Hello from Arizona

[Captain837]

Hello there!
My name is Joe, over the last two years my daughters and I have been getting into snake keeping.
A little about us;

I have been intrigued by snakes all my life however my mom was scared to death of them so the only ones I got to interact with as a kid were the wild rattlesnakes, night snakes, bull snakes and king snakes that roamed the desert where I grew up. When I got into high school I was lucky enough to find a girlfriend who (along with her parents) appreciated these creatures for what they are and we were able to build a pretty nice collection of exotics. The list included everything from Scrub pythons, GTP's, Amazon tree boas, Argentine boas, Suriname red tail boas, Burmese python and African house snakes. All were tame enough to handle and we took them to classes to educate kids about them and let them get close enough to snakes most people only see in zoos. Unfortunately careers and college got in the way and life moved on. The snakes all went to good homes and I got out of the hobby.
Fast forward 18 years (about 2 years ago). My daughters (6 and 8 at the time) decided they wanted pets other than our dogs. We went to pet shops and researched everything they were interested in. After looking at all of the options they decided on snakes (wife not happy but she cannot say no to her girls). The rest is history.

We started with a female albino spider ball python and since our collection has grown to a total of;

1.0 Albino Black Pastel Pinstripe ball python "Menolo"
0.1 Albino Spider ball python "Ginger"
0.1 Black Pastel het Albino ball python "Jasmine"

1.0 Woma python "Stitch"
0.1 Woma python "Milo"
0.1 Woma python "Millie"

The Womas are still little babies, the BP's will be breeding size this year.

We have future plans to add a pair of GTP's and possibly BHP's if funds permit and we can make the room for them. We are going to try breeding the Ball pythons. I have been teaching my girls about genetics and the possibilities of the parings we have. They are very excited to say the least. We also have homes for all potential babies through friends and a couple local mom and pop pet stores should we succeed.
I will try to post pictures as soon as I am allowed per forum rules. Anyhow, thanks for taking the time to read!