I was 12 or 13 (I'm 19 now). I got a trio of clawed frogs, because I needed to keep a herp for 30 days to get my Reptile/Amphibian merit badge for Boy Scouts

Shortly thereafter I started with lizards. I regret to say I started with two anoles, and knew nothing about them. Shortly after though, I learned and branched out. I kept mostly lizards for a while, geckos and some monitors, and anoles. In 94 or 95 I got my first snake, a garter my cat dragged in as a sub adult. It died in 2001. I've actually bred leopard and pictus geckos, and I've gotten some copulation from snakes, but no successfull breedings.

In 2000 I suffered through what I think was a viral epidemic, losing some 15 snakes, mostly colubrids, in 2 months. Also during that time, Mom's cat got into my room and broke some cages and killed some snakes. I kind of burned out after that, and sold/gave away probably another dozen snakes. I had to sell my lizards (college, which I actually hadn't been planning on going to). I still have 15 snakes and one savvana monitor. I've more than recovered from the burnout, and I'm rounding out some breeding groups that got killed in the epidemic (now that I'm sure it's gone).



I keep 1.2 corns,a cal king, one each BCC and BCO, a mexican black king, and sand boas, and some pits (probably my favorite colubrids)--a lone bull and a gopher. I'm getting mates for the mex black, the gopher and the cal king.

I've kept savu pythons (got copulation, never eggs, grrr), ball pythons (rescues), spotteds, tree boas, acanthurus, milksnakes, and frogs (the frogs died in a house fire I had). In that epidemic and cat attack, I lost my female cal kings, several corns, three everglades ratsnakes, the milksnakes, and some other stuff



Paul
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Cornsnakes and kingsnakes and gophers oh my!

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