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How long have every body been keeping corns

paulc

paulc

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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.
 
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:
 
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
 
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~
 
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.
 
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.
 
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 :)
 
WELL...

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.
 
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!
 
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: )
 
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