I have been keeping reptiles all my life.

I have had snakes since I was a very little kid. In upstate NY, I caught garter snakes in my backyard, sexed them and then mated them. They bare live young. I was 10 years old and would dig worms to feed to my baby garter snakes.

Later on I started keeping a number of different boas and pythons. Different Rat snake morphs etc all my life. I have always had reptiles.

I have kept iguanas, Savannah monitors, several species of turtles, arachnids, and elaborate fish colonies also.


Additionally, I have kept a number of poisonous snakes. I have caught them on my property or others... dusky pygmy rattlers and eastern diamond back rattlers. These were live caught "by hand" by myself and relocated.

When I say by hand... I mean literally: "with my bare hands."

One rattler was over 4 feet long.


Never been bitten. But now that I'm older... I am a little more reluctant to put myself at risk of being bitten and take better precautions.


I have been keeping bearded dragons since 2003 when I lived in Tennessee. I bought a norm at a local petstore. Shortly thereafter I kept numerous other dragons. Some I kept and sold once bigger. Some I gave away. Back when I first started I even traded off snakes I had for dragons.



So...

Just because I started posting on this forum 6 months ago does not mean that is when I started keeping reptiles.

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