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Originally Posted by bekers71
I meant you could use the totes to make it easier to monitor breeding. If I could have vivs for ALL of my snakes I would. But I am a full time breeder with over 100 snakes and 5 kids in my house. There is no way I could have that many glass tanks. Can't even imagine how much space that would take up not to mention all the trouble of cleaning them. Dang..just the though of cost alone is shocking! LOL
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Oh Beckers I do hope you didn't take offense to what I said, I truly didn't mean any! It is very understandable that if you are going to make a business out of it... 25 to 60 gal tanks would really defeat the purpose... And when I say my preference is "Not keep them in shoebox tubs" I really mean "MY PREFERENCE".. That is the primary reason we missed out on a KILLER deal a month ago... 4 2 to 3 yr old Corns... 2 of them in the morph I REALLY WANT, and we could have had them ALL for under 200.00 NO SHIPPING EITHER! Man, what a heart breaker... I mean we had money to either buy the snakes... or the tanks... not enough for both. Sooo... we wait!
My hubby went out of a MAJOR HERP biz over 15 yrs ago because of the beliefs he came to have while raising, breeding, selling and trading ALL KINDS of Snakes including Kings, COrns, Boa's, (rosey and Columbian)rattlers, and a few different species of Python, including a couple "VERY WILD" Retics, one of which tried to eat him one morning...( he admits fully it was his own fault, he was in a hurry and reached in the Viv to fast & to soon after meal time.
It was his then, 12 yr old son who saved the day... Quicker than the shock of the situation could clear from Seans head... he hears..."Dad... I'll start running water in the tub... Hurry Up Come On!" By then his entire hand was quickly dissappearing!
So, I truly do fully understand the "Biz" side and even the "Morph" race reasons behind what I call warehousing Cornsnakes. And as Sean says, "Most of the Morphs would never survive in the wild..." This makes sense to me...
Like our Snow, which is a natural genetic morph, he would have been picked off WAY before he EVER reached 3 months old IF he made it THAT far!
Even IF all this morphing happened naturaly all on it's own it would take thousands of years to match the numbers and variations that hobbiests have created in just a few decades, (which is an amazing feat all in itself) But, even if it did happen, natural evolution would never turn the Cornsnakes into the Worlds "NEON LUNCH SIGNS" lol So their would NEVER be the BEAUTIFUL Colors and patterns they have now!
I don't plan of going to far above 10 full time live-in snakes. (Not counting babies of course, at least at first, we plan on selling any that are not JUST SPECTACULAR!) I pride myself on never having more creatures in my home than I have time to love and attend to. I do however, plan on figuring out a way to 'buy/trade/ or sire my way into some kind of morph project within 2 yrs... But we shall see huh! LOL
Thank You for taking so much time to help me and PLEASE know that I may be blunt and even brash... But it is most always meant in humor or just stating my opinions or feelings, but I am the kind of person that has to be really REALLY pushed before I would EVER purposely go out to offend anyone!
I just want EVERYONE here knows that I am just not the confrontational type!
...... Just so Ya All know anyways!
........................................sigh! STILL NO EGGS!!
~Mary Ann