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i just sucessfully hatched out my first clutch 2 weeks ago... and now i want more! i keep a pair of california kings and a colombian rainbow boa however IM LOOKING FOR A CHALLENGE im thinking about keeping and breeding Chondros or Retics(i have the space and man power)

What do you guys keep besides Balls?

BLOOOOOOOOOODS!! I also keep jungle carpets and a pair of fire skinks. My bloods are definitely the most challenging, but they are all wonderful animals to keep.

bloods, are they picky eaters like balls? or do they have good apetites?

if kept correctly a blood is an insanely agressive feeder. They hit there food like a Mac truck.

Amen to that...I have a P. curtus who is just nuts at night when the lights are off. He was a little picky when he was younger, but now if you walk past his tub at night you can here him striking. I had a pair of plastic feeding tongs that he snapped in half from the force of his strikes. Gotta love the bloods!

Bloods are the perfect pet snake for someone who really wants to get into their animals! They are quite hardy, eat like gang busters & are easy to breed if you "tune in" - not rocket science, but still make you think.

And did I mention they're GORGEOUS?!?!?!??!?!

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Bloods are awesome, and I've heard they're very aggressive feeders. But are they easy to handle like balls? Just curious...
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1.0 Pastel Ball
1.1 Het VPI Axanthic Balls
1.1 Het Albino Balls
0.0.2 Red Tail Boas
1.0 Albino Nelsons Milksnake
1.1 Room mates
2.2 Dogs
0.1 Cat

>>Bloods are awesome, and I've heard they're very aggressive feeders. But are they easy to handle like balls? Just curious...
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I dont think so. I have a selection of balls in the rescue and also bloods in my personal collection. Bloods are a plotting thinking bunch. Balls I love because I can easily incorporate them into educational programs, tossing them basically to who ever wants to hold a snake. Bloods are amazingly active for their size, settle down slowly in hands, and tend to buck people who do not know how to handle snakes. Quite honestly, I stick my balls in an open rubbermaid on the floor when cleaning racks. When I clean my bloods, they go into a spare cage. They have the amazing feeding response which 3 years into keeping STILL makes me jump. They take a patient hand who doesnt pressure them into going where the handler wants, but supports them and moves with them.

Does that make sense?

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Cindy
PHFaust

Email Cindy

Land of the Outcasts!

We have a 19-20 year old Boa Constrictor, 4 Jungle Carpet Pythons and 1 Green Tree Python as well as our Ball Pythons.

I like this thread. It will be cool to see what everyone keeps.
Cheers
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Jessica
0.2 Pastel jungle
1.1 Spiders
1.0 Het pied
0.2 Pied
1.0 VPI axanthic poss het snow
0.1 Het VPI axanthic
1.1 Het clown
1.0 DH Jolliff snow
0.1 Albino het Jolliff snow
1.0 Albino
1.0 Black pastel
1.0 Lesser Platinum
0.1 Lemon Blast
0.1 Mojave poss. het pied
0.1 Poss. het albino
1.0 Caramel
0.1 Het Caramel
0.1 Lace Blackback

See list below.
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Ball Pythons:
1.2 Normal
1.2 Pastel
0.1 Black Pastel
2.0 Het Orange Ghost
1.1 Mojave
1.2 Spider
1.1 Albino
0.1 Het Albino
1.0 Piebald
0.1 Double het, Albino Pied
Other:
0.1 Irian Jaya x Jungle Carpet python
1.0 Jungle Carpet Python
1.0 Tiger Retic
1.1 Burmese Pythons
1.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boas
3.3 Corn Snakes
0.0.1 American Alligator
1.0 Veiled Chameleons
1.0 Savannah Monitor
1.0 Chinese Water Dragon
0.1 Brown Basilisk
0.1 Sulcata Tortoise
1.1 Sugar Gliders
0.1 Puppy

I keep Cal kings, a Florida king, a red belly Piranha, and my 4-legged fuzzy pets, a cat and 3 dogs besides my ball python...

Some day my zoo will get a pair of horses, a donkey, and a female Florida king to pair with my sulfur lavendar male... Someday...
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~Maggie~

"Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious."
1.1 Cal Kings (Spot and Fry)
1.0 Florida King
1.0 Ball Python (Mitch)
0.1 Red Belly Piranha (Fluffy)
1.0 Australian Shepherd (Spooky)
1.0 Springer Spaniel/Beagle mix (Snoopy)
0.1 German Shep mix (Shadow)
0.1 Cat (Echo)

A few of the other critters.

The majority of our collection are balls, but we also keep boas, full size burms, dwarf burms, striped bredl's and our son has a nice collection of corn snakes.

Here is a shot of one of our pride and joys. He is a hypo het leucistic burm.

