The one that started it all....

Will0W783 · 12-09-11, 09:30 PM

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:

alessia55 · 12-09-11, 09:42 PM

What a great thread idea!!

Here is my first. Jupiter when I got her:

As she started to grow:

peek-a-boo!

getting bigger:

as an adult:

her enclosure:

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

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 · 12-09-11, 09:44 PM

Wow, beautiful colors!

youngster · 12-09-11, 09:49 PM

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

My first herp was Sage the anery motley.
A pic I took recently:

infernalis · 12-09-11, 10:05 PM

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

Terranaut · 12-09-11, 10:19 PM

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.

EasternGirl · 12-09-11, 10:36 PM

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 · 12-09-11, 11:23 PM

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 · 12-10-11, 02:50 AM

Ivan the corn snake was my first snake.. I am still thinking about getting more because of him. Ivan as a baby=

Ivan now=

CK SandBoas · 12-10-11, 07:23 AM

Here is Siegfried, My Male Ball Python. I've had him since 2004, and he has just been the sweetest snake to own

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.

It'sKourtneyYo · 12-10-11, 04:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gungirl

Ivan the corn snake was my first snake.. I am still thinking about getting more because of him. Ivan as a baby=

Ivan now=

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

Jenn_06 · 12-10-11, 09:25 AM

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)

and him now

Gungirl · 12-10-11, 04:26 PM

Thanks.. He is a buckskin Okeetee.