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I'm curious if you guys have any other hobbies besides this one.

Here's my sweet albino 100% het snow girl....

And here is my new hobby...

I make movies.....really a career, but luckly its also a hobby for me, as I love it so much.....

Paul

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Paul Harb

I make movie too Paul however, as you know, not good ones.
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HA! I LOVE your movies......although I love the female Motley you created that Ive ended up with more :O

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Paul Harb

That is a wicked, way cool boa!
jsc
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"As hard as I've tried, just can't NOT do this"
John Crickmer

you got all those nice boas over there I'm only 27, am I too late for a career change Paul lol
Bob

HA!.....ya...it does help, although....Im broke all the time....so its all relative....In all honesty, its never too late, not to be so serious,it means a lot to me, but its never to late to do anything you want to do.....I started doing this when I was 26....so go for it...then by the time I recreate that sick strawberry shortcake albino, youll have some cash.....

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Paul Harb

to get some of those calibur snakes you got especially that female sunglow, she is so beautiful and that motley is friggin' awesome. thanks for the reply Paul
Bob

Thks for the kind words, yes I have a few pretty nice ones....I stare at them all the time.....

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Paul Harb

truth Paul, showing that pic isn't helping ME get anylol There is also very few people I would buy from who have great quality stock and you are one of them take care I stole every pic you ever posted that I liked btw too lol
Bob

Besides these boas im big on MMA (mixed martial arts) fighting, i train and follow almost all organizations.
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Richard Ceniceros

When I'm not cleaning snake cages or rodent cages I like to write songs. I used to be in band that went on a cross country tour in the seventies. The band that I was in recorded an album in 1975. Since then I have written songs for friends weddings.

The biggest thril for me would be to write a song that ends up on a super star's CD. Hey if you're going to dream dream big....

Dave:

I loved your photos.

Brian
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Brian Gundy

www.for-goodness-snakes.com

other then snakes i'm into music and i play a little drums, also have a few guitars but i'm not any good

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0.1.0 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
1.0.0 Yellow Anaconda
1.1.0 Suriname Red Tail Boa
1.1.0 Guyana Red Tail Boa
1.0.0 Coral Sunglow Boa
0.1.0 Coral Albino Boa
0.1.0 Arabesque Het Albino Boa
0.1.0 DH Sunglow Boa
1.1.0 Red Blood Python
1.2.0 Jungle Carpet Python (females VPI Bloodline)
0.1.0 Burmese Python (Rescue)
0.1.0 Albino Retic (Lavender)
0.1.0 Avicularia Versicolor
1.0.0 Cat

I race motorcycles. I have an 04 R1 and really enjoy going fast.

By far keeping reptiles is the first! but second would be studying the stars through my high powered telescope

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Adrian De Leon
Hissenia Reptiles

umm let's see anything radio controlled (electric/nitro. on the ground/in the air), leatherwork, action figures and photography.
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0.1 CB fiancee' Kelly (Pythona)
1.1 Albino Burms
0.0.1 Razorback Musk Turtle (Lil Cheney)
1.0 Irian Jaya Bluetongue Skink
0.1 Eastern Bluetongue Skink
1.0 Black Throated Monitor
0.1 Savanna Monitor
ball python colony
0.1 Niger Uromastyx
0.1 Emperor scorpion
0.0.1 Emperor scorpion
0.1 GRAVID Deathstalker (most toxic scorpion in the world!)
0.0.1 Fantasy frog
Ever growing Boa colony
1.0 Blood Python
2.2 Leopard Geckos
2.5 Sugar Gliders
2.1 dumb-estic cats (Nugget,Pedro & Dixie Bubbles)
1.1 American Pit Bull Terriers (Joker & SEGA) Punish the Deed not the Breed
0.1 Jack russell/chihuahua cross (Harley)

Well my snakes serve a second purpose...they keep my family out of my house

I'm an audiophile, an out of control, live music junkie.

I collect live concerts. I started out getting every Zeppelin
concert I could get my hands on growing up, but my musical
tastes have broadened since then. I like old Jazz radio
broadcasts and good live rock and roll. I also like to go
hiking in the Everglades every chance I can get...

Here's my pregnant Amaralli. Hopefully she will have a nice
healthy litter right before summer this year...

Fishing and playing poker (hence my username, acesfull)

What kind of fishing? Do you have any pics?Rich

A "secret" Pond bass...On a good night we catch up to 30 of these!

