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How old is everyone? And since when have you been keeping rainbows and other snakes
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As soon as your born you start dying...
So you might as well have a good time!!!

19. been keeping snakes for 4 years, been keeping rainbows for 2 years. (roughly)

>>How old is everyone? And since when have you been keeping rainbows and other snakes
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>>As soon as your born you start dying...
>>So you might as well have a good time!!!
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-Jasmine

3.4 Brazilian Rainbow Boas
1.0 Peruvian Rainbow Boa

tho some know and others know about i am 22 i think goin on 23 in feb. im a yougnin been keeping rainbows for hmm 3 ish years or so but been keeping other snakes and lizzards for about 10ish years

Been keeping since... December!!! I got my first leopard gecko and im hooked!!! Now i have a BRB my gecko and a GTP
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As soon as your born you start dying...
So you might as well have a good time!!!

I'm 31.

I got back into snakes a little over 2 years ago when I got my current pair of BRB's.

However if you don't count the break I took from herping I started keeping snakes/lizards/turtles when I was arround 10 years old so 21 years ago.

Been awhile but couldn't stay away forever.

Sean.
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1.1 BRB
1.1 Triple Het TPRS's
1.1 Amel Bloodred Corns
0.1 Abbott Okeetee Corn
0.1 Blizzard Bloodred Corn
1.1 Thayeri Kingsnakes
0.1 Reeve's Turtle
0.2 Amstaff's
1.0 Pudytat

I know one of us has me beat so is OK to tell.

born in 1960, makes me 47 today!!

been catching and playing with herps most of my life but my mom would never let me keep anything. Got my first BRB's almost 20 years ago and had them ever since.
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
24.36 BRB
19.19 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

eastcoast who is kind of old and I think he likes the Florida Gators too

Yeah, I think that's the one!!!!
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
24.36 BRB
19.19 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

I'm 20, 21 in February. I've been keeping snakes all my life. When I was little I used to catch snakes in my back yard and keep them. I've also had other reptiles and amphibians throughout the years. I got my CRB last fall and I've been on this forum for about six months now.
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Thank you,

Tim

0.1 wc girlfriend- Melissa (still nippy even after a year and a half of loving care)
0.1 CRB- Tempest
0.1 JCP- Serenity
1.0 Black Cat- Chester A Arthur

I just turned 29 few days ago and have been keeping snakes since I was 9-10 and lucky for me my parents allowed me to have reptiles all my life and my first was a pet corn snake that got let go in the woods , (he got loose and was stepped on My first reptile was a Green Iguana when I was around 8.. So I have been keeping reptiles for 20 years..

Not including the countless racer,rats, corns that I used to catch as a child and the occasional copperhead when I was in my teens. I caught just about every animal, insect or arachnid I could find and housed and feed them, then few days later let them go..

When I turned 15 I got my first Boa and my collection has grown since...
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Jason A.
"Long time Herper, first year Breeder `07."

I'll be 22 december 13th (d@*n i feel old to be only 21, geuss it's the rheumatism, lol.) I've only kept my own snakes long term (ie not catch, keep for a few days then release) for a little over a year. but i have been catching and helping care care snakes and many other herps since i was about 7 or so. so i guess that could make it 14 years technically (not counting the time living with my mom and stepdad [he hates snakes])
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the worlds smallest zoo!
0.1 wc girlfriend (wv mountain stock)
0.0.1 wc eastern garter (slim)
1.1 brb's (bianca & ziggie)
0.1 columbian rainbow boa (big momma)
2.0 betta's (war{dunno why she named him that} & buddha)
1.1 little white feeder mice
1.0 pain in the @** cat (purdy)
0.0.1 kuhli loach
0.0.1 algae eater
20.15(rough estimate) fancy/feeder guppies
5 million snails
and growing...

I am 25... have also been keeping snakes my whole life...i had a little break for a while after my WC gopher snake got out and decided to crawl down the garbage disposal. You can imagine the rest of the story .....mom goes to do the dishes......etc.

I was not allowed to bring any more snakes home for a few years.
Thankfully i married a very understanding wife and am able to make up for those years i went with out....

the funny thing is, my mom comes over and holds my snakes and checks them out. she thinks the rainbows are really pretty (she used to manage a pet store with my dad back in the 80's.) it's just that my stepdad wouldn't let me have one in the house. he was freaked out enough that we had an eastern king living under the house. he always said i should have killed it, lol. i had to teach him that a kingsnake is a really good snake to have living under your house. we never once saw a copperhead or timber rattler in our yard, yet 1.5mi away our freind found both in his FINISHED basement within 1 week. not a good situation for him either, his son was four and thought the copperhead was a toy. luckily he didn't get bitten.
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the worlds smallest zoo!
0.1 wc girlfriend (wv mountain stock)
0.0.1 wc eastern garter (slim)
1.1 brb's (bianca & ziggie)
0.1 columbian rainbow boa (big momma)
2.0 betta's (war{dunno why she named him that} & buddha)
1.1 little white feeder mice
1.0 pain in the @** cat (purdy)
0.0.1 kuhli loach
0.0.1 algae eater
20.15(rough estimate) fancy/feeder guppies
5 million snails
and growing...

