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How Did You Acquire Your First Corn Snake?

Hi, I got my snake about 2 weeks after my boss found a desert night snake in his bathroom, he brought it into work to show. then i started researching info on that one, then for the best snake to have...found out about the corn snakes, read up on them and found a breeder not far from me.
got my Sonja from her(in Nov '09), then my son wanted one, got Blade for him (in May '10 from craigslist) and hopefully tomorrow I will be getting my 2nd one!

wife was against it until she saw all the snakes that breeder had and helped pick out Sonja (she even picked the name).
 
I always liked snakes, I used to play with garter snakes as a child. I grew up and got a job as a vet tech at an exotic animal hospital and saw more snakes and liked them even more. My only hesitation was feeding them mice and rats, having had and loved pet rats, I couldn't bring myself to feed them live to a snake. Then I found out about 2 things at once, frozen feeders, and lavender corn snakes. Purple is my favorite color in the world, and as soon as I knew there was a purple snake I HAD to have one.
I finally found someone near here that had them but the eggs hadn't hatched yet. I went there to look around anyway and there were some people playing with baby ball pythons and passing them around so I just got in line to be the next handler and fell in love.
We put a deposit on our beautiful little ball and came home to search how to care for him. We went back to visit once and to feed him and then brought him home. About a month and a half after that I got a call that the baby purple corns had hatched, so we went back and got one of those as well. That was out start.
 
It's fun to read through these stories and see how there's so many ways people got brought into the hobby. It's also amazing how many people didn't like snakes at first and then got into the hobby.
 
EsotericForest said:
It's fun to read through these stories and see how there's so many ways people got brought into the hobby. It's also amazing how many people didn't like snakes at first and then got into the hobby.
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it is very cool indeed!

my wife for sure didnt want any, she kinda freaked out about our latest addition (the Amel) when she saw how big the 2 year old was...brought her home and now the wifey absolutely loves Sasha! she even named her! :crazy02:
and she holds Sasha more than the other 3 we have! :smash:
 
I always thought snakes were really cool-looking animals as a kid. Then i had a coupel of opportunities to hold snakes and was completely enamoured. My mom wouldn't have let me get one when I was younger so I never really tried to convince her. Then I read somewhere that reptiles aren't great pets around kids under 3 because of bacteria so I didn't get one while my daughters were really little. Eventually my kids and hubby and I started talking about getting one and then I discovered that my friend's husband has been breeding them for 10 years. I told them when they had a clutch I would love to buy one from them because it would be nice knowing where it came from and that it was well cared-for. Last winter they called me up one morning to ask if I'd be home so they could drop by with an 'early Christmas present'. It was a beautiful year-old snow corn complete with vivarium, shavings, hide, heat lamp and a month's supply of food. All I had to buy was bulbs for the lamp and a digital thermometer. Best Christmas present ever! We named 'her' Wynne. Not 100% sure if she is female but that's how we refer to her. I ended up buying a second thermometer for the cool end of the tank and two more hides lol. She is amazing. I would love another snake.
 
I've been working at Petco for the last month or so, and it's amazing how many people are completely put off my corn snakes, and snakes in general. I really don't understand what's to be afraid of, or dislike about them. Of course I'm sure tarantula loving people don't understand what I have against spiders. But I think there's more people who hate spiders in the world, than hate snakes. At least I would think so...
 
I had never really ever considered getting any type of reptile till a few years ago when I was at a friends house and was playing with her corn snake and I fell in love. i had my mind set that when I could afford it I WAS going to get a cornsnake. i didnt have the funds for a year or so because i was going to school and it was at the top of my priority list to pay for college then finally this year when i got my tax return it finally happened! my boyfriend and I spent about a month looking around, researching and becoming knowledgable on corns. i looked all over the place from chino to long beach to la habra to cerritos and then we went to reptile island in yorba Linda and it was love at first sight when I saw this blizzard and I just HAD TO HAVE HIM!! I bought him without a second thought. i took him home and it was absolute hell waiting for him to get acclimated to his new home. when I finally got to hold him i didn't want to let him go!! now he's my baby but he has me addicted and I want more! that's my story.
 
I got my first corn, a snow from Tom Crutchfield while attending the first National Breeders Expo in Orlando, Florida.
 
ArpeggioAngel said:
I wanted a snake ever since I was little. Parents wouldn't let me have one and when Joe and I started renting together he told me they were boring.
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Say Whhhhaaat?! WOW, now that gave me a good morning laugh. :grin01:


My story is pretty simple. I was in my first year of College at a party, and the host had two corn snakes. I was immediatly drawn to them, and spent the rest of the party holding them.. and.. getting them untangled from my hair!! Oops. It took about an hour for my friend to get the snake untangled from my hair.. I get "rat nests" easily when my hair is long, and in my first year of college my first concern apartently wasn't coming them out.

Anyway, the experience did NOT derail me from corn snakes. I mean, it was more my fault than the snake's, right... ? :idea:

Christmas break was just around the corner, and when I was at my parent's house I spent my time researching corns on the internet as much as I could. I stumbled across Rich Z's hatchling pictures and was in awe. I immedatly joined this site, and as soon as I was back in Eugene I set out to get a corn snake. I went to all the local pet stores, and at the last one found a ghost. I immediatly fell in love and knew I had to have him. I named him after the guy who worked in the store who'd helped me..

