The one that started it all....

[Will0W783]

I thought it would be fun to have a thread where all of us who have multiple snakes (or big collections....or just a few) can show off their first snake. There's always a soft spot for the first one, and I still have my very first snake and love him dearly.

Saleen is a male normal BP. I bought him 7 years ago from a pet store (before I knew about expos and breeders, silly me). He is a sweet snake, and has grown A LOT over the years. He's still my couch buddy, and a great animal that I will always love and thank for being my introduction to the herping hobby. :)
Here he is tonight on my lap:

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh115/Will0W783/856e8d78.jpg
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh115/Will0W783/1010d7f5.jpg

[alessia55]

What a great thread idea!!

Here is my first. Jupiter when I got her:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v651/alessia55/IMG_0759.jpg

As she started to grow:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v651/alessia55/Jupiter9.jpg

peek-a-boo!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v651/alessia55/IMG_1742.jpg

getting bigger:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v651/alessia55/jupiter.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v651/alessia55/fedsbrithdayparty001.jpg

as an adult:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v651/alessia55/jupitercurledup.jpg


her enclosure:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v651/alessia55/jupiternewcage.jpg

right before I gave her away, at 6yrs old and almost 6ft long:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v651/alessia55/jupiter3.jpg

Why did I give her away? Because she bit me almost every day for 6 years no matter what I tried. She just had a mean streak I suppose... I got her specifically because I was afraid of snakes. And I got past that with her. But after 6yrs of not really enjoying her since she bit me and everyone else who tried to handle her, I gave her to someone who wanted to breed her and that was it. But I still look back on her kindly.

[Will0W783]

Wow, beautiful colors!

[youngster]

That "peekaboo" picture cracks me up Alessia :)
I have a small and young collection but I'll do it for the sake of doing it :p

My first herp was Sage the anery motley.
A pic I took recently:
http://i943.photobucket.com/albums/ad280/eliwuzheer/DSC_0004-1.jpg

[infernalis]

My dearly departed Xena, the little brown snake that lived 2 years longer than her life expectancy... I still miss her.

http://www.danceswithreptiles.com/PG1/images/xenagirl.jpg

[Terranaut]

No pics of my old garter snakes I had as a kid( the pics are on slides) but once my wife said go we bought a few. Skittles was #1. She's the best tempered snake ever.
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j9/terranaut0/100_3343.jpg

[EasternGirl]

I agree! What a great idea for a thread! This is my eastern garter Seeley...who I thought was Selena at the time that I found him...lol. He was just a little scrub when I found him stuck in a spider web in my basement last November (2010). He's actually not much bigger now...he's only about a foot and a half and his head is about the size of my finger nail. But he made me fall in love with garters...

[stephanbakir]

I started with 2 snakes, got them both from a breeder when I was between 3 and 5... never can remember.
Normal ball python male
Normal reticulated python male (yeah.... it was sold to my parents as a bull snake and they didn't know any better at the time... We kept it for about 10 years)

[Gungirl]

Ivan the corn snake was my first snake.. I am still thinking about getting more because of him. Ivan as a baby=
http://i1228.photobucket.com/albums/ee454/KAMacie/Ivan3.jpg

Ivan now=
http://i1228.photobucket.com/albums/ee454/KAMacie/DSCF0075.jpg

[CK SandBoas]

Here is Siegfried, My Male Ball Python. I've had him since 2004, and he has just been the sweetest snake to own:D I got him from the adoption coordinator of our local Herp Society, along with a Female Ball, who was the exact opposite, temperament wise, of Siegfried. I no longer have that Female (She went towards the purchase of my BRB) but Siegfried is here to stay.



http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee6/crisscris/March18th-snakes006.jpg

http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee6/crisscris/Feb6thdownloads041.jpg

[Jenn_06]

Tattoo my normal Ball Python was my first snake, love him to death even if he gave me a scare for not eating for 7 months a few times. Got him at petsmart yeah i know. , but it was before i knew about breeders.

when we first got him(he was so small)
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o284/joejenn06/2-14-2008.jpg

http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o284/joejenn06/014.jpg

and him now
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o284/joejenn06/IMG_2863.jpg

[It'sKourtneyYo]

Ivan the corn snake was my first snake.. I am still thinking about getting more because of him. Ivan as a baby=
http://i1228.photobucket.com/albums/ee454/KAMacie/Ivan3.jpg

Ivan now=
http://i1228.photobucket.com/albums/ee454/KAMacie/DSCF0075.jpg




What kind of cornsnake is that? He is so cool!

[Gungirl]

Thanks.. He is a buckskin Okeetee.