Thanks for the thoughtful reply!! The ratsnakes you mentioned are good suggestions - I was looking at the red-tails as well as trinkets and coxi (a little more expensive but still reasonable).

I would love to jump right into breeding chondros, and I've done a lot of reading on the subject, but I would like to prove to myself (and my husband!) that I am capable of handling the incubator and other equipment as well as starting neonates successfully (among everything else). Also, I want to make sure this is something I'll truly enjoy before dropping several grand on chondros.

"All snakes are cool, and living creatures. They are only expensive because of human beings. Truthfully the life a chondro is equal to a gartersnake. Priceless."

AWESOME quote, and so true!! Thank you for the inspiring words.

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