Here he is, Baby Travis. :rolleyes:
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I kept him in the dorms and was eventually caught. Thankfully my boyfriend at the time was a Eugene native, so he stayed over at his house for awhile. I eventually moved out of the dorms early though, not because I'd been kicked out, but because I just didn't prefer to live there anymore without my snake.
Here we are about a year later (at that point I was in my own apartment and already had a handful of snakes).
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The rest is history!
 
ive had many different animals when i was ages 5 -12 (zebra finches, anoles, hamsters, fish, dogs, cats) but i had always wanted a snake. my dad being terrified of them delayed the process lol. during the summer in august a kid from school posted online that his snake had had babies and he was selling them. i couldnt stop thinking about it and finally told him that id definitely buy one. that moment i prewarned my mom that i was getting a snake whether she wanted to or not :D Aug 17th i got my baby. three days later my dad finally decides to walk into my room and he sees the red light and the cage. after the 20 question of what was in the cage (hamsters, lizards, geckos, etc.) he finally saw the snake skin (her first shed yay!) and in pure terror/shock stated "you bought a snake?!! why in the world would you buy a snake theyre gross!! UGH im terrified of them too" and my response to the terrified part was "i know that :D" now after the month or so of having her my parents are perfectly fine with her. little does my dad know that while he and my mom were away in florida i picked up two more snakes lmao a snow corn and a ball python. so we shall see how this all goes over when he returns tomorrow :p
 
My 2 Corn Snakes

I actually only just recently acquired my first corn snakes, although I've had the opportunity to own several over the years and declined. Until recently, my interests were in keeping piranhas, but despite thier alure, there was no physical interaction with them per se, so I got back into keeping pythons (balls, blood, reticulated, and African Rock) which I'd started doing almost 15 years ago and had maintained up until the year before last. Reptiles are such and addiction that one python soon turned into two and then three and so on and so forth, and eventually my addiction to snakes morphed over into lizards and dragons, and a dozen lizards and dragons later ultimately brought me back around to snakes again and some twenty vivariums and enclosures!

Every time I visit the local zoo, the snake keepers are always standing around at different locations inside the zoo with corn snakes letting the guests that walk by touch them, hold them, and check them out, and I found that as I got to see these snakes more and more, I realized that there were so many morphs available, and the seed of corn snake ownership quickly planted itself deep within my pysche.

I spent the better part of the next 6 months checking them out online, reading about them and watching the local pet stores and classified ads looking for the right fit. I finally had my opportunity when a local guy posted 2 of Kathy Loves corns for sale and a phone call later and I was the proud owner of 2, two-foot females - an okeetee and a het amel, hypo, lavender! I also picked up Kathys book The Corn Snake Manual by Bill and Kathy Love just to make sure I do things right!

I think I've finally gotten my addiction under wraps and thinned the collection down to a more manageable amout so that I can give the proper attention to each animal and so that I can afford to feed them all without having to refinance my home!
 
My first many corns as pets were caught in my backyard. I was lucky (in many ways) to grow up rurally.
 
Mine is not that great of a story, but I will share.

Two weeks ago I went to a Breeder expo in Mississauga, and I was not planning on getting a reptile to be honest, just look.
Our animal friend told us you could get some cheap fish stuff, and some cheap aquariums (though I did not notice any fish stuff, other then some badly taken care of marine fish.. ugh) ANYWAYS... me and my boyfriend noticed the corn snakes right away so cute.

We talked to a GREAT breeder, he was so nice and telling us what we needed...
Since we saved up tons of money that we thought we were going to spend on fish stuff, we thought we would give it a try seeing how we had money to waste haha.

So we got everything we needed and I got a nice Amel male het motley and anery and he got a female okeetee... Mine had trouble eating at first until we gave him live, going to try thawed this week again though.

So far so good and I love him and my boyfriend loves his little girl.

Chaos and Scully.
 
Id always been really interested in reptiles, bugs, animals, etc as a kid and always had pets. As a kid I remeber having an Anole for a few years and a red line skink lizard. Sadly the anole was dispatched by one of the cats and the Skink has a stroke of some sort and had to be put to sleep. So my first reptile pet i have alot of memories was a leopard gecko I got when i was just about to go into high school. His name was Orion and I purchased him as an adult. He did very well until he died early this year (long story involving bad situation with vet) and sadly he probably would have lived longer had that not have happened.

I got my first corn snake a year or two after I got Orion. I adopted Dugan from a local reptile rescue and have had him ever since. He's been doing quite well and never had any problems with him. He's always been my friendly 'baby boy'. So Orion really got me into reptiles and Dugan into snakes.
 
Ive all ways wanted a snake but my mom hates them and my dad well i dont know a word strong enough to fit how much he hates them. and my mom said i could get a pet for my 16th bday(3weeks ago today yay i can drive next week i hope) well little did she know when she said that i wanted a snake. when i asked her she fliped and said if i ever asked her again she wouldent let me get any kind of pet. 1 night on the way home from town she asked me what i was gona get and i said if i cant get what i want im not geting anything(and gave her the whole sad face thing) in the next day or 2 i woke up and found her calling petstores about how they were and if they were mean or what. now im the proud owner of a hypo(100%het plasma) 2010 hatching female. still unnamed got her monday so im not playing with her yet. hopeing a name comes to me when i do tho.
 
Nitelion94, I just got to hold my new snake for the first time yesterday. Her name popped into my head while I was holding her. It'll happen to you, too. :)
 
i hope so.

Karoni said:
Nitelion94, I just got to hold my new snake for the first time yesterday. Her name popped into my head while I was holding her. It'll happen to you, too. :)
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I hope one does lo. if it dosent i kinda got 1 picked out but idk if it will stick till i can hold her. but that wont b till wensday :( monday makes a week so then ima feed her and ill have 2 wait another 48 hours :awcrap:
 
I know. It tries the patience, doesn't. I just fed Sienna tonight and am in the same boat--having to wait. It's worth it to see her eat, though.
 
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