JimGERcream
German efficiency
Hey folks,
this month I am indeed 10 YEARS member of this forum and I never introduced myself...so better late than never, here we go:
I'm Stephan, 29 years old and from Germany. I live in Western Germany between Cologne and Dortmund. I have vivs since I'm 15, but never kept snakes. 11 years ago, I bought my very first cornsnake and became infected with "the virus". A year later in 2004, I became a member of this forum as a beginner. I didn't know anything about genetics but I bought books, talked to people and educated myself.
In the past 10 years I've seen a lot of members here leaving the hobby, new ones joined the community, legends like RichZ retired, the whole "forumscape" changed. I got to know new friends in the United States, some are still here, I lost sight of others. Meanwhile I'm no beginner anymore, I bred much morphs in the past years, produced new and unique ones, whose grandparents already hatched in my place many years ago and I write articles for magazines, spend pictures for cornsnake books and I'm one of the admins of Germanys most important morph lexicon + morph breeding forum. Nevertheless, I'm still learning new things about the corns and their paintjobs every day.
Without the patience of my national and international friends, I wouldn't have had the opportunity to dive such deep into the cornsnake cosmos.
I don't write very much, one reason is the language barrier but I still try to make some peeps happy with postings and pics in my progression threads here. 10 years have passed and I'm still addicted to corns! You all make a major contribution to this. I'm looking foreard to the next 10 years!!
Thanks for this!!!
this month I am indeed 10 YEARS member of this forum and I never introduced myself...so better late than never, here we go:
I'm Stephan, 29 years old and from Germany. I live in Western Germany between Cologne and Dortmund. I have vivs since I'm 15, but never kept snakes. 11 years ago, I bought my very first cornsnake and became infected with "the virus". A year later in 2004, I became a member of this forum as a beginner. I didn't know anything about genetics but I bought books, talked to people and educated myself.
In the past 10 years I've seen a lot of members here leaving the hobby, new ones joined the community, legends like RichZ retired, the whole "forumscape" changed. I got to know new friends in the United States, some are still here, I lost sight of others. Meanwhile I'm no beginner anymore, I bred much morphs in the past years, produced new and unique ones, whose grandparents already hatched in my place many years ago and I write articles for magazines, spend pictures for cornsnake books and I'm one of the admins of Germanys most important morph lexicon + morph breeding forum. Nevertheless, I'm still learning new things about the corns and their paintjobs every day.
Without the patience of my national and international friends, I wouldn't have had the opportunity to dive such deep into the cornsnake cosmos.
I don't write very much, one reason is the language barrier but I still try to make some peeps happy with postings and pics in my progression threads here. 10 years have passed and I'm still addicted to corns! You all make a major contribution to this. I'm looking foreard to the next 10 years!!
Thanks for this!!!