These guys always come home to the dinner plate

My main hobby outside of the Boas is I spoil my love of my life and my wife of 28 years rotten! It's a wonderful hobby and I am good at it.
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comment Jeff. LOL
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Whoa, I think I might be a little scared to try your hobby. My hobbies are video games and art. I'm actually going to school for Computer Animation, so I could make CG movies or video games and do cool stuff
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Rachel Squier

Currently have:
1.1 '03? BRBs (Blaze and Shimmer)

On the way:
1.0 '07 Albino BCI
0.2 '07 100% Het Albino BCIs
0.1 '07 DH Sunglow BCI

Other than boas these are some of my favorite things(in no particular order)

atv's,ditbikes,anything in the sand dunes.

bass fishing in the fresh water,halibut in the salt

muscle cars (I have a 73 nova)

skateboarding ,although I'm too old I still like to go out a bust my butt every now and then

BUDLITE

and last but not least beautiful asian chicks lol

My boyfriend and I are involved with cars quite a bit, mostly drag racing. He has a 92 Camaro that he's currently building to be mostly a "track only" car. I have a 00 Trans Am that I'd like to get some mods done on, but the funds are low with the loan payments and obviously this other boa hobby I have, haha.

Here's a hint...

is that a scooter or behind your bike there? seriously? whats the story man. lol

That's just the other bike YZF600R.(no scooter)

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I sold it shortly after I got the GSR750.
I should have kept it though. It was paid for, free and clear, and spotless. Plus it got better gas mileage. Then I could have made the GSR a project toy. It was a great bike and never let me down. I may yet, buy another one. Then turn the GSR into a 2WheelTuner.

That's just the other bike YZF600R.(no scooter)

I sold it shortly after I got the GSR750.
I should have kept it though. It was paid for, free and clear, and spotless. Plus it got better gas mileage. Then I could have made the GSR a project toy. It was a great bike and never let me down. I may yet, buy another one. Then turn the GSR into a 2WheelTuner.

Ok, no more beer that's GSX-R. LOLLLLLLlllll...

Me too!

So, do you play the violin or viola?
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I'm into all kinds of stuff:

Hunting
Fishing
Motorcycles
4x4 rock crawling
Hiking/ backing/camping
Mountain Biking
Kayaking
Archery (I make my own bows)
Gunsmithing and “collecting”
Wood and metal work

Now I have two little girls so I can only do so much, the snakes are something we do together. I am going to try skydiving when I get back to CA from Germany; I talked my little brother into it last fall and it looked like a blast!

I enjoy keeping and breeding my boas, along with Weight Training, and Scuba Diving....been Dive Qualified since early 2006, have dived in Japan and in Australia. Been lifting weights since 2004, most I have gotten up to was 220 with less than 10% BF...Its all good and fun, just a matter of what I can do next.

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Brandon Nixon

BOAS AND SKATEBOARDING Ive completely dedicated my life to things im no good at!

Snakes are the #1 hobby and take up most of my ‘free time’. I'd fish and camp more if I had the time. I also help my fiance with his start-up skateboarding business (he’s a retired pro). I used to collect action figures but sold them all a few years back (but kept the comics!). Other than that, does watching movies count?
-April
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'There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."' -Rainshadow

Who's your fiance?
Anybody we'd know?

>>Who's your fiance?
>>Anybody we'd know?

Probably not, he got outta the biz right when it started to blow up. (used to ride for Lucky, Venture, Think, etc) J. Strickland, he used to be associated with Birdhouse and then helped form Baker Skateboards with Andrew Reynolds then later he helped start Bootleg which is no longer around. He's working on his own skater-stared and owned company now called Strickland Skateboards, still in it's infancy. He had a couple pics in magazines a while ago but nothing big.

We were high school sweethearts before he got really into it and just met again a few years back through Myspace if you can believe it.

There's a link here, but it's not all accurate...

-April
Baker Skateboards on Wiki

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'There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."' -Rainshadow

That's cool though!
Congrats on the engagement by the way!
When are you guys getting married?

10-20-10 is the big day (weddings sure can be expensive! sheesh!)

I noticed you have a fiance as well, congrats to you as well!

Thanks, April!
I KNOW what you mean about those expensive weddings. We're paying for our wedding as well and it's THIS YEAR! 11-21-08!
We're doing engagement pics in February. We told the photographers about our snakes and they're totally psyched to have them in the pics. We're going to have some in the engagement pics and maybe some for the wedding pics.
We're getting married in St. Augustine, FL which is about 2 hours north of where we live so I'm not sure I want to bring a critter and cage and everything up there.
Here're pics of the anery we're going to use for the engagement pics and the hypo we WOULD use for the wedding pics IF we go that route.
We were thinking about an albino, but the male will be breeding and the female is PURE EVIL!
Aaron
Oh, and here's us, too!

do you guys press your own decks? i used to make longboards for a while but now the heaviest things i lift are snakes. These have got to be the two hardest businesses to be successful at! Let me know if you need an am. rider I'll dust off my camera

Wow a bunch of people skate..I'll be 30 this year and just cant give it up lol...We should get together and have a boa fan skate session,maybe kingsnake will sponsor it

Yea, we could have a south america skatepark tour. catch snakes and bust our heads!

