How long have every body been keeping corns

[paulc]

I have been keeping snake for about 15 years. Thats every thing from garters - pythons, but I got my first corn snake 13 years and haven't looked back ever sinse. Only got 2 spotted pythons left now, all the rest of my snakes are corn snakes, 35 corns and 2 hybreds.

[Cyntax]

8 days :)

[MERCURY]

4 days

[shane.N]

About 1 and a half years.
my collection includes.

1.0 butter
1.0 amel
1.0 anery/caramel
0.1normal
0.1 anery
0,1 ghost mottley
0.1 snow
0.0.1 creamsicle
0.1 albino jungle corn
1.0 banded kingsnake
1.0 brazilian rainbow boa
0.1 dwarf pastel boa

1.1.1 crested geckos

0.0.1 russian green toad.

my normal female laid eggs last night so this will be my first year breeding:cheers:

[StubbyUK]

I can't keep 'em. sob wail. My landlady is soooooooo no pets its unbelievable. I reckon she'd make me get rid of the sea monkeys if she realised what the little 'snow shaker' on the mantlepiece actually is. If I was on my own I might have risked keeping one on the sly, but I share with a work colleague who would end up on on her ear too if I got caught, sigh...

I was going to go for it at my last place cos the landlord said it would be okay, but then I had to move out. That's kind of taught me that it probably wouldn't be fair to get one until I've got a wee housy of my own. No landlords etc to decide I can't keep them, no worrying about what anyone else living there thought of snakes and no worrying about having to move and find somewhere else that was snake friendly...heck, even pet friendly is rare when you're renting round here. So until then I'm going to be THE most well read and knowledgeable non-snake owner there is :)

Hopefully you folks don't mind me living vicariously (long word for a Sunday morning) off your snakes for the time being <g>.

Stubby

[Simon]

I first had snakes when I was 6 so that's 17 years now~
and I started with corn snakes around....11 years again and I have never regret anything!

Corns are simply the best snakes to work with and most exciting ones too!

Right now in my collection I have around
400 corns
3 royal diadem
5 ball pythons
6 brazilian rainbow boa
6 rhino rat snakes
3 albino rosy boa
2 mexican rosy boa
3 albion emory rat
2 spotted python
2 children's python
2 honduran milk snakes
3 green trinklet rat snakes
2 100 flower rat snakes
3 chinese king rat snakes
40 red backed rat snake
20 red chain rat snake
6 red necked rat snake
10 twin spots rat snakes
5 leopard geckos

I think that's it...

so as you can see here...my collection mainly consists of corn snakes~

[Alex Dew]

I hvae now been keeping snakes for just under 10 months and I own:
5 corns
1 Ball Python

[CornCrazy]

For 2 years and 1 month...

[Traci1]

I started keeping corns Nov. or Dec. of 2001.

Traci

[MegF.]

December of last year for my corn. I had lizards, turtles, and one snake that we had to return to the wild (a red-ringed) while I was growing up.

[CornCrazy]

Originally posted by Traci1
I started keeping corns Nov. or Dec. of 2001.
Traci,

I didn't know you had snakes before me! I didn't have my first one until February 2002.

[Amanda E]

I got my first one in Oct 2001.

[Clint Boyer]

I got my first corn as an impulse buy at a pet store in '92. She was the only one I kept until my son decided it would be neat to see where baby snakes came from. In '95 I bought one small snow corn that was supposed to be male and decided that would take too long (it is a female and produced my 'Speckled' project). Went to a show and bought a small adult that was probed as male (it was female). My local reptile guy and mouse supplier (Rich Ritchie, the reptile man!) knew a guy who was selling out so I went and bought 2.4 adult corns (ended up 3.3). So in '96 I produced my first clutch of eggs......then I found the internet! Well, from there things just kinda got out of hand and I'm up to about 100 keepers. So far this year I've had 30 females successfully breed. Maybe one or two left to go.

[Siva]

I got my first corn in febuary of 2002 but i got my first snake in may 2000 and had various reptiles(turtles and lizards) before that. This will be my second year breeding :)

[Jimmy Johnson]

I have been keeping snakes off and on my whole life but I got into corns "seriously" in 2001.
When I originally got back into corns I didn't really have any intentions of breeding them. I didn't really know what I would do with the offspring at the time.
Well, I now have several options such as shows, trades with other breeders, the internet and a couple of local shops so now I can do a little breeding for fun without worrying about keeping all the babies.
I only have plans of increasing my "main stock" by about eight more snakes and then after that it will be hold backs for breeding projects so hopefully the collection will not grow too large too quickly.

