Well - you've got age and volume of snakes on me, for certain. I don't know everyone here either - some I've been talking to for years though (and a small few are good friends). (I'll whine a little too - LOL) I'll be 42 soon, have back problems, work 8 plus hours a day outdoors in the south Texas inferno (100 plus degrees plus high humidity) - often fixing water line breaks during this drought, or something equally tedious. Then - I often work some more at home or at my family's houses - currently fixing my home's floors and doorways...



My highest number of snakes probably got up to somewhere around 60-ish snakes. That was too much work to be fun for me, and I recently decided to downsize even more to around 25 - 30-ish snakes, and a few mouse colonies - this is much more fun and less like a second job. I will be focusing on a few pairs of just a few species of rat snakes now: green rats, rhino rats, Chinese beauties, Twin-spot ratsnakes, and some day maybe prasina and / or frenata...



I think / hope shows in Texas are maybe getting a little better, and I've seen a few more interesting colubrids in the last few years. Although - interest in Old World rats still seems to be minimal, and they are hard to sell here...



Best of luck with the Queen Bees...
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-Toby Brock

Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research

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