>>Joe, your FIRST snake is the albino eastern and he is doin PISSA! Now you get into it and get eastern after eastern to eat??? I say this because I know ya, but its really not this easy. I may have started as a bit of a mentor but one of the things that defines us as snake guys, our resolve, is dealing with our setbacks. You have had none of that! The learning process is usually two steps forward, one step back....its like the law,lol. I am proud to see you succeed but its starting to look like I gotta ask you questions. I can be a wiseass loudmouth and make fun of my momma....but I am not above anything if it comes to learning something new. Especially if I can keep these finicky bastards on the straight and narrow. KUDOS JOE, you have come a long way grasshopper!









Jeff, I'd like to steal a quote from Doug from your conversation in another topic above, "You seem to make it sound like I just joined the snake game a couple years ago. I've seen more than one or two snakes in my day Jeff."



While I'm not as experienced as many here, I have had a fascination with field herping since the 70s, and have been involved with keeping snakes of one kind or another for almost as long. The albino just happened to be the first L.t.t. that I ever kept in captivity. Obviuosly it led to me becoming more interested in triangulum, and has led to me keeping a few other ssp. that I had previously never kept. I think I understand some of the points you're trying to make, but grasshopper may be taking it a little far, lol.



Yes, when I found the albino you, along with many others approached me. I am always willing to ask questions, listen and learn from others. I very much appreciate advice you and the others here on the forums have given me along my journey.



rtdunham said it best a couple weeks ago:

"1) There are always multiple ways to make things work. I've bred animals where i used one method and a friend used mostly the most-opposite methods, and we both succeeded to our considerable satisfaction. You'll get different answers here to your questions, and those answers may all be good ones. There's no single right answer to most questions.

2) Because one person seldom has the only correct answer (see #1 above!), weigh the ideas you're given here against what makes sense to you. "Common sense" is based on knowledge and insight, so your snake-common sense will change as you read more and try more and observe more. Be willing, as you have been with your questions here, to say "I don't know" or "I'm not sure" and you'll do well. Don't believe all of what anyone--myself included--tells you."



And one last quote, which I don't remember exactly where I heard, but think it is one that everyone should follow:

"When you have stopped learning, you have stopped living."
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Joe

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