[Ronda]

I bought my first snake (a corn) in 1991, during my second year of college. Like Clint, it was an impulse buy. I was amazed that snakes came in pink, and just had to have it. That amel corn cost $90 back in 1991! I don't think a year has gone by since then that I didn't buy more snakes and/or hold back several that I had produced. I am now in the process of turning the business back into a much smaller hobby, which is way more difficult than I anticipated!

[spunky787]

February 9th and 26th of this year to be exact :D

[Nagah11979]

I got my first corn in September of 2002 at a pet store, so about a year and a half.
I started out as a ghost around this forum a year before that, thats how I became addicted - seeing all the cool morphs that you can produce with corn snakes. I have wanted a snake/reptile as long I can remember and when I was 17, I begged my parents to get my first. Now I am 19 and my collection has grown to seven and I am already planning on getting 1.1 bloodreds and a male lava het ice in the summer!

(Sorry Joe!- I ran out of money way too fast this year otherwise I would have gladly taken you up on your offer! :cry: )

[h0mersimps0n]

3 blissful years! :)

[sumguy]

1 year anniversary today. only have 2 now but a show is coming up this weekend :)

[Steve H]

I bought my first corn Jan 1993, but I didn't get into corns seriously until about 3 yrs ago. I have kept various other snake for almost 30 yrs. I started with a garter snake that I found in my back yard when I was 9 yrs old.

[Susan]

Since 1995 when my husband brought home a wild caught hatchling. We had veiled chameleons at the time and he thought it would make a nice addition. Little did he know that I would end up with over 75 corn snakes, and I plan on having many more!

[5bandit5]

Hi Everybuddy,
What an interesting thread.

I have been owned by a cornsnake for 146 days, that equals 20 meals, 5 sheds, and 73 gray hairs. But I wouldn't trade him for anything!

[hazysnake]

I had my corn snake Woodstock since last October which works out to about five months.

[Skye]

Lesa,

what a great description!!

Skye

[CrazyCorn]

I have own lizards since mid 2000 I got my first snake in early breeding season of 2001, She was a WC corn from West Palm Beach, FL and I still have her to this day I also now own 9 lizards, 15 snakes, And I also take care of 5 non-feeders for a friend (which are now eating :D ).
http://www.nrg.to/snakekeeper/Missy.jpg
My first snake, Missy.

[MegF.]

Nice snake! Here's my snake's new viv. Redid it today, and she's out investigating every inch!

[Drizzt80]

I have owned various snakes and lizards for over 14 years, but I have been serious about corns for the last 4. Currently have 37 corns, 1 ball python, 1 albino pac-man frog (horned toad), and a mexican red legged tarantula. I bred my first corn 3 years ago, and have seriously been overtaken by the breeding bug last year and this year. Have four females I grew up from hatchlings that I hope now have buns in the oven!

D80

[Ashanti]

I have been keeping cornsnakes for two days now, one snake at least. I bought it yestarday with a tank and heat mat and all the other gubbins. I had it out today and it was quite calm. its 2ft long and a bargain. lol

[Ken Harbart]

I've been keeping reptiles of various types for about 20 years now. Corns have come and gone with the various incarnations of my collection. Now that things in my life have finally stabilized, I've been working on the final, permenant incarnation.

Right now, I'm working with 32 corns of various morphs, het amel great plains rats, leucistic Texas rats, African house snakes, Peruvian longtailed boa constrictors, reverse stripe and het albino common boa constrictors, blackhead pythons, Cape York and granite spotted pythons, and het piebald ball pythons. Other snakes I've added, but aren't yet in my possession include womas and African mole snakes.

[Dennis Gulla]

I actually purchased my first cornsnake from a local pet shop. Well it was my first snake of any kind. I paid $17 back then and it was a normal. The year...1982 and I was 14 years old.

Since then I have owned Rat snakes, racers, various kingsnakes, ball pythons, burmese pythons, Colombian boas, peruvian redtail boas. guyana redtail boas etc.

I have gone full circle and only own corns right now.

[DAND]

I've been keeping corns for over ten years (other snakes for over 20 years), but I have been a herper since I could walk and catch em'. When I was a kid my Mom hated to do my laundry because she would never know what she would find in my pockets.

[MegF.]

You sound like me DAND. I think I brought home about a million Alligator lizards, salamanders, frogs, and who knows what else. Fortunately, my mom and dad had no problem with all of it, and mom even had to help get a few lizards off of the curtains when they escaped. Thank God for cool parents!

