red tail boa for a friend for about a year. The enclosure was large enough for me to step inside to clean. His roommate had just gotten some kittens and he felt that keeping a 7 - 8 foot snake in the same place as kittens wasn't viable.Currently my youngest daughter has a rosy boa and a bearded dragon that she got from her cousin that wasn't socialized properly.
So, who's re-socializing the cousin?
Maybe it’s just a phase and she’ll grow out of it.
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My ex is a cold blooded broom rider.
Does that count as a reptile?Friends don't let good friends smoke cheap cigars.7 -
I had a ball python. Killed it. Had a red-tailed boa. Killed it. Had iguanas. Almost killed them. Had anoles. Don't remember how that ended. I love reptiles but have no luck with them whatsoever.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
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Long ago in a place far away I had personal encounters with multiple Bamboo Vipers, a Fer De Lance at night and some kind of thick snake that was at least 14 ft long. My squad was cutting trees with C-4 for fields of fire on a hilltop in the mountains around a place called Khe Sanh. A pissed off very large snake came at us out of a downed tree and what did a squad of heavily armed Marines Do? We ran like hell.
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I've caught and released 6 or 7 good sized Black Snakes over the past couple of years. My other grew up in Alabama where she swears all snakes are deadly. I got her to put down her shovel and let me take care of them. I just carry them about 50 yards into the woods, warn them about Lucy and let them go.
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Yep. I own about 1/4 of the shoreline on a watershed. Folks I let go fishing used to tell me all the time "I killed a water moccasin". Never was. Black snakes, indigo snakes, eastern water snakes, garter snakes, corn snakes, chicken snakes. Not one water moccasin.
I finally started making them look at pictures before they went fishing. A couple of folks took the attitude "Well, if it's a snake, I'm killing it"..."No fishing for you" was my answer to that.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain8 -
A five foot black snake nested in our woodpile some years back. Made adorable babies. Somehow, the babies came inside and molted. Found shed skins inside a pair wall sconces five feet up the wall. Can't figure out how they climbed up there.
Snakes gone now. Haven't had field mice since,
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
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