I am 37 and have had rainbows for about 7 months. I always caught and kept snakes as a kid and just got into it as an adult just over a year ago. I have a very supportive wife that helps with the snakes, so I am lucky.
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Mike

7.13 BRB
1.2 Spotted Python
1.0 Cal. King

I'm 39. I feel about 34 most days, Some days 45. Most of the time I act like I'm in my early 20's

I've always caught snakes as a kid. I had a corn for awhile several years ago. That didn't last for long. I started semi seriously field herping almost two years ago and really got back into pet snakes as a result. Had mine about 2 1/2 years now.

Lookin foward to getting another BRB here soon.
Rob
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For Sale cheap: One (1) 6' 19 yr old male. Does no house work. Has no job and will complain. Constantly.
0.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boa-Ziggy
1.0 Creamscicle motley corn--Cozmo
0.1 Creamscicle corn--Wanda
0.0.1 Normal corn
0.1 Black Pine - Spazz
1.0 Eastern King-Ozy
1.0 Bearded Dragon - Gomer

I am 23, and have been keeping reptiles for 16 years.
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Aubrey Ross

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www.SlipstreamSerpents.com

i'm 24... did the catch and release thing a lot as a kid (my mom hates reptiles so i couldn't keep any of them). it finally dawned on me about a year and a half ago that i'm on my own now and can have all of them i want . only had a rainbow for a few weeks now, but i've already been bitten by the rainbow bug and want more lol

>>How old is everyone? And since when have you been keeping rainbows and other snakes
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>>As soon as your born you start dying...
>>So you might as well have a good time!!!

Next wednesday I will be 55. I had my first litter of baby Gartersnakes in 1964. I have been crazy about herpetoculture every since. I have caught or kept over a hundred different species and subspecies and have had several dozen different species and subspecies reproduce. Every new litter is like opening Christmas presents but better. I had my first Colombian Rainbow Boa in 1969. My brother and I were commercially hunting snakes back then and got the CRB in a trade. We kept it several months and sold it. I did not get another Rainbow Boa until 1989 when I caught a CRB in Panama. I got my first BRB in 1991. My first litters of Rainbow Boas were BRBs and CRBs and Guayanans in 1993. I had a collection of Burms and various Boa Constrictors and got rid of all them to make room for more Rainbow Boas.
Jeff

>>How old is everyone? And since when have you been keeping rainbows and other snakes
>>-----
>>As soon as your born you start dying...
>>So you might as well have a good time!!!

21 years old.

and im feeling the pains of getting old
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Russ
1.0 Basset Hound (Goofy)
1.0 Brazilian Rainbow Boa (Apollo)
1.0 Columbian Rainbow Boa (Odin)
1.0 Guyana Red-Tail Boa (Ares)
0.1 Pastel Salmon Boa (Minerva)
0.1 Rosy Boa (Athena)
1.1 Western Hognoses (???)
1.0 Albino Cal. Kingsnake (Zeus)
0.1 Dumeril (Puzzle)
1.3 leopard Geckos (the breeders)
Melbourne, Fl

oh, yea and my first snake i had was a ball python at age 10, i got rid of it a few years later and just last year i started getting into the hobby again, this time i am truely hooked.
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Russ
1.0 Basset Hound (Goofy)
1.0 Brazilian Rainbow Boa (Apollo)
1.0 Columbian Rainbow Boa (Odin)
1.0 Guyana Red-Tail Boa (Ares)
0.1 Pastel Salmon Boa (Minerva)
0.1 Rosy Boa (Athena)
1.1 Western Hognoses (???)
1.0 Albino Cal. Kingsnake (Zeus)
0.1 Dumeril (Puzzle)
1.3 leopard Geckos (the breeders)
Melbourne, Fl

I'm 25 and have been keeping snakes for not quite 5 years, mostly colubrids. BRBs were always my dream snake, and after years of research and preparation, I bought my first in early March of this year.
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Danielle

Herps:
2.1 BRBs
1.0 Black Milksnake
1.0 Amel Motley Corn
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Other critters:
1.0 Great Dane
1.0 Siamese
1 Senegal Parrot
1 Blue Fronted Amazon