Well, I have had some herp of some kind ever since I can remember. When I was a small child my grandfather would bring home snappers from the Lake Erie marsh dredge he worked on. We kept them in a 500 gallon trough for a week or so to clean them out then they were food for us LOL. I used to be in charge of changeing the water. I started their by keeping all kinds of various wild caught painted turtles,frogs,toads,salamanders and such. Had a deadly fear of snakes. Well soon life came along and I got out of the herp thing. About 10 years ago then when I was 24 or so I got a few anoles and kept them. Well that went fine till I discovered Kingsnake about 6 years ago. Live out in the sticks and never knew so many cool herps existed. Soon I was breeding Leos. Then my girlfreind wanted a boa like 2.5 years ago so I got a baby red-tail from Bill Cagle nothing special just a nice little purpleish bci. Well I slowly got to be able to handle it and lost my fear of snakes . Now 2.5 years later she is reaching 7 feet I have a male for her. A pair of rainbow boas and 2 corn snakes, so much for being feared of them LOL. I just find herps really interesting. I don't really know what posseses people to own them but I think it is great .
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22 leos,1.1 redtail boas,1.1 rainbow boas,1.1 cornsnakes, 1.0 tokay gecko,1.0 veiled cham, 5 dogs and a cat. Oh, can't forget Tater my parrolet.

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