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Randy and Michelle
Art In Scales
(719) 439-4199
info@artinscales.com

I keep mostly Ball Pythons but also have a couple retics, anacondas, and Boas.
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Luke Martin
Bronze Serpent Reptiles

get some chondros bud. they are the pinnacle. and not as difficult as some think. do your research. and have fun. caution... addictive to say the least.
joe

I keep 2 normal balls, 3 bearded dragons, 1 black and white spitting cobra (venomoid), 1 leopard gecko, 2 ocilated skinks, 1 sulcata, 1 pacman frog, and 2 american alligators. I'm also interested too see who has what.

I pride in the fact that my collection is diverse. Yes, I keep mostly balls, but I have a significant amount of redtails, a couple of colubrids, a trio of White-Lipped Pythons, Burmese Pythons, one ETB (and we're moving on towards GTPs), plus the Dart Frogs. Here's the exact list if anyone is interested (copied and pasted it off my (bleep)s page):::

1.2 White-Lipped Pythons
1.0 RIP Cape File Snake
1.0 Black Motley het Stripe Corn Snake
0.1 Black Stripe Corn Snake
1.0 Venomoid Monocle Cobra

0.1 Northern Emerald Tree Boa
0.0.1 RIP Biak x Sorong Green Tree Python

1.0 Central American Redtail Boa
1.0 Columbian Redtail Boa
0.1 Anery het Snow Redtail Boa
1.0 Albino Redtail Boa
0.1 Hogg Island Boa
1.2 Nicaraguan Boas

0.1 Green Patternless Burmese Python
1.0 PARADOX Albino Green Patternless Burmese Python

0.1 Albino Ball Python
1.2 "Normal" Ball Pythons
1.0 Normal/Labby/Question Ball Python
0.1 "Normal" Solid Stripe Ball Python
1.1 Pastel Ball Pythons
1.1 Black Pastel Ball Pythons
1.0 Cinny Ball Python
1.0 Mojave Ball Python
1.1 Spider Ball Pythons
1.1 0 Het for PK Pied Ball Pythons
1.2 0 Het for Orange Ghost Ball Pythons
0.1 Visual Orange Ghost

0.0.1 Dendrobates Azureus
0.0.1 Debdrobates Auratus
0.0.1 Dendrobates Leucomelas
0.0.1 Dendrobates Tinctorius "Patricia"
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Cheers!
• Chelsea Lynn Gardiner
(and Frank M. Wood)

I own many species, but other than balls I'm most interested in breeding:
-antaresia species
-roughscales, Kenyans, Russians
-common boas

Here are some pics (sorry I can't just post one..)







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Thanks,
Amy

My Boids

Nice.
t

Hey this is a very cool post.

I have a pair of Balls, a pair of Coastal Carpets, too many corn snakes, a lot of geckos, and a tank full of collared lizards.

You should consider Carpets!

I definitely plan on getting more geckos and all different kinds. I love them and they take up so little space!

Honestly, the bisggest challenge I've had is the damn Collared lizards. These are common, well known, but hardly captive bred at all. I got a group of them just cause I think they're so cute. But this was my first real experience at acclimating wild-caught reptiles. At first it was a never-ending battle just to keep them healthy, hydrated and eating. Now they seem to be thriving. I love them, even though many people don't keep Collareds.

Go with whatever really inspires you. That's what it's all about.

Below is a list of what I currently keep:
Balls:
1.0 Bumblebee
1.0 spider
0.1 pinstripe
0.2 pastels
0.3 normals

Boa
1.0 possible supersalmon
1.0 hypo het anery
0.2 het anery
0.1 anery
1.0 het albino
0.2 helt albino
0.1 normal

1.1 Amazon Tree Boas
1.1 White-Lipped Tree Vipers

Birds
3.3 Zebra Finches
0.0.11 Society Finches
1.1 Lady gouldian Finches
2.2 Pacific parrotlets (Green Split blue; blue, yellow, and american white)
1.0 Quaker parratkeet

I have kept numerous others species in the past but this is what I have at the moment. Todd

mostly corns but then I was bit by the ball python bug about 3 years ago and I cant get enough. my wife use to work for petco and always said balls were getting sick and always biting. after some talking (some my call it beging) I got my first ball, a male pastel and then 2 females. Now she is hooked to, that is all we can think about. my corns are slowly getting smaller in number and my balls are growing in number.I like all reptiles but balls are my #1.my zoo is as follows
2-beardies
1-sudanese uromastyx
way too many corns to count
some milks
4- bull snakes
2-hognose
colony of leopard geckos
2 albino sunglow red tails.
2 pairs of kings
2 colonies of dubia roaches
rats, gerbils, robo hamsters and mice
1 african grey
1 gold cap conure
2 boxers
1 french bulldog
1 olde english bulldog (that smiles )
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www.wreckroomsnakes.com

