Single snake owners?

**Minkness** · 12-07-14, 12:46 AM

No, not if YOU are single, but if you only own ONE snake! Lol

I have always been a reptile enthusiast since I can remember. As little as 5 and catching snakes, frogs, lizards, ect. (Even caught an alligator once!). However I have always lived with my mom who haaaaates them. A few years ago I warmed her up to letting me have some geckos. She wasn't happy about it, but got over it, and even smiles at them and can tolerate handling them. She had never even budged on the thought of me owbing a snake however. It was a solid, no freaking way!

That is...until I told her that I was moving out so I could finally have one. (I'm 27 and we are best friends as well, so I didn't really want to move out, and she didn't want me to either lol) .

This changed her mind however, and she FINALLY agreed to let me have ONE snake. This is great! But also slightly frustrating as well lol.

I decided on a MBK as my 1....but really...in my head, I call it my 1st. Why? Because I like SO many other snakes! Garters, rats, corns, hognoses, Brazilian rainbows, and the list goes on.

I could still move out and get my MBK, but let's face it...I want my snake and to keep it too. (Get the pun? Lol). So, I am resigned to knowing that my soon to be MBK will be my 1st (and only ) for a very long time.

To commemorate my 1st and only, I would love to hear some stories about your 1st and only as well. Why that type? Was there a compromise? Difficulties along the way? Hillarity maybe? Just whatever y'all feel like sharing really. =)

**Aaron_S** · 12-07-14, 12:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Minkness

No, not if YOU are single, but if you only own ONE snake! Lol

I have always been a reptile enthusiast since I can remember. As little as 5 and catching snakes, frogs, lizards, ect. (Even caught an alligator once!). However I have always lived with my mom who haaaaates them. A few years ago I warmed her up to letting me have some geckos. She wasn't happy about it, but got over it, and even smiles at them and can tolerate handling them. She had never even budged on the thought of me owbing a snake however. It was a solid, no freaking way!

That is...until I told her that I was moving out so I could finally have one. (I'm 27 and we are best friends as well, so I didn't really want to move out, and she didn't want me to either lol) .

This changed her mind however, and she FINALLY agreed to let me have ONE snake. This is great! But also slightly frustrating as well lol.

I decided on a MBK as my 1....but really...in my head, I call it my 1st. Why? Because I like SO many other snakes! Garters, rats, corns, hognoses, Brazilian rainbows, and the list goes on.

I could still move out and get my MBK, but let's face it...I want my snake and to keep it too. (Get the pun? Lol). So, I am resigned to knowing that my soon to be MBK will be my 1st (and only ) for a very long time.

To commemorate my 1st and only, I would love to hear some stories about your 1st and only as well. Why that type? Was there a compromise? Difficulties along the way? Hillarity maybe? Just whatever y'all feel like sharing really. =)

I had a single snake for years as a young teen boy. Like you my parents were strict on that rule. I always asked for more so when I could finally work at a pet store they thought it would help keep the number at home to 1. It had the opposite effect.

**Minkness** · 12-07-14, 12:36 PM

Lol nice. I'm hoping that my 1st will just be a gateway so I can get more. Not planning on any giants by any means but the colubrids seem to have my heart lol.

**EL Ziggy** · 12-07-14, 01:03 PM

I'm with you Mink. I LOVE colubrids. It's tough to keep just one though. Good Luck!

sharthun · 12-07-14, 01:25 PM

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Originally Posted by EL-Ziggy

I'm with you Mink. I LOVE colubrids. It's tough to keep just one though. Good Luck!

Yeah good luck!

Sylphie · 12-07-14, 01:10 PM

I have a short story

As a child I dreamed of a snake. A year ago through a friend I finally gained my first... after long deliberation it fell on Russian Rat Snake. This friend having my russian for a few days before I was able to get him, also begin to liked snakes and bought a corn. In the meantime, we had a ball python, by which we became a couple, but we had to give it up :<
Currently, we do not plan rather more snakes, my boyfriend loves his corn, and I love my russian... although if I found somewhere anery / melano russian...

**Minkness** · 12-07-14, 02:11 PM

Lol seems I'll need all the good luck I can get! Don't even have my MBK yet and already thinking of how to sneak in a small male garter or oeekee rat/corn (still new at memorizing all the colors and who they belong to, let alone how to spell it all! Lol)

Sylphie · 12-07-14, 02:29 PM

You know, I advise to read, watch and search on the Internet as much as possible. After the first stage of fascination and "I want to have everything" man calms down and is able to better assess whether you really want this kind of snake or if this snake is really as cool as he seemed at first. For me it worked, now I'm quietly watch each different species, but there are only few that I would like to have in my home.

**Minkness** · 12-07-14, 04:36 PM

Oh yes. I have been watching and researching for 20 years lol literally! I know I won't be jumping in to owning more than 1 for a while as mentioned, but I also have some experience with other types that leads me to know what I can handle and enjoy. A friend had an albino checkered garter male and he was awesome, another had a rat and corn, who I loved as well, yet another had a BP and a RTB...bot a fan of BPs other than their pretty colors and loved the RTB but it's on the 'too big for me' side of life lol.

I know theres the obsessive side that is totally "OMG I WANT THEM ALL" (which I call pokemon syndrome lol) but I do consider myself a responsible enough pet owner to know what I'll be getting into before actually getting into it. =)

Just because this is my 1st doesn't mean I don't have experience however. =)

CrotalusR#1 · 12-07-14, 04:54 PM

Not really a boa guy, is a blood boa a morph or a local?

Mikoh4792 · 12-08-14, 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by CrotalusR#1

Not really a boa guy, is a blood boa a morph or a local?

The blood morph originated in El Salvadorian boas. There are a few people breeding pure El Sal. blood boas but it's a simple recessive gene bred into other localities/designer lines.

CrotalusR#1 · 12-11-14, 12:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Mikoh4792

The blood morph originated in El Salvadorian boas. There are a few people breeding pure El Sal. blood boas but it's a simple recessive gene bred into other localities/designer lines.

Thank you, so it's not something found in the wild, like a red local or something it's something that happens in cb?

Mikoh4792 · 12-15-14, 03:51 AM

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Originally Posted by CrotalusR#1

Thank you, so it's not something found in the wild, like a red local or something it's something that happens in cb?

They are found in the wild, but those are in El Salvador. In cbb boas it can be mixed into any subpsecies.

Really cool morph

JinxtheBP · 12-14-14, 10:36 PM

Damn, you got my hopes up thinking this was gonna be my next stop for finding romance.

Sylphie · 12-08-14, 03:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Minkness

Oh yes. I have been watching and researching for 20 years lol literally! I know I won't be jumping in to owning more than 1 for a while as mentioned, but I also have some experience with other types that leads me to know what I can handle and enjoy. A friend had an albino checkered garter male and he was awesome, another had a rat and corn, who I loved as well, yet another had a BP and a RTB...bot a fan of BPs other than their pretty colors and loved the RTB but it's on the 'too big for me' side of life lol.

I know theres the obsessive side that is totally "OMG I WANT THEM ALL" (which I call pokemon syndrome lol) but I do consider myself a responsible enough pet owner to know what I'll be getting into before actually getting into it. =)

Just because this is my 1st doesn't mean I don't have experience however. =)

I does not mean that you don't have experience or that you are not responsible. It is simply working with me, so I don't want more snake at the moment

And yes, "pokemon syndrome" is really good appellation, haha.

Anyway, I wish you good luck, but not with "i don't want more snakes", but with conviction your mother to tolerate them