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MrsA82
Yearling
United Kingdom
437 Posts |
 Posted - 15/05/2011 : 19:03:50
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Just interested how everyone got into it really
Mine was when my brother inlaw brought a corn snake round when he first got one
And me and the O/ H ain't looked back since |
  
2.4.0 Royal python
0.0.2 Cornsnake
1.1.0 Extreme red Albino Hognose
2.2.1 Crested Gecko
1.0.0 Bearded Dragon
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reptiledanny
Old Royal - I Post too much!
United Kingdom
2106 Posts |
Posted - 15/05/2011 : 19:04:51
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iguanas
i always dreamed of having an iguana living in my spare room since i was 7, and then i went to a rep shop and fell in love with a corn in 2008, and bought it 3 months later |
1.2 royal pythons 0.1 hog island boa 1.0 corn snake
sig made by stapey |
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Kelfezond
The bearded one
United Kingdom
4803 Posts |
Posted - 15/05/2011 : 19:08:11
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I was obsessed with bugs when I was a kid, I had spiders (I know, right? I'm terrified of them now) stick insects, beetles, ant farms, slow worms, everything I could find had a jar when I was a kind.
Reptiles was a step up once I started getting pocket money. |
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Lotabob
Royal Python Moderator
United Kingdom
5008 Posts |
Posted - 15/05/2011 : 19:20:11
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I too was a bug beginner, stick insects galore, its amazing how many baby stick insects can suddenly hatch in one go when you've put them in an airing cupboard and the incubator lid has been knocked off my a dad rummaging for a towel. Was capturing them for a few days all around the house. Only 1 went unaccounted for. Anyway then I got 2 Geckos, they were very very small and very quick, but I loved the little guys. Then I had a live food escapage issue and my Mum freaked out and rehomed them. There my reptile story paused for 10 years, between mothers, girlfriends and a rather wussy house mate I wasn't able to get any reptiles.
Due to a childhood incident involving a rather painful and debilitating bite from a rather speedy European Adder I've always had a fascination with snakes but really got into researching them about a year ago, and then in September I decided a corn snake would be perfect, did my research on that type of snake and got one. Then I got the snake bug the pyhton followed a few months later then the Boa a few months after that.
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Dio
Yearling
United Kingdom
297 Posts |
Posted - 15/05/2011 : 19:24:11
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| I've always liked reptiles and my OH had a garter snake for 13 years. Decided to go have a look around a reptile shop one day on the way to the New Forest and fell in love with their baby royal. An hour later we were phoning up ordering the viv and putting a deposit down. |
0.0.1 Royal Python (Dio)
0.1.0 Angora Cat (Blue)
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Figs
Yearling
United Kingdom
192 Posts |
Posted - 15/05/2011 : 19:31:03
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I'd always been into dinosaurs and lizards on holiday when i was little 
Once i found out you actually could keep reptiles as pets i just went for it lol |
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stumpy
Yearling
United Kingdom
255 Posts |
Posted - 15/05/2011 : 19:33:19
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| Son and daughter-in-law had beardie and water dragon, and they had a spare viv,(there friend next door breed snakes) so went onto corn snake forum when i got home to find out about them, went to preloved and had a corn about 16 months ago, while on forum looked at royals fell in love and bought my pastel last month. |
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Lettsy1
Yearling
United Kingdom
147 Posts |
Posted - 15/05/2011 : 19:43:13
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| When I was quite a bit younger, I worked at Twycross Zoo and my boyfriend at the time worked in the reptile house. thats where i got to love them, i've done all the kids pets over the years, rabbits,rats, degus, fish and dogs, but its only last yr on my 40th that my fab hubby got me my first snake, a Royal, then my hoggie followed then another one, and another and another, totalling 6 now in just over 12mths! Have to admit its become an addiction! (hub spent all day today building me a new viv, he only gets 2 days off a fortnight, 5* hubby!) |
1.1.0 Royal (Dash,Sheba & Ditto)
1.1.0 Western Hognose (Frank & Grace)
0.0.1 Snow Corn (Ghost) |
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scubadude
Yearling
United Kingdom
326 Posts |
Posted - 15/05/2011 : 19:49:09
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with me I was a dinosaur freak as a kid, and between that and my dads tales of his time in belize,guyana and malaysia, with tales of boas, bushmasters,retics and Green anacondas or as I knew them at first a kamudi (at 6 was easier to remember than anaconda, and was what dad always called them, as it was the local name)