Love the balls, but also love garter snakes, they are very alert and interesting to watch. Also love turtles, they are like puppies without the hair,barking, and slobber.
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Jeff Benfer
1.0 cinnamon pastel Python regius
1.1 pastel Python regius
1.1 mojave Python regius
0.3 normal Python regius
1.3 Terrapene carolina thriunguis
2.3 Terrapene carolina carolina
4.1 Kinosternon baurii
1.1 Malaclemys terrapin terrapin
2.2 double het albino and anerythristicThamnophis sirtalis parietalis
1.0 anerythristic Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis
2.3 Iowa snow Thamnophis radix
0.2 het Christmas albino Thamnophis radix
1.1 double het cherry erythristic, albino Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis
1.1 melanistic Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis
2.0 66% het snow Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis
1.1 triple heterozygous for amelanistic,carmel, and stripe Pantherophis guttatus
0.1 anerythristic motley Pantherophis guttatus
0.1 butter p.h. stripe Pantherophis guttatus
0.1 carmel stripe p.h. amel Pantherophis guttatus
0.1 amelanistic p.h. carmel,stripe Pantherophis guttatus

Besides the balls we have numerous geckos mainly Rhacodactylus and Phelsuma but also austrailian velvets and blue L.Williamsi. We also have CHinese Box Turtles, Burms, Boas, Bloods, hognose chondros and a few other misc things. We also have 4 Bengal cats (Asian Leopard X domestic hybrids) They are an interesting bunch. It goes with out saying nothing is sacred in a house with Bengals. lol...
Kim
N.A.R.C

i love bengals. i have always wanted a F2 Savannah Cat ( serval x domestic) wuld you know anyone that breeds them and how much they go for?

I do not know their exact price I believe F1s are still close to 10k I am not sure about F2s. There is a company A1 Savannahas I beleive they are out of NY. I have met them before at cat shows and they have the regular tabby color and the blacks. They have very nice looking cats though. I really like Servals but never feel in love with the Savannahas for some reason, I just do not have the space for the serval
Thanks Kim
N.A.R.C

Aha a cat lover. What color is that bottom classic ? We breed sphynx and minskins . Got into a munchkin line that was an outcross to bengal and had the chocolate classic and cinnamon classic. Those Asian Leopard cats are gorgeous. That cross with the DSH was actually made to try to create bloodlines immune to feline leukemia werent they?
Toni

Hey Kim, where are you located?
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Cheers!
• Chelsea Lynn Gardiner
(and Frank M. Wood)

I am located in rhode island.
Kim

Damn!! LoL, I've been looking around for a Bengal for roomie for Christmas for a while. Wish you weren't so far, LoL. I'm from New Jersey, so let me know if you have any recommendations Merry Christmas!
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Cheers!
• Chelsea Lynn Gardiner
(and Frank M. Wood)

Like Quaker Parrots

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Corvid
"Look Like An Innocent Flower, But Be The Serpent Under It." ~William Shakespeare
0.1 Normal
1.0 Spider
0.1 Pastel (maybe het for pied - We'll see!)

This is Storm, a Harris' Hawk
Also have a beagle with no eyes, a shih tzu, and llamas.
I like neat animals, what can I say? =)

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Corvid
"Look Like An Innocent Flower, But Be The Serpent Under It." ~William Shakespeare
0.1 Normal
1.0 Spider
0.1 Pastel (maybe het for pied - We'll see!)

I currently have 1 gecko and 2 dogs living in my house, but only have one pic online.

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This is courage.. to bear unflinching what heaven sends. -unknown

0.2 chocolate lab Harley and basset Capone
1.0 leopard gecko (Nacho)

Nacho's name suits him well.

Quakers make great pets.Does your green carry for blue? Pretty and sweet.
t

No My greenie does not carry the blue trait. They have not even been sexed, they are just pets. Loud ones!
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Corvid
"Look Like An Innocent Flower, But Be The Serpent Under It." ~William Shakespeare
0.1 Normal
1.0 Spider
0.1 Pastel (maybe het for pied - We'll see!)

I had a cockatoo once and it screamed way to much. They say to give them as much attention when handfeeding as you will be able to maintain throughout their life as they will expect that much...our bird was hand raised by an elderly lady who spent all day every day holding her and talking to her...nightmare...I was able to find her a home with another lady who could be with her as much.She also gave me asthma attacks and unless I have an aviary someday...we wont have another bird.
Toni

And an iguana, albino honudran milk, crested gecko and....a partridge in a pear tree!