Here is my other hobby.

Skiing, snow in the winter and water in the summer.

Some pics from the summer....

Slalom skiing

Barefootin

gopher snake

hanging out in boat

air chair

Kids tubing

Hanging out by the campfire

big campfire

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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:
26.49 BRB
20.21 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

I live in Florida, so the water skiing I'm used to seeing does not include mountains in the background! Where is that? Colorado?

That's in the Sierra Nevada Range in California, at a small lake I've been frequenting every summer for the last 15 or so years.
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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:
26.49 BRB
20.21 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

I'm really happy to see that you are an "older fella" too Dave. Makes me feel a lot better!
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j/k Dave

LOL, 47, goin' strong and earned every year of it!!!

I readily admit I owe a lot to my Dad although he never would know it, he passed away from natural causes when I was a kid. That event had a profound affect on me. Besides the negative sucky part of losing a parent, it left me with an everlasting zest and appreciation for life. Rarely a day goes by I do not think of him and revel in the wonder of life.
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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:
26.49 BRB
20.21 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

Dave:

Beautiful photos.

Brian

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Brian Gundy

www.for-goodness-snakes.com

... for an old man. Very impressive. Looks like a lot of fun.

Great looking kids, also!

Thanks,
Ed

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I work out a lot. Mainly stretching, some cardio and light weights, but that's really to help with some back injuries from a while ago.
I used to be in a band-started an indy record label and recorded a cd, but that was a WHILE ago. We have a myspace page (even though I don't like myspace). www.myspace.com/salmonfaithusa (I think)
I used to do Aikido (a martial art) which I really hope to get back to soon, but now I just work too much and spend as much time as I can with my fiance and my boas.
Aaron

Don't have much time any more for my hobbies, but I do have decent collection of fossil shark teeth. Here are my big ones. The one on the lower right is about 6 1/4" long on the slant and weighs well over a pound. The best one, though, is the one to it's left, it's a 6" in really good condition.

Shark Tooth River in NJ?

I went once...it was pretty cool...found nothing that large though. I met a professor that had a 5 gallon bucket filled with 1000's of prehistoric sharks teeth from that area.

pretty cool stuff.
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Sincerely, Jason
www.NortheastSnakes.com
NortheastSnakes@verizon.net

It's funny, I grew up in NJ, but I didn't get into shark teeth
until I was in my 30's and living in North Carolina. But yeah,
you can't find any big megalodon teeth in NJ. But it's great
fun to collect them, regardless of size. It's a great hobby.

Thanks,
Ed

>>Shark Tooth River in NJ?
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>>I went once...it was pretty cool...found nothing that large though. I met a professor that had a 5 gallon bucket filled with 1000's of prehistoric sharks teeth from that area.
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>>pretty cool stuff.
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>>Sincerely, Jason
>> www.NortheastSnakes.com
>>NortheastSnakes@verizon.net

I have school!

In addition to breeding snakes, I also breed fancy rats (www.ragdollrattery.com). It's a very fun side project that keeps me busy between generations of my snakes.

I draw and paint, play video games (my boyfriend's got me hooked on rock band atm), and of course, work a lot...but since I work for a reptile store, it almost doesn't count!

Seriously, between work, school, and maintaining my collections, I don't have much free time. My 21st birthday is coming up and the party is having to wait until a convenient weekend because I can't afford to miss my lab class!

~jenny
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I didn't expect all those responses. A lot of you have some really cool hobbies! Thanks for all the responses.

Frank

Hobbies...hmmm....Movies, Guitar, Traveling, My child, Field Herping, Traveling, DIY home stuff (not in any particular order)

I watch a lot of movies. I've had 4 major abdominal surgeries in the past 5 years and I'm only 31....it's taken a toll on me. As a result, I enjoy really good movies of all genres.

I also have a 3 yr old kid that keeps me young!

I play guitar (not any good). Tonight, my daughter played her mini-keyboard while I played..she called us 'The Rock Guys' band. It was fun.

Summer hobbies...being a bum on the beach with a good book, kayaking on NJ coast, and field herping the pine barrens. (winter pretty much sucks). My wife & I travel a lot too....usually tropical spots...beach for her, herps for me.lol

My full time job is a h.s. bio teacher...I have 2 herp collections...my private one and the reptiles I keep in my classroom (totals about 2 dozen). Its a lot of work.

I'm also a DIYer...I like doing home improvement projects myself.

Thats about it. Nothing exciting or dangerous like racing, weapons, diving with sharks or climbing the Himalayas.lol...not yet anyway....I still consider myself a kid at heart.
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Sincerely, Jason
www.NortheastSnakes.com
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