to be honest it was a fairly natural progression. |
1.0 Classic corn snake
2.3 Normal Royal
1.1 spider royal
1.0 Mojave Royal
1.0 Butter Royal
0.1 Pastel ph ghost Royal
1.0 Enchi Royal python
1.0 Pastel royal poss ???
1.1 Yellowbelly Royal
1.1 Cinnamon Royal
1.1 Fire Royal
1.1 100% het Clowns
1.1 Crawl cay boas
1.0 Hypo hog island boa
0.1 Hog island Boa
coming soon
0.1 Bumblebee
opinions are like ars*holes, everyone's got one, but you don't need to share them with the world. |
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Strawb
Yearling
Germany
120 Posts |
Posted - 15/05/2011 : 21:00:55
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I was also I dinosaur fan as a kid and all animals have always fascinated me. My oldest son is the same bless him.
I went through the usual childhood pets, rabbits, hamsters, cats. But reptiles had always interested me. Also programmes like Animal Magic and David Attenborough's stunning films fuelled my interest.
I had slow-worms when I was about 12 and they bred, but I released them all after feeding them became difficult. I eventually got a corn snake and 3 leopard geckos.
Unfortunately life sent me in another direction and I had to re-house my herps. I was then reptileless for a few years.
Eventually I managed to get a bearded dragon, but once again life sent me away again and he had to be rehoused.
Now I'm finally settled in Germany and have had my first snake here since about 2004. |
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Cre
Snake Mite
United Kingdom
32 Posts |
Posted - 16/05/2011 : 07:07:19
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I had a tortoise when I was a child and longed for one for years. In November last year my wonderful hubby bought me a little one for my birthday.
This started off a chain of events, looking at tortoises in loads of rep shops etc when my 11 yr old son would gaze longingly at the royals, kept asking all kind of questions to the staff who were more than keen to get them out and let him hold them. I said if he researched them enough and proved to me that it was not a one minute wonder I would consider it by his 12th birthday (his birthday is in Dec) He then started saving all his pocket money up and this lead to him buying some cheap equipment on a car boot sale then having the money saved up for the snake, doing jobs around the house, researching, watching tv programmes about snakes and generally going on about it all the time! This has taken us up to now where I have managed to get my head around snakes because they made me feel a bit hot and dizzy lol, still not sure about the feeding but hubs will be helping Jack with that. I have held them, learned all the pros and cons of Royals and now think we are all set to go. I have helped Jack out a bit by buying the stat and also bought a viv which will be used when the snake gets a bit bigger but he is paying for everything else! |
I know I'm in my own little world, but it's ok, they know me in here. |
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BlueDragon
Sub Adult
United Kingdom
876 Posts |
Posted - 16/05/2011 : 10:32:34
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My mam, initially. She kept all sorts as a kid and still likes to tell stories of them now. I used to love to listen to them all, about all their personalities and how she looked after them. They all seemed so exotic and different.
Then, a reptile rescue opened half an hour away form us. So, very often we were found in there looking at all the reptiles, tortoises, insects, bugs... and a giant boa constrictor they kept in a back room. Seriously his body was as wide as a mans! He was great though and I got to stroke him one time when they were doing a quick clean out : )
One day, after nearly exploding with wanting a reptile as a pet, I plucked up enough courage to ask my mam if I could have a Snake. I was expecting a "no" or a "I don't think so, don't you have enough?" but no, I got a "We'll see". I my mam's language that means yes : )
So I got a Corn Snake for my next birthday, and I called her Pandora. And that's how it started. When Pandora passed I brought home my Tiger Eye.