[So Pirate55]

4 months. My little brother got me into it and the genetics hooked me right from the beginning. I just bought my 2nd one yesterday, a gorgous lil female amel who i believe coulda easily been marketed as a reverse ok. due to her borders and color.

It's sad to say but i was actually one of those "it's a snake, let's kill it" people for a long time. But after a lot of reading (i love reading anything along the lines of zoology esp herp), and interactions with my brother's snakes (he's caught them all his life, but has kept as a hobby for 3 years), i learned how ignorant i was when it came to these wonderful creatures.

[niki]

3 years and it has developed into a great hobbie

[stuart]

i bought mine on the 12th march 2003. so, ive been keeping him for ... 14 months and 8 days. ive had no problems with him, hes great, and will be getting a mate . . .

[Spitfire]

Right now, i only have one that I've been keeping since she hatched. Four months so far, moving onto five. I'm getting a bloodred next month, can't wait!

[iluvsammy]

For one year and three months.

[Sasheena]

First Snake ~ Small Insectivore (as an adult).... September 2001
First "large" snake ~ Rosy Boa... November 2001
2.1 California Kingsnakes purchased in December 2001
0.1 Blotched King purchased in February 2002
0.1 Arizona Mountain Kingsnake obtained in March 2002
1.0 Blotched king traded (for mice) in April of 2003
1.1 Corns purchased in April of 2003 (Male Stripe Normal pos. Het Albino and Female Stripe Anery)
0.1 Corns Purchased in May of 2003 (Female Miami het motley, poss homozygous hypo, but unknown)
0.2 California Kings purchased in May of 2003
0.1 Cal Kings obtained in May of 2003
0.1 Spilotes Pullatus purchased in May of 2003 (was deformed, covered in mites, and died)
0.1 Jungle Carpet Python purchased in May of 2003
0.0.8 Cal kings hatched in June of 2003
0.0.8 blotched kings hatched in July of 2003
1.0 Royal Diadem Ratsnake (replacement for Spilotes) ... arrived deformed... died)
1.4 Black Rats (one died six months later) October 2003
1.2 Corns (Snow Hurricane Motley male, Ghost female, Anery female) October 2003
2.1 Outer Banks Kings November 2003 (one was a kinked freebie, one never ate and died, and one escaped)
0.0.8 Jurassic Milks (all but one died) December 2003
0.0.1 Hypo Brooks (died, came with the Jurassics) Dec. 2003
3.2 Florida Kings this year (doing great eating like crazy)
1.0 Egyptian Ratsnake this year
0.1 Flourescent Amel Corn this year
0.0.1 Splendida this year

Oh and I forgot all the ball pythons.... hubby was given one, bought ten more, (four of which died, BIG LESSON... don't buy wild caughts) then he got two more to replace the four that died.

I think that covers it....

The topic of course was on corns... so my cornsnakes I've had for just a year, now I have seven:

Hermes: Normal Stripe
Athena: Anery Stripe
Aphrodite: Normal Miami het Motley
Zeus: Hurricane Snow Motley (poss het/homo hypo)
Cassandra: Ghost (het amel, motley)
Hera: Anery (het amel, hypo, motley)
Calypso: (Flourescent Amel/REverse Okeetee)

[fateamber]

A year and 5 months :D.
My amel corn (Akasha) was my first snake.

I still only have one corn, but I also have 2 ball pythons and a Kenyan sand boa! I hope to get another corn this year, if I can find any room for it :D

[waltpro]

10 whole days. Have fed her (I think its a her anyways) once and seems to be quite healthy.:)

[hockeystop]

I have been keeping snakes off and on for about 25 years. Some I caught, some I bought. Unfortunately in my younger years the folks wouldn't let me keep my pets inside Lol

Some of which included:

Glass snakes, Ribbon snakes, ring-necked snakes, Black Racers, Blue Racers, Banded water snakes, Corn Snakes, Yellow ratsnakes, Eastern Garter snakes, Retics, Boas.

I also happened upon a Eastern Diamondback(N Carolina), a baby copperhead (Pennsylvania)and a cottonmouth (Florida)during my little snake hunts but decided to leave them be. ;)

The very first snake I bought was an Okeetee Corn snake in 79 in St. Pete Fl.. I think I paid 26 dollars and it was about 2 years old. At the time I had no idea what "okeetee" meant. The guy in the pet store made it sound like a cadillac so I bought it.

[rolph1414]

two years!

4 corns
2 rosy boas

[fsqwert]

Ive been keeping them(him) for a year now.