Unfortunalty Tig's condition means I can't have any other Pythons or Boas in the house due to it being contagious, but I'm still on the road to getting a Beardie. |
Just me and my zoo. |
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reptilemadd
Sub Adult
United Kingdom
969 Posts |
Posted - 16/05/2011 : 14:53:06
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| I to had a passion for our fossilised friends when I was but a wee lad lol then some tadpoles were caught and grown on, then you have the "normal" pets dog, hamster, rats etc finally alnog came life in cold blood and the rest as they say is history lol |
1.0.0 beardie "magic"
1.1.0 100% Het Clown "Cerberus" and "Artemis"
0.1.0 Poss Calico "Ariadne"
1.0.0 Lesser " Kronos"
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mystra
Sub Adult
United Kingdom
590 Posts |
Posted - 16/05/2011 : 15:38:32
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was a dinosaur freak as a kid... then always though that keeping any sort of snake or lizard was horribly complicated (well that would be what my mum would tell me lol probably just to put me off!) but that stuck with me until a friend got a corn snake and after chatting and falling in love with her corn snake I looked into it. My mum doesn't like pets that have to be kept in a tank etc (don't ask lol) so i wasn't allowed one.
then i moved out and got my own place, but every flat was always no pets, but i thought why not ask! So i did and i'm allowed, as they don't mess up the place :) Got one corn, then another... and at the end of the month i'll be getting my first royal! It's brill because the lady who works at the estate agent has a royal too and she was the one who helped change the landlords mind about the no pets thing, always good to have someone on side! :D |
0.0.1 Carolina Corn Snake- Sanchez
0.0.1 Anery Corn Snake- Betty
1.0.0 Normal Royal Python - Chancho
SE London - Canada Water |
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markmifsud
Sub Adult
United Kingdom
534 Posts |
Posted - 16/05/2011 : 15:58:36
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As most, I was into Dinosaurs as a kid. I kept a few lizards that I was catching wild in Rainham, Essex. Then as time went on I always wanted a snake, but never quite got around to doing anything about it. The time was coming close for my grandsons birthday and he asked if he could have money as he wanted to get a snake. He did, and after spending some time with him (more time with the snake lol) I had fallen back in love with the idea of having a pet snake of my own. My daughter was hot on the case and found me the most adorable Pastal Royals, the rest is history, hooked line and sinker :)
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1.1.0 Pastal Ball
1.0.0 Normal Ball aged 7(ish)
0.1.0 Normal Ball aged 7(ish)
Bromley. SE London |
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blackskull
Fully Grown Royal
United Kingdom
1278 Posts |
Posted - 16/05/2011 : 19:45:48
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i had always been fasinated by snakes from a young age, don't know why neither of my parents are that bothered by them. i love the way they move, feed, the way they look. then one year i had some money from one of my grandparents who had set up a saving thing so i started looking at snakes and after a bit of arm twisting my mum said i could get one, i think i was 15 ish. so i started looking through the classifieds and bought my first a corn. then i ended up with a rat snake that was found in an office block which i re homed after a while to a friend. i fell into royals after i answered an add for a corn snake. when i went to see it it was in a right state dirty viv and a rectal prolapse so i had to rescue it. the seller also said she was selling a royal. again in a right state not the right set up and under weight so i took her too.
then it all went quiet for a few yrs until i bought sully then a few more yrs til i got cilla and then clover |
1.1 normal royal, sully, silver
0.1 pinstripe royal, penny
1.1 pastel royal, lars, clover
0.1 lesser royal, serenity
0.1 black pastel royal, betty
0.1 mojave royal, mavis
0.1 normal het clown
1.0 pastel het clown
1.0 nuclear, ned
1.0 super phantom
1.0 childrens python, myles
0.1 hog island boa
0.1 sonoran x boa, grace
0.0.1 mack snow leopard gecko, munchkin
4.1 cats, stan, dave, marble, binx, daisy
4.1 rabbits, mol, ted, bill, spud, alice
0.1 crazy cat/bunny lady of bridgwater, lucy |
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What got you into